Blessings Seeking in Visiting Holy Shrines in Travel Books (the Journey of Ibn Jubayr as a Model)

Abstract

The research talks about a very important doctrinal issue, namely, visiting the holy shrines of the prophets and imams, peace be upon them all, this has religious and spiritual significance for the general Muslims, especially the followers of Ahalalbayt, peace be upon them, peace be upon them, who visit these holy shrines to be blessed by them and seek the intercession of the owner of the grave on the Day of Resurrection. The importance of this topic comes in an attempt to shed light on the legitimacy of these visits among all Muslims, and not limited to the imamate doctrine, as some of those who suffer from a disease try to portray this as being specific to this sect and not to other sects. That is, it is considered as one of the great sins, and even misses the point of polytheism in their ill ideological alphabet. Therefore, they write about - these polytheists - who use graves as mosques, rather, they describes the people who visit the shrines as they worship the owners of those graves without God Almighty. Therefore, the research is to elucidate the legitimacy of the visit among Muslims in their books. It is intended to show what the travelers wrote in particular, as they often represent the transmission of their observations of what they saw during their travels in cities and regions. So they record what they observe from the practices and actions of people so that the news forms a fruitful material, objective. In most cases - According to the opinions of the travelers and their ideological influence on these practices, perhaps one of the most prominent Arab travelers who recorded such religious practices during his trip was the Arab traveler, Ibn Jubayr, in his famous trip, in which he recorded many of these observations of Muslims visiting these shrines and having the bless from them and even he visited them. His observation included some sites, such as a rock on which the Prophet, may the prayers and peace of Him be upon him and his family, sat people took the bless from and others sites that did not belong to holy shrines and locations.