Imam al-Sadiq (AS), when Abd al-Rahman told him: ‘Some of these narrators are saying that it is better for a man to go for pilgrimage once and then to gives alms and maintain his kinship with his relatives [with that money than to go for pilgrimage again] said, ‘They are wrong. If people were to do that the House would become deserted. Allah has made this House a means of sustentation for mankind.