Holy City
Noun
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phrases used to refer to Heaven
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the Celestial City was Christian's goal in Bunyan's `Pilgrim's Progress'
BEIRUT, Lebanon — In any other year, Muslims undertaking the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca that all Muslims are supposed to perform at least once, would drink from a holy well.
Because the once very holy city of Me’ah She’arim has now become sullied with the evil of sinas chinam, with the ultimate mechaneh shaim ra l’chaveiro.
“Even animals in other countries are allowed to have passports,” said the 30-year-old religious student in the Muslim holy city of Medina, whose passport expired in 2018.
Authorities later brought his remains and those of the others to Iran’s holy city of Qom, where another massive crowd turned out.
Jahanpur said health officials had called for the suspension of all religious gatherings in Qom, a Shi'ite Muslim holy city about 120 km south of the capital Tehran, according to ISNA.