What is Islam
01- The Holly Kalimah
02- Salaah (The Prayer)
03- Zakaah
04- Soum (Fasting)
05- Hajj
06- Taqwaa (Piety)
07- Honesty in Dealing
08- Social Conduct & Mutual Relations
09- Good Manners & Nobel Qualities
10- Love of Allah, Nabi (SAWW)
11- Preaching & Propagation
12- Constancy
13- Jihad
14- Martyrdom
15- Life after Death
16- Heaven & Hell
17- Zikr
18- Dua
19- Durood Shareef
20- Taubah
HAJJ
(Pilgrimage)
The last of the fundamental duties in Islam is the Hajj. Laying it down as an essential religious obligation of Muslims, the Holy Quraan says:
Pilgrimage thereto is a duty, men owe to Allah, on those who can afford the journey, but if any one denies faith, Allah stands not in need of any of His creatures. [III:97]
In
this verse while the Hajj has been declared obligatory it has been made
clear that it is applicable only to those who possess the means and
material resources to undertake it. But care has been taken, in the
last part of it, to warn that if Muslims whom Allah (Subhaanahu
Wata'aalaa) has blessed with the necessary material means to perform
the pilgrimage still fail to carry out the duty through sheer
ingratitude (as is common among the wealthy classes these days) then
Allah (Subhaanahu Wata'aalaa) does not stand in need of their
pilgrimage. The Almighty, definitely, is not going to lose anything by
their not performing the Hajj, the loss will entirely to them. They
will forfeit His good graces, they will deprive themselves of His
benevolence, and Allah-forbid, a most lamentable fate will be waiting
for them in the Hereafter. The Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihe Wasillam) is
reported to have gone as far as to say:
"A person whom Allah
(SUbhaanahu Wata'aalaa) has given enough to perform the Hajj, if he
still fails to do so then it does not matter at all whether he dies as
a Jew or a Christian."
Brothers! If there is any regard in our
hearts for Islam, if we can boast of the least attachment to Allah
(Subhaanahu Wata'aalaa) and the Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihe Wasallam)
none of us who can afford to make the journey should remain without
performing the Hajj after we have known this Tradition.
Spiritual Merit
The
importance of the Hajj and the spiritual meritoriousness of those who
perform it have been emphasised in a number of Traditions. We will
reproduce a few of them here.
"Those who make the pilgrimage
for the Hajj or the Umrah they are the guests of Allah (Subhaanahu
Wata'aalaa): their petitions, if they make any to Allah (Subhaanahu
Wata'aalaa), will be granted, and if they seek deliverance from sins,
their sins will be forgiven."
"He who performs the Hajj and
commits no wicked or sinful deed during it and does not disobey Allah
(Subhaanahu Wata'aalaa), he will return from it as pure and guiltless
as he was at the time of his birth."
"The reward for a pure and untainted Hajj is paradise itself and nothing short of it."
Immediate Gains
The
remission of sins and the enjoyment of the supreme blissfulness of
paradise as a result of the spiritual auspiciousness of the Hajj will,
Inshaa Allah, surely be granted to the faithful in full measure in life
to come, but the exquisite thrill and the sublime joy one experiences,
the soul-stirring sensation of delight and wonderment one feels, on
seeing that choicest seat of Divine splendour - the House of Ka'bah and
on visiting those special places in Makkah where the memories of
Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihe Wasallam) are still alive, are also things
of the celestial world on the earth. Then the pilgrimage to the
Prophet's (Sallallahu Alaihe Wasallam) mausoleum at Madinah, the
offering up of Salaah in his own mosque, the addressing of the
salutation and the benediction to him directly, the aimless wanderings
in the streets and the wilderness of the blessed city, the breathing in
of its air and the fragrance which always seems to be filling its
atmosphere, the ethereal joy of his remembrance bursting upon one
sometimes in laughter and sometimes in tears - all these things -
provided, of course, that one is blessed enough to feel them - are the
immediate rewards a pilgrim gets when he betakes himself to the holy
cities of Makkah and Madinah.
Five Pillars of Islam
The
five fundamental teachings of Islam we have discussed so far, the
Kalimah, Salaah, Zakaah, Saum and Hajj, are known as the 'Five Pillars
of Islam'.
A well-known Tradition of the Holy Prophet
(Sallallahu Ataihe Wasallam) tells us that, "The foundation of Islam
rests on these five things; (i) the affirmation of (ii)
the establishment of Salaah (iii) the payment of Zakaah (iv) the
observance of Saum in the month of Ramadhaan and (v) the performance of
Hajj by those who can afford to make the pilgrimage."
When
these five items are spoken of as the Pillars of Islam, it means that
these are the fundamental duties of the faith. If carried out properly
these duties are capable of producing in us the ability to fulfil our
other religious obligations as well. Here we have dwelt only on their
importance and the intrinsic spiritual virtue that underlies them.
Detailed rules and principles governing them can be learnt from
reliable, books on Islamic Jurisprudence or directly from a Muslim
theologian.
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