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XXII.—HAJJ, OR PILGRIMAGE TO
MECCA.[1]
Hajj, or Pilgrimage to Mecca, is the fifth of the five foundations of practice. It is said, by Muhammad, to be of Divine institution, and has the authority of the Qurán for its observance.[2] Its performance is incumbent upon those men and women who have sufficient means to meet the expenses of the journey,
- ↑ Only three Englishmen are known to have visited Mecca, and to have witnessed the ceremonies of the Pilgrimage:—Joseph Pitts, of Exeter, A.D. 1678; John Lewis Burckhardt, A.D. 1814; Lieut. Richard Burton, of the Bombay Army, A.D. 1853. The narratives of each of these "pilgrims" have been published. The first account in English of the visit of a European to Mecca, is that of Lodovico Bartema, a gentleman of Rome, who visited Mecca in 1503. His narrative was published in Willes and Eden's Decades, A.D. 1555.
- ↑ Vide Qurán, Sura xxii. 28.
