WHERE ARE THE POSITIVE EFFECTS OF HAJJ ON THE UMMAH?
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WHERE ARE THE POSITIVE EFFECTS OF HAJJ ON THE UMMAH?
All the afore-mentioned benefits are some of the life-giving effects of Hajj on the society. Yet this great assembly is held every year but Muslim nations face one another with suspicion, fear one another, and depart without having created any kind of understanding, getting to know one another, and without becoming aware of the treacherous conspiracies hatched for them from outside. It is really surprising that the power of the religion can hold such great assembly in a single time and place of the ummah but the foreigners' negative propaganda and destructive colonialist plots cause such dispersion among the ummah that they are dispersed while being together. Such an outlook saddened the Holy Prophet (saw) fourteen centuries ago so much that he expressed his worries about the future of the ummah in the Sacred House and warned Muslims against it among other bitter events.
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1 See Ilal ush-Shara'ie; vol. 2 p.90 Hadith 5
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THE HOLY PROPHET WORRIES ABOUT HAJJ AT THE END OF
THE WORLD
Abdullah ibn Abbas is quoted as saying:
I was with the Holy Prophet (saw) in the Farewell Hajj. He took the gate of the Kaaba with the hand and while addressing to people, he spoke of the future events. On Hajj, the Holy Prophet said:
ÙŠØÙجّ٠أغنÙياء٠أÙمّتي Ù„Ùلنَّزهَة٠ويØÙجّ٠أَوسَاطÙها Ù„Ùلتّجارَة٠ويØÙجّ٠ÙÙقَراؤÙÙ‡ÙÙ… Ù„Ùلرّياء٠والسّÙمعَةÙØŒ ÙعÙندَها يكÙون٠أَقوامٌ يَتَعلّمÙونَ القÙرآنَ Ù„Ùغير٠الله٠ويَتّخÙØ°Ùونه٠مَزامÙيرَ، ويكون٠أَقوامٌ يَتÙقَّهونَ Ù„Ùغير٠اللهÙ.
The rich will go to Mecca for amusement, the middle-class for business, and the poor for showing off and fame. At that time, people will learn the Holy Quran for purposes other than Allah, recite it as song, and engage in learning (Islamic) jurisprudence for worldly benefits.?1
