Through this verse several instructions are given as to the rites of pilgrimage (HAJJ). We are told:

      1- Having once undertaken the pilgrimage, we must complete it, and we have to do it only for the sake of God, and as a symbol of our worship; and not for wordly purposes.

      2- Then it refers to those who for any reason, after wearing the Pilgrimage Garb cannot, or are prevented to perform the rites of the Lesser Pilgrimage (UMREH). They are told here to give their offering to sacrifice, and then take out their Garb. (IHRÄM)

      3- The Sacrifice would have been offered if we had been present personally. Here we may send the sacrifice by a deputy, and leave shaving our heads, (WHICH IS ONE OF THE CHIEF RITES) until we are sure enough that our sacrifice has reached its destination. When so, we could then shave our heads and resume our ordinary dress and avocations.

      4- Then an exception is made in the commandment; that, if anyone becomes ill after putting the GARB on, or if he has some trouble such as skin disease, or he suffers from an ailment on the head, or for any rational reason he has to shave his head before the completion of HAJJ, he may redeem that by a fast, or by feeding a poor, or by offering a sacrifice; he has three options.

      5- Though the revelation provides for the particular occasion in which Mecca was in hands of the enemies of Islam; the verse also serves for normal conditions too; saying:

      ``When you are safe and secure, having performed the Lesser Pilgrimage (UMREH), and you want to join it to the Interrupted Pilgrimage, which is the formal Hajj; you have to make an offering to sacrifice, such as you can afford it.''

      6- In cases where the pilgrim cannot afford to pay for, or provide the sacrifice; then he has to fast for three days, during the days of pilgrimage, and another seven days on his return making ten days all together.

      7- For the residents of Mecca the problem of UMREH does not arise, and it is for him whose family are not present at the Holy Mosque.

      This implies that giving a sacrifice, whether a sheep, a cow or a camel is incumbent upon the pilgrims, and without making the sacrifice, he is not to remove out his grab (IHRAM). This verse ends in a warning to those who pay not enough heed to the rites of HAJJ and to the importance of the Pilgrimage in Islam, saying: ``Beware of Allah, and know that Allah is stern in punishment.''