Pilgrimage

The season of Hajj is approaching. Most Muslims are yearning for this blessed journey and gaining its great reward of having one's sins forgiven and coming closer to Allah.

Prospective pilgrims who are chosen as guests of Allah have to prepare themselves for this blessed journey by doing more good deeds, asking Allah for forgiveness, and avoiding bad deeds and anything that may harm their Hajj. They have to supplicate Allah to grant them Hajj mabrur (the one accepted by Allah) and to accept their good deeds.

The Hajj is a religious obligation and one of the five pillars or central duties of Islam. It is a set of acts of worship to be performed in and around Makkah at least once in a lifetime by every Muslim satisfying certain conditions. There are three types of Hajj, ifrad, qiran and tamattu'.