Quran Gallery Collection
Post Hajj
2 essays on one theme, in the order the series set them.
2 essays
Post Hajj A Ḥajj That Counts: What the Prophet Named as the Sign of Acceptance Was your Ḥajj accepted? Two hadiths answer with a test rather than a feeling: one graded on what you kept out of your iḥrām, the other on what you now do for the people around you on any ordinary day since. Post Hajj Take Account of Yourself Before You Are Taken to Account A caliph once reduced an entire discipline to two verbs: count yourself, and weigh yourself, before someone else does both to you on a day you cannot postpone. A hadith names exactly what gets counted — age, knowledge, wealth, and body — before a single foot is allowed to move. What doing that counting now, voluntarily, has to do with being handed your own record later and told to read it yourself.
