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The
servant does not earn Al-Hajj
Al-Mabrur (acceptable Hajj) except by leaving sins. While
falling into sin is prohibited at all times, Allah Most High gives
a specific order to the pilgrims to leave sins. He says:
[For
Hajj are the months well known. If any one undertakes that duty
therein, Let there be no obscenity, nor wickedness, nor wrangling
in the Hajj.]
(Al-Baqarah 2: 197). This is due to the nobility of the
time and the greatness of the place. Allah Most High says:
[whosoever
seeketh wrongful partiality therein, him We shall cause to taste a
painful doom.]
(Al-Hajj 22:25). How could there be reward for one who commits
sins?!
Contemplation
about the state of people during Hajj causes one to realize the
many evil deeds and mistakes, which are the result of weak fear of
Allah, lack of consideration of the sacredness of the time and
place, ignorance of the Shari`ah, and following customs. Perhaps
among the most widespread evil actions and mistakes in Hajj are
the following: intentionally committing prohibited acts while in
the state of ihram without a valid excuse, harming Muslims with
one’s sayings and actions, leaving of mutual advising and
ordering of good and forbidding evil, delaying prayer from its due
time, backbiting, slander, vain talk, argumentation, hearsay,
extravagance, miserliness in spending, wasting food, bad behavior
towards others, negligence with regards to sins such as listening
to what is not allowed, uncovering what is not allowed to be
uncovered, hurry or delay in performance of rituals, lack of
observance of limits and boundaries of places that may not be
overstepped in performing the actions of Hajj.
Who
is more deprived than the pilgrim who sacrifices his or her soul
and wealth, and leaves his or her state and adornment, and then
returns with forbidden actions and the anger of the Merciful?
A
poet said:
He
went to Hajj so that Allah forgives his sins
And
returned with even more sins
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Based on the Article: So That Our Hajj May Be Accepted By Faysal
Ibn `Ali Al-Ba`dani. Excerpted with some modifications from
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