A Treasury of The Qur’an
PILGRIMAGE
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PILGRIMAGE
Perform the pilgrimage and visit the Sacred House
for God’s sake. If you are prevented, send such
offerings as you can afford, and do not shave your
heads until the offerings have reached their
destination. But if any of you is ill or suffers from an
ailment of the head, he must pay a ransom either by
fasting or by almsgiving or by offering a sacrifice. In
peacetime if any of you combines the visit with the
pilgrimage he must make such offerings as he can
afford; but if he lacks the means let him fast three
days during the pilgrimage and seven when he has
returned; that is, ten days in all. That is for him
whose family are not present at the Holy Mosque.
Have fear of God: Know that He is stern in
retribution. Pilgrimage is in the appointed months.
Whoever intends to perform it in those months
must abstain from sexual intercourse, obscence
language and acrimonious disputes while on
pilgrimage. God is aware of whatever good you do.
Provide yourselves well; the best provision is piety.
Fear Me, then, you that are endowed with
understanding. It is no offence for you to seek the
bounty of your Lord by trading. When you press on
