Indian sells house to perform Hajj…

An old Indian man sold the family’s only house in his home country to travel with his wife to Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj (pilgrimage), but he died a day before he fulfilled his age-old dream and his wife said she was happy for him.

The unnamed man arrived in Saudi Arabia with his wife a few days ago to join hundreds of thousands of Muslims converging on the Western Saudi town of Makkah for this year’s Hajj rituals, which started on Monday and will end on Thursday.

The Saudi daily Okaz quoted his wife as saying her husband decided to sell the family’s house which he had spent years to build.

“We owned that house a few months ago. When we were told that our names were in the list to be admitted into Saudi Arabia for pilgrimage, he insisted on selling the house to get funds but I tried to persuade him not to sell it,” she said.

“He told me that God the Almighty may compensate us with a better house. He died in Madinah and I am happy for him as he had wished to die near the Grand Mosque.”

 

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