True pilgrim. True pilgrim.

Pilgrim!

OK, pilgrim.

Listen up, pilgrim.

The Grey Pilgrim.

Buen Camino, fellow pilgrim.

Eyes to the stage, pilgrim.

You are a pilgrim, sí?

You're not a pilgrim, are you?

A pilgrim? A trekker? A peregrino?

Oh, don't you worry, pilgrim, we will.

A pilgrim is poor, and must suffer.

The symbol of the pilgrim making the journey.

Now this, this is a true pilgrim experience.

A true pilgrim walks the Camino with nothing.

JULlET Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

A true pilgrim experience ? What do you mean by that?

It strikes me as extreme to say the only way to be a true pilgrim is to imitate what we like to think a true pilgrim is.

Well, pilgrim only after you eat the peanuts out of my shit.

Should a pilgrim dress himself as a beggar even if he isn't?

No, no selfrespecting pilgrim on the Camino would ever stay in a parador.

To deny every pilgrim the chance to kneel at the tomb of the Magdalene.

Long is the road that the pilgrim walks in the name of his devotion.

JULlET Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, Which mannerly devotion shows in this

How about dying on the Camino? Would that rate? Would that make someone a true pilgrim?

So, friends, the question is, what does it take for someone to become a true pilgrim on the Camino?

Then there's the point of embarkation, that is, the point of transition from ordinary life to being a pilgrim on a quest.

But I don't think we have to artificially add more hardship than is already there. That, in my opinion, is being a false pilgrim, not a true one.

O you who believe! Fulfill your commitments. Livestock animals are permitted for you, except those specified to you but not wild game while you are in pilgrim sanctity. God decrees whatever He wills.

O you who have faith! Keep your agreements. You are permitted animals of grazing livestock, except what is now announced to you, disallowing game while you are in pilgrim sanctity. Indeed Allah decrees whatever He desires.

So, the dilemma for me is to come up with something that feels contemporary yet pays homage, or hommage, to the ancient traditions of the Way and what it means to be a true pilgrim in the modern age.

O believers, fulfil your bonds. Permitted to you is the beast of the flocks, except that which is now recited to you, so that you deem not game permitted to be hunted when you are in pilgrim sanctity. God decrees whatsoever He desires.

Permitted for you is the catch of sea, and its food as sustenance for you and for travelers. But forbidden for you is the game of land while you are in pilgrim sanctity. And fear God, to whom you will be gathered.

Believers! Honour your bonds! All grazing beasts of the flock are permitted to you except those which are recited to you hereinafter, but you are not allowed to hunt in the state of Ihram (a state of pilgrim sanctity). Indeed Allah decrees as He wills.

You are permitted the game of the sea and its food, a provision for you and for the caravans, but you are forbidden the game of the land so long as you remain in pilgrim sanctity, and be wary of Allah toward whom you will be gathered.

O ye who believe! fulfil (all) obligations. Lawful unto you (for food) are all four footed animals, with the exceptions named But animals of the chase are forbidden while ye are in the sacred precincts or in pilgrim garb for Allah doth command according to His will and plan.

Permitted to you is the game of the sea and the food of it, as a provision for you and for the journeyers but forbidden to you is the game of the land, so long as you remain in pilgrim sanctity and fear God, unto whom you shall be mustered.

Therein are clear signs the station of Abraham, and whosoever enters it is in security. It is the duty of all men towards God to come to the House a pilgrim, if he is able to make his way there. As for the unbeliever, God is All sufficient nor needs any being.

Lawful to you is the pursuit of water game and its use for food, for the benefit of yourselves and those who travel but forbidden is the pursuit of land game as long as ye are in the sacred precincts or in pilgrim garb. And fear Allah, to Whom ye shall be gathered back.

The game of the water and eating thereof are permitted to you as a provision for you (who are settled) and for those on a journey but to hunt on land while you are in the state of Pilgrim sanctity is forbidden for you. Beware, then, of disobeying Allah to Whom you shall all be mustered.

Have you made the providing of water for the pilgrim and the maintenance of al Masjid al Haram equal to the deeds of one who believes in Allah and the Last Day and strives in the cause of Allah? They are not equal in the sight of Allah. And Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people.