5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

the sun set at 19.50 p.m. At 20.20 p.m., the new moon was
seen and it set at 20.55 p.m.” According to this information (in
1987), the first day of the month of Zu’lhijja was Tuesday.
Therefore, the ninth day of the month (Wednesday) became the
day of ’Arafa. But the Wahhabi government took the hadjis to
’Arafât on Monday and they prevented the ones who wanted to
visit it again on Wednesday.
3 - To make Tawâf-i-ziyârat to the Kâ’ba. Tawâf means to
go round the Kâ’ba-i-mu’azzama within Masjîd-i-harâm. Seven
turns are made, four of which are fard and three are wâjib. It is
permissible to make the tawâf by taking the well of Zemzem
and the Maqâm-i-Ibrâhîm within the circle. It is written in the
book Eshbâh that it is better for women not to keep close to the
Kâ’ba while making the tawâf. If there is the risk of the men
touching the women, it is necessary for those who are in the
Shâfi’î Madhhab to imitate either the Hanafî or the Malikî
Madhhab. It is not permissible to make the tawâf outside of
Masjîd-i-harâm. It is fard in itself to make a niyya (to intend) for
the tawâf. Also, it is fard to make tawâf-i-ziyârat after (standing
at) ’Arafât. If the adhân is called as you are making the tawâf or
the sa’i, you put it off and complete it after performing the
namâz. It is written in the marginal notes by Tahtâwî in the book
Marâqilfalâh, “There is the fear that a person who goes round
any mosque other than the Kâ’ba for worship may become a
disbeliever.”
THE HAJJ HAS TWENTY-ONE WÂJIBS
1 - To make sa’i, that is, to walk in the prescribed way, seven
times between the mounts of Safâ and Merva, provided this will be
after the tawâf-i-qudûm and within the months of hajj. Sa’i without
tawâf is not sahîh (valid).
2 - To perform (the rite termed) waqfa (pause) at Muzdalfa on
the way back from ’Arafât. Muzdalfa is the place where the Prophet
Âdam first met the blessed Hawwa (Eve).
3 - To throw clean pebbles, or anything on which it is
permissible to make tayammum, for three days at Minâ.
4 - Before taking off the ihrâm, to shave at least one-fourth of
your head or to cut or have someone cut at least three centimetres
of your hair. It is not an excuse not to find a barber or a shaver.
Even a person without any hair or with a sore on his head has to
pass the shaver around his head without touching his head.
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