War-injured Syrians leave on backed Hajj journey

 A Saudi benefactor has been sponsoring the Hajj pilgrimage for some five hundred Syrians injured in the war.

                                   Pilgrims ready to leave to Hajj after getting files verified. 

For the 2d consecutive year, Prince Abdulaziz, the son of the late King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, regarded in northern Syria as Abu Turki, has subsidized about five hundred Syrian pilgrims injured in the war. He covers their journey and lodging costs, as nicely as the issuance of tour files and Hajj acceptance permits.

“I misplaced my legs, however Allah compensated me with the possibility to go to his sacred house,” stated Ismail al-Masri, a father of eight living in Atmeh camp close to the Syrian-Turkish border. He misplaced his leg due to a barrel bomb dropped via Assad regime plane on his village of Kafruma in 2016.

Al-Masri instructed Al Jazeera that going for Hajj was once one of his dreams, a dream he by no means imagined would come genuine due to his bad monetary condition, specially after his damage and displacement from his village at the commencing of 2020 after the regime retook control. 

However, when he acquired the information of his acceptance in the fighting accidents furnish for Hajj, he felt as if he had come again to life.

“Yesterday’s dream has emerge as a fact today. I will stand close to the Kaaba on my one foot and thank Allah for His limitless blessings. I pray to Allah to compensate me with the high-quality in Paradise for the foot I lost,” stated al-Masri.

Prince Abdulaziz stored his identification hidden for a lengthy time and was once recognised in northern Syria solely as the philanthropist Abu Turki earlier than he regarded and disclosed his actual identification final 12 months in the course of his go to to the Syrian pilgrims whose fees he sponsored.

“My acceptance in the pilgrims’ furnish is a present from Allah to me, and I have ordinary this present and am going with a brilliant longing to worship Allah and go to the grave of our Prophet Muhammad,” stated Hassan Ghazawi, a displaced individual from Eastern Ghouta in the nation-state of Damascus.

He presently resides in the metropolis of al-Bab in the Aleppo countryside. He misplaced each his legs in an air raid by way of the Assad regime on the metropolis of Douma in Eastern Ghouta in 2015.

“I will pray to Allah on the day of standing at [Mount] Arafat to supply each and every Muslim with the potential to operate the Hajj rituals, particularly the human beings of northern Syria,” brought Ghazawi

   

One of the Hajj pilgrims who have been injured in the course of the battle in Syria bidding

 farewell  different household contributors at the Bab al-Hawa crossing.

                   

                Ismail al-Masri inner the ready room at the Bab al-Hawa border crossing.

 

 Syrians announcing goodbye to injured pilgrims in Bab al-Hawa rectangular in the city of Sarmada, north of Idlib.

 

Ismail al-Masri pushing his bags thru the departure centre in the Bab al-Hawa immigration office.

Bab al-Hawa immigration administration verifying non-public archives for pilgrims earlier than departure on Hajj.

                          

                                  Pilgrims internal the bus getting geared up to depart for Hajj.

                             

                                One of the injured Hajj pilgrims ready to get on the bus

     Ismail al-Masri pushing his baggage via the departure centre in Bab al-Hawa immigration office.

    

             A man injured in the warfare pronouncing goodbye to his toddler at Bab al-Hawa Square in                           Saramada.

           Families acquire at Bab al-Hawa rectangular in the city of Sarmada to say goodbye to the                  Hajj pilgrims.

A man injured in the warfare getting equipped to board the bus at Bab al-Hawa crossing.

Pilgrims getting baggage checked and inspected at Bab al-Hawa crossing.Hassan Ghazawi and his buddy ready to get on the bus at Bab al-Hawa border crossing.