A Common Man’s Hajj – Day to Day Recount of Hajj 2019 – Asrar Qureshi – Part 27
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This is a special series of Blogs which describes my time and
experiences during Hajj this year.
Part 27
DAY
28 – 17 August 2019 – 16 Zilhajj 1440
Aziziya – Haram
Shareef
Allah be praised.
Allah blessed me with
Hajj in 2005. I used to work in Jeddah at that time. On the first day in the office
after Hajj, my office colleagues congratulated me profusely. Ahmed Shahzad, our
then technical person, was also among them. He also congratulated me and then said,
“please listen to this also”.
“A blind person was
begging on the street. Some put money on his cloth, some didn’t. Meanwhile, a
person came and rather than putting money, he took money and walked away. The
blind beggar shouted to him from behind. ‘oye, Haji! Spare the blind at least’.
The man returned and asked, ‘how do you know I am Haji?’ The beggar replied,
‘no one other than a Haji could dare to do so’.”
I fell to the ground and
my aura of piety was shattered.
It is a sad fact that most
of the people behaving unjustly and rather atrociously in their dealings, are
Hajis. Be it business, or business partnership, or family affairs, or social matters;
the unfairness prevails strongly and universally.
I cannot comment on why
it is so.
May be, we get a sense of
heightened security in our mind that we have done enough good by performing
Hajj; few bad deeds will not hurt.
May be, our hearts are
hardened because we believe we are more pious than others, and we have the
right to treat them poorly.
May be, we are sure that
all our sins of many years have been cleaned. We understand now how to get our
slates cleaned. Whatever we do, we would get away with it.
May be, every Haji is
targeted by Shaitan and it pushes them to do such heinous deeds which no one
would do under normal circumstances.
Whatever the reason(s),
it is not a highly respectable thing to be a Haji in Pakistan.
The way our people had
started behaving right after Hajj, it looked like that, Allah forbid, we would
see some addition among the perpetrators of injustice soon in our country.
Allah Protect us. Aameen.
Apparently, it looks as
if people with enough resources are able to perform Hajj and Umrah, whenever
they so desire. As I mentioned earlier, it is my conviction that no one can set
foot in Harmain Shareefain without Allah’s Permission. In that case, it looks
like Allah gives more opportunity to resourceful people. This in some way
appears to be a historical fact also. Allah had been giving extraordinary time
and opportunities to people of influence, probably because their coming to the
right path would influence many others. Take the example of Pharaoh (Fir’awn).
They got multiple opportunities and warnings and small punishments so that they
might accept the truth. They wasted all opportunities, remained willful and
adamant on ‘kufr’ and were finally destroyed. Allah does not get disappointed early.
Same is probably the case with ‘people of means’ in today’s world. Allah keeps giving
extended time and many occasions to reform ourselves, till the time we prove
unworthy of His Benevolence. And are subjected to the final punishment in
this world.
Continued......
Aameen ya Rabb up Aalammen
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