Introduction to Hajj

Hajj is the fifth pillar of Islam and is the world largest pilgrimage to Mecca in the Muslim community, the event is organized annually with an objective to please Allah and reminding the purpose of life on earth.

Muslims get together there irrespective of any caste, color, creed or their language for the purpose of praising Allah. Hajj is organized in Qabba which is surrounded by Masjid-e-Haraam, according to an estimate more than 3.2 Million Muslims performed hajj in previous year.

The hajj becomes an obligatory prayer on a person who is physically and financially stable enough so that he can do hajj easily. Every sane and adult Muslim is allowed to perform hajj by Islam, this mean that he can start his pilgrimage to Mecca after a merit of sane and adult.

All of the men have to wear Ihram for hajj which is a special dress for it, while women wear Hijab a public dress of women in Islam. The hajj is carried out by Muslims in the last month of Islamic/Lunar calendar between the dates from 8^th- 12^th dhu-ul-hijjah.

History Of Hajj

The history of hajj goes to thousands of years back in the time of Prophet Hazrat Ibrahim. At that time Arab was a barren land with no life or human living there, on the instruction of Allah Ibrahim (A.S)bring his child Is’mail and his wife Hajira in the valley of Mecca from Palestine.

He provides them with some supply of food and water and returned back to his home according to the order of Allah. Few days after, the food and water become finished and both Is’mail and Hajira started to suffer from hunger and thirst.

In the search of water and help Hajira moved up and down between the hills of Safa and Marwa, seven times but find nothing then prayed to Allah after putting Is’mail on sand.

In the instance the baby Is’mail cried and hits his foots on ground which resulted in to spring of Zamzam water from that point miraculously.

After short period of time Ibrahim came back to visit his wife and son and amazed to see the natural supply of water, and trading water with passing people for food.

At this time Ibrahim was given an order by Allah to build a shrine, dedicated to Allah so that people can prayer there for Him.

At this prophet Ibrahim and his son Is’mail build a small and cube shaped structure with stones, as the time passes a number of people started to worship Allah as a result of is’mail preaching.

As the time passes the holy place of Qabba became the place of many gods and idols, then the prophet Muhammad (SAW) came and restored the Qabba as the place of Allah after a long struggle in his life. Now the city Mecca became a so holy place for Muslims that no Non-Muslim is allowed to enter into this place.
 

Rituals Of Hajj

Now millions of people perform hajj with the depth of their heart and a complete believe on Allah hajj must be done with a full devotion and care, all of the rituals must be done appropriately so that your hajj may be accepted in the court of Allah.  Following are the list of rituals which must be performed in order to perform full hajj in accordance with the teaching of Islam.
 

• Tawaf

Aan anti clock wise movement around Qabba with a count of seven times.

• Sa’e

A movement between two hills of Safa and Marwah seven times with a great speed for first 3 times and then with moderate pace for next 4 times.
 

• Qayyam in Mina

Hujjaj then goes to mina and spend the night in prayer after that, they moved forward to the point of Arafat on the next morning to perform the next rite of the hajj.
 

• Muzdalifah

As the sun sets the Hujjaj leaves Arafat to stay on the point of Muzdalifah, they sleep on the ground under open sky and in the morning gathers pebbles for next rite of the hajj.
 

• Ramy-al-Jamarat

In this ritual of hajj, hajjis performs the act of stone throwing to show the attitude of insubordination to devil’s will.
 

• Eid-ul-Adha

After the above ritual of hajj, animals are slaughtered on eid day which is also a global festival for all Muslims.
 

• Tawaf-al-Ifaadah

After slaughtering the animals pilgrims revisit Qabba and offer a tawaf again, this may be done on the next day after eid day. This is an obligatory part of hajj. Night of the 10^th zilhaj is spent in Mina, and next day pilgrims must have to throw seven pebbles on all of the three jamarat.
 

• Tawaf-al-wida

Before departing from Mecca Hujjaj performs a farewell tawaf which is known as Tawaf-al-Wida.
 

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