Why We Perform Hajj
?
1-Responding in obedience to Allah's commands.
2-To be grateful to
Allah for His Graces and Favours on us, such as health, wealth and
children.
3-To glorify Allah by visiting and making Tawaf (going around) His
Sacred House, Al-Ka'bah.
4-(Al-Ka'bah is the first House built on earth for
worshiping Allah, which Ibrahim -The Friend- and his son Isma'il erected by the
instruction of Allah.)
5-To pray at Al-Ka'bah, which is the Qiblah
(direction) to which all Muslims turn their faces in the five daily
prayers.
6-To visit and stand in devotion to Allah at the Sacred Mountains such
as 'Arafat Mount. There, we celebrate the praises of Allah, purify our souls and
repent of all sins.
7-To visit the places where Propht Muhammad -Alayhi
s-Salam- was born, Brought up, received the Divine Message, suffered and
struggled for spreading the light of Allah.
8-To meet our Muslim brethren
coming from all countries, and to see the actualization of brotherhood,
equality, cooperation and love among Muslims regardless of their difference in
nationality, colour, standard of living and other worldly matters. To see the
universality of Islam.
9-To practise patience, sacrifice, endurance,
simplicity and other spiritual capacities we are in urgent need
of.
10-To come back cleaned of our sins, so as to start a new page in our
life, hoping to keep it free from sins until the end of life, so that we may be
accepted and well rewarded by Allah in the Hereafter.