To degrade the great aims of Hajj to things like choice of sandals is to do a great and lasting injustice to the fifth pillar of Islam.
It is sad that the books focusing on details became the first books students would reach for in their study of Islām. This has resulted in some students of knowledge becoming so obsessed with these details that they have forgotten the fundamental, macro-level principles upon which these details sit.
A chicken and egg paradox has appeared in some minds where one might for example, blame the fall of the last Caliphate for the host of micro problems we suffer from today...
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