Training on Hajj – Pilgrimage To Mecca for IPB Communities
Dewan Kemakmuran Masjid (DKM – Prosperity Council of Mosques) Al-Hurriyyah of IPB (Bogor Agricultural University) again organizing training course for Hajj and Umrah Program 2016, on Friday, 16 January 2016, at the 1st Meeting Room of Masjid Al-Hurriyyah, Dramaga Campus, Bogor. The theme of the Training was on "Hakikat Ibadah Haji dan Umroh (The essence of Hajj and Umrah)", and the speaker for the Training was the High Priest of Masjid Al-Hurriyyah IPB, Drs.HE Shamsuddin.
He explained that Hajj is an obligation upon all Muslims (who can afford it), who have the physical and financial ability to undertake the journey, and to be performed at least once in one’s lifetime. He explained that most of Indonesian people their perform Hajj by Tammattu methods, which mean they perform pilgrimage first, and then they perform their Hajj.
According to him, the Hajj is the ultimate form of worship, as it involves the spirit of all the other rituals and demands of the believer great sacrifice. Hajj is an act that must be performed in the Hajj and can not be replaced by paying dam. These rites include circumambulating the Ka’bah (Tawaf), and going between the mountains of Safa and Marwah, as Hajar (Abraham’s wife) did during her search for water for her son Isma’il. Then the pilgrims stand together on the wide plain of Arafah and join in prayers for God’s forgiveness, in what is often thought of as a preview of the Last Judgment.
He further said, the nature of the pilgrimage is very important for those who will perform the Hajj and Umrah. The rulings and wisdom of Hajj and Umrah are self discipline on creed and oral, to strengthen and improve the Muslim Brotherhood, purified themselves from sin. The Hajj is the ultimate form of worship, as it involves the spirit of all the other rituals and demands of the believer great sacrifice. All will creates a sense of calmness, and expand our knowledge on the history of Islam.
"We are from God, to Him shall we all return. The return to God is a movement towards perfection, goodness, beauty, power, and piety, "he said. (Wied)
