The General Authority for Islamic Affairs and Endowments has launched a website to process requests to take part in the Haj pilgrimage.
Working alongside the Zayed bin Sultan Charitable and Humanitarian Foundation, the General Authority for Islamic Affairs and Endowments will organise pilgrimage opportunities to those who apply through the newly established site.
Priority is given to those who haven't made the Haj pilgrimage before and seniors, reported Al Ittihad, the Arabic language sister paper of The National.
The website is part on the General Authority for Islamic Affairs and Endowment’s site and will allow potential Hajj-goers to apply for clearances.
Through the new electronic system, the authority will choose 6,000 applicants, 1,000 of which are on standby, to be chosen to make the pilgrimage.
The Zayed bin Sultan Charitable and Humanitarian Foundation met with the General Authority for Islamic Affairs and Endowments recently to begin planning the selection and logistical process for the Hajj of the Islamic year 1435.
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