A Reference Book of Pilgrimage

«A Reference Book of Pilgrimage» seeks to describe and interpret the words, terms and topics which are somehow connected with the subject of pilgrimage, tombs, holy shrines and the habitudes of pilgrimage. However this subject also includes the Hajj and the pilgrimage of the house of Allah, but the main objective in this series of articles is to study the subjects related with the holy shrines of Masoomein (a. s). Some words of this article are the names of places while some others are the names of habitudes, commandments and titles of the pilgrimage places. Under each of the subject, while describing lexical or idiomatic concept, traditions are also quoted if transmitted in this relation.
Writer has described some of the words, terms, places and subjects related with the pilgrimage in previous volumes and sorted them alphabetically till the word; «pulpit», while seeking to complete this task by explaining these words too: «Meeqat (a particular place in Hajj), Naazim (moderator), Naaib (vice), Nawdan-e-Talaa (the golden groove), Naaib-al-Tawliyyah (vice guardianship), Naaib-az-Ziyarah (vice in pilgrimage), Najaf-e-Ashraf (a holy city of Iraq), Nazar (vow), Naqqarah (kettledrum), Nimaz-e-Ziyarah (pilgrimage prayer), Wadi-as-Salam (a holy graveyard in Iraq), Waris (heir), Wudaa (farewell) and Waqf (bequest).