Now on the way from Mina to Makkah your staying for a while at the place of Muhassab is Sunnat. Nowadays, the conveyance of Motor Lorries is not usually in one’s own control. It is therefore very difficult to stay anywhere on the way. As such, there is no harm if due to this helplessness one does not stay at Muhassab (Zaubda).
After Tawaf it is ‘Mustahab’ to go to the well of Zamzam and have a bellyful drink of Zamzam water while you are facing Baitullah. This drink should be in three breaths, reciting ‘Baitullah’ in the beginning and ‘Alhamd-u-lillah’ at the end.
Rule Of Action
Taking a bath or making an ablution with the water of Zamzam is not proper yet a person without ablution is allowed to make an ablution. Doing Istinja or cleaning out the pollution of your body or clothes is not lawful with this water (Ghunya).
The part of Baitullah which is between ‘Hajar-e-Aswad’ and the gate of Baitullah is called Multazam. Invocations at this place are specially granted. According to ‘Sunnat’ you are to go to Multazam after Tawaf. There, you are to place your both hands upright in the direction over your head-on the wall of this particular part of Ka’ba. You are also to touch the wall with your breast and cheeks, and pray to Allah humbly and submissively. It is an experienced act that such invocation is never rejected.
Tawaf (Circumambulation) means turning round and round something but in the terminology of Shari’at one’s going round the Holy Ka’ba seven times with the intention of Tawaf is called ‘Tawaf’. One complete circuit is named as ‘Shaut’. Circumambulating any thing or place other than ‘Baitullah’ is unlawful. For ‘Tawaf’, intention is obligatory. Without defining an intention ‘Tawaf’ will stand unobserved, in whatever number the circuits may be completed. The intention for Tawaf, is to be pronounced with these words :-
“O Allah ! I intend Tawaf for the sake of Thy pleasure; Render it easy for me and accord it Thy approval”.
In relation to Baitullah there are two kinds of adorations. Firstly, the ‘Hajj’, most of the practices of which are performed within the five days of the month of ‘Zilhijja’. In other than these particular five days these practices cannot be performed. Its details are given in the following pages. Secondly the Umra which can be performed at all times and in all the months of year except the five days of ‘Hajj’. It includes only 3 practices :
(1) Wearing ‘Ihram’ of Umra at or before Miqat.
(2) Performing Tawaf (circumambulating ‘Baitullah’) on reaching Mecca.
(3) Performing Sa’i (walking fast seven rounds) between Safa and Marwah. Thereafter, on having the hair cut or shaven, the ‘Ihram’ formalities come to an end.
Afaqi: Afaqi is the person who lives outside Miqat boundaries such as Indian, Pakistani, Egyption, Syrian, Iraqi, Iranian and
so on.
Ash-hur-E-Hajj: The months of Hajj i.e. complete months of shawwal, Zi-Qa’da and half of the month of Zilhijja.
Ayyam-e-Tashriq: The days from 9th to 13th Zilhijja wherein Takbir-e-Tashriq is regularly proclaimed.
Bab-us-Salam: With this name there is a gate of Masjid-ul-Haram in Mecca. The first entrance to the Sacred Mosque is preferable through this gate. Another gate with the same name is in Madina. This is the gate of Masjid-e-Nabawi opening on the side of market.
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