Hajj

Question 1

Ihram

Answer 1

The white cloth that men wear during Hajj.

Question 2

Tawaf

Answer 2

The ritual of circumambulating the Kaaba seven times as part of the hajj in Mecca.

Question 3

Ka’aba

Answer 3

The big square box that the muslims circle during mecca.

Question 4

Black stone

Answer 4

a sacred black stone and is the goal of Islamic pilgrimage and the point toward which Muslims turn in praying.

Question 5

Zam zam well

Answer 5

Is a well located within the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, 20 m east of the Kaaba.

Question 6

Al-safa and Al-Marwa

Answer 6

Safa and Marwa are two small hills, muslims travel back and forth between them seven times in what is known as Sa’ee ritual pilgrimages of Ḥajj and Umrah.

Question 7

Mount Arafat

Answer 7

Granodiorite hill about 20 km southeast of Mecca in the Makkah Province of Saudi Arabia.

Question 8

Forgiveness

Answer 8

The term used to forgive people who have done wrong is ‘to pardon’, just as Allah will forgive people on the Day of Judgement for things which they have done.

Question 9

Prophets mosque and burial place

Answer 9

Medina the Prophet’s Mosque (Al-Masjid Al- Nabawi) in Medina holds the Prophet Muhammad’s burial chamber.

Question 10

Eid Ul Adha

Answer 10

Eid al-Adha is the latter of the two Islamic holidays celebrated worldwide each year. It honours the willingness of Ibrahim to sacrifice his son Ismail as an act of obedience to God’s command. Before Ibrahim could sacrifice his son, however, Allah provided a lamb to sacrifice instead.

Question 11

Mina

Answer 11

The pillars that they throw rocks at.

Question 12

Hair

Answer 12

In a dream, hair represents money and longevity. If a rich person ties a strand of hair to a bun of his own in a dream, it means increase of his wealth and growth of his business based on a business loan or a mortgage.

Question 13

Muzdalifah

Answer 13

is an open and level area near Mecca.

Question 14

People who cannot go

Answer 14

if they cannot go then they are either not going to have completed the muslim religion and they wont become hajjis.

Question 15

A quote about hajj

Answer 15

“Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) Said: Whoever performs Hajj with any obscenity Shall return (from Hajj) like a newborn baby.” – Al Bukhari.

Question 16

Ibrahim

Answer 16

Muslims believe that the rituals of Hajj have their origin in the time of the prophet Ibrahim (Abraham). Muhammad led the Hajj himself in 632, the year of his death. The Hajj now attracts about three million pilgrims every year from across the world.

Question 17

Hagar

Answer 17

an Islamic matriarch and a biblical figure in the Book of Genesis.

Question 18

Ishmael

Answer 18

Ishmael was the first son of Abraham, the common patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, and the Egyptian Hagar, and is venerated by Muslims as a prophet. According to the Genesis account, he died at the age of 137.