English book · The Spirit of Hajj

Meeting with God

English book, p. 97

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

The Emotional Journey Of Hajj until the journey of Hajj, they continuously hear about it until it becomes a part of their memory. When they finally travel and stand before the Ka‘bah, all these memories stored in their mind suddenly awaken. They find themselves standing before a history—a history of fear and love for God, a history of sacrificing oneself for God, a history of making God their everything, a history of realizing God as the All-Powerful, a history of annihilating oneself for the sake of God. Such a great divine history becomes embodied before a person in the form of the Ka‘bah. It appears to them as if it were written in stone. This experience shakes their mind, melts their heart, and transforms them into a new person. In the travelogue of my Hajj journey (1982), I wrote:

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