[Quranic Reflection]: the Hajj.

[brewer]

When I think of Tim Curry I tend to go in a different direction...

[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:

[Astreja]

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...

I think you missed my point, WinterHold. As a lifetime non-Muslim, I have absolutely no desire to go to the Hajj, and find vastly more meaning in the mundane activities I listed above.

[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...

I think you missed my point, WinterHold.  As a lifetime non-Muslim, I have absolutely no desire to go to the Hajj, and find vastly more meaning in the mundane activities I listed above.

As a non-Muslim you don't have to do it; I thought that was obvious !

[Astreja]

As a non-Muslim you don't have to do it; I thought that was obvious !

The phrasing, with the "you," just seemed a little strange.

I can appreciate that the Hajj is a major event for Muslims. I do question the wisdom of holding it during summer months, even if it's traditionally held on certain dates on the Islamic calendar. The sheer numbers of people converging on one place all at once is worrisome, too. For the safety of the pilgrims, holding it several times a year for smaller groups would be a good idea, even if it went against tradition.

[Paleophyte]

If you have to take a pilgrimage to a place then you aren't worshipping god, you're worshipping religion.

[WinterHold]

[Bucky Ball]

[WinterHold]

[awty]