THE BASIC QURANIC CONCEPT OF HAJJ
THE CONCEPT OF HAJJ DOES NOT MEAN SPENDING OF HUGE WEALTH FOR THE TRIP TO MAKKAH
HAJJ (حَجَّ) & HUJJAT The word Hajj and Hujjat shares the same common characteristics of meanings as in argument, investigation, enquiry, gathering of information and evidence through the use of reasoning and intellectual faculties as in ayah 40:47 where it’s used in the meanings of argue, investigate, enquiry, asking amongst themselves or the ayahs 4:165 where the word is used in the meanings of arguments, evidence etc. Similarly, in ayah 6:149 the phrase “…..Say that to Allah belongs the Hujjat Al Baaligha…” referring to Quran as the conclusive, best argument and evidence. The word also means to plan or to make a firm decision, to intend or plan to do something out of respect and gratitude. It’s also used in the meanings of year for instance in the ayah 28:27 “that you serve me for eighth Hajjan” here the word is used in the meaning of the years as in eight years. Therefore, Hajj means a personal firm commitment and dedication of a person to endeavor a learning process by appointing a set/dedicated time, set deadlines for investigations, probing, finding evidence and truth; it’s a whole process of getting out from darkness to the light of Allah’s Hidayah. It is a firm commitment and a process of enquiring, probing, investigation, and gathering evidence in order to understand the Hidayah, Quran. In that process out of which not only one gets the understanding of the Hikmat and wisdom behind Allah’s Deen, one also gets to witness the benefits of it with their own selves and through their own experience- once they truly follow the Hidayah, as understood through the process of Hajj, refer ayah 22:28. This ayah also outlines two important parts of this process as Zikr and Spending out of Allah’s Fazal for the benefit of others. X-Reference – 2:158 , 2:189 , 2:196-197 , 3:97, 4:165 , 6:149 , 9:03 , 22:26-28 , 28:27 , 40:47.
Basic Concept of Hajj: Once Allah’s Risalaat has reached us, it then becomes incumbent upon us to do Hujjat on it and never on Allah. Allah does not want us, as Momineen, to be argumentative against Allah, whereas Allah wants us to do Hujjat on the Rusul, i.e., the Quran, once the Quran has been Rusule upon us, the requirement to do Hujjat is then upon us in terms of our personal firm commitment and dedication to endeavor a learning process by appointing a set/dedicated time, set deadlines for investigations, probing, finding evidence and truth; it’s a whole process of getting out from darkness to the light of Allah’s Hidayah. It is a firm commitment and a process of enquiring, probing, investigation, and gathering evidence in order to understand the Hidayah, Quran.
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