“O mankind, indeed We Have Created you from male and female and Made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the Sight of Allah is the most righteous of you.”<\/strong> (Quran 49:13)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Islamic views on piety:<\/span><\/h2>\n

Our Messenger, God bless him and grant him peace, said: \u201cNo Arab is superior to a non-Arab, nor a white-complexioned to a black-complexioned except by virtue of piety.\u201d<\/p>\n

Is\u00a0Hajj\u00a0then, from this point of view, worthy of the care of reformers, the concern of the sincere and the effort of the passionate?<\/span><\/h4>\n

We are all subject to our habits and governed by our traditions as a result of the house in which we live, the school in which we learn, and the environment surrounding us.<\/p>\n

A lot of our customs and habits are bad and harmful, the majority of our traditions are invalid and superstitious, and the greater part of what we agree upon is false and ignorant. Worship, as they said, is a second disposition, and to be released from traditions is very difficult upon a lot of people.<\/p>\n

When a reformer likes to straighten the crookedness of his nation, and push it towards the pathways of perfection, he encounters the rocks of habits and traditions. He may perish and die before changing his people from a familiar habit, given that \u201cpeople are slaves of their traditions\u201d.<\/p>\n

Hajj\u00a0comes to release the individual from his habitual customs, and change his familiar traditions. Hajj, in this way, enables the pilgrim to govern himself, control his deeds, give up bad customs, and come away from awful traditions to the immense field of piety, virtues and spiritual elevation.<\/p>\n

That is because the pilgrim becomes a sovereign over his own self after having been a slave of his habits.
\nIn confirmation of that, Allah Almighty Says (what means):<\/p>\n

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“Hajj is [during] well-known months, so whoever has made Hajj obligatory upon himself therein [by entering the state of Ihram], there is [to be for him] no sexual relations and no disobedience and no disputing during Hajj. And whatever good you do \u2013 Allah Knows it.”<\/strong> (Quran 2:197)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Messenger of Allah, God bless him and grant him peace, stated that Hajj brings the Muslim out of his sins, misdeeds, bad customs and habits, saying:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhoever performs Hajj during which he does not have sexual intercourse (with his wife) nor commit wickedness, will become (as sinless) as he was on the very day his mother gave birth to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Is\u00a0Hajj, in this sense, not worthy of the care of educationalists and psychologists?<\/span><\/h4>\n

What is worthier of care than a worship-based practical system that releases man from the slavery of loss, and joins him to (Allah) The Most Merciful with a strong bond of truthfulness, certainty and faith?<\/p>\n

Countries allocate money to physical sports and military exercises, a system for which our youth in schools are preparing. Without doubt, sport is a source of strength, valor, courage and gallantry, and an important support pillar in the construction of the glory of the Ummah.<\/p>\n

Islam was a forerunner in recognizing the virtue of sport, when it commanded people to learn racing, archery, horsemanship, swimming and sword fight to prepare for Jihaad in the way of security, truth and peace. It joined sport with acts of worship, so that the emotion and feeling would share with the heart in performing it. Thus, sport becomes a physical power and a spiritual worship which has its glorious benefits in this world, and its great reward in the Hereafter.<\/p>\n

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Source: britishhajtravel website with some modifications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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