Definitions for "Ihram"
Keywords:  hajj, pilgrim, unsewn, umrah, mecca
The peculiar dress worn by pilgrims to Mecca.
White cloth wound around the body during the hajj.
Ihram is the state which a pilgrim must enter before and during specified periods of Hajj and Umrah. Ihram includes restrictions on clothing — for men it is two pieces of unsewn cloth and for women their ordinary garments — and the term “ihram” is often used as a short form of “ihram garments.” In addition to restrictions on clothing, one in a state of ihram cannot cut their hair or nails, use perfume, hunt, uproot plants or have sexual relations with their spouse.