God for Sale
December 2, 2003
Danarto* PEOPLE going on the haj or umrah pilgrimage usually ask back when asked to explain the site in the middle of Masjid al-Haram, the Kabah which is the most yearned-for place to which pilgrims have come from afar to seeand stay in Mecca for forty days. Its only the Kabah they wish to see in the Holy Land. In haj or umrah, the Kabah is the objective of their pilgrimage. Once they
*Literatus and author of A Javanese Goes on Hajj.