(Documentary | Islam) Circling the House of God: Reflections on Hajj with Martin Lings

The modern sage, Dr. Martin Lings, who was truly a remarkable man of our time, provides a valuable account of his personal experience of going to Mecca and performing the Pilgrimage. An enlightened man that he is, this account was published as a DVD called, "Circling the House of God" is now available to watch on KZbin.
By way of an introduction of this modern scholar and sage, Dr. Martin Ling who was given the Muslim name, Abu Bakr Siraj ad-Din and the baraka of the name certainly prove to be true, for he is described by those who knew him, as someone who is sincerity personified, the very quality of the original personality of Abu Bakr, the friend-companion of the Prophet. And indeed through his contribution he was, is and will continue, by the grace of God, to be a lamp of the Din, of the Primordial Religion of Surrender to the Highest. At the end of this post I am attaching the PDF version of Q News Magazine which featured Dr. Martin Lings in one of it's cover and there are articles about him worthy reading for those who wish to know more about his amazing life.
“Dr. Lings - was a celestial intellectual and spiritual giant in an age of dwarfed terrestrial aspirations and endeavors. - With a poet’s pen, a metaphysician’s mind, and a saint’s concerns, Dr. Lings … did in his life what he is urging the rest of us to do: return to the spirit.” - Hamza Yusuf of Dr. Lings
Born in 1909, Dr Martin Lings, also known as Shaykh Abu Bakr Siraj ad-Din, was revered by people all over the world as a ‘Friend of God’: a man whose saintly radiance touched the lives of all those who looked to him for guidance. In 1938, as a young man in his late 20s, he embraced Islam, entering deeply into its spirit; and the books he went on to write bear witness to the profundity and the subtlety of that spirit which he came to embody and exemplify.
In 1948 he performed the Hajj or pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca. The Documentary film Circling the House of God recollects his experience along with his insight into its historical background. An indefatigable traveler to the very end, he made the last of his annual journeys to the East in January 2005, a few months before peacefully passing away in his home at the age of 96.
Here Shaykh Abu Bakr shares how it was so different from present time, both the outward world and the experience of Hajj during the late 40s when he performed the Pilgrimage. In the film, he goes through his experiences as he went along with his beloved wife from the University of Cairo where he was teaching at that time and in the video, he being a scholar of religion, interweaves beautifully Abrahamic history associated with the Holy place of Mecca.
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I watched this before but it's good to watch it again. Lings was probably a saint, or at least close to one. الله يرحمه