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This article is the seventeenth episode answers to some common allegations against Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Accusers say that why the Promised Messiah (a) didn’t perform Hajj? I, hereby, quote the answer of the Promised Messiah (a) about the same question.

The Promised Messiah (a) said: "These people raise this objection out of mischief. The Holy Prophet (s) lived ten years in Medina. It was only two days travel between Medina and Mecca, but Holy Prophet (s) did not perform Hajj for ten years, even though he could have arranged for conveyance. It is not the only condition for Hajj that one has sufficient wealth but it is also important that there is no danger of mischief and there should be means available to reach there with peace and to perform Hajj. When beasts like maulvis issue fatwa of death here and do not fear the government, then what else could they not do there? But these people have no interest that we do not perform Hajj. If we perform Hajj then will they consider us Muslims? And will they join our Jama’at? Well, firstly all these Muslim scholars should write a declaration that if we perform Hajj then all of them will repent on our hand and will enter our Jama’at and will become our followers. If they write as such and take an oath then we will perform Hajj. Allah will arrange means of convenience for us so that in future the mischief of maulvis ends. It is no good to object mischievously. This objection of theirs does not come on us but on Holy Prophet (saw) as well because Holy Prophet (s) performed Hajj in his last year only." (Malfoozaat, Vol. 5, p. 248)

This is indeed true. The Holy Prophet (s) could perform Hajj only in his last year; because that was the only convenient time for him to perform Hajj. It is commanded in the Holy Quran to perform Hajj only when are not kept back [2:197]. Many islamic scholars became bloodthirsty enemies of the Promised Messiah (a) and he was certainly kept back.