Hajj:

The Remedial and Problem-Solving Occasion for The Muslims 

part 2

This congregation that is conveniently arranged by Islam, is considered a religious obligation for those who are affluent, and a commendable practice for all the Muslims, as a devotion to God. An important point is that, the Muslims, all alike, free from any formality or luxuriousness, abandoning all social prestiges, wrapped in a winding-sheet and two brief garments, attend these sacred stations, and more important than that, is the possibility for them to relate to one another, the events of their countries during the year passed and think about eliminating the problems of the Muslims world.

This is the main reason for the large congregation of Muslims in Hejaz.

Secondly, those of cognition, the writers, the intellectuals and the learned must get together there, look into the problems of Muslims  of the  world  and  try  to  solve  whatever  they  can. Unfortunately, our achievements now, from pilgrimage to Mecca, is but the congregation of groups from the general public only and the effectual ones, government authorities and prominent people who   can   study   the   entanglements   and   political   and   social problems of the Muslims are being neglected.

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All congregations arranged in the Islamic countries, in every town and village, are socio-political functions requiring the native of each township to convene and try to solve the problems of their township. The Friday Mass Prayers, too, are socio-political worships convening massive populations and are intended to solve the problems of the society. The congregation at Mecca is the largest congregation, convening of which is beyond the capabilities of any government.

In the course of Hajj, the difficulties of the people of the countries whose pilgrims arrive, must be studied. The conditions of the Muslims during the year passed must be investigated. How the relation between each nation and its government, between each government and the devilish powers, between one nation and the other, between the clergy of one country and the other are, and finally, what their attitude towards Hajj is. These are facts that must be investigated, and this is what Hajj is intended for. Hajj is intended for investigating a year's problems of the Muslims and trying for their elimination.

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The courtier clerics (akhunds) of the region and outside the region, suggest that Hajj rituals must be free from political issues. They thus, condemn the Messenger of God (PBUH), they condemn the caliphs of Islam and the infallible  Imams. They do not understand that looking into these issues has been the main purpose of Hajj; for the rise of the people, it has been; for learning the problems of the Muslims and trying to eliminate those problems; and for the establishment of brotherhood and cordiality among Muslims.

I humbly point out to the pilgrims to the Sacred House of God, from any country and nation and any religious sect, to please bear in mind that you are all the nation of Islam, followers of the Prophet (PBUH) and submissive to the Glorious Qur'an. You all, have common, treacherous enemies, who, by sowing seeds of difference, with the aid of their ill-fated functionaries, the mass media and divisive propaganda, in the course of history especially during the recent centuries and particularly at the present age, have enslaved all the Islamic governments and nations and plundered your rich treasures and the labor gains of the oppressed and they make all efforts to take the governments, blindly and completely, into their own service, train the nations to be consumerists, hinder the humane growth and industrial innovations, increase their dependence and attachments on the East and West, deprive people of the opportunities to think about their independence and use their initiatives, and suffocate those who are eager to enlighten the nations. The dive adversity observed in the Islamic and other oppressed countries is resulted from the same plots of the common enemies of the Muslims and the oppressed nations. Now that you have convened in the center of the life-giving Islam, as ordained by God and His Messenger (PBUH) no matter what nation or religious sect you are from, seek a remedy for this fatal ailment and deadly cancer.

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Hajj: The Spiritual Aspect of Hajj (part 1)

Hajj: The Spiritual Aspect of Hajj (part 2)