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upon whom be peace, ever required Muslims to put on the Ihram at Fajj al. Roha. . On the contrary, if there is any substance in the assertion that Jesus will descend at Damascus and from there, he will proceed to the sacred house to perform the Pilgrimage, then he would have to put on the. Ihram at Al Juhfa which is a site defined by religious law for donning the. Ihram by all those who proceed from the direction of Syria. ¹². NECESSITY OF FAVOURABLE CONDITIONS. It is not denied that Pilgrimage to the Sacred Kaaba in Mecca is an essential Pillar of the Islamic faith and a duty enjoined upon Muslims by the injunctions of the Holy Quran. 13 However, Traditions attributed to our beloved Prophet, peace be upon him, indicate that certain conditions must necessarily prevail for a Muslim before he may rightly embark upon this journey to the sacred house and one of these conditions mentioned in the Traditions demands that there be peace and security on the way for the pilgrims. 14. Incidentally, the necessity of this condition is not denied by the opponents of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community who admit that the: 'risks of the journey are circumstances which free one from the obligation to perform Hajj. '15. RISK OF JOURNEY FOR THE PROMISED MESSIAH. It is a fact of history that Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's claim to be the Promised Messiah prophesied by the Traditions of our beloved lord and master was not taken kindly by the pseudo divines whose predecessors had in the past pronounced verdicts of apostasy against many venerable personalities of Islam, including the House of Saud's 12. Hasan, S: Study of Al Quran: Lesson 18. pg 13 13. Al Quran 4. 98 14. Sunan Abu Dawud 15. The Straight Path: Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadith, Birmingham: June 1987. pg 12 264