Chapter 1 Hajj

Question 1

Where males wear two lengths of white cloth while on hajj to symbolise their purity and equality. Sometimes these clothes are used to wrap the dead in.

Answer 1

Ihram

Question 2

The building Muslims circle anticlockwise 7 times at the beginning and end of Hajj. The also try to kiss or touch the Black stone at its center but most muslims just hold up their hands as they pass it. They do the because Mohammed dwelt to Mecca to clean the stone.

Answer 2

Ka’bah

Question 3

1 st day of Hajj

Answer 3

Sa’y

Question 4

These are the hills muslims have to run between 7x because this is what Abraham’s wife did for her som Ismail when she tried to find water for her children which she finally did by the spring of ZamZam.

Answer 4

Safa and Marwah

Question 5

This is where they spend the first night of Hajj. The next morning the travel to what plain where they stand in front of the Mount of Mercy and praise Allah. This is what is will be like in the day of judgement.

Answer 5

Mina, Arafat

Question 6

This is where muslims spend the second night they collect small stones which they then throw at the 3 pillars called ?. These pillars represent the devil.

Answer 6

Muzdalifah, Jamarat

Question 7

This is the festival muslims celebrated at the end of the pilgrimage. It reminds when Abraham was going to sacrifice his son Ismail to show his obedience to god.

Answer 7

Eid ul-Adha