HAJJ: Merits and Precepts-Before The Start Of Hajj Journey-1

Please be careful about certain things :-

1. Purify your intention (Niyyat) for Hajj only for the sake of Allah and exclusively keeping in view the heavenly reward. Do not allow any worldly honour and vanity or any financial advantages or any worldly selfish design to mix up with your intention for Hajj. There is of course no Harm if even then some worldly benefits are attained to by Allah's grace (and according to Hadith wordly benefits will also be certainly available), but you should not impurify your intention for their sake.

2. Turn to Allah in penitence from all sins small or grievous. There are three pre-requisites for a sincere penitence :-
(i) Repentence and regret for the sins committed in the past in the possible redress of the omissions.
(ii) For the present, to give up all the sins.
(iii) For future, to resolve not to commit any sins.

These are the three requisites of a sincere penitence without which mere uttering the words of penitence will not be sufficient.

The omissions and short-doings of the past which can be accomplished after their due time are as under :-
(a) Fasts and prayers which could not be fulfilled after your having attained to the age of puberty. They must be calculated correctly and if correct calculation is not possible, then they should be accomplished on the basis of a guess calculation.
(b) If you have not paid the 'Zakat' of your money and effects in the past, it should be paid now by way of calculations or a careful guess.
(c) If you took an oath and violated it, it should be expiated for. Similarly if you made a vow to Allah but could not fulfill it, it should be fulfilled now.

The rights of human beings which can be redressed may be defined as for example you owe a debt to a person or you are under financial dues to any one; you have teased someone with your words or caused him trouble by your acts or you have spoken ill of someone in his absence ; for all such things you are to beg pardon of the rightful persons as well as well as to pay back all the dues which otherwise should be got remitted if the rightful persons willingly do so.