Spiritual Benefits of Hajj

Shaykh Faraz Rabbani shares with us “perhaps the most comprehensive statement ever made concerning this inward dimension of hajj”, as made by Junayd al-Baghdadi, “the great 3rd century faqih and sufi”:

A man came to visit Junayd and Junayd asked him where he had come from. He replied that he had just returned from hajj. Junayd said to him, “From the time you left your home did you also leave behind all wrong action?” “No,” replied the man. “Then you never really left at all…”

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