4 important applications that pilgrims need

Weather of Arabia - During the past few years, Saudi Arabia launched several projects to develop services provided to pilgrims and Umrah performers, by adopting modern technology to facilitate and organize the Hajj process, and the most important of these projects is the launch of a number of smart phone applications.

These applications help the pilgrims of the Sacred House of God to perform the rituals of Hajj with ease and ease. These applications vary between health and translation services, clarifying how to perform the rituals of Hajj, and others to locate the pilgrims.

A group of smart phone applications for Hajj

Our rituals application

Our Manasikuna application provides a set of services for pilgrims and Umrah visitors to the Sacred House of God in seven international languages, by introducing them to the times of crowding, the movement of buses, the stoning of the Jamarat, and the times of going to the Haram to perform the prayer.

The application also enables the pilgrims to communicate with the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah directly through the suggestions and observations form, supported by the feature of adding photos. This is in order to overcome the difficulties that he encounters during the performance of the obligatory prayer, and it also helps to determine the current location of the “hajj” or “Umrah performer” user in the areas: the Great Mosque of Mecca, the Prophet’s Mosque, and the holy sites “Arafah, Muzdalifah, and Mina.”

It also contributes to knowing the direction and distance between the user's current location and each of the above-mentioned sites. The Manasikna application also contains the important numbers that the pilgrim needs, in addition to the emergency numbers.

The application contains the service of receiving awareness and guidance messages sent by the Ministry and in the language that the pilgrim uses in the application. The application also provides pilgrims with prayer times, determining the direction of the qiblah, identifying nearby mosques, weather conditions, currency exchange, and others.

Our Manasikuna application includes maps of Makkah, the holy sites, Madinah and Jeddah, which contain a wide range of sites of interest to the pilgrim during his journey.

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destination application

The General Presidency for the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque launched the Al-Maqsad application during the 2016 Hajj. It is an electronic navigation system in the Grand Mosque that targets pilgrims at the Grand Mosque, which helps visitors to Makkah Al-Mukarramah determine their exact locations within the corridors of the Grand Mosque and know their way to wherever they want to go.

Help me application

The Help Me application was launched by the Saudi Red Crescent Authority; With the aim of providing urgent assistance in emergency cases, the application allows pilgrims, when registering, to add their health history and treatments needed by paramedics.

The Help Me application is characterized by simplicity, as the pilgrim has to press a specific button without the need to make a call. Among the features of the application is that it shows you the nearest hospitals and provides the numbers of all emergencies. The application also supports people with special needs, whether deaf or dumb, to submit communications .

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Mutawaf application

The Al-Mutawaf application contains many important features and advantages for pilgrims, including: the service of teaching the rituals of Hajj, and the service of cases of crowding and the density of pilgrims in the rituals of circumambulation, the pursuit and the Jamarat.

The application also contains a voice memorization service for chanting supplications and an accounting response service to remind you of the rituals and steps for each obligatory prayer. The Al-Mutawaf application includes my trip service and other important services that the pilgrim needs.

Also, weather forecasts and weather applications must be monitored permanently to ensure the weather conditions during the performance of the Hajj rituals. This is something that Arab Weather provides through all its platforms and through the Arab Weather application.