The Effects of Hajj as Seen by the Infallible Imams [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Someone asked Imam Bagher (P) :
Why Hajj has been named " The Hajj of God's House "? Imam said: It means
that the pilgrim has reached salvation.

Imam Ali Ibn Hossain Zeinol
Abedin (P) says: perform Hajj and Omreh rituals in order to be safe and
sound, to make it better living for your family and make a better
life.

Imam Ali Ibn Hossain Zeinol
Abedin (P) says: Pilgrim of God's House will be forgiven, and he is
entitled to go to heaven and his family and possesions will be
safe and immune.

The prophet of God (P. B. U. H)
stated: Everyone who wants the world and the hereafter should perform hajj
rituals. Abdollah Ibn Fazl says: I said to Imam Sadegh (P) that I have
too many debts, I have a big family and I can't afford the Hajj costs.
Teach me a prayer. Imam stated: Say after each obligatory prayer: "May the
blessings of Allah be upon Muhammad and his progeny, and pay my debts in
this world and the hereafter. " I said to him, " I know what the worldly
debts are but what are the debts of the hereafter? " He said: "Hajj". The
prophet of God (P. B. U. H) looked at the strings of camels taking Hajis
to the pilgrimage of God's House and said: They don't take steps unless it
is taken as a good deed, they don't take steps unless it vanishes a sin of
them. And when they finish their ceremony of Hajj, they will be told: "You
have made a building, don't destroy it. Your sins are forgiven. From now
on, do good deeds.

Imam Bagher ( P ) said : Everyone
completing a recitation of the Holy Quran in Mecca won't die unless he
sees the Prophet (P. B. U. H) and his own place in the
Heaven.

Imam Sadegh (P) said: The best
ways to pray God include silence and going to His
House.

Imam Bagher (P) said: God
does not accept the Hajj and Omreh whose costs have been paid for through
illegal means property. (Religiously prohibited) It's been narrated from
Isaac Ibn Ammar that

Imam Sadegh (P) said: O Isaac,
everyone who circumambulates God's House one time, God writes down 1000
good deeds for him, vanishes 1000 of his sins, gives him 1000 rewards,
plants 1000 trees fro him in Paradise, gives him mercifully the recompense
for delivering 1000 slaves. When he reaches "Moltazem", 8 doors of
Heaven open and he is told: "Enter whichever door you wish". Isaac said:
"I said to Imam that all of those are for a person who just
circumambulates God's House"? Imam stated: "Yes. Wouldn't I teach you a
bigger recompense? " I said: "Please, teach me. " He said: "Everyone
who does something for his faithful brothers, God will give him the
recompense of 10 circumambulations."

Imam Bagher (P) said: One prayer
in the Masjid-ul-Haram is 100000 times more valuable than one prayer in
any other mosques.

Imam Sadegh (P) said: The most
Favorable place for prayer to God Almighty is Saay. (That is a holy place
in Mecca) . Because there every stubborn and proud person becomes
meek.

Imam Sadegh (P) said to
Ibn-Abi-Yafour: Pray very much in the Prophet's mosque, for praying in
this mosque is equal to same 1000 prayers in other mosques, except Masjed
-ul- Haram that same prayers in this mosque is equal to same 1000 prayers
in the Prophet's mosque. Imam Sadegh (P) said: Someone who visits a Hajj
pilgrim and shakes hands with him, it is as if he has touched the
Hajar-ol-Asvad. Imam Sadegh ( P ) says regarding " Ramye- Jamarat " : With
every stone that a Haji throws at Jamarat, a big fatal sin is vanished
from his soul.

Imam Ali ibn Hossain (P)
says: When Haji sacrifices in the desert of Mena (that is a place near
Mecca) , his sacrifices will be the price of his freedom from the fire
of the Resurrection Day. The sixth Imam (P) says: As one of you perform
Hajj and finish it with the pilgrimage to Medina, that pilgrimage is the
sign of Hajj's completion.

Imam Sajjad (P) says: A
person, who accepts responsibility for the family and financial matters of
a Haji, has the same reward as a Haji has himself. It is even as if he has
performed Hajj himself.

Imam Sadegh (P) says:
Religion will be living so long as Kaaba is
living.

