Effectively earlier than the formal Haj rites started every week in the past, some retailers and eating places refused service to guests who couldn’t present permits on the official Haj app, referred to as Nusuk.
As soon as the lengthy days of strolling and praying beneath the blazing solar acquired underway, he couldn’t entry official Haj buses – the one transportation across the holy websites – with out paying exorbitant, off-the-books charges.
When warmth drove him to exhaustion, he sought pressing care at a hospital in Mina however was turned away, he stated, once more for lack of a allow.
As their circumstances worsened, Yasser and his spouse Safaa misplaced one another within the crowds in the course of the “stoning the satan” ritual in Mina.
Since then Yasser has repeatedly postponed their return flight house, hoping she’s going to flip up.
“I’ll preserve suspending it till I discover her,” he stated.
