{"id":84487,"date":"2024-04-07T21:53:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T20:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailynews24.ng\/?p=84487"},"modified":"2024-04-07T21:53:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T20:53:35","slug":"stop-bankrolling-hajj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailynews24.ng\/stop-bankrolling-hajj\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop bankrolling Hajj"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Chief Missioner of Igbomina-Ekiti Muslim Forum, Alhaji Abdulkadir Salaudeen, has urged wealthy Muslims to empower indigent ones among them rather than bankrolling their travels for hajj.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Salaudeen stated this while delivering a paper at the Annual Ramadan Lecture of the forum in Ilorin on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Hajj, in Islam, is the pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, which every adult Muslim is expected to do, at least, once in his\/her lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NAN also reports that Hajj is the fifth of the fundamental Muslim practices and institutions, known as the Five Pillars of Islam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Salaudeen, some wealth Muslims have glamourised going for Hajj pilgrimage every year at the detriment of empowering indigents ones, as dictated by Allah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The cleric said that the funds being used by wealthy Muslims to sponsor them to Hajj could be used to empower them in their various trades and endeavours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This, he said, would make them to be equally be self-sufficient enough to fund their own Hajj trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n