Customs Of The Pilgrimage

 

Rules of Hajj (L-184)

إِنَّ الصَّفا وَالمَروَةَ مِن شَعائِرِ اللَّهِ ۖ فَمَن حَجَّ البَيتَ أَوِ اعتَمَرَ فَلا جُناحَ عَلَيهِ أَن يَطَّوَّفَ بِهِما ۚ وَمَن تَطَوَّعَ خَيرًا فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ شاكِرٌ عَليمٌ158.

158.  ‘Innas-Safaa wal-Marwata min-Sha-‘aaa-‘iRillaah.  Faman  hajjal-Bayta  ‘awi’-tamara  falaa  junaaha  ‘alayhi  ‘any-yat-taw-wafa  bihimaa.  Wa  man- tataw-wa-‘a  khayran,  fa-‘innAllaaha  Shaakirun ‘Aliim.

158.  Safa and Marwa are among the rites of God. Whoever makes the Pilgrimage to the House, or performs the Umrah, commits no error by circulating between them. Whoever volunteers good—God is Appreciative and Cognizant.

Near the Inviolable Place of Worship (Masjidil-Haraam) these are two hills. Safaa is on the right hand and Marwah is on the left side. There is a distance of nearly 275 yards between them. Verbal meaning of Safaa is pure stone or genuine rock and verbal meaning of Marwah is white soft stone. Prophet Abraham (Peace be upon him) left his wife Hajar (compliments on her) and his son Prophet Ishmael (Peace be upon him) in the Faaraan valley and returned. He (Ishmael) was still an innocent infant. When the eatables and drinkable went to an end which were held with the mother and the infant. The infant began to flutter due to thirst. His mother used to run on these two hills hither and thither with utmost restlessly and unstrung to see the fountain of water anywhere.

Sha-‘aaa-‘iRillaah – (Signs of God Almighty). Sha-‘aaa-‘ir is plural of Sha-‘iirah which means appointed place for worship or manners of worship. During the Pilgrimage, on which appointed places and manners the customs of Pilgrimage are performed, those all are included in “the Signs of God Almighty”.

Hajj – in Islamic worships, it is the fourth pillar. During the month of Zul-Hajjah on appointed dates with proper manner the Pilgrimage of Ka’-bah (the Square Building at Makkah), to sacrifice an animal particularly during the particular days, going round the Holy Shrine (Ka’-bah), to endeavor of Safaa and Marwah, and obeying other Customs is called Hajj.

‘Umrah – (a manner of the pilgrimage of  Ka’-bah). Its reward is not equal to Hajj. There is no date or month fixed for this worship. Its traditions are less than Hajj.

Some customs and traditions of Hajj have been described in this verse. God commands that these are not only the customs but these are the Signs of God also. Its purpose is to grow passion of goodness into the mankind. Every individual should bow his/her body and place his forehead on the ground (fall prostrate) in the Court of God being pure from the sins. 

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