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A pilgrim enters
into the state of Ihram only after reciting Talbiyah. And
at all other times it is the often repeated prayer of Hajj—You may say,
the chief song of the pilgrim. He must repeat it countless times during
the Hajj and Umrah. In fact it is the response to the call of Hadrat
Ibrahim who in obedience to the commandment of Allah, had called his
bondsmen “Come to the House of Allah”. Therefore the people, who, after
assuming Ihram, proceed to the House of Allah with the intention
of Hajj or Umrah, and recite Talbiyah, seem to say in
answer to the proclamation made by Hadrat Ibrahim “O our Rabb, You had
summoned us by asking Ibrahim—Your favorite bondsman—to call us, we are
here, we are present, we are here in Your Majestic presence”. But a
pilgrim should not forget that he should proceed with due reverence and
humility and with mixed feelings of hope and fear, as is natural, when
the Sovereign summons someone to His August Presence, fearing his
presence may not be accepted due to his evil deeds.
It has been narrated by Sahl ibn Sa’d
“When a believer of Allah recites Talbiyah for Hajj or Umrah and
says “Labbaik”, all the created things to his right and to his
left, whether they are lifeless stones and trees or lumps of mud, also
say Labbaik with him, right up to the both ends of the earth”. (Tirmidi,
Ibn Majah)
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