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| 75,000 miles of travel by Ibn Battuta |
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When it comes to globetrotting, even Marco Polo
takes a back seat to this fourteenth-century voyageur.
In the year 1349 a dusty Arab horseman rode slowly toward the city of Tangier on
the North African coast. For Ibn Battuta, it was the end of a long journey. When
he left his home in Tangier 24 years earlier, he had not planned to travel
distant roads all during the years that took him from young manhood to
middle-age. From his mount, Ibn Battuta surveyed the white spires and homes of
Tangier spreading in a crescent along the Atlantic Ocean. He tried to remember
how the city had looked when he left it behind almost a quarter-century ago.
In 1325 Ibn Battuta had been a young man of 21, reluctantly leaving his parents
to make his first hajj, or pilgrimage, to Mecca some 3,000 miles due east. He
had covered those 3,000 miles and then had gone on to travel another 72,000
miles! Many Muslims made the pilgrimage to the Holy City but then returned home,
for it was not an age when people were accustomed to straying from home for long
periods. When Ibn Battuta began his travels, it was, in fact, more than 125
years before such renowned voyagers as Columbus, de Gama and Magellan set sail.
It was no wonder, then, that Ibn Battuta returned to his native city, where his
parents had died in his. absence, to find himself a famous wayfarer. A
contemporary described him as "the traveler of the age," adding'
"he who should call him the traveler of the whole body of Islam would not
exceed the truth."
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| For those who could not make it to Hajj |
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The Pilgrimage to Mecca is a
sign of supreme significance. It was Prophet Abraham's unconditional commitment
to God that led him to leave his wife Hagar and his infant son Ishmael in this
desolated desert. Prophet Abraham was reward for his unwavering submission to
God, by a promise from Him to make this uninviting land into a place of promise
and plenty.
Muslims who visit Makkah for Hajj become part of God's promise to Prophet
Abraham.
Like any other article of faith, the pilgrimage can become meaningless if it is
regarded as an end in itself rather than a means for the attainment of a
meaningful life.
The following story reminds us of the spirit of Hajj.
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| Journey
to Mecca |
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A dramatic and documentary feature that tells the amazing story of Ibn Battuta the explorer of the Old World, following his first pilgrimage between 1325 and 1326 from Tangier to Mecca.
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person's education is greatly improved by traveling in quest of knowledge and meeting the authoritative teachers (of his
time).
Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406), a renowned North African Muslim historian of the fourteenth century, states
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