Nearly 100 million listeners benefit from King Salman’s project for translating Arafat sermon

Nearly 100 million listeners benefit from King Salman's project for translating Arafat sermon

Makkah (UNA-OIC) – Nearly 100 million listeners throughout the world, including pilgrims of this year’s Hajj season, benefited from the translation into 10 different languages of the Hajj main sermon delivered to mark Day of Arafat.

The translation was live transmited for non-Arabic speaking Muslims and non-Muslims all over the world as part of the “Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques project for translating the Sermon of Arafa and Sermons of the Two Holy Mosques”, affiliated to the General Presidency for the Grand Mosque and Prophet’s Mosque.

According to official statistics, the listening rate of beneficiaries of the translation of the sermon was as follows: Malay (53.5%), English (12.4%), French (7.8%), Chinese (6.3%), Urdu (4.4%), Persian (3.7%), Bengali (3.4%), Hausa (3.2%), Russian (2.8%) and Turkish (2.5%).

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