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Al-Baqarah 2: 198–200

Take your provisions for the Pilgrimage; but, in truth, the best provision is piety. Men of understanding, beware of disobeying Me. (198) It is no offence for you to seek the bounty of your Lord during Pilgrimage.64 When you hasten back from [Arafat then remember Allah at al-Mash[ar al-Haram (i.e. al-Muzdalifah), and remember Him in the manner He has directed you, for before this you were surely in error. (199) Then press on even as others press on and implore Allah’s forgiveness;65 Allah is Most Forgiving, Most Merciful. (200) And when you have performed your rites remember Allah as you remember your fathers; or remember Him even more. ▶

64 “Seeking the bounty of your Lord” means earning one’s livelihood during the Pilgrimage.

65 Since the time of Abraham and Ishmael the recognized practice of the Arabs with regard to Hajj was that on the 9th of Dhu al-Hijjah they went from Mina to [Arafat, returning on the morning of the 10th to stay at Muzdalifah. Later, as the priestly monopoly of the Quraysh became well established, they claimed that it was below their dignity to go to [Arafat with the ordinary people of Arabia. As a mark of what they called their distinction, they only went to Muzdalifah, without going to [Arafat and returned from there, leaving it to the commoners to go to [Arafat. It is this idol of pride and vainglory which has been shattered to pieces by the present verse.

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