{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_022_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_022_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_022_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/022.htm","summary":"This is Surah Al-Hajj (Chapter 22, \"The Pilgrimage\") from the Quran, the foundational scripture of Islam, presented here in an English translation. The chapter addresses a wide range of theological and devotional themes: it opens with an intense eschatological warning about the Day of Resurrection, using vivid imagery of nursing mothers abandoning infants and pregnant women miscarrying to convey the terror of that hour. A central section establishes the divine institution of the Hajj pilgrimage, tracing it to Abraham's founding of the Kaaba in Mecca, and details its rituals\u2014circumambulation, animal sacrifice, and the spiritual intention behind offerings (\"their meat will never reach to God, nor yet their blood, but the piety from you will reach to Him\"). The chapter is notably pluralistic in its listing of religious communities\u2014Jews, Christians, Sabaeans, Magians\u2014while insisting God will adjudicate among them at resurrection. It also contains one of the Quran's earliest explicit justifications for armed defense, granting permission to fight to those \"driven forth from their homes undeservedly,\" and notably frames this as protecting not just mosques but also churches, synagogues, and cloisters. A recurring rhetorical device throughout is the challenge to polytheists: if all rival gods united, they could not create a single fly.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"022","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":2372}