Hajj at the time of the epidemic

Hajj this year comes at the time of the great public epidemic, which marked the small and the poorest of the great, the uncle of its evil and the rich and poor harm, and the impact on public and private life, worship and habit, and the pilgrimage, which included this harm and danger, and the Islamic law that balanced between the interests of religion and the world to accommodate such a descending Al-Qasima, and it is prescribed for it to suit its condition, in order to achieve religious and worldly legitimate purposes.

As for the religion, the Islamic ritual should not be disrupted by a general disruption, but rather it must remain in accordance with the fulfillment of the kafa’i assumption, which is the building of the Kaaba supervising the pilgrimage with the omission of the imposition on the part of the general Muslims. By virtue of its duty to serve the Two Holy Mosques and establish and organize the rituals of Hajj, it fulfills the legitimate purpose that can be done by establishing a sufficient and agreed upon duty among Muslim scholars, which is the building of the Sacred House of God on the pilgrimage, even with the lowest possible number, the assumption of sufficiency is that if some of those charged with it fall Embarrassment for the rest, and a few pilgrims will be announced as announced.

As for the worldly legitimate purpose, which is to protect human souls from harm as well as death; It is what the people themselves must take, and the state sponsoring them; As for the people, they must, at the time of the epidemic, take the necessary protection in order not to become infected with it, and it has been proven medically until his knowledge became necessary that the first reason for its spread is mixing and gatherings in which the epidemic is transmitted from one person to another and infiltrates a haven for every relative who comes into contact with, or is inevitable, from the spray and the like, He is the one who cannot be avoided if the pilgrimage season remains in its normal state, and Islamic Sharia has urged self-protection to escape from the infected or the endemic countries, and not to be mixed with it, and urged quarantine in many texts, the culture of all people has become a lot of what they heard and read, and urged those who have The responsibility to care and protect people is to perform their duty towards their subjects, as it was true in the hadith about him, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, his family and his companions: “All of you are a shepherd, and you are all responsible for his flock, the Imam is a shepherd and responsible for his flock ..”, and this responsibility requires preventing people from risking themselves to The gatherings that will be in the Holy Places.

And because Islamic law views self-protection as the second necessity of its five essentials after the necessity of religion, and since religion exists by the obligation of the obligatory person to fulfill its performance, the second necessity is to protect the soul from danger or harm, and therefore Islam has begun to offer its protection by performing religious obligations sometimes. Like someone who is forced to utter a word of disbelief, or to leave one of the obligatory prayers, or an action prohibited from prohibitions - except for killing oneself or fornication - even though such obligatory prayers may be narrow and indefatigable, leaving something that has the capacity to perform such as Hajj from a first chapter; This is because pilgrimage is required for indolence among many scholars, including the Shafi’i gentlemen, and this means that whoever did not perform it with his ability can not sin but die before he performs it, so he knows that he died iniquity, and his heirs will have to perform the pilgrimage for him from his legacy if it is his A legacy, and it is known that one of the conditions of being able to protect oneself is from harm as well as danger, so if he does not believe as in the case of people this year; Because this condition is not available, every person is afraid for himself and his family, and sin has been excluded from everyone because of the inability to do so, which is a condition that is obligatory.

Based on all of this, there is nothing wrong with one of the people being late in performing the Hajj pilgrimage this year, and that the government of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques - guarded and supported by God - was successful in making the appropriate decision in this emergency circumstance, where the two interests achieved - establishing ritual who facilitated and protected people General of harm and danger - and that the countries that took a decision not to allow their nationals to perform the Hajj are a responsible decision to thank for it, and that people are obliged to obey, hear and obey, because God Almighty has embarrassed them in religion.

We ask God Almighty to expedite the vulva and remove the embarrassment.

«Grand Muftis, Director of Ifta’s Department in Dubai»

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