HAJJ IS A DUTY, THERE ARE FOUR MONTHS OF HAJJ
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🔻HAJJ IS A DUTY,
THERE ARE FOUR MONTHS OF HAJJ
▪️Unknown to many Muslims,
there are actually four sacred months of Hajj.
Today's Muslims and authorities have whittled it down to specified days in one month with no support from the Quran.
Today's practices are dependant only on Islamic secondary sources.
✅002:197
“For Hajj are the months (Arabic: Ashurun - plural) well known.
If anyone undertakes that duty therein,
Let there be no obscenity, nor wickedness, nor wrangling in the Hajj.
And whatever good you do, (be sure) God knows it.
And take a provision (With you) for the journey, but the best of provisions is right conduct.
So fear Me, o ye that are wise”
✅009:036
“Lo! the number of the months with God is twelve months by God's ordinance in the day that He created the heavens and the earth.
Four (Arabic: Arba'atun) of them are sacred:
that is the right deen.
So wrong not yourselves in them.
And wage war on all of the idolaters as they are waging war on all of you.
And know that God is with those who keep their duty (unto Him)”
✅005.097
"God made the Kaaba, the Sacred House,
an asylum of security for men, as also the Sacred Months, the animals for offerings,
and the garlands that mark them:
That you may know that God has knowledge of what is in the Heavens and on Earth and
that God is well acquainted with all things"
▪️PREPARATION - RIGHTEOUSNESS
✅002:197 (part)
"...And take a provision (With you) for the journey,
but the best of provisions is right conduct.
So fear Me, o ye that are wise”
▪️THE NEW MOON SIGNIFIES THE START OF HAJJ
✅002:189
“They ask thee, (O Muhammad),
of new moons, say:
They are fixed seasons for mankind and for the pilgrimage”
▪️HAJJ IS A DUTY
✅003.097 (part)
"...Pilgrimage (Arabic: Hijju) is a duty men owe to God, those who can afford the journey; but if any disbelieves, God stands not in need of any of His creatures"
➖It is clear by the reference above in context of the ancient sanctuary, that the principle of 'Hajj' (pilgrimage) has been established since the time of Prophet Abraham (pbuh)
▪️Hajj has been a practice that has been followed by successive generations of Prophet Abraham. (pbuh) It was even known to the father in-law of Prophet Moses (pbuh) before Prophet Moses (pbuh) received his Prophethood from God. In the following verse, we note the use of Hajj as a marker to signify a contractual period.
✅028.027
"He said: "Indeed I intend to marry you to one of these two daughters of mine on condition that you hire thyself to me for (the term of) eight pilgrimages (Arabic: Thamaniya Hijajin). Then if you complete ten, it will be of your own accord, and I would not wish to make it difficult for you. God willing, you will find me of the righteous"
▪️PURPOSE AND PROCLAMATION
➖The Hajj was established through Prophet Abraham (pbuh) and had a particular purpose. It was to call people from the furthest locations to an appointed place at a particular time to commemorate and praise the Lord and fulfil certain rites in the name of the Lord.
✅002.196
"And complete the Hajj and the Umrah for God..."
✅022.026
"Behold! We gave the site, to Abraham, the site of the House, (saying): "Associate not anything (in obedience & serve) with Me;
and sanctify My House for those who compass it round, or stand up, or bow, or prostrate themselves (therein in prayer)"
✅022.027
"And proclaim to mankind the pilgrimage. They will come to thee on foot and on every lean camel;
they will come from every deep ravine"
✅022.028
"That they may witness the benefits (provided) for them, and celebrate the name of God, through the days appointed, over the cattle which He has provided for them (for sacrifice):
then eat from them and feed the distressed ones in want"
✅022.031
"Turning unto God (only), not ascribing partners unto Him; for whoso ascribes partners to God, it is as if he had fallen from the sky and the birds had snatched him or the wind had blown him to a far-off place"
✅022.032
"That (is the command). And whoever honours the offerings consecrated to God, it surely is from devotion of the hearts"
➖Therefore, the purpose of the Hajj is to serve, commemorate and to magnify God alone.
Hajj is not performed in the memory of any one great personality, people, or indeed in the name of what tests they may have personally endured.
▪️It is indisputable that Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) would have remained the best example of one who followed the Quran for guidance, the very inspiration sent to him by God.
The Quran is what he would have used not only to guide himself, but to teach and remind others with (50:45).
The Quran would have remained the criterion to discern between right and wrong (furqan - 25:1) and the clarification of all matters necessary for the right 'deen' (tibiana lekulli shayin 16:89).
▪️Satan is committed to lead mankind off the right path and to instil alien practices not sanctioned by God's word.
Sadly, many of today's practices performed in the name of Islam are no different and have not escaped Satan's guile.
Satan's attack is unrelenting and his assault is from every place (7:17).
He introduces rituals, superstitions and confounds man into believing in them.
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