HAJJ (PILGRIMAGE)
DEFINITION OF HAJJ:
DEFINITION OF HAJJ:
LINGUISTICALLY: GOING TO SPECIFIC SACRED PLACES.
JURIDICALLY: GOING TO MAKKAH TO PERFORM SPECIFIC ACTS, AT
SPECIFIC TIMES, FOR THE PURPOSE OF WORSHIP.
JURIDICALLY: GOING TO MAKKAH TO PERFORM SPECIFIC ACTS, AT
SPECIFIC TIMES, FOR THE PURPOSE OF WORSHIP.
: SAID عز وجلALLAH
(ولله على الناس حج البيت من استطاع إليه سبيلا, ومن كفر فإن الله غني عن العالمين )
“.. AND HAJJ (PILGRIMAGE TO MAKKAH) TO THE HOUSE (KA`BAH) IS A DUTY THATMANKIND OWES TO ALLAH, THOSE WHO CAN AFFORD THE EXPENSES (FOR CONVEYANCE, PROVISION AND RESIDENCE); AND WHOEVER DISBELIEVES(i.e. DENIES HAJJ, THEN HE IS A DISBELIEVER OF ALLAH, THEN ALLAH STANDS NOT IN NEED OF ANY OF THE `ALAMIN (MANKIND AND JINNS).”
(AL-OMRAN V.97)
PILGRIMAGE LEGITIMACY
- HAJJ IS OBLIGATORY TO BE PERFORMED ONCE IN A LIFETIME.
- HAJJ IS THE FIFTH PILLAR OF ISLAM.
- HAJJ WAS IMPOSED ON MUSLIMS IN THE NINTH YEAR OF HIJRA.
PILGRIMAGE VIRTUES
ABU HURAYRAH REPORTED THAT THE PROPHETصلى الله عليه وسلم SAID:“ HE WHO MAKES HAJJ AND AVOIDS OBSCENE LANGUAGE AND IMMORAL BEHAVIOR, WILL RETURN WITHOUT HIS SINS LIKE THE DAY HIS MOTHER GAVE BIRTH TO HIM.” (Collected by Bukhari and Muslim)
PILGRIMAGE WISDOM
- SHOWS THE UNIVERSALITY OF ISLAM.
- REMINDS US OF THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT.
- CLEANSENESS OF THE SELF FROM THE SIN’S IMPACT.
CONDITIONS OF THE OBLIGATION OF HAJJ
- ISLAM.
- RATIONAL (SANE).
- PUBERTY.
- ABILITY TO PERFORM HAJJ.
- NON-SLAVE.
- FOR WOMEN: SHE HAS TO HAVE MUHRAM1.
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