MAKKAH — The people of Indonesia, the most populous Muslim nation, topped the list of the worldwide Muslims as the most listened segment of people to the sermon on the Day of Arafat during the current Hajj season. The number of visits made by Indonesians to the Manarat Al-Haramain platform of the General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques to listen the Arafat sermon accounted for 68 million. The total number of visitors to the platform on the Day of Arafat reached more than 600 million, with the aim of listening to the translation of the sermon on the Day of Arafat, and that was broadcast through the platform into 14 languages. The number of listeners of the sermon exceeded more than 219 million visits, of whom 68 million are from Indonesia while 38 million from Pakistan, 32 million from India, and 22 million from Bangladesh. There are 19 million visits from Egypt, 12 million from China, and six million from the United States of America, three million from Malaysia, two million each from Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka, and the rest of the number was among other countries. The listeners to the sermon represent 99 percent from computers and one percent from mobile phones. The breakup of the percentage of listening to languages was as follows: 29 percent for Malay, 18 percent for English, 13 percent for Urdu, 11 percent for Hausa, 9 percent for Bengali, 4 percent for French, 3 percent for Turkish, 2.3 percent for Tamil, two percent for Chinese, Hindi, Russian and Persian each while 1.5 percent for Kiswahili and 1.2 percent for Spanish.
