Assets handover to sons before going to hajj

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

Some pilgrims documentary hand over their assets to their son or sons before going to hajj so that their daughters can not get their assets. For depriving their daughter their hajj will not be accepted by Allah. So be very careful about this.

Mina, the land of mercy

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

The word 'Mina' is from Arabic 'mannun' or 'tamniyatun' meaning of which is special kindness and soul desire. It was from the meaning of a doa (prayer) of Rasulullah sallalahu alihe oasallam. In that doa Rasulullah sallalahu alihe oasallam said, Maola! this is that mina at which you have done mercy to hazrat Adhom ( alihe oasallam) & to many of your gracious person. According to that do mercy on us. In the book 'Akhbare Makkah' a description from hazrat Abdullah ibne Abbas( Radiallahu anhu) state that hazrat Zibrail ( alihe oasallam) & Adham ( alihe oasallam) went to Arafat & Mujdalefa together to teach Adham ( alihe oasallam) the every main rukon of hajj. They stayed there & after performing kurbani hazrat Zibrail ( alihe oasallam) asked Adham ( alihe oasallam) during taking farewell that do you have any desire ? Then hazrat Adham ( alihe oasallam) said, now only one desire is remaining that is going to zannat. As desire of Adham ( alihe oasallam) was mentioned here the place is named as Mina.

In another description the word is from Arabic 'Uyumnid-dima' meaning of which is the place of blood shed from kurbani. At Mina hajjis perform kurbani. Here is the Mosque, the Masjidul Khaouf which was built by Adham ( alihe oasallam). In the early time of islam, the representatives of Madinah accept islam here at Mina.

Hazrat Ismail ( alihe oasallam) was brought here for kurbani. Here young Ismail ( alihe oasallam) threw pebbles to saitan at three places at which hajjis throw pebbles during hajj.

Reference : book- hajj, kurbani, jehad & tabligh proshongo,author- maolana muhiuddin khan, publisher- madina publications( ph 8802 7114555), page no.19

Conditions on which hajj will be forz

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

The holly hajj is forz on a person who have such amount of assets to meet the expenses of hajj after maintaining his family's annual expenses. It is not necessary to have assets as cash money. All sale able resources will be treated as assets. House to live, agriculture land, production factory, business office or shop etc are not treated as cash assets. Zakat is not forz on these assets. So hajj is not forz for the ownership of these assets. If the resources produced from these assets is enough to bear the expenses of hajj then hajj will be forz.

 Reference : book- hajj, kurbani, jehad & tabligh proshongo,author- maolana muhiuddin khan, publisher- madina publications( ph 8802 7114555), page no.18

Washing kafon(grave clothes) clothes in Zam Zam water

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ 

Some hajjis buy their kafon clothes from the holly city Makkah then wash this clothes with Zam Zam water in order to get some benefit in their graveyard. After performing hajj they bring this clothes with them to their home, request their relatives to use this clothes as their kafon clothes after their death. Now question is that will they get any benefit from this kafon clothes in their graveyard life?
Unfortunately answer is that Zam Zam water washed kafon clothes will not have any significance, it will be of no use in graveyard life. In graveyard life only good works, doa of others & sadkae jaria will give benefit, other than these nothing can help.
 Reference : book- hajj, kurbani, jehad & tabligh proshongo,author- maolana muhiuddin khan, publisher- madina publications( ph 8802 7114555), page no.20, 34

Importance of salah in Al-Masjid Al-Haram

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

If you perform one rakat salah in Al-Masjid Al-Haram you will get saoub for performing one lakh rakat salah. Accordig to  hadish in mosnade ahmad & Ibne maja sharif. This saoub is not limited to only foroz salah but also for oajib, sunnat & nafol salah.

