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Dalia Salaheldin
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Consultant to Reading Islam Website
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Finding God Through Pilgrimage
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Monday, Dec. 10, 2007
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Dear visitors,
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For feedback and suggestions, please contact us.
Yours,
Reading Islam Team
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Arman
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How should non-Muslim friends and co-workers interact with someone who is going on Hajj or celebrating at home?
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Salams Arman.
It is very nice of you to consider such thoughts concerning your close Muslim friends.
The best and easiest way is simply to be happy for them. Join their joy and act understandably to their happy moments.
If some friends of yours are going to Hajj, go visit them before they leave and wish them a safe and accepted trip. When they come back, you can also visit for congratulations. Listen to their longings before they go and to their memories after they are back. Express respect to their rituals and appreciation to their once-per-life journey.
If you have any questions about their Pilgrimage, make sure to express acceptance and respect to their ideas, while asking. Don’t be hesitant about asking, but make sure to convey your happiness and joy for their joy.
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Zaid
- Canada
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Student
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Can you guide me with some tips on doing dawah effectively with rigid people.. I always argue and end up in failure..
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Salams Zaid.
The best way is not to argue in the first place. In case you are in Hajj (Pilgrimage), you must never go into jaddal (arguments).
Arguments and disputes are acts that are not favored by God. Particularly in Hajj, they are completely prohibited and discarded. The reason the Qur’an clearly states their prohibition during Pilgrimage is that going into ugly discussions takes you completely out of the peaceful and submissive mood you should be enjoying during your Hajj.
During arguments, the person usually feels the need to satisfy his personal ego by winning the clap by the end of the sharp conversation. Even when one is saying the truth, the human natural instinct that needs to be satisfied always tries to take over.
Thus, the best way __specially in Hajj__ is to avoid arguments completely. This never means to be silent in case the truth or the correct principle needs to be highlighted. There are two ways The first is to act correctly and truthfully, to be an obvious example of what is correct, without being artificial of course. The second is to state your point of view only once, clearly, firmly and peacefully.
You do not need to convince the person in front of you. Your role is only to convey the message.
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Muhammad
- Indonesia
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Thunder
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hello im moslem from indonesia......... i want ask about:
1.is woman can join with military or police ....or not?
in my country we have Admiral Malahayati the firts female in the world........ she fight with portugis........for islam........in the past where the portugis attack our country
2. Is woman can learning martial arts look like kendo,karate etc and join martial arts competision or not?
sorry if my english is bad..........because english my second languange
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Do you have to go to pilgrimage to find God?
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Salams M.
No, you do not have to go to pilgrimage in order to find God.
God is here, God is near!
God is everywhere and available for all of us all the time. You can find God through contemplating in His lovely creation. You smell Him in a lovely flower; you can see him in the awesome scenes of mountains, volcanoes, under seas and raining __but many times shining__ skies. You can touch Him in the lovely soft feather-coat of a meowing cat. You can feel Him in the awkwardly tender love between two birds. You can see Him in the ever-giving nature of tender parents and in the soft affectionate passion between spouses.
Again __of course__ you can always find God through prayers, contemplation, sharing the poor and devotion to Him, would always get you closer.
Yet, you have to go to pilgrimage if you want to submit correctly to His will. If you are not sick, nor poor; if you have the means to go and if you want to be a practicing Muslim, then you have to go.
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Verona
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housewife
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If a woman just came to Islam, but her husband not yet. Why is she forbiddened to go to Pilgrimage? Is there any way to go?
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Salams Verona.
Welcome to Islam and praying for you to go to Hajj in sha’ Allah.
By Islamic laws, you are not forbidden to go. Islam only cares for the safety of women. Usually Hajj is crowdie and physically exhausting beyond your imagination. I am speaking out of experience, not out of theories or books. Sometimes people get injured or even lost. What Islam cares about is for the woman to be safe in good company that would help her out if anything goes wrong.
Many scholars came to this realization about hajj and they simply prefer the opinion that women can go to Hajj without a close male relative, as long as they are in good safe company.
The situation taking place now of prohibiting some women is simply a human law. It is a bit contradictive that the same laws permit women workers as nurses or housekeepers into the country without a male relative. This point is just to clarify that if it were a direct divine law, the human law wouldn’t have ever risked it.
Yet, I think you being English and new to Islam, you can find easy access to go. Try to find any Islamic agency in your country that arranges trips for Pilgrimage and most probably you will be permitted easily. I understand that people in charge try to make it easier for new comers to Islam.
I hope you go. If you do, pray for me to go again…
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Ingrind
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teacher
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My husband suddenly decided to be Muslim. He wants to spend all our savings to go to Mecca. What is so important about this visit? Can I go with him?
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Salams Ingrind.
Thank you for your question and a welcome note to your husband. Yet, I disagree with him if he is going to risk your financial situation and safety for the trip. Maybe he can postpone a year or two in order to be able to save an appropriate amount that wouldn’t risk the situation of his family.
Prophet Muhammad clearly explained that Pilgrimage is non-obligatory to those who cannot afford it financially. It is only obligated from those whose financial situation and health can afford it.
This is despite the fact that it is a very important journey for any Muslim. It is a life-time journey that each Muslim longs to fulfill. It is a journey that expresses peaceful and complete submission to our Creation in each second of its rituals. It might be the only physical hectic ritual in the Islamic rituals. This is why many are excepted if they can’t afford it.
Yet, for those who can, it is enjoyable beyond words can tell. No words can express the magnificent scene of the millions of multi-ethnics, multi-cultures and multi-languages gathered all in the same rituals and standing all on one mountain __that of `Arafat__, all at the same time, same day.
On that day, nothing prevails but equality between mankind in the sight of God. You can never distinguish the rich from the poor, the teacher from the student, the beggar from the soldier __for all look like beggars__ standing there, under the sun of the Mount of `Arafat, begging for God’s love and mercy.
The scene is awesome, the feeling is beyond expression, the statement is that all need God and all are equal in the sight of God; the only criterion that distinguishes people is sincerity, devotion and the will to submit to one’s Creator.
As for you going there, I personally wish you would go. It is an event that is worth being there. But non-Muslims are not permitted there. They are permitted all over the world and to visit any mosques, except the sanctuaries of Makkah and Madinah.
These two sanctuaries are exclusively chosen for Muslims to practice and worship in peace __ away from criticism and daily worldly events of materialistic life with all its dilemmas. Away from political struggles, social gaps, financial problems, Muslims go there into kind of a sanctuary for their hearts, to communicate with God and avoid dispute.
Hope my answer clarifies matters.
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