[Quranic Reflection]: the Hajj.

[WinterHold]

Why go to the Hajj, get heat stroke and potentially get killed in a stampede when you can...

(checks to-do list for Friday)

...listen to an audiobook, eat cookies, or paint a chair?

If your health doesn't allow it don't go -just like me and Millions of others-. 
As for the cause of going, it's the love a Muslim has for Allah. The same reason makes us pray.

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...a Muslim is supposed to do the Hajj once in a lifetime only.

I thought it was ‘at least’ once in a lifetime, that it is compulsory to do it once, but doing more often is voluntary. No?

Boru

That's the general opinion, but there is a downside to this opinion which is "the taking of space in the Hajj". I mean the place is very crowded when the season comes; so it's quite selfish to take a space there every year.

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Atlass 

I can't stop you from buying old mythology. But the Hajj during a pandemic seems a bit dangerous. I am even with Japan in not doing the Olympics considering that they only have about 20% of their population vaccinated. 

Years ago I remember a story about a restaurant bombing by Muslim extremists in an Asian country, forgot where. But investigators begged the family of the dead not to burry them so quickly because the medical exams could go a long way into finding the killers. 

Sometimes reality gets in the way of your personal feelings. If you love your loved ones and you don't want them getting sick and dying, then sometimes science is what you listen to. 

Even in America, I think we opened up once again too early, and the Delta variant of COVID is spreading like wild fire, especially in religiously conservative states where the GOP leaders are putting power over public safety.

Yep, that's why nobody went there except for few ! 
Picture before COVID:



Picture after COVID: