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| It is a Muslim�s sacred duty to live for a few days as a pilgrim, a reasonable requirement for a lifetime. The Pilgrimage or the Hajj is a composite of rites that are essentially reenactments of events of the distant past and, at one point, a grand dress rehearsal for what is to come. Adam, Abraham, Hagar, Ishmael, and Muhammad are the human names most closely associated with this rite, and what�s asked of the pilgrim is simply to emulate these luminaries, for the reason that their deeds, however ordinary they may appear, were connected to a higher realm. |
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