Some Important Advises and Guidelines for Pilgrims Planning to Perform Hajj

There is a pool of etiquettes to the Hajj, and all these must be followed and abides by every pilgrim to adorn himself. Some of them may be quite easy however some may seem difficult, but all must be followed to perform a successful and memorable Hajj. Here is a quick rundown of the most prominent Advises and Guidelines.

1. Keep up cleanliness in your garments, your tent, the spot where you stay, and in your sustenance and beverage. This is on the grounds that keeping clean will help in saving your wellbeing and in repulsing ailments.
2. Be careful with dropping foulness or ruined food in the streets that individuals use, for it will bring about those performing Hajj to be disturbed, and it will make sicknesses spread. So one must expel unsafe items from the street and place them in their fitting spot (i.e. dustbin).
3. Bear the damage that originates from your neighbours with tolerance, and don’t (let that make you) hurt any of your brothers. Rather, repulse their mischief in a way that is better, for example, by utilizing kind and soft words.
4. Maintain a strategic distance from sexual relations, conferring sins, contending and debating with deception, so that your Hajj can be acknowledged.
5. Be tolerant in your purchasing and offering, and show great conduct. What’s more, don’t manage anybody in a way that he is not satisfied with.
6. Be tender with people around you when performing Tawaaf, kissing the St one, the Sa’ee, and when throwing the stones (Ramee) and so on. This is from the tenderness that is required, for Allaah’s Messenger (sallAllaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam).
7. Be careful with smoking, showing terrible behaviour and offending others, for berating a Muslim is corruption and battling against him is doubt.
8. Try not to squander your time in the commercial centres – purchasing and offering – or in tattling with the “he said/she said”.
9. Always beware of Riyaa, which involves doing a deed only for the sake of being seen or heard. It is very important to have proper sincerity in your Hajj.
10. It is very to have head shaved or cut hair very short when in the state of Hill (out of Ihraam). Shaving the beard off is also a mandate while performing Hajj.
11. Never ever raise your voice out loud when making a particular du’aa (supplication) during the Tawaaf. This may disturb the others in making a Tawaaf which is everyone’s right.