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The Muslim pilgrimage, hajj, is the observance of specific acts in places in and around the sacred city of Mecca in Arabia at the end of each Muslim year during the twelfth lunar month of Zhul-Hajj. The observances of hajj are based on the Holy Qur’an (2:196-203, 3:96-97, 22:26-30) and the sunnah the practice of the Prophet Muhammad, (may the Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). They commemorate certain events in the lives of the Prophet Ibrahim, his wife Hagar and their son Prophet Ismail, peace upon them. The main object of the hajj, as in any other form of Islamic worship, is to create the spirit of submission to God and to nourish spiritual joy. The spirit of the hajj is the spirit of total sacrifice —of personal comforts, worldly pleasures, the acquisition of wealth, the companionship of relatives and friends, the vanities of dress and personal appearance, and of pride relating to birth, national origin, accomplishments, work, or social status. Along with the declaration of faith (shahadatayn), prayer (salat) five times a day, fasting (sawm) during the month of Ramadan, and alms (zakat), making the pilgrimage at least once in a Muslim’s lifetime completes the five fundamental personal obligations of the Muslim. The unity of place and time as well as its regular annual occurrence gives the rite of pilgrimage in Islam great religious importance especially among the West African Muslims (Takari, sing, Tukrur Pl) of which the Hausa stands out 1 . Pilgrimage is among the Islamic institutions that made the most important contributions to the development of states already formed