Imam Bagher (P) says: Respect
people who had performed Hajj and Omreh, because you are obliged to
respect them.

The Prophet of Islam (P. B. U. H)
has been quoted a saying: What is meant by obligatory prayers; Hajj
rituals and other rituals is toremember God, so what is the use of
verbal praise whelming your mind, you don't think of the greatness of
Allah.

Imam Sadegh (P) says:
People who do Hajj and Omreh are justified to God. God will grant them
whatever they have asked. If they pray he willaccept, if they
intercede, He will accept and if they remain silent, He himself begins to
give them generously His favor and He grants themand instead of each
derham, He will grant them thousands of
derhams.

Imam Sadegh (P) says: Hajis
who return from God's House appear in three categories: One group are
those who are free from fire of Hell.One group who are purified of
their sins as if they are born again. The third group are the people who
come back with the guarantee of theirfamilies and properties, and this
is the least a Haji enjoys.

Imam Sadegh (P) says: When you
decide to go to Hajj, free your heart from anything that may keep you away
from God.

The great Prophet of Islam
(P. B. U. H) says: In 4 occasions the doors of sky are opened and prayers
will be accepted ; on the occasion ofcoincidence of the rows of
fighters in the cause of God, when it rains and in the time of getting up
for saying prayers and at the time of looking at the great
Kaaba.

Imam Sadegh (P) says: As long as
a person is looking at Kaaba he will receive rewards and his sins are
forgiven.

Imam Bagher (P) says: There are
three things that are headed by God. His book, which is His order and
light. His House which is the kiblah(that is the direction to which
Muslims turn in praying) and He just accepts full attention to this
direction and the Etrat (that is the household of the Prophet of Islam (P.
B. U. H) ).

Imam Sadegh (P) says: God
has provided 120 types of blessings around Kaaba, 60 of these blessings
will be given to circumambulatores, 40 of them will be given to prayers
and 20 ofthese blessings will be for people who look at
Kaaba.

Regarding settlement in Arafat Imam Bagher says: none of good
and wicked people would settle on the Arafat's mountain unlessGod
accepts their prayers ; the chastes benediction for the mundane and
afterlife matters will be accepted but the wicked prayers will
beaccepted just for their mundane matters. A man asked Imam Sadegh (P)
in Masjid- ul- Haram: Who commits the greatest sins? Imamsaid:
"Someone who settles in Arafat and Mashar, and he does the ceremony of
Saay between the mountains of Safa and Marveh, and circumambulates
around the God's House, then he prays at the back of the Maghame Ibrahim
(P) but doubts whether God forgives him ornot. This person commits the
greatest sin."

Imam Hossain ibn Ali (P) says:
Shake hands with Hajis and the people whom have performed the Hajj rituals
and Omreh and salute thembefore they make
sin.

Mohammad ibn Sannan has been
quoted a saying that once Imam Reza (P) wrote to him, " The reason why
Mena (A place near Mecca)was named Mena is that Gabriel (A great
angel) said to the Prophet Ibrahim (P) in this place: Ask God whatever you
wish. "

Imam Sadegh (P) says: Haji will
have the light and mien of Hajj as long as he has not committed a
sin.

The Messenger of God (P. B. U. H)
says: O people perform Hajj rituals with full awareness and religion and
don't come back from Hajj unless you decide to give up committing sins and
repent instead. The Messenger of God (P. B. U. H) says: The reward of Hajj
is Paradise and the atonement of any sin is
Omreh.

The Messenger of God (P. B. U. H)
says: There are some kinds of sins that are just forgiven in
Arafat.

Imam Sadegh ( P ) says :
Frequenting between Safa and Marveh is a means to underestimate a
tyrants.

Imam Bagher (P) says: Begin your
Hajj from Mecca and finish it to us.

Imam Sadegh (P) says: Looking at
Kaaba is an act of worship.

Imam Ali (P) says: Don't abandon
Hajj rituals because you will be punished.

The Prophet of God (P. B. U. H)
said to Imam Ali (P) : O Ali, someone who is able to do Hajj but he avoids
doing it is a great sinner.The Messenger of God (P. B. U. H) said to
Imam Ali (P) : O Ali, someone who postpones Hajj rituals until he dies,
God will send him asJewish or Christian in the Resurrection
Day.

