During the pilgrimage Muslims are expected to acknowledge the importance of living and the significance that afterlife has. It is interesting to see how this particular pilgrimage is also meant to strengthen bonds between Muslims everywhere by highlighting that social class or background is not necessarily important before Allah. Chaucer himself makes it possible for people to look at pilgrimages from this perspective by saying that pilgrimages are also important for the feelings they induce in individuals as they experience them directly. "The Canterbury Tales" play an essential role in having people better acquainted with the idea of pilgrimage. Readers are likely to understand that there is much more to a pilgrimage than the religious aspects associate with it. As a pilgrim a...

By making acts of worship they become involve in a higher process making it possible for them to have a sense of purpose. Pilgrims going to Mecca feel united by their cause and become enabled to connect with their spirituality and with the spiritual nature of the world in general.
Pilgrimages are important when regarding things from a general matter and they encourage individuals to invest more resources in trying to find their personal identities while addressing the idea of spirituality.