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60. Warning Against Omitting Hajj

Late Hajj Abd ul-Ali Muskisar narrated:

One day after Morning Prayers, the pious scholar, late Aga Hajj Sayyid Abd ul-Baqi (a.m.) mounted the pulpit in Masjid Aga Ahmad to deliver a speech and said:

Today by way of good counsel, I would like to narrate to you that, which I have myself seen.

I had a believer companion. When he fell ill, I went to pay him a visit and found him in the agony of death. I sat down besides him to recite Surah Yasin and Surah Saffat and his family members left the room leaving me alone with him. I started reminding him about confession of monotheism and confession of mastership (Wilayat). I tried my best, but he did not repeat those words, in spite of the fact that he was capable enough speak and was in his senses. Then he glared at me with fury and said thrice: Jew, Jew, Jew!

I slapped my forehead and being unable to remain there any longer went out of the room. His family members went to him and I had just reached the main door when wailing started and I
understood that he was dead.

On investigating his circumstances it was learnt that Hajj was obligatory on him since many years, but he paid no attention to that divine duty, till he died as a Jew.