İSLAM DIŞI DİNLERDE HAC
PILGRIMAGE IN NON-ISLAMIC RELIGIONS

Summary/Abstract: There is a practice of pilgrimage in most of the religions. In general, holy place is considered as the common point of pilgrimage in all these religions. Another common point, though not in all religions, is holy time. However, there is no regularly organized practice of pilgrimage in other religions as in Islam, the time and place of which is determined by the revelation, made incumbent on those who have sufficient funds, and the way of its practice and the conditions of its acceptance are explained. From this point of view, the practice of pilgrimage is not so clear even in other Abrahamic religions, Judaism and Christianity, as in Islam. In other religions, to be a pilgrim, there is no time and place conditions similar to standing at Arafat on the night day of J. Hijja and circumambulate the Kaaba on the next day in Islam. Pilgrimage in other religions is similar to visiting holy places in Islam at any time of the year, and this kind of visiting can be considered as a supererogatory act of worship in Islam.

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