In his book "eheai ulum"Imam Gajjali note that this saoub is not only for salah but also for sadka & other good work, for all these, saoub will be increase to one lakh. So try to perform more salah & other good works there.
 Reference : book- hajj, kurbani, jehad & tabligh proshongo,author- maolana muhiuddin khan, publisher- madina publications( ph 8802 7114555), page no. 14

Takber e Tashrik, from Ibrahim(alihe osallam)

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

Hazrat Ibrahim(alihe osallam) determined to sacrifice his son Ismail(alihe osallam) for the satisfaction of Allah. When he was using knife on the throat of his son then he was uttering Allah hu akbar, hearing this feresthas(angels) on sky said La elaha illal lahu Allah hu akbar , hearing this & see a dumba in front of him under his knife Hazrat Ibrahim(alihe osallam) did his sukria by saying Oa lillahil hamd .

This the history to read takbir e tashrik during 9th Dh-hijja after fazor salah to 13th Dh-hijja after ashor salah. This a oajib amol.

Reference : book- hajj, kurbani, jehad & tabligh proshongo,

author- maolana muhiuddin khan, publisher- madina publications( ph 8802 7114555), page no. 24

Hajj study material in English

 

Many  study materials are now available in English about hajj. But it is difficult to find out appropriate materials by searching in inter net. Search engine shows lot of things as result, now it is really time consuming to get useful materials by click on all results. To make this easy I am giving you some useful link where you can get lot of important materials in English & other languages to study -

MUSLIM LIBRARY

ISLAM HOUSE

Money keeping

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

It is easy to take US$ from any country to KSA then exchange it to Saudi Riyal. But some hajji collect Saudi Riyal from his country.

Most of the hajjis feel great tension with the money they have . They always think that money may be stolen. So they try to keep money with them all the time even when they go to toilet at their hotel room. Some hajjis lost their money when they are walking to Al-Masjid Al-Haram or during tawaf or Sa'i. Some weak & old hajjis are hijacked for money by hijacker also.

Keeping money with hotel manager is the safe way to preserve money by taking money receipt from manager mentioning passport & hajji's ID number on the receipt. It is safe to keep two witness during giving money. Share your experience here with money related issue.

Disease & treatment

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

All hajjis should take his essential medicine which can be use if he suffers from general disease. Saudi hajj official arrange treatment facilities near Al-Masjid Al-Haram & Al-Masjid Al-Nabobi. Missions of different countries arrange for treatment of hajjis of their country. All hajjis are recommended to drink more water to coup with adverse humidity. Share your experience with this issue.

# I suffered from diarrhoea for 2-3 days, due to eat vegetable of previously cooked but not heated properly before serve, which I ate with porata in a restaurant nearby to my hotel.

Collecting mobile SIM

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

You can take your mobile phone to KSA. All mobile phone operators of KSA offer special packages for hajjis. You can easily use this SIM in your mobile phone. With this SIM value a big free talk time is offered, this talk time is sufficient for many hajjis during their stay in KSA to communicate with their family. Appropriate & cheap SIM selection is important . When you arrive in jeddah air port some people who work there try to sale SIM to hajjis, similarly some worker of hotel sale SIM to hajjis, they try to sale it on the first day at hotel, most of the hajjis do not know about mobile operator & their package of KSA. So some hajjis are cheated by hotel worker & buy SIM which are expensive to use. Share your experience here with this issue.

# I bought my SIM from Makkah near dhaka hotel & restaurant, this is a book store & sale mobile SIM. The saler explain different package of different operator & it is now very easy for buyer to choose best one. But I saw some hajjis who bought SIM from hotel worker is of no use because expensive to use & they have to buy another SIM for use. So be careful to buy SIM from airport or hotel.

Walking to Al-Masjid Al-Haram

 بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

If your accommodation is in the hotel near to Al-Masjid Al-Haram you are very lucky, but these hotels are normally expensive. So most of the hajjis stay in hotels about 1-3 kilo meter or long distance from Al-Masjid Al-Haram . Walking to Al-Masjid Al-Haram is normal practice for most of the hajjis . Some use public transport to come from long distance. So you need sandal or shoe for walking. Umbrella & sunglass is also useful during sun shine,mouth musk is also useful to protect from dust. For skin protection use of moisturizer lotion/cream on skin & use of Vaseline on lips, heels & toes is important. Most of the hajjis generally face skin crack problem in KSA due to weather change, humidity is very low so normally skin cracks. Now share your experience here related to this issue.

