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Another heresy, deeply established in their social tradition, dictated that they
would not eat dried yoghurt or cooked fat, nor would they enter a tent made
of camel hair or seek shade unless in a house of adobe bricks, so long as they
were committed to the intention of pilgrimage. They also, out of a deeply-
rooted misconception, denied pilgrims, other than Makkans, access to the
food they had brought when they wanted to make pilgrimage or lesser
pilgrimage.
"O Children of Adam! Take your adornment (by wearing your clean clothes),
while praying [and going round (the Tawaf of) the Ka‘bah]. [Al-Qur'an 7:31]
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When the Makkans were in a pilgrimage consecration state, they would not
enter their houses through the doors but through holes they used to dig in the
back walls. They used to regard such behaviour as deeds of piety and god-
fearing. This practice was prohibited by the Qur’ân:
"It is not Al-Birr (piety, righteousness, etc.) that you enter the houses from the
back but Al-Birr (is the quality of the one) who fears Allâh. So enter houses
through their proper doors, and fear Allâh that you may be successful." [Al-
Qur'an 2:189]
Such was the religious life in Arabia, polytheism, idolatry, and superstition.
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