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Hajj Prep: Educating Oneself Before Embarking

Hajj 1880 C.E.
Hajj 1880 C.E.

By Mawlana Abu Asim Badrul Islam

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

With regard to educating oneself of the significance, virtues, laws and method of hajj, hajj-goers are generally of three categories:

(1) Those who are absolutely indifferent and do not have any sense of the importance of learning and understanding before setting off for hajj. This, sadly, is a very large percentage of all those who embark on this magical ‘journey of a lifetime’. It does not occur to them in the least that there is a total of five days of hajj, and in the case of most non-locals travelling from other parts of the world, they will have to perform an ‘umrah before the actual five days of hajj, and in those 5 days they have to perform special rites in special ways, during special – and sometimes strict – times, in special locations. This category simply goes for hajj, hoping to just follow the crowd and come back home as a ‘hajji’.