While we were walking towards the Jamarats (Satan pillars), we found many people carrying their (all) belongings on their shoulders, some of them carrying small children on one shoulder and their bag on the other. Some even dared to push their old mother in the wheel chair.

It was unbearable thrash from every direction, one compatriot next to us in perfect Arabic and English boasted "I just saved (as if he is the saviour) a family". My companion (a Turk) asked, then why are you pushing me? One after another three women fell down around us, water bottle in my hand and my wife's, we helped two of them to regain their consciousness. Crowds were very manageable and all of us threw our symbolic stones towards the 'Satan' from a close range and returned.

We did not see any security on our way, few only outside the stream of crowds, unlike the other days when they formed line to discipline the pebble throwers. I was relaxed and thanking Allah that it went peacefully. But my Turkish companion received message that 100 people were killed in the stampede (the push we sustained), though we didn't see any dead but saw the ambulances.

Next we heard 'Al Jazeera' reporting three hundred killed. I wanted to know their nationalities. But no one could answer my question.

With a tragic memory I wish all the Kings and Sultans, Emirs and other rulers represent their faith in true spirit, so that it is represented in Mina also and lives of the pilgrims are not endangered.