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Each year, Muslims who are able undertake Hajj to Mecca, completing rituals over several days in one of humanity's great recurring journeys.

Annual pilgrimage to Mecca

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Hajj is at once personal and collective: a journey made by individual intention that becomes a visible gathering of the global Muslim community. Its rituals compress history, discipline, equality and longing into movement around sacred places. The scale can be immense, but the meaning is not only scale; it is the old human idea that a body can travel outward while the inner life is being remade.

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Aynı kart, başka bir dilde.

Her yıl imkânı olan Müslümanlar Mekke'ye hac yolculuğu yapar; birkaç güne yayılan ritüellerle insanlığın büyük tekrar eden yolculuklarından birine katılır.
Mekke'ye yıllık hac yolculuğu

Hac hem kişisel hem de kolektiftir: bireysel niyetle başlayan bir yolculuk, küresel Müslüman topluluğunun görünür buluşmasına dönüşür. Ritüelleri tarihi, disiplini, eşitliği ve özlemi kutsal mekânların çevresindeki harekette toplar. Ölçeği çok büyük olabilir; ama anlamı yalnızca ölçek değildir. Beden dışarıya doğru yol alırken iç dünyanın yeniden kurulabileceğine dair eski bir insan fikridir.

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