Pilgrimages

obedience and love for Allah. Personally it purifies their souls and they are forgiven for their sins. It brings them closer to Allah because it strengthens their beliefs. It also helps the pilgrim to build endurance, patients and self-restraint. Pilgrimage allow the interaction between the rice and the poor, breaks down social barriers and racism (Khan, 2003). Hajj is seen as one of the greatest deeds for a Muslim, it is a form of jihad which means striving for Allah. All the rituals that are…

First of all we have to think of the Canterbury Tales in a certain context, these stories are being told in the passage of a Pilgrimage to Canterbury. We see that these characters all live in the same world interacting with one another, but they all have different points of view in several topics. “The pilgrims are represented as affected by a variety of destructive and restorative kinds of love. Their characters and movement can be fully described only as mixtures of the loves that drive and…

On the early Saturday morning, October 3, 2015, I took the Blue and Gold Ferry from pier 41 of San Francisco to Angel Island to attend a Nikkei Pilgrimage organized by the Nichi Bei Foundation. Since I grew up and got educated in San Francisco, Angel Island is not a strange place for me. Throughout the years, I have taken many school field trips to Angel Island to learn about the tragic history of the island. I have learned about the “Chinese’s Angel Island experience” so I am familiar with the…

In Africa many people went on the holy pilgrimage to Mecca and one of these people happened to be royalty. Mansa Musa went on the Hajj and passed through many villages and cities while on this journey. Mansa Musa was the king of Mali who was completing his holy pilgrimage to Mecca and was showing off by bringing massive amounts of gold, 60,000 people, and walking through one of the worst villages in Africa while on the Hajj which is supposed to be a purely religious journey. Mansa Musa…

The fifth pillar of Islam is to make a pilgrimage (Hajj) to Mecca, in Saudi Arabia, at least once in one's lifetime. This pillar is obligatory for every Muslim, male or female, provided that he/she is physically and financially able to do so. Prerequisites for performing the Hajj are to be a Muslim, to be an adult or mature enough, and to have the ability to afford the journey. The reward for the Hajj is that Allah will forgive all your sins since they day that you were born. Hajj is the best…

Upon completion of a training exercise in Iraq I was presented with the medallion as a token of appreciation for my hard work and efforts put forth. As a former Military Police Officer I trained and mentored the Iraqi Police allowing them to become an adaptive and mature force. The Iraqi police chief was not a wealthy man so upon completion of the training he gave me this medallion as it was all he could offer for his thankfulness. I respectfully accepted the medallion and am proud to still…

“The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.” (David Hume) Typically, historians question the events of history, how they happened, when they happened, or even if they happened. In the case of the Holy Crusades, however, the events, and how they occurred are not the source of contention amongst historians. Instead, the motivating factors that initiated the Holy Crusades are under scrutiny. Religion and its involvement…

largely pagan Roman state. Then it becomes a question as to what kind of benefits he confers upon the christian populace, practically? In Roman imperial records there's is an edict containing and imperial underwriting regarding that of pilgrimage and the pilgrimage sites of christians, as a result of this underwriting there begins to be a…

Testament p451). Holy Places (pilgrimages included)…

Tales, was a collection of stories that took place on a pilgrimage to Canterbury with a collection of 29 pilgrims ranging class stature and rank, it was originally planned to have 120 stories, but only around 24 were finished. Chaucer was a brilliant writer and he knew how to get away with things, and one way he did this, is playing the ‘idiot card’ in the Canterbury Tales. The tales are told in the fashion of the narration of the pilgrimage by Chaucer the character, who in the tale is played as…