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There are quite a few Muslim peoples who don’t recognize the hajj to Mecca as an obligation, such as Nizari Ismailis and Alevi-Bektashis. Even in the Balkans or
by PrismCrystal 2y ago
There are quite a few Muslim peoples who don’t recognize the hajj to Mecca as an obligation, such as Nizari Ismailis and Alevi-Bektashis. Even in the Balkans or West Africa among Muslims who ostensibly subscribe to a more “orthodox” Islam, though they might see the hajj as a nice thing, consciousness of it as an obligation may be low.
- fujincodes 2y agoWouldn't not believing in the Hajj be equivalent to blasphemy, which in turn is equivalent to being killed in the name of Islam?
- PrismCrystal 2y agoNot if all the Muslims around you also don't believe in the Hajj. Orthodox Muslim belief is highly rigid today, but the medieval era there was a time and region when Muslim concepts could be questioned and given some mystical revision instead. That is where Nizari Ismailism (and the Druze who don't even regard themselves as Muslim any more) came out of.