Hajj this year

May Allah SWT make your hajj mabroor. amiin.

My brother and sis in law as well as a couple of uncles and aunts are going.
Please make du'a for me that I too can perform my hajj duty soon Insha Allah

Inshallah I hope to go one day, but I have no income just now so I'm living off my dwindling savings. Inshallah if I can find a job I might be able to go next year, but it seems more people are being laid off than are being employed, so it doesn't look likely.

I've heard different opinions, too. Some say it's better for new reverts to try to wait a year or two so they know what it's all about, others say don't delay at all.

format_quote Originally Posted by Insecured soul

Hajj is for 40 days right?

As sr. Insaanah has explained, the hajj rites itself only last for a week.
However, most people (from other countries, especially those from big muslim countries) who go on hajj spend 40 days because of the following reasons:
- they will spend from few days to more than a week in madina (which is not included in the rukun hajj itself)
- limited number and frequency of flights that require the jamaah to wait for their turns to depart to saudi and to return to their countries. Example: Indonesia will send more than 200,000 jamaah hajj this year. There is no way all those 200,000 can embark in one go or even within a week (eg. my uncle and aunt have departed early last week, while my brother and his wife will only depart in november 8 Insha Allah)
- Most, if not almost all people who go on hajj have waited all their life to go to saudi, so it is only natural that they want to spend more time as possible as ibada in masjidil haraam and masjid nabawwi give so much rewards.

format_quote Originally Posted by Amoeba

I've heard different opinions, too. Some say it's better for new reverts to try to wait a year or two so they know what it's all about, others say don't delay at all.

I would advise to go as soon as you have the opportunity (health, money, time), because going on a hajj is the part of the pillars of Islam and it is wajib (compulsory) for those who are able to do it.
You will never know what the future holds.
I had every opportunity to go haj for many years, but I neglected it, and now when I want to go hajj very very much, I don't have that opportunity

You can always learn deen in the meanwhile, and if in the future you have that opportunity again, you still can go for another hajj or just umroh.

Yeah but surely it's only if you can afford it?

I would appreciate if anyone would be so kind as to remember this sinner whilst in the holy land, for his guidance.

Yeah but surely it's only if you can afford it?

Of course.

thats so wonderful for anyone able to go to the Hajj this year. Even though i haven't reverted there is a part of me that would do anything to go.. ( yea i know.. revert first ) but there's a part of me that would be terrified by that many people. I do hope if (when).. if (when) .... -deep sigh - i do get to make that trip...
Peace to all
serena

format_quote Originally Posted by 'Abd-al Latif

Are you going to wait till you have money that cannot used for anything else before you decide to go for Hajj or are you going to save up and make things happen?

Race one with another for forgiveness from your Lord and a Garden whereof the breadth is as the breadth of the heavens and the earth... [57:21]

Um... what?

You don't know about the job situation here. I don't know if I'm going to have enough money to live. Stop being so judgemental!

Sahih Bukhari: Volume 3, Book 28, Number 45
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle said, "Whoever performs Hajj to this House (Ka'ba) and does not approach his wife for sexual relations nor commits sins (while performing Hajj), he will come out as sinless as a newly-born child. (Just delivered by his mother)."

Masha'Allaah,praise be to Allaah. Please all of us in your du'as,may Allaah accept your Hajj and bless you and your families.

Manaal: May God have heard your prayers and accepted your Hajj.