I am
not a mufti or a financial expert. I am an ordinary Muslim who is deeply
concerned about the combined ideological onslaught of secularism and capitalism
on Muslim societies. We are passing through 9th ZilHajj
(Arafat Day), but I may be
excused for saying that Hajj nowadays has become a sequence of rituals in which
you are taken around in packaged tours by commercial companies. Much like if
you buy a package from some vacation tour company with all the comforts of life.
The spirit is mostly gone. Hajj means effort, please look at the pictures of
Arafat below and tell me where the effort is? Does it convey any idea that on
the Day of Judgment this place will be the place where all of us will be
collected and it will be intense hot on that day ( no Pepsi) ?