# My heel & toe cracks & it was very difficult & painful for me to walk for some days. After using Vaseline for few days I become cured.

Food

 

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

In some cases hajj agent arranges food in hotel by cooking in hotel. Some agent take it from near by restaurant. All types of foods are available near Al-Masjid Al-Haram. Restaurant are also available for hajj period nearby all hajjis hotel areas. Huge amount of fruits are also available in all areas of Makkah & madinahh.

# I preferred taking food from restaurant near to Al-Masjid Al-Haram , when I felt hungry I came out from Al-Masjid Al-Haram to take food , then go back to Al-Masjid Al-Haram as soon as possible. I did not need to go back to my hotel to take food & come back to Al-Masjid Al-Haram from hotel, generally this distance is not so short.

Hotel accommodation

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

After arrival at Makkah all hajjis are placed at hotels / house which are booked for them . These hotels/ house are not used as general hotel. Only during hajj period these hotels are opened & closed during rest of the year. But hotels near to Al-Masjid Al-Haram are always open because lot of pilgrims visit makkah round the year. Normally in a single room about six to twelve hajjis are placed. The rooms are air conditioned & furnished. Single bed with pillow & blanked is provided for hajjis. Each room has common toilet but no oven for cooking. Television with cable TV is available in each room.

Useful material to carry

                       بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

For performing hajj you are going to KSA for about 

20-45 days. So you need many useful things to carry with you. It is mustahab to carry surma pot, looking glass, comb,needle & thread , scissor, razor, blade, meswak & stick. You have also to take some KSA real or US$. Considering weather of KSA take necessary clothes, two pair ihram clothe, mat for salah, the holly Quran with tafsir, hajj related books, knife, soap, pen & paper, note book, glass, plate, necessary medicine, umbrella, com-pas, mouth musk etc. If you have laptop, tablet pc or ebook reader you can download tafsir-e mareful quran in English  to read in Al-Masjid Al-Haram .You can also download bangla & Urdu tafser-e mareful quran. You may have experience about useful things which may be more useful, share your experience here.

# I carried sewing needle & cotton thread with me, about 4 hajjis used these for button fixing,dress sewing who did not carry it.

# I carried 20 mini pac shampoo but I did not get chance to use it because most of the time I was bald headed due to perform umrah.

# After 1/2 days at Makkah my leg heel creaked because of low humidity, only treatment was using Vaseline but most of the hajjis in my group did not carry Vaseline but suffered with heel cracking & bought it from Makkah.

# I did not carry musk but I saw it was very useful to protect from dust during walk to & from Al-Masjid Al-Haram & also during tawaf. You may attacked by coughing for dust.

Maps

 بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

Maps are also essential tools for hajjis. Hard copy of Makkah, Madinahh & Mina maps are very essential, digital copy of Google earth map & satellite map is also useful. Link of Google earth map of different important places are given here you can see the maps by clicking on the names of places. You can also print hard copy from here.map is very important when you will stay at mina.

Makkah, Madinah, Mina, Arafat, Muzdalifah

Study materials

                         بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

It is very important for   hajjis to collect hajj related books written by dependable scholar & study this books before going to KSA for hajj. You can collect hajj related e-book in pdf from some renowned Islamic web sites. A Guide to Hajj And Umrah is a important e-book, you can download these by clicking on the book name. Bangla e-book  Hajj umrah jiarat guide  is also available.
Only book is not enough to learn every things.
 Discuss different issues with your local mosque imam & experienced hajjis. Hajj related videos are also useful which are available in the form of CD/DVD or in on line videos etc. Share your experience of reading books, videos etc.

Journey to al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

The holly city al-madinah al-munawwarah is situated at 420 kilo meter far from makkah. All hajjis go there to visit Al-Masjid Al-Nabobi. It take 5-6 hours bus journey from makkah.

