Hajj training underway

Extensive Hajj training programmes is underway across the country to facilitate the intending pilgrims in performing Hajj rituals in Saudi Arabia.
An official of Ministry of Religious Affairs while talking to APP said Pilgrims intending to perform Hajj under the government scheme are being trained by professors of different universities and colleges.
The pilgrims would be imparted education to make them familiar with Hajj rituals to be performed during the upcoming Hajj, he added.
Provincial governments is holding training sessions in their respective areas to help specially those who are going to perform this religious obligation for the first time.
At the centres, training is being imparted with the help of models, charts, maps, sketches, lectures and video documentaries.
“The intending Hajj pilgrims will be taught that how to wear ‘Ahram’ and observe sanctity of the holy places besides performing rituals at Madina and manners of offering prayers at Masjid-e-Nabvi and ‘Salam’ at Roza- e-Rasool (Peace Be Upon Him),” he said. The training, informative booklets and Hajj literature are provided to Hujjaj besides video cassettes facility to teach them that how they will have to perform the Hajj.
The purpose of this training is to provide orientation and awareness of Manasik-e-hajj to the group leaders as well as intending Hajj pilgrims at district and tehsil level.
A Memorandum of Understanding has been singed by the ministry with PTV and PBC and number of hajj awareness/education programmes have been recorded and aired.
During training the intending pilgrims will be also given seasonal, swine flu and meningitis vaccination.
As per directives of the Saudi authorities the intending pilgrims would have to carry medical certificates of administering vaccines while departing for the Hajj.