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.
Special time during Haj that all Muslims refrain from normal life and dwell on nothing but religious matters.
The special two-garment seamless attire worn by pilgrims. Also, the state of ritual consecration during which the pilgrim abstains from certain acts, such as not combing, not shaving, and observing sexual continence.
Clothing worn by a male Muslim during the Hajj (pilgrimate to Mecca). It consists of two pieces of plain, white, unsewn cloth.
The distinctive garb of the male pilgrim worn during Umra or Hajj. It consists of two pieces of white, plain and unsewn cloth. One of the pieces ( ezaar) is wrapped around the midriff to cover his body from just above his navel to his ankles, and the other ( reda) is draped around his shoulders to cover the upper body. For ladies, their ordinary, and unpretentious clothes of daily wear constitute their Ihram.
The state or condition entered into to perform either Hajj or Umrah. During this period, many normally permitted actions are placed out of bounds to Muslims. Also, the name of the two plain white unsewn cloths worn by male pilgrims to indicate the brotherhood, equality and purity of the pilgrim. For, woman, the dress of Ihram consists of their normal modest clothing.
state of religious 'separation' or purity
The sacred state of the pilgrim on hajj; involves certain restrictions on conduct and certain changes in dress
A symbol of purity/ simple clothes in white
is the state in which every pilgrim in Hajj has to perform his/her Hajj, consisting of two modest clothes and 25 restrictions.
the ceremonial state of making Hajj or the Hajj garments themselves. Isha night prayer.
the state of grace and holiness that is achieved by taking part in the hajj.
The word "Ihrâm" means to "to make Harâm". Thus, when in the state of Ihrâm which symbolically refers to the wearing of two sheets of unsewn with material, one is not permitted to do certain things, (i.e. these actions become Harâm to the person who is in Ihrâm. When a person goes for Hajj or Umrah he may not enter Makkah without Ihrâm).
pilgrimage garb, two white unwoven cotton robes worn by pilgrims
the conditions of clothing and behaviour adopted by someone performing hajj or 'umra.
state of ritual consecration to perform major pilgrimage ( hajj) or minor one ('umrah).
A white seamless garment worn by male Muslims during the hajj -- a pilgrimage to Mecca. It is normally in two pieces: one is wrapped around the waist, and the other is draped over the left shoulder.