#0102410 May you read my article please? I know it has nothing to do with this group but it may open your mind about something that you don't know
Significance of Pilgrimage (Hajj)
Devoted believers of different religions isolate themselves from people in order to purify their hearts. In the quest for intimacy with the divine, they retreat to mountain caves, monasteries, or hermitages and prefer solitude to the company of others.
God has favored Islam - as the last Testament - with Hajj (pilgrimage to Makkah) to be the Islamic form of monasticism when a set period of time is devoted by the pilgrims