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“…That is because amongst them there are priests and monks; and because
they are not proud. (Koran Ch. 5 verse 82)
But when all that had vanished, and the people had become interested only in
chasing their desires, shunning exclusive devotion to Allah, the Almighty, and
getting lax about it, then Allah sent His Messenger Muhammad, praise and
peace be upon him, to revive the Way of the Hereafter and to renew the method
of traveling along it in accordance with the practice of Envoys of Allah.
Members of the earlier religious communities asked The Messenger of Allah,
praise and peace be upon him, if the ways of the monks and anchorites were
followed in his religion and he replied: “Allah has replaced them for us with the
Jihad and the declarations of His supremacy on every elevated place.” (Alluding
to the Pilgrimage.) When asked about the anchorites, the Messenger of Allah
said: “They are the ones who Fast.”
So Allah, the Almighty has favored this Community by making the Pilgrimage its
form of monasticism and has honored the Ka‟bah, the Ancient House, by calling
they are not proud. (Koran Ch. 5 verse 82)
But when all that had vanished, and the people had become interested only in
chasing their desires, shunning exclusive devotion to Allah, the Almighty, and
getting lax about it, then Allah sent His Messenger Muhammad, praise and
peace be upon him, to revive the Way of the Hereafter and to renew the method
of traveling along it in accordance with the practice of Envoys of Allah.
Members of the earlier religious communities asked The Messenger of Allah,
praise and peace be upon him, if the ways of the monks and anchorites were
followed in his religion and he replied: “Allah has replaced them for us with the
Jihad and the declarations of His supremacy on every elevated place.” (Alluding
to the Pilgrimage.) When asked about the anchorites, the Messenger of Allah
said: “They are the ones who Fast.”
So Allah, the Almighty has favored this Community by making the Pilgrimage its
form of monasticism and has honored the Ka‟bah, the Ancient House, by calling