Where is details on U.S. couple from Georgia experiences Hajj pilgrimage?
Mina, Saudi Arabia (CNN) — Hina Babar had prepared for this day for months. But now, as she landed in Saudi Arabia for the Muslim pilgrimage Hajj, the time seemed to have flown by. “I never thought this day would come so quickly,” Babar said, as she and her husband, Khuram, arrived from Marietta, Georgia. For the new mom, preparations for the trip began more than a year ago, when she was seven months pregnant. “I was just beginning to feel what a mother’s love is like for her child, yet I had no understanding of how difficult it was going to be to leave my baby behind,” Babar said. The couple left their now-10-month-old boy with Hina Babar’s parents before embarking on their sacred journey. The Hajj, an obligatory pilgrimage for able-bodied Muslims, began this year on Wednesday. Despite a rare rainstorm that inundated the city of Mina, 2.5 million pilgrims performed the ancient rituals without incident. For Babar, a final phone call to her parents before she boarded her flight to Saud
