Al-Hajj Al-Mabroor

Ijtihad [Term designating the intellectual effort of Muslim scholars to
employ reason and analysis of the authoritative sources (Qur’an
and Sunnah) for the purpose of finding legal solutions to new and
challenging situations or issues]
Al-Isrâ’ (the Night Journey) [The miraculous night journey during
which the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was
taken from Al-Masjid Al-Harâm (at Mecca) to the farthest masjid (in
Jerusalem)]
Jamarat [The three stone pillars in Minâ that symbolically represent
the locations where the devil (Shaitan) tried to tempt Prophet
Ibrahim (peace and blessings be upon him) away from the path of
Allah. The pilgrim stones these pillars on the 10th through the 13th
of Dhul-Hijjah in commemoration of the rejection of the devil by
Prophet Ibrâhîm and of his steadfastness to the cause of Allah. The
Jamarat are located within a few hundred feet of one another in a
line and are named as follows:]
Jamrat Al-‘Aqabah or Al-Jamrah Al-Kubrâ [The last stone pillar in
the line]
Al-Jamrah Al-Ulâ [The first stone pillar in the line]
Al-Jamrah Al-Wustâ [The second (middle) stone pillar in the line]
Lailatul-Qadr [The night of Al-Qadr is either indicative of the honor
and station of that night, thus meaning ‘An honorable night’, or the
word ‘Al-Qadr’ may also refer to the ordainment and disposal of
affairs. So it would mean ‘the night in which all that will occur in the
following year will be decreed,’ following the Qur’anic Statement
of Allah saying (what means), ‘Therein (on that night) is decreed
every matter of ordainment.’ (Ad-Dukhân, 44: 4) Lailatul-Qadr is
concealed in one of the odd nights in the last ten days of
Ramadan; the Noble Qur’an was sent down in the Night of Al-Qadr
and the Qur ‘an itself describes as ‘Better than a thousand months’]
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