Re: seeing Hazrat Muhammad (SAW) !
okay guys, lets make sure we understand 2 points here very clearly
1) those who can not afford to gof or Hajj are not required to
2) as far as number of Hajj goes, I myself have gone many times times, I dont say I have done those hajj, because I was too young. the first Hajj my parents went to with me, I was maybe a few months old. The last one I was 14 and it was just those last 2-3 hajj that I knew the significance of what Hajj was. in Saudi Arania there were no rules to prohibit people living in Saudi Arabia to go for Hajj as many times as they wanted. Back in the 70's there was not a huge issue with crowding. We would go, pitch our own tent in Mina and that is my memory of Hajj, not the ones wher ppl are staying in 5 star hotels which seems to be the case now. When Saudi govt started seeing more people coming in, they made a law that ppl IN KSA can only go once every 5 years and may have even extended the timeline later.
The point being, lets not jump up and down about who has don how many hajj and whether he has prevented someone from going for Hajj. In a case where there is a lottery, like for Hajjis from pakistan, I can uderstand, but for other countries where the number of applicants is low, or for ppl living locally them being at Hajj did not take away anyone's chances for hajj in the 70's or early 80's. Once the crowds became larger and local people going would have meant that others would not be able to attend, thats when the restrictions were put in place.
I have not seen a limit put on how many Hajj can a person go for if he or she is able to.