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Vol. 1 Issue 58 August 2023 ELITE

garb, he felt a serenity in his soul, a breeze in his tighter and tighter until the young man found
chest, and a clarity in his mind… himself in front of the Multazim door…he
The man looked at him smiling: Allah has lit up made Dua’a to Allah to remain steady in His
your face…call on Him to light up your sight… obedience, then received the Black Stone and
The young man thanked him, and said: Up kissed it, cried, and asked Allah to win
until this moment…I thought I was in a Paradise, holding on to the curtains of the
dream…only now am I sure it is real life… Ka’aba, loudly sobbing, and crying out to
In the past…I thought Hajj was a faraway Allah to rescue him from the fire…
wish…only now have I realized it’s at arms’ After they had prayed at the station of
reach… Ibrahim, and going in between As-Safa and Al-
I used to think I was drowning in the seas of Marwah, the man said: Oh, how was our
sin…only now have I learned there are shores of mother Hagar…all alone in a barren desert
safety… with neither plants nor water…with a young
The man took the young man’s arm, and they baby crying in hunger…
went on… She walked back and forth along the earth…
They entered the Haram Mosque, walking looking left and right…climbing to the top of
among hundreds of thousands of people… the mountain, and then descending into the
As soon as the young man laid eyes on the Holy valley…
Ka’aba…his tears began to pour, his heart Six times she came and went between the
began to beat, his body began to shiver, he mountains of As-Safa and Al-Marwah…and
looked at the man, and cried out in joy: it’s the having found neither water to quench her
Ka’aba.. thirst, nor food to keep her life, nor people to
The man smiled: Call on Allah to increase the accompany her loneliness…she decided to go
greatness, glory and fearsomeness of His back to the mountain of As-Safa where she left
House… her baby, to hold him in her arms and resign to
The Hajj rituals began with the her fate…
circumambulation around the Ka’aba… The man added, with a smiling face and
The man noticed that the young man walked shining eyes, pointing to the well of Zamzam
with a lowered head, an averted gaze, and a with his hand: and the babe hit the ground
hunched back… with his little feet, and a fountain of water
He rebuked him saying: Raise up your head, exploded, growing plants, attracting people,
circle around with your gaze, and straighten and inhabiting the land…it’s the great mercy of
your back…you are in between Allah’s hands… Allah…
in His house…among His creation…cry your The young man took a deep breath, looking
tears, request forgiveness, and listen to advice… long at the place of the well, lost in his
-My back is hunched carrying my sins… thoughts, and said: Oh God, gather us up with
-If they are like mountains…they shall be Your mercy, be good to us in Your generosity,
demolished… and give us Your tenderness…
If they are like seas…they shall recede… The day of satiation is here…the night to be
If they are like clouds…they shall clear… spent in joy, preparing for the greatest ritual of
After they had circled twice, the young man Hajj…
began to please: I want to kiss the Black The standing at Arafa…
Stone… At Arafa, the man began to make Dua’a,
-It’s very crowded…but let us try… crying out, begging for mercy…the young man
9 At their seventh turn, the circle began to get repeating it all behind him…
As soon as the sun began to set, he told him:
Look at these masses…they left their