KULTURNO-OBRAZOVNE DIMENZIJE HADŽA
CULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF HAJJ

Summary/Abstract: This work has no aspirations to become literary criticism of the Bosniac literature but only to demonstrate strong or almost manifold influence of hajj on the culture of Muslims through these couple of examples.One always embarks on a trip with a goal to experience something unique, to discover a new world and oneself as a completely new person.Dževad Karahasan wrote the following passage on the miracle of travel: “One would always embark on a trip with the goal to change something within oneself or within ones life and thus a trip was always seen as an exchange for death. The honest people always settled their accounts and bid their farewells, since they believed, if they returned from a trip, they will come as someone else. “ Viewed from the Islamic point of view,every trip, for the sake of exploring the world,possesses certain transcendental dimensions.Travel and see is one of the commandments most often used in the Qur’an that tells us that the travel is pleasing to God, one that, in finality,helps us understand ourselves.

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