Al-Hajj Al-Mabroor

providing me with the energy, the power and the means. Provided
me with the money needed to cover my Hajj expenses and the
maintenance of my family during my absence. All Praise is due to
You for favoring me with all these blessings that I will never be
fully able to pay You back for them in praises and thanks, no
matter how endless thanks I give.
We have to carefully observe the accuracy of expression in the
chant of Hajj, the pilgrim says, ‘Here I am at your service, O Allah,
here I am. Yours alone is All Praise and All Bounty, and Yours
alone is The Sovereignty. You have no partner’. The context would
have dictated saying, ‘Yours alone is All Bounty and All Praise’,
for praises are only expressed for an offered bounty. But here the
praise precedes the bounty, why? Because your thanksgiving is
expressed for an already bestowed blessing, as Allah, all praise
and glory be to Him, has graced you with all these blessings that
enabled you to start your Hajj journey. So, you thank Allah for an
already conferred blessing and for a coming one, that of belief,
which made you fulfill that enjoined duty. Thus, blessings are
continuously bestowed and gratitude is continuously expressed;
we thank Allah for past and future blessings. Indeed, how endless
and inexhaustible are the Blessings of Allah as substantiated by the
noble Qur’anic verse saying (what means):
“Whatever is with you, will be exhausted, and whatever with
Allâh (of good deeds) will remain. And those who are patient,
We will certainly pay them a reward in proportion to the best of
what they used to do.” (An-Nahl, 16: 96)
When reciting ‘Talbiyah’, the pilgrim says, ‘Yours alone is All
Praise and All Bounty, and Yours alone is The Sovereignty,’ and as
long as the Dominion and Sovereignty belong only to Allah, all
praise and glory be to Him, and will always be, man should fear
nothing in this world.
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