The journey of the pilgrim starts from Mecca. Thulhijjah 8th , the day of irrigation, the pilgrim comes to Mecca and stays the night. At the dawn of Thulhijjah 9th, he moves to mount Arafa. Making supplication and duaa, combining the prayers of duhur and assar in advance and continuing to ask The Almighty what he wishes or wants. Before sunset, he must move from mount Arafa to Muzdalifa, another rite area where he combines Ishaa and Magrib prayers together and continues his supplication. Then he collects stones to be thrown at Satan later.
Thulhijjah 10th at dawn, he continues his journey to Mena where he performs the rest of the rites. This is the day of Eid Aladha, or the big feast. The pilgrim can slaughter his sacrifice and cut or shorten his hair. He can also go to throw the stones at Satan. After this, he can take off his Ihram, but he is not allowed to touch his wife (have sexual intercourse) or go hunting. After Ifadah Tawaf, the hajji can lie with his woman and go hunting if he wishes. On the third day at Mena, the pilgrim can make the goodbye Tawaf and go home. Hasty pilgrims can stay two days in Mena and perform the goodbye Tawaf and go back home. Hajj is over. The pilgrim returns from his hajj clean with no sins at all.
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Ameen Dara!
Mashaa Allah, acha kam Mishaikh janab. Ladies and gentlemen of My EC. On behalf of you, let me give my thanks and appreciation to the great blogger of the club, the kindest man of all men here on EC, Mr. Mishaikh and the great help which he is offering. Putting his previous experience of hajj to you. He is doing his best to explain and give help to those who need it. I have asked him to help me. I am not at my computer every time, sometimes lecturing or being away from it. As I mentioned before, some questions need immediate answers. Shall we say thanks to him? God will never let anything to scatter in the wind. I hope that what you have done here will be on your scale on The last Day.
Yes Hajj is that obligatory prayer which involve both physical as well as monetary exertion. In Fasting and daily prayers there involves only physical exertions. In Zakah only monetary involvement is there.
But in Hajj both you have to expend money as well as your bodily labour. In Hajj there are certain ritual act which your wisdom feel strange and awkward. Like Tawaf around Kaabah it looks idol worship, and some of my Indian friends get curious, then why there is an act of Tawaf, The answer is that ALLAH HAS COMMANDED to PERFORM, so there must not be any REASON SEEKING. I am sorry some of the readers are not understanding this point.
Like running between Safa and Marwah, this act also like to observer a strange one. Again my reply is the same. During this from a certain point men have to walk faster and women slower, (whereas in actual Hazrat Hajra was the one who walked faster while she was looking for water.
Like throwing stones on satan. (these are symbols of satan, beautifully build walls on which the Hajjis have to throw stone. This is again the strangest looking act. And this is the spot where most of the time stampede occurs.
Like sacrificing of halal animals. If one sheep per haajji is taken it means 3 million sheep are slaughtered, and hajjis leave them in SA.
So please my request to MUSLIMS is that please do not seek reasoning. WHY HAJJ IS PERFORMED? JUST BECAUSE ALLAH HAS COMMANDED TO DO. And we all should perform Hajj just to PLEASE ALLAH.
RECITE AGAIN AND AGAIN SURA AKHLAS AND SURA ALKAFIROON, and try to UNDERSTAND WHAT ALLAH IS SAYING THERE. IF WE UNDERSTAND THE ACTUAL MEANING OF THESE AYAAT WE WILL UNDERSTAND WHY ALL ALLAH IS UNIQUE, AND WHY HE IS ASKING US TO LET THE UNBELIEVERS GO THERE WAY AND ASKING US TO LEAD OUR OWN WAY.
I am requesting the readers please do not put here the unnecessary discussions which will deviate us from our true patch..................TO FOLLOW COMMANDMENTS OF ALLAH...........with LOVE, DEVOTION AND SPIRITUALITY.
Thank you all.
terima kasih kebali Ratu! I hope to help when you intend to do so. I hope you add me to the list of your friends. Thanks for your nice comment on hajj 2.
Mutashakireen ya Sahar Abdalla. Ahib masr wa ahlaha ataibeen. It's indeed a big gift. if we worship Him, it is for our own benefit. I hope to be one of your friends. Can you send me the request? Thanks for your comment on hajj 2.
you reminded me how much Hajj is a great gift Allah gave us. And how we should worship Allah
a big thanks for you.
Khaili khob dooste khobam wa mamnoon! Mr. Mishaikh might not be at his computer at this time, but let me say, there is nothing wrong with pondering or using our minds in the universe or the creation of God's creatures. Look at this, ((don't they see how camels were created, and to the sky how it is raised and to the mountains, how they are erected and to the earth, how it is flattened)) some letters at the first of some Surats in Quraan, we do not know the meaning of them. example, ((alif lam meem that book has no doubt in it)) consequently, pondering in the self of Allah, this is beyond our reach or rather we cannot comprehend it, pondering in His creation, will lead us to His glory and His greatness. So far, we have some compromise here, Zahra, don't we? I really appreciate your useful intervention for the sake of knowledge. I hope the reader will benefit from that. Thanks again!
PS- The only thing that our religion has told us not to think about, is the being of God; meaning how He is. Because it is not in the circle of our understanding and it is not reachable. Yet, we can- to some extend that is the capacity of our soul- think about and understand the features and adjectives that God is described with.
Well, dear Mishaikh,
Koran repeatedly asks us to be wise and thoughtful. ((افلا تعقلون Don't you think?)) Those who worship stones instead of God, can understand that they are on the wrong path only when they think and use their mind!
Yet, after proving that Koran is God's saying, we obey it even if we do not understand the meaning of all its rituals. I think God's saying can be pondered deeply and we can seek their meaning. Only about the rituals we may hardly reach their true meaning, though it is not impossible.
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