An
Abuja-based Islamic scholar, Sheikh Yahya Al-Yolawi, has advised intending
pilgrims to settle their debts and leave their wills behind before travelling
to Saudi Arabia.
Al-yolawi, who is the
Chief Imam of Area 10 Mosque, made the call while delivering Jumma’at sermon
title:“ Essential tips for Hajj Preparations“ on Friday in Abuja.
“An intending pilgrim
should settle his debts and leave behind him a clear record as well as writing
all his wills or what he intends to pass to his family,’’ he said.
According to the
cleric, the need to leave a will behind is because the journey to Holy land may
be the final journey for a pilgrim.
He explained that hajj
was a unique and extra ordinary journey in the life time of all pilgrims,
adding that it was an invitation from Allah to the most famous acts of worship.
The cleric said that
journey to hajj required high level of patience as it was always accompanied
with difficulties, fatigue, physical and social abnormalities as well as
intolerance from other pilgrims.
“One should not allow
Shaitan (devil) to hijack him and spoil his hajj out of ignorance or
annoyance,” he said.
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