Through the act of the Sa’i between the mountains of al-Safa...

Through the act of the Sa’i between the mountains of al-Safa and al-Marwah and then trimming the hair, a person is finally permitted to once again circle the Ka’bah in the final tawaaf, known as the Tawaaf an-Nisa, where he finishes off this entire Hajj by standing at the Maqam-e-Ibrahim and performing one final two Rak’at Salat.

we bear witness.’ Lest you should say on the Day of Resurrection: Surely we were heedless of this.” (7:172) It is only through drinking the delicious water of the well of Zamzam that a person is able to once again hear the whisper of life flowing through one’s entire body and soul… The momentary stops through the Hajj and the movements made from one place to another by the command of Allah (SWT) and with the remembrance of Allah (SWT) teach a person the Abrahamic way of life.

It is through the acts of the slaughtering of an animal that a person is able to slit the throat of his negative trait of miserliness, and it is through the act of shaving the head that one begins to prepare himself once again to be able to enter into Masjidul Haraam, the house of his Beloved. However before this, one must make his way to the Jamarat to stone the large, medium and small representations of the Satan.

Through this act, he announces his disavowal and disapproval from anything Satanic and anything which has polytheistic undertones to it. That which we have mentioned in this short booklet is a collection of forty ِAhadith in regards to this great obligatory act – the Hajj. These Ahadith go forth to elucidate and explain some of the etiquettes and goals behind the Hajj.

The sacredness and sanctity of the sites of Hajj and the role which they have in the life of a person have also been alluded to in our selection of narrations. The short traditions, which we have quoted in this work, come to us from the Infallible Leaders of the faith (AS), and open up a new outlook to the beautiful visage of the Hajj.