"...And when you have completed your rites, remember Allah like your [previous] remembrance of your fathers or with [much] greater remembrance..."
"...And remember Allah during [specific] numbered days. Then whoever hastens [his departure] in two days - there is no sin upon him; and whoever delays [until the third] - there is no sin upon him - for him who fears Allah. And fear Allah and know that unto Him you will be gathered." (Al-Baqarah 196-203).
This is what indicates to the sensible Knower [Arif] that the rising of the moon, its increase, its completion, its decrease, its disappearance, its appearance, and other than that, are all indications that point the Knowers to the Hajj which is the Intention of the Inward Gnoses.
And Allah, Glory be to Him, emphasized the negation of belief in the Outward [Zahir] by His saying: "It is not righteousness that you enter houses from their backs." (Al-Baqarah 189).
A question about the House to which we were commanded to perform pilgrimage, striving, and circumambulation
Meaning: it is not the belief in the outward forms of the Houses—which are the Manifestations—that constitutes righteousness, let alone this outward House in Bakkah. Rather, righteousness is piety, the knowledge of the Inward [Batin] of the Manifestations, and the belief in it.




