Talk:Hajj

Isn't this a tad too much like Wikipedia's style? Then, I guess there isn't too much else to go on.

How many actually perform it?

If everyone on Earth were Muslim, would it even be possible for so many to perform the hajj? And would this be an argument against Islam? --Vital Forces (talk) 22:35, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

It's already basically impossible. There are more than 1.5 billion muslims right now, and Saudi Arabia just about reached a hajj capacity of 2 million(foreigners). If they don't add any more capacity (it already sounds like it makes metropolitan commuter rail seem a pleasant world of ample personal space), it would take more than 750 years to give every single muslim alive right now a chance at the hajj. It gets better though: it would take something like 20 years to do just today's muslim population of Europe, a tiny minority. The population of the middle east is mostly muslim and rounding down the wikipedia estimate of 400 million, that's 200 years just do do the current population of the middle east. I don't pretend to know the theological implications of the fifth pillar of islam being logistically impossible for a huge majority of muslims, but I suspect it sucks to be them. Namako (talk) 10:47, 18 August 2020 (UTC)