Al-Masjid Al-Nabobi

All muslim have highest respect to the Al-Masjid Al-Nabobi because in this mosque Rasulullah sallallahu alihe osallam is buried. So be very careful about to maintain proper atiquate to this mosque. You will be in al-madinah al-munawwarah for eight days, the reason behind this is to perform 40 okta salah with jamat at this mosque. Rasulullah sallallahu alihe osallam said the person who continuously perform 40 okta salah in my mosque It will be written that he will be safe from hell, safe from punishment & safe from nifaq.

Try to perform salah in old part of the mosque which was from the time of Rasulullah sallallahu alihe osallam to get borkat & rahmat.Do not talk, do not use mobile phone in this mosque, be very careful to switch off your phone. Spend most of your time in the study of tafser-e-quran & nofal salah. This is the great mosque where holly quran sent down on Rasulullah sallallahu alihe osallam. So this is the best place on earth to study quran . In sa'allah you will be able to get real understanding of quran in this mosque.

Zearat-e Rasulullah sallallahu alihe osallam , perform salah in reazul jannah & zearat-e jannat al-baki is the important work at al-madinah al-munawwarah.

Closing activities of hajj at Makkah

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

Tawaf-e-bida

After come back from mina to Makkah at your hotel try to spend most of your time in Al-Masjid Al-Haram. When your departure time is fixed, then go to Al-Masjid Al-Haram to perform tawaf-e-bida, do it one day before the date of your departure. After completion of tawaf-e-bida your hajj activities ended.

Shopping at Makkah & madinah

Some hajjis spend lot of time for shopping. Remember that the main objective of of your trip is to perform hajj to gain satisfaction of Allah. The main things you can buy is date-palm, tosbe, miswak, cap, books, holly quran audio CD, holly quran multimedia CD, DVD, Prayer mat etc. Try to buy things which are of KSA origin & used for religious purpose. Quantity should be limited. All hajjis are allowed to carry at least 5-10 liters of Zam Zam water with him in airplane. For this you have to buy a very good quality container. Some time it is seen that water falls down by breaking container during journey.

Main activities of hajj at Mina on 11th-12th Dh-Hijja

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

Second day pebbles through

On 11th Dh-Hijja you have to through pebbles on three jamarat from noon to sunset, this is sunnah. But if not possible due to over crowd you can do it until sube sadik. If you did not do kurbani & tawaf-e zearat you can do it today. It is best to do before noon, you can do it until sunset.

Third day pebbles through

On 12th jllhaz you have to through pebbles on three jamarat from noon to sunset , this is sunnah, if you can do it until subesadik. If you did not do kurbani & tawaf-e zearat you can do it today. After stone through at three jamarat you can leave mina today before sunset , most of the hajjis do this. So a huge crowd seen at jamarat & also on roads to go back to Makkah. But this is not essential to leave mina on the 12th Dh-Hijja . This is sunnah to leave mina on 13th Dh-Hijja bfore sunset. Before that you have to through pebbles on three jamarat after noon to sunset. So you can think to stay at mina on 12th Dh-Hijja & leave mina on 13th Dh-Hijja . It will be much better to avoid crowd & follow sunnah.

Main activities of hajj at Makkah on 10th Dh-Hijja

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

Tawaf-e-zearat

You have to go to Makkah for tawaf-e zearat now. Perform tawaf-e zearat on 10th Dh-Hijja is best, you can do it till 12th Dh-Hijja before sunset. You can go to Makkah by walking through pedestrian way, it is about 8 kilo meter. You can also go by taxi or public bus. After performing tawaf you have to go back to Mina. You can go back to mina by walking through pedestrian way or by bus or taxi . You can get bus to go to mina just under Al-Masjid Al-Haram, under Al-Masjid Al-Haram there is tunnel way where you will get bus to go to jamarat.

Again you may be in trouble to come back to your tent at mina. So study about maps of mina , your tent number,road name, nearest bus/taxi stand to go to Makkah & also nearest bus/taxi stand where bus or taxi stops when come back from Makkah. The stand is not the same to go & come from Makkah. Keep your tent number ID card with you, if necessary you can take help from police or scout or others.