Millions of Muslim worshipers cast pebbles in the “stoning of the devil” ritual of the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, as Muslims around the world are celebrating the first day of...
Read More »Unity, Spirituality to Guarantee the Material, Spiritual of the Islamic World: Ayatollah Khamenei
Unity and spirituality are what guarantee the material and spiritual advancement of the Islamic world and its enlightening the entire world, said Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei in his message to the 2023 Hajj Pilgrimage....
Read More »Isn’t Kissing the Hajr al-Aswad in Mecca Like Worshipping an Idol?
Muslims say they do not worship idols. How come when they go to Mecca they kiss a black stone? Isn't that like worshipping an idol?..
Read More »Values and Meanings in Hajj’s Rites
Hajj is a collection of rites and observances. It is a number of action and recitation. They are all combined to be performed within a certain time and place. The result is worship, and an enlightening action conducive to the building up of the Muslim character. It effectively rebuilds the....
Read More »Can a Person Borrow Money to Go to Hajj?
A person who can perform Hajj by borrowing money is not able to perform Hajj, even if he can pay later his whole debt at once or by installments, unless he has assets that can pay his debt from them....
Read More »Why Do We Have to Wear Iḥrām during Hajj?
Wearing the Iḥrām is amongst one of the Hajj rituals and putting it on marks the beginning of the Hajj: special clothing for a special type of worship. On an apparent level, some may come to the conclusion that for one of the....
Read More »A Shi’ite Pilgrimage to Mecca, 1885-1886
A Shiʿite Pilgrimage to Mecca is taken from the original nineteenth-century Persian manuscript of the Safarnâmeh of Mirzâ Moḥammad Ḥosayn Farâhâni, a well-educated, keenly observant, Iranian....
Read More »Values And Meanings in Hajj’s Rites
Hajj is a collection of rites and observances. It is a number of action and recitation. They are all combined to be performed within a certain time and place. The result is worship, and an enlightening action conducive to the building up of the...
Read More »Book: Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj
The Writer analyzes the late Ottoman hajj and Hijaz region as transimperial spaces, reshaped by the competing forces of Istanbul’s project of frontier modernization and the extraterritorial reach of...
Read More »Fatwas of Shia Scholars on Following Sunni Prayer Leaders in Masjid al-Haram & Masjid an-Nabawi
In the Hadiths narrated from Shiite Imams, Shiite people have been strongly advised to say prayers together with non-Shiite Muslims in Masjid al-Ḥarām and Masjid an-Nabawi, to participate in Sunni Muslims’ prayers, and to follow their lead in saying prayers; these are the Hadiths narrated by Shiite Imams; this is …
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