Pilgrimage to Mecca | The Historical Places You Must Visit

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Once we journey Hajj and Umrah or Pilgrimage to Mecca, besides performing the worship of Hajj and Umrah. we can pilgrim around mecca city and visit historical places of Islam where is mecca located. Below this some historical place that you have to visit around mecca city.

1. Pilgrimage to Cave of Hira in Jabal E-Noor Mecca

Pilgrimage to Cave Of Hira  in Jabal E-Noor Mecca

In the north of the Grand Mosque Masjid Al Haram, along 6 KM there is a mountain called Jabal E-Noor. To climb to the top takes approximately one hour. There is a cave there, enough to sit about four people. With a height inside as tall as a person standing. The cave is called the Cave of Hira. Jabal E-Noor and Cave of Hira are very important in Islamic history. Because this is the cave where the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ received the first revelation, Sura Al-Alaq: 1-5.

2. Pilgrimage to Cave Of Thawr in Jabal E-Thawr Mecca

Pilgrimage to The Cave of Thawr in Jabal E-Thawr Mecca

Within the south of the Grand Mosque Masjid Al Haram, as far as six kilometers there is Jabal E-Thawr. Jabal E-Thawr also has the necessary values in Islamic history.

The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ with Abu Bakar Ash-Siddiq hides within the mountain once he migrated to Medina. Once the Prophet Muhammad survived from the tribe of the Quraish, then he stopped by the house of Abu Bakr. Along with Abu Bakr by first taking refugee in Jabal E-Thawr for three days, then headed for Medina.

Some of the Quraysh, once they pursued the messenger of Allāh at Thawr cave, they found the cave covered with cobwebs. And also pigeons laying eggs in their nests. By such conditions, they think that the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ couldn't hide within the cave.

When you want to enter the cave you have got to crawl, it's only enough to take a seat alone. To get Thawr Cave, you need a one-half hour hike trip.

3. Pilgrimage to Jabal E-Rahma Mecca

Pilgrimage to Jabal Al-Rahma Mecca

In the middle of the Plain of Arafat looks a hill topped with a monument, the hill now known as Jabal E-Rahma (The Mountain of Mercy). According to history, when the Prophet Adam and Hawa fell from Heaven, both separate within quite a long time. During that time they are looking for and finally met in the Plain of Arafat.

4. Pilgrimage to Jinn Mosque At Mecca

Pilgrimage to Mosque Jinn Mecca

The Jinn Mosque located near the Jannat Al Mualla cemetery. It is thus because there is a group of jinn who promised to admit that the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was a messenger of God. The Mosque Jinn has associated with jinn history described in the Sura Al Ahqaf: 29-32.

Pilgrimage Wisdom

Pilgrimage by the fundamental law allowed and may be Sunna or could also be Makruh or Haram. That is all depending on the intention of the activity pilgrimage. When it made a pilgrimage only for Allah, the pilgrimage became worship. 

And when the pilgrimage to take I'tibar or the value of the lessons, the pilgrimage became Sunna. But when the pilgrimage by the impulse of lust or other concerns, the pilgrimage became Makruh, even forbidden and punished by God.

Thus, the lessons to be learned from the pilgrimage are:

1. Increasing faith and piety to Allah and add love to Islam, this is included in the understanding of the Word of Allah SWT in Sura Al-An'am: 11. 

2. Taking the lesson of what he found in a pilgrimage to his interests that not conflict with Islam. This attitude includes what said by Allah SWT in Sura Al-Hasyr: 2