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This once-in-a-lifetime experience for most Muslims requires the utmost preparation and planning beforehand. Here are some tips to help you start preparing today.

Muslims who perform the Hajj or Umra must run in the middle portion of the distance between Safa and Marwa seven times. This is a commemoration of one mother's sacrifice for her son.

Sacrificing certain types of animals during Hajj and Eid-ul-Adha are part of Islamic rites. Here is Muslim American Michel Jansen's experience of apprehension towards Islamic animal sacrifice during Hajj and how she reconciled herself to the rite.