It is time that we made some strict rules to prevent turning the Haj season into an annual accident. All Muslim countries should bear the responsibility for obeying these rules and disregard politics and emotions.
First, the number should be limited to the capacity of holy sites in Makkah. The number of pilgrims should stay within this capacity of limits because the population of Muslims grows larger every year but the size of the holy sites doesn’t. The governments of Muslim countries should not place the Saudi government in a conundrum by demanding increases in the quota of their pilgrims every year.
Second, strict regulations should be imposed on the local pilgrims that prevent ones from entering Makkah illegally sans permit. Local pilgrims, Saudi and expats alike, should respect rules and regulations and sign up with local Tawafa organizations and play by the book.
Third, Muslims should perform Haj only once in a lifetime. That is their duty. Some locals perform Haj numerous times without respecting the needs of other pilgrims that have never performed Haj.
Fourth, women, children and elderly people should not perform Haj because Haj is a duty for those that can perform it. Women, children and old people are going to get hurt and harm others by making it difficult to avoid accidents.
Fifth, religious institutions in all Muslim countries should issue fatwas that make pilgrimage easy, especially at the time of Jamrat. Pilgrims insisting on performing Jamrat in certain periods of time will lead to a disaster.
Sixth, we must review the conditions of some of the Haj and Tawafa institutions because they neglect their pilgrims and leave them on the streets.
We have to consider these points if we want to perform Haj with no accidents.