Imam Sadegh (P) says: If people
abandon Hajj of this House, they will be immediately
punished.

The Prophet of Islam (P. B. U. H)
has been narrated a saying: the fighters in the way of God and the Hajis
and those who do Omreh areguests invited by
God.

The great Prophet of God (P. B.
U. H) has been quoted a saying: Hajj resembles Jihad (which is the Holy
war in the way of God) .

Narrated from the great Prophet
of Islam (P. B. U. H) that he said: What a nice Jihad is Hajj. Imam Ali
(P) says: 4 Heavenly places exists onearth: Masjid -ul- Haram, the
mosque of the Prophet, the mosque of Bayt -ol- Maghdes and the mosque of
Koofeh.

The great Prophet of God
(P. B. U. H) says: Perform Hajj in order to be
independent.

The great Messenger of God (P. B.
U. H) has been narrated a saying: Sustaining wealth for the journey of
Hajj is like sustaining in the way of God and God will reward it 100 times
more.

The great Prophet of Islam (P. B.
U. H) has been narrated a saying: If someone gives Eftar (which is a meal
eaten after fasting) to any faster or sends a Muslim into Hajj, or
mobilizes a fighter or accepts the responsibility of his family, he is
entitled to equal spiritual reward.

Imam Sadegh (P) says:
Entering Kaaba is like entering into God's
Mercy.

The great Messenger of God (P. B.
U. H) has been narrated a saying: God forgives a Haji and whoever that he
asks forgiveness for.

Imam Sadegh (P) said: God is the
guarantor of someone going to Hajj. If God wants him to be alive, he will
come back to his family and if God gets his life, he will enter the
Paradise.

Imam Sadegh (P) says: When a Haji
enters Mecca, God puts 2 angels for him to keep his prayer, Saay and
circumambulation, When hestands in the Arafah, they beat on his right
shoulder and say: " Don't worry for the past, see what you will be in
future."

Imam Ali (P) says: someone who
goes to Hajj and Omreh, he is in fact going to God and God honors his
guests and forgives them.

The great Prophet of Islam (P. B.
U. H) has been narrated a saying: The fighters in the way of God and the
people performing Hajj and Omreh are God's guests. God invites them and
they acceptand they ask God and God grants.

The great Prophet of Islam (P. B.
U. H) has been narrated a saying: 3 groups go towards God: Fighters,
people who perform Hajj and people who perform
Omreh.

Imam Sadegh (P) says: One Hajj is
better than the world and everything that is in it and an obligatory
prayer is better than 1000 Hajjs.

Imam Sadegh (P) says: No act is
better than the Hajj except for Jihad and martyrdom in the way of
God.

Imam Sadegh (P) says: There is
nothing better than Hajj but the daily prayer.

The great Prophet of Islam (P. B.
U. H) has been narrated a saying: Paradise is the reward for an accepted
Hajj.

The Prophet of God (P. B. U. H) was asked: " What is the best
work?" He said: " Faith in God, Jihad in the way of God and an accepted
Hajj.The great messenger (P. B. U. H) said: Hajj is a minor
Jihad."

Imam Sadegh ( P ) says : Saying
an obligatory prayer is better than going to Hajj for 20 times and going
to Hajj is better than a House,full of gold which is given away as
donation and alms.

Imam Sadegh (P) says: One Hajj is
better than releasing 70 slaves.

Imam Bagher (P) says: Hajj and
Omreh are 2 bazaars of the hereafter. The person who does Hajj and Omreh
very often is the God's guest. IfGod keeps him alive, he is kept
forgiven and if God gets his life, he will enter the
Paradise.

Imam Reza (P) says: Hajj and
Omreh vanish sins and poverty as a furnace vanishes impurities of
Iron.

Imam Bagher (P) says: There are 3
things which their spiritual rewards include both afterlife and this
world: Hajj; which vanishes poverty, alms; which removes poverty, and
goodness; which makes life last longer.

Imam Sadegh (P) says : A Haji
never becomes poor.

