Visitors perform prayer before sunset on top of Al-Noor Mountain in Makkah. Pilgrims love visiting the mountain which houses the famed Ghar-E-Hira or Hira cave. The cave is quite small, four arm’s length long by 1.75 arm’s length wide. The mountain is barely six hundred and forty meters tall. It does however, take two hours to make it to the cave and the climb is extremely strenuous. However, the mount and the cave hold tremendous significance for Muslims throughout the world since Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) is said to have spent a great deal of time in the cave meditating. He had received his first revelation from the archangel Gabriel inside this cave. — Okaz photo