200- WHEN YOU HAVE COMPLETED YOUR RITES, REMEMBER ALLAH AS MUCH AS YOU REMEMBER YOUR FATHERS OR EVEN MORE.  OF PEOPLE THOSE WHO SAY: “OUR LORD GIVE US IN THIS LIFE”, BUT THEY HAVE NO SHARE IN THE HEREAFTER.

201- AND OF THEM THOSE WHO SAY: “OUR LORD GIVE US SOME GOODNESS IN THIS LIFE AND SOME GOODNESS IN THE HEREAFTER, AND PROTECT US FROM THE PUNISHMENT OF THE FIRE”.

202- THESE WILL HAVE A SHARE OF WHAT THEY EARNED, FOR ALLAH IS SWIFT IN RECKONING.

203- AND REMEMBER ALLAH IN NUMBERED DAYS.  HE WHO HASTENS IN TWO DAYS, THERE IS NO GUILT UPON HIM, AND HE WHO STAYS LATE, THERE IS NO GUILT UPON HIM, FOR THOSE WHO ARE PIOUS.  AND PROTECT YOURSELVES FROM ALLAH’S DISPLEASURE, AND KNOW THAT YOUR WILL ALL BE GATHERED BEFORE HIM.

Before Islam, the Arabs used to go on Hajj with the Idles in place in and around the Kabba.  After Hajj, they used to gather to remember their fathers and fore fathers, remember life lives, reciting poetry about them etc.  Allah the Highest is telling us to remember him even more than we remember our fathers. 

Any thing which brings Allah the Highest to memory is Zekr; including Salah, reciting the Quran, Tasbeeh, Dawaa or just thinking of Allah and His creations.  Allah the Highest called the Quran Zekr “WE SENT THE ZEKR DOWN AND WE ARE PROTECTING IT”.  (S:15 A:9)

We often ask Allah the Highest for things during our Hajj.  Allah the Highest tells us that there are two kinds:

1-    Those who ask Allah the Highest for the good things in this life only, without any interest in the Hereafter.

“AND HE WHO DESIRES THE PLEASURES OF THIS LIFE, WE SHALL GIVE HIM FROM IT, AND HE WHO DESIRES THE PLEASURE SOF THE HEREAFTER, WE SHALL GIVE HIM FROM IT, AND WILL REWARD THEN THANKFUL” (S:3 A:145)

2-    There are those who ask for some goodness in this life and some in the Hereafter, and to be saved from the Fire.  This is the Dawa of Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him.  Anas Ibn Malik reported that Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him used to say: “Allah give us a reward in this life and a reward in the Hereafter, and protect us from the punishment of the Fire”.  (B:Dawat;55 & M:Zekr;23 & D:Wetr;26 & T:Dawat;71 & Ma:Manasek;32)

Allah the Highest means for us to enjoy our life on Earth in Halal way, without forgetting our Hereafter, which is our destination and permanent abode. 

One of the Muslim women, a wife of a companion called Othman Ibn Mazoon saw Aisha Allah’s messenger wife.  Aisha found the lady unkempt, so she asked her: “What is the matter with you?”  She said: “My husband prays all night and fasts all day”.  Aisha told Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him, who said to Othman Ibn Mazoon when he met him: “Othman, Monarchism is not prescribed for us.  Don’t you have an example in me; for I am the one who fears Allah most and observes his limits most”.  (A: 6; 226)

Then Allah the Highest reminds us that He is swift in reckoning, and nothing we do is missed ever.

“AND REMEMBER ALLAH IN NUMBERED DAYS”.  These are the days of Tashreek, which are the 3 days after Eid, the big feast.  They are days of eating, drinking and remembrance of Allah.  Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him said: “The days Arafat, Sacrifice and Tashreek are our Eid people of Islam, they are days for eating and drinking” (A: 4; 152)

Jamarat:

They are the days of the thrown of the stones.  This is a symbolic rite in Hajj in which the Pilgrims throw stones on three monuments symbolic of Satan who appeared to Ibrahim in three different sites to stop him obeying Allah’s command of killing his son Ismail.  On each occasion Ibrahim peace upon him stoned him and went on obeying Allah’s command.  The three sites of stoning are but symbolic of that even and so is our stoning of the three pillars.

This part of Hajj is important, but not essential.  This is to say that women or old people can deputize able bodied men to do this for them.  If totally missed, the sacrifice of a sheep will redeem it and the Hajj will be correct.  Certainly one should not suffer physically or hurt others in order to perform this rite.

This brings us to the subject of people’s manners in Hajj which was mentioned earlier.  If just arguments may ruin one’s Hajj, then one should be much better behaved than we often are.  We should be considerate of each other’s comfort and safety during Hajj, for Allah the Highest watches us and sees our behavior then.  And upon our behavior depends whether Allah shall accept our Hajj or not.

B: Bukhari   M: Muslim    Mal: Malek   A: Ahmed   D: Abu Dawood     

 Da: Daremy       Ma: Ibn Magah            N: Nesae          T: Termezi