As described in the Quran, making the pilgrimage to Mecca is one of the five pillars of Islam instituted by Allah. In this sense, Hajj is carried out for the love of God and to be forgiven for all his past sins, In this sacred place that is the most important in the Muslim world. The pilgrimage is one of bases and principle of the Muslim religion.
In examining a “symbolic” event such as the Revolution, however, we often overlook how our whole conceptualization of the boundaries of that “extended” event is largely based upon a sense of comparison.
