What Not To Do During Hajj

What Not to Do During Hajj one time, there are more chances that someone may lose control of their speech and hurt another Muslim. So the season of Hajj is specially used for training in this matter. Hurting someone with words is generally forbidden in Islamic ethics, but in Hajj, it is made part of worship, so people take extra care to protect themselves from this social wrongdoing. The Quran says: The pilgrimage is in the appointed months. Whoever intends to perform it during them must abstain from indecent speech, from all wicked conduct, and from quarrelling while on the pilgrimage. (2:197) These are the three main ways in which people hurt each other with words: a person says indecent things, uses bad language about others, or argues and fights. All these actions are completely forbidden during Hajj. The purpose is to make a person more sensitive about them, so that when he returns from the spiritual journey, his tongue remains clean from such words forever. Once a person wears the ihram for Hajj, hunting land animals becomes forbidden for him. Even accepting meat of hunted animals as a gift, pulling a bird’s feather, helping in hunting, giving someone a knife to kill an animal—all these are forbidden for the pilgrim. During Hajj, if there is a dangerous animal like a snake, the pilgrim is allowed to kill it. He is also permitted to sacrifice the animal as part of the qurbani (sacrifice),