The great Prophet of God (P. B.
U. H) says: Travel to have a healthy body and do Jihad to gain booty and
go to Hajj to be independent.

The Prophet of God (P. B.
U. H) has been narrated a saying: Someone who wants to go to Hajj should
hurry up.

Imam Sadegh (P) says: If someone
can afford Hajj but he postpones it without any logical excuse until he
dies, he has violated one ofIslam's
injunctions.

The great Prophet of God (P. B.
U. H) has been quoted a saying: Someone who doesn't perform his obligatory
Hajj rituals without anysevere illness or essential need or any other
reasons until he dies, he has died as a Jewish or
Christian.

Imam Sadegh ( P ) says : No one
will be deprived of Hajj rituals unless because of a sin, and this is
under conditions when God forgivesmost sins.

Imam Sadegh (P) said to Isa, the son of Abi Mansour: O Isa, if
you can eat bread and salt and go to Hajj, do it.

Imam Sadegh (P) said: If
someone performs Hajj twice, he will be in mercy and blessing as long as
he is alive.

Imam Sadegh (P) says: Someone who
goes to Hajj for 3 times, he never becomes poor.

Imam Sadegh (P) says: Someone who
goes to Hajj for 10 times, God will forgive all his
sins.

Imam Sadegh (P) says: In every
month of the year people can go to perform Omreh, but the best month is
Rajab. (The 7th lunar month).

Imam Sadegh (P) says: To God
Mecca is the most favorite place.

Imam Ali ibn Hossain, Zeinol
Abedin (P) says: Feeding in Mecca is like fasting in other places and
fasting one day in Mecca is equal to fasting one year in other places and
walking in Mecca is a prayer itself.

Imam Bagher (P) says: Someone who
prostrates in Mecca is like the person who sheds his blood in the
way of God.

The great Prophet of God (P. B.
U. H) has been narrated a saying: No days are like the first ten days of
Zi-hajjeh (12th lunar month) when God likes people to pray
in.

Narrated from the great Messenger
of God (P. B. U. H) a saying: Touching the Hejar ol Asvad (which is a holy
black stone in Mecca) and Rokne Yamani will vanish all
sins.

Imam Ali Ibn Hossain Zeinol
Abedin (P) says: When the night of Arafat and the first hours of the Mena
day come, God presents his dearestAngels to the people standing in
Arafat and Mena.

Imam Sadegh (P) says: When people
rest in Mena, a proclaimer on behalf of God proclaims that, if you wish my
satisfaction, I am satisfied.

Imam Sadegh (P) says: The major
Hajj is day of sacrifice.

The Messenger of God (P. B. U. H)
says: Ramye Jamarat (that is part of Hajj rituals in which pilgrims throw
stones at satans) will be rewarded in the resurrection
day.

Imam Bagher (P) says: If someone
dies in one of these 2sanctuaries (that is Mecca or Medina) , he will be
appointed without any fear in theresurrection
day.

Imam Sadegh (P) says: God likes
serving food and sacrificing of sheep in Mena.

Imam Sadegh (P) says: When a
faithful man shaves all his hair in Mena and buries it. In the
resurrection day, every hair will recall its
owner'sname.

Imam Ali (P) says: The Zamzam's
water (which is a holy well near Kaaba) is the best water on
earth.

The great Messenger of God (P. B.
U. H) has been narrated a saying: Someone who circumambulates God's house
7 times and saystwo units of prayers in the back of Magham (which is a
holy place in Kaaba) and drinks Zamzm's water, all his sins will be
cleared.

The great Prophet of Islam (P. B.
U. H) says: Drinking the Zamzam's water is a cure for every
illness.

Imam Sadegh (P) says: Nothing but
daily prayers is better than Hajj.

The great Prophet of Islam (P. B.
U. H) says: When you finish Hajj rituals, you are so pure as if you have
been born again.

Imam Ali (p) has said in his will
that: For the sake of God, For the sake of God, It's the right of your
Lord's home to not be left alone until you live, because if it is left
alone, you won't stand a chance against God's
punishment.

Imam Sadegh (p) : No place is
more favored by God except the place of running (Masaa) because there is
where any selfish or cruel person will be humiliated and
disrespected.

