The best worshiping ritual
The opportunity of hajj is an exceptional opportunity. All acts of worship are an opportunity to redeem one’s self. As a result of negligence about Allah the Exalted – Who is the Spirit and the Truth of existence – human beings show negligence about themselves, their hearts and their reality: “And be you not like those who forgot Allah and He made them forget themselves” [The Holy Quran, 59: 19]. Today, this is the great pain of humanity. By forgetting Allah the Exalted, humans have forgotten themselves as well. Amid the wheel of materialistic apparatuses, the needs and the truth about humans and the goals behind their creation have completely been forgotten. What helps human beings to pay attention to God and – in the shade of attention to God – to themselves, to the truth about them and to their needs and their hearts is praying, worshipping and supplication. And hajj is the best act of worship in this regard. This is because it is an exceptional act of worship because of the time and the place when it is performed and because of the succession of the moves that are available to hajj pilgrims.