Principles remain comfortable until they are applied. So let us apply this one where it presses hardest, on a practice widespread among the wealthy of the ummah and almost never questioned aloud: the performance of nafl Hajj year upon year, and nafl Umrah sometimes more than once in a single year, pursued with an intensity that can only be called compulsive. Let it be understood from the outset that Hajj and Umrah serve here as an illustration of our theme, not as its target. …