If the pilgrim did not complete the rites of Hajj

14-12-2014 | IslamWeb

Question:

Dear Scholar, This year I went to perform Haj from Riyadh as I am working here in Riyadh. I have been doing all until I reached Jamarat for rami then I lost my Volt having Iqama money phones and others in side then I moved to Haram and handover my pebbles to another person as I was almost unmovable due to thirst hunger and walking finally I could not do Umrah and returned to jeddah so will my Hajj be considered as complete or void please suggest if there is any penalty for that. I was doing tamattu and I paid for hadi also. I became moveable because I traveled for 50KