Alisher navoi and hajj

Abstract

The article gets out questions about Alisher Navoi's attitude to the Hajj (Pilgrimage), about his enormous charitable work. But let us note that there was nothing reprehensible here to regret and repent, especially because the poet did not perform the Hajj. The fact is that in official religious sources, especially in habit's, there are exceptions on this issue. This was in 1841 y., when Navoi reached the age of forty, voluntarily retired from social and political activities, decided to devote the rest of his life to creativity and charitable affairs, transferred all his property and wealth at the expense of waqf, for the first time he began to prepare for the Hajj. Thus, the folk legend and historical sources prove the fact that Alisher Navoi was going to make the Hajj to Mecca and Medina three times, but due to the poet's constant employment with grandiose social, political and creative affairs, he did not have the time and opportunity to realize this secret dream.