to prove ”I really was at Mecca”. In a few years no one will know who these women are, which is symbolic of how their culture treats women. In some countries daughters were not even named in the records so their identities, and sometimes existence, are lost to history.
A billionaire Saudi sheik takes a photo of his wives while on vacation so they can put the photo in their scrapbooks. Saudis like to keep scrapbooks too!
Americans do this all the time, except the man only has one wife and she is wearing shorts and a tank top instead of a burqa.
I've seen that before many times. I really pity those poor women having to wear black when it's hot and the sun is out. It's a wonder they don't die from heat stroke!