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The annual gathering of the Tablighi Jamaat on the banks of the Turag river near Dhaka: millions of worshippers gather for days of invitation, remembrance and preaching, and it is the second largest annual Muslim gathering after the Hajj. ¹

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It began in 1954 and became a worldwide Bangladeshi institution; it divides the days into stages so that people come from all the continents. ¹

The Arafat clash and Ibn al-Muqaddam's killing (583 AH)

On Arafat's eve in the conquest year 583, the Syrian pilgrimage's kettle-drums signalled departure before the Iraqi caravan's — amir al-hajj Mujir al-Din Tashtakin forbade it, Ibn al-Muqaddam answered 'you command the Iraqi Hajj, I the Syrian', and moved; the Iraqi troops and rabble stormed the Syrian pilgrims, killing, plundering and briefly taking women, while Ibn al-Muqaddam — out of reverence for the place and day — held his men from fighting; mortally wounded, he died at Mina and was buried at al-Ma'la, 'granted martyrdom after jihad and witnessing Jerusalem's conquest'.

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The Arafat clash and Ibn al-Muqaddam's killing (583 AH)