ACCEPTANCE OF HAJJ

Nowadays people are very busy so it is not easy to expend time on such an activity, which is not providing you money. It is even more difficult to spend money on such an activity, which will not only take your time but will also cost you. It will be the most difficult to perform such an activity, which will not only take your time, money but will restrain you from every type of entertainment and you will have to  perform many worships as well. If you give your time, money, leave your family, offer worships and bear hardships, even then, if your everything goes in vain then it will be hurting. Therefore, I will discuss those reasons due to which your Pilgrimage (Hajj) will not be accepted (quite possibly)

About 2.5 million Muslims performed Pilgrimage in 2009, but only few thousand people would have obtained the honor of pleasing Allah, the Almighty. The pilgrimage of the rest would have not been accepted due to their evil deeds. Though they would have thought that Allah, the Arbitrator, would have not considered what they have done with their Muslim brothers.

• Lending money

Someone is not returning the borrowed money and making the one sick, who lend him, but the one will go to Hajj. Imagining that Allah, the Arbitrator, will forgive his sins and he will enter heaven. But Allah, the Majestic, will smack all the sufferings of Pilgrimage on his face due to not returning the borrowed money.

As One day Our Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) gazed at the sky and his holy face turned sadder. His companions (R.A) didn’t ask at that time, but posed the question next day that what concerned him. He said that he came to know about those, who lend money but do not return. Even if they are martyred, they will not enter heaven until their borrowed money is not paid back.

• Occupying the land

Someone would have illegally occupied a plot etc, but will go to Hajj expecting forgiveness, Allah, the utterly Just, will never count his tears but the tears of the one, who lost his land.

The Noble Prophet Muhammad says, “Those who illegally occupies the land even few inch. On the judgment day, that part of land will be converted in a very big land and that will be put on his neck.” Whether one goes to Hajj with the money of that plot or by other means, in both cases the one will be in the hell.

• Intoxicating people

Someone sells vine, opium, hashish, brown sugar, but when the one seems his end near, goes to Pilgrimage, expecting forgiveness even behalf on this that he aggravate Allah’s beloved humans. Whom Allah loves more than 70 times a mother loves her child. Allah, the Fashioner of forms says, “Don’t take alcohol and that every type of stuff, which intoxicate you.”

The Noble Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) says that do not offer prayer after drinking. Therefore, if someone drinks and don’t offers prayer, the sin will not only be written in his account, but in the account of the one, who intoxicate him.

• Killing innocent people

Someone would have killed innocent people but in the end, the one will offer Hajj, anticipating that Allah will enter him in heaven. Allah, the Fashioner of forms, says, “Killing a single human is alike killing the whole humankind” So how in the hell will Allah forgive him? Killing human is the second worst sin after shirk (thinking of someone to be the son of Allah, or equal to Allah, the one).

• Dealing in interest

Someone deals in interest for the whole life. After retirement, the one performs Pilgrimage expecting that Allah, The all-Compelling Subduer, will forgive his outstanding sin about which Prophet Muhammad S.A.W says, “Those who deals in interest will be in the hell.” Interest is one of the major sins according to Islam. There are many Ahadeeth and Quranic verses concerning the punishments.

• Storing and adulterating food

Someone will earn money by illegal business like storing or adulterating food for increasing the profit. Due to which, every body will effect but especially poor. As nowadays, every thing has gone up and due to the storage of items, many people are not able to take balance diet. Due to adulterating food items, health of the people has badly affected. The responsible one will perform Hajj for washing his sins, but as no body can deceive Allah, the all Determiner, therefore Allah, the Powerful, the Irresistible, will wash the one’s sins in the hell. As the Noble Prophet Muhammad says, “Those, who store food (for increasing its price), will be entered in the hell by Allah, the Almighty. About adulterating, our dearest Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) says, “Those who adulterate, are not among us (are not my followers).

So therefore, we should plan about our income first. If we eat by means of illegal earnings, if we drink and bath by illegal means, if we wear ill gotten, how will Allah, accept our worships?  Prophet Muhammad, The merciful (peace be upon him and his family) says, “That flesh and blood, which is made of ill-gotten, will not enter the heaven.”

However, I am not saying that you should not perform Hajj because you may change after offering this reforming worship. Allah, the all Forgiving; may forgive your sins if you return what you have taken and if you give away, which you have earned illegally. You should also promise Allah, the most Merciful, that you would never commit the particular sin again.