Tips for Haajjees by Haajjees

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Not found in books or manuals

The tips listed below have been collected from previous hajjis. If you have been to Makkah and Madinah, you are most welcome to contribute your share. Send an email to mymomin's webmaster with your tips.

Accessories

Accomodations

  1. Never talk till late hours, keep lights on or stay up late, or you may disturb your companions, which they may remember forever.

    Contributed by Maulana Abbas Aeliya

Airports/Transit

  1. Never change any segment of your confirmed flight, or you would be staying in the bedouin country for some toughest harshest bad experiences.

    Contributed by Maulana Abbas Aeliya

  2. Never change an airline, avoid any need to go to any saudi office, or get ready for worse.

    Contributed by Maulana Abbas Aeliya

Books

  1. Dont carry a shia book, make at least three photo-copies sets of all aamal/ duaas/ ziyaraat of Baqiee etc from mafateeh instead, putting in or hiding in several places in your luggage, insha Allah one will pass through.

    Contributed by Maulana Abbas Aeliya

Clothes

  1. Simplicity, is good in our dress, for our soul, and purpose of Hajj.

    Contributed by Maulana Abbas Aeliya

First Aid

  1. Carry some US brand tylenol, alka-selzer etc , that your body is habituated with, for a possible flu, fever, indigestion etc.(wahhabi medicines may not benefit non-wahhabis).

    Contributed by Maulana Abbas Aeliya

Luggage

  1. Be as light as possible.

    Contributed by Maulana Abbas Aeliya

  2. Carry cold water bottle.

    Contributed by Maulana Abbas Aeliya

  3. Carry/ wear cheap sandals which are ok to lose, and expect theft.

    Contributed by Maulana Abbas Aeliya

Medication

Money

  1. Never trust your hotel, esp. in Makkah, Madinah may be a bit better.

    Contributed by Maulana Abbas Aeliya

  2. Keep your passport, ticket, money, cards, with you, but not in a visible money belt, instead in a money belt hidden inside not visible at all from outside, to avoid getting stabbed by a haji thief.

    Contributed by Maulana Abbas Aeliya

Place to do Wudhu

  1. Best to do at your hotel before leaving it will save you a lot of hassle.

    Contributed by Maulana Abbas Aeliya

Physical Training

  1. Always good to run 5-10 km daily for a smooth Hajj.

    Contributed by Maulana Abbas Aeliya

Reminders

  1. Focus on the fact if you face more hardship in an ibadat, you get more sawab(reward). Be ready to embrace hardships by remembering our Imam Hasan a.s. did at least 20 hajj, most or all of them by walking on foot to Makkah.

    Contributed by Maulana Abbas Aeliya

  2. Settle your khums account through an Alim.

    Contributed by Maulana Shamshad Haider

Weather (winter)

Weather (summer)

  1. Not much could be done about the hot weather( pouring water on  your head can cause hair dropping which is haram, so , just get ready for some memorable tough days, and try to tolerate,  by recalling Imam Husayn a.s. and Hazrat Zainab The Great a.s., and Hazrat Ali al-Asghar a.s.

    Contributed by Maulana Abbas Aeliya

What not to forget

  1. Recite Zikr (tasbeehat) and Salawat regularly and a lot.

    Contributed by Maulana Shamshad Haider

  2. Focus on the maanaweyyaat, so get your soul doing the hajj, the tawaf of  Allah's love, not just the building of Kaabah, give importance to the baatin of all aamal, must read the  hadith of al-Imam as-Sajjad a.s.  talking to a person called Shibly.

    Contributed by Maulana Abbas Aeliya

  3. Must participate in the protest of Baraat from mushrikeen, otherwise, you lose the essence of the entire Hajj taught by the Holy Prophet sawaw, and that of Ameer ul-Momineen a.s. who did the baraat, by reciting the surah of Baraat at the occasion of hajj by the command of Allah.

    Contributed by Maulana Abbas Aeliya

  4. Try to get the soul purified, abstaining from the harams and the material belongings.

    Contributed by Maulana Abbas Aeliya

  5. Take your hajj with you as you return, dont spoil it as you depart the Jeddah airport by getting into this dunya again.

    Contributed by Maulana Abbas Aeliya

  6. Must focus on the political, social. economical, aspects of hajj, before you repent not doing that at your death or before death, read the message of Imam Khomayni (r.a.) to the hajis.
  7. Never choose caravans not informing you of the protest of Baraat of mushrikeen, or other positive activities going on, keeping you and your soul in the dark, such 'vegetarian' caravans should be avoided since the beginning who are thieves of you eemaan and steal you from doing your duty towards the Walayat of the son of Fatimah, our beloved Imam Mahdi a.s., from whom we can never run away.

    Contributed by Maulana Abbas Aeliya

Other Hints or Tips

  1. Dont choose a caravan without a scholar who is pious and who believes in the Pure Muhammadan pbuh& hp Islam, who is not a coward, and does not ask you to be a coward who informs you of the polical duties of Islam as well, not just the masail of Hayz and Nifaas, and shakkeyyaat of salaat, but does not hesitate to tell you things that make you a true muntazir of our 12th Imam a.s. who is present at Kaabah every year, thus making us eligible to meet our Imam a.s. as the perfection and completion of our hajj depends on our meeting with the Imam.

    Contributed by Maulana Abbas Aeliya

  2. Al-Imam al-Baqir a.s. has said that ''tamam ul--hajji liqaa  ul-imami'' ( the perfection/ completion of hajj is when you meet the imam). Try to make yourself eligible to meet the Imam of your time. 

    Contributed by Maulana Abbas Aeliya

  3. Always carry your full name, your caravan's name, your emergency contact person's name and address with you in your pocket, so if you get fainted, some one can identify you swiftly.

    Contributed by Maulana Abbas Aeliya

  4. Try not to go out alone anywhere any time of the day or night.

    Contributed by Maulana Abbas Aeliya