Imam Ali (p) : Don't you see that
the Glorious God ever since Adam's time till the end of the world has
tested people with rocks that areuseless as well as harmless, blind as
well as deaf, and with all his respect, built them into a place where
people gather round. Then, it was placed in the most rocky, plantless, and
harrow canyon which was between the toughest mountains, hottest pebbles,
and waterlesssprings that was very far from plains, somewhere no
camel, horse, cow, or sheep could grow fat. If the Glorious God with all
his respect were to place his home and the Hajj's ceremonial place
somewhere else that was in the middle of gardens, springs, plains full of
trees, fruit, and close houses and villages, and where fields full of
wheat, gardens full of flowers, fine land and sure enough however simple
the examination is, the reward will be little.

Imam Sadegh (P) in answer to
Hesham the son of Hekam 's question about the reason of achieving the Hajj
ceremony and circumambulating the Kaaba, replied: God created humans,
andcommanded them to obey the religion and what's best for them in
this world and placed Hajj to join his people from the east and west of
the world (and so that they get to know what each other are up to) and so
that the merchants that take goods from town to town would profit. And so
that leaders and the camel keepers would gain something as well. And also
so that the God's Messenger's traces would be known and his words would
not be forgotten. If every tribe or person were to settle in his / her own
city or land, they would banish, and their cities would be destroyed, they
would have a financial decrease, and everything would be kept silent, this
is the true reason of Hajj.

Imam Bagher (p) : Hajj is
peaceful for the soul.

Imam Sadegh (p) : I've never seen
anything remove and replace poverty with wealth as fast as continuously
going to the pilgrimage of God's home.

Imam Sajjad (p) : The right of
Hajj for you is to know that through this you enter your God's bounders
and you turn to him instead of sinning, and because of this your sorrow is
accepted and you have achieved what God has asked you to
do.

Imam Bagher (p) : Having complete
Hajj is like meeting with the Imam.

Imam Kadhim (p) : Following the
verse: Whoever is blind in this world is also blind in the second world
and even more mislead. ImamKadhim (p) commented: That's someone who
postpones the required Hajj and keeps saying I'll go this year, I'll go
next year until he / she finally dies, and we warp their body and keep
eyes of people.

Abdur Rahman the son of Kosair: I
went to Hajj with Imam Sadegh (p) and on the way; his excellency went on a
high mountain and lookedat people from up there and said: There's so
much commotion and so little Hajis.

Imam Bagher (p) : Whoever comes
to pilgrimage this house is not accepted if he/she doesn't have these
three traits: 1. Self-restraintfrom sinning. 2. Forbearance to control
his / her anger with. 3. Treating his / her companions
properly.

Imam Sadegh (p) : If someone goes
to the pilgrimage of God's home with religiously prohibited money, and
says, " Oh my Lord, I 'mhere (Labake) (In return) he'll /she'll hear:
No, you are not here and no you are not worthy. And if someone goes to the
pilgrimage of God'shome with religiously legitimate money will hear:
You are here and you are worthy.

The Holy Prophet Muhammad (p)
said: Whoever goes to Hajj with religiously prohibited money, then says:
I'm here, oh God,I'm here (Labake Allahomma Labake) God will answer:
No, you are not here and no your Hajj should be of your
own.

Imam Sadegh (p) : There are two
kinds of Hajj: Doing the duties of Hajj for God and doing the duties of
Hajj for people, whoever goes to Hajjfor God, is rewarded with heaven,
and whoever goes to Hajj because of people, on the Judgement Day, his /
her reward will be givento those people.

Imam Sadegh (p) : Whoever dies on
the way to Mecca or coming back from Mecca will be rid of fright, fear,
and nervousness on the Judgement Day.

Imam Sadegh (p) : Whoever dies
while wearing the pilgrimage's garb, will later rise saying I'm here
(Labake) .

Imam Sadegh (p) : Regarding the
verse (And whoever reaches there is safe) said, Any human that enters the
Holy Shrine and turns to it is safe from God's anger and if any kind of
animal or bird enters, they should not be annoyed or forced out until it
has left the Shrine itself.

Imam Sadegh (p) : People lose
their Imam but his excellency is present in the Hajj ceremonies and sees
people, but people don't see
him.