Beware of Cheats and Thieves

1. Never establish friendly terms with any strangers, nor accept any edibles (like coffee, medicine or other things) or seek lift up to your building because such people have earlier deceived & cheated pilgrims and many pilgrims have lost their money and valuables.

2. At any crowded place, whether it is within the Holy Haram, or outside, please do not carry any valuable articles or excess currency notes so that you do not fall prey to pick-pocketing or lose the valuables in the rush of crowd.

3.  It is your own duty to protect your currency or other valuable articles. Carrying these things always with you perceiving that it would be safe to do so could prove to be expensive. Apart from pick pocketing, we have several reports of forced snatching of currency from pilgrims in the previous years. It should be your first priority to make suitable arrangements for the safety of these valuable articles. There are facilities of safe-deposit of such valuable articles in the designated offices of Moallims. Therefore, you are advised to deposit your extra-money in the Moallim’s office and  get a receipt (FATURA) of it. You may realize your deposited money as and when required from the Moallim’s office by making necessary entries in the receipt furnished by the office accordingly.  There are also lockers available at different points outside the Haram Sharief, which you can hire for short periods by paying small sums of money.

 Since last few years some unscrupulous elements are cheating Haj-pilgrims in the name of cheap-Qurbani (Sacrifice), providing meat at your place of stay etc. These unscrupulous elements do nothing but deceive and cheat the gullible pilgrims. So either offer your sacrifice (Qurbani) personally by your own hands or purchase the coupon offered by the Islamic Development Bank (IDB). In view of the heavy rush during these days, several Hanafi scholars have also declared that Qurbani through bank-coupon is valid.