Re: The Message (Old Film)
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Purpose of viisting Makkah and Hajj**
Visiting a central place is spiritual on one hand as the place was inhibited by Prophets like Abraham and the last Prophet (SAW). Its the city where revelation of Quran started. On other hand its a place where distinction between different tribes and races is obliterated. One need to refer to khutba e Hajjat ul wida’s starting lines:
**O’ People! Listen to my words, for I do not know whether we shall ever meet again and perform Hajj after this year. O’ Ye people! Allah says, O’ people We created you from one male and one female and made you into tribes and nations, so as to be known to one another. Verily in the sight of Allah, the most honoured amongst you is the one who is most God-fearing. There is no superiority for an Arab over a non-Arab and for a non-Arab over an Arab, nor for the white over the black nor for the black over the white except in God-consciousness. **
When prophet of God starts his last sermon with these words before a crowd for Haj, one can easily deduce that its for obliterating distinctions and unification of ummah.
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Tawaaf - Symol of man’s love for God**
"And (remember) when We showed Ibrahim the site of the (Sacred) House (the Ka’ba at Makkah), saying: Ascribe not anything (in worship) with Me, and sanctify My House for those who circumambulate it, and those who stand up (for prayer), and those who bow (submit themselves with humility and obedience to Allah), and make prostration (in prayer). And proclaim to mankind the Haj (pilgrimage). They will come to you on foot and on every lean camel, they will come from every deep and distant (wide) mountain highway (to perform Haj) (Al-Haj, 22:26-27).
There may be other significance of the act of Tawaf, but it is again believed to demonstrate the unity of the believers in the worship of the One God, as they move in harmony together around the Kaaba, while supplicating to God.
Poetically, circling someone or something associated with loved one is a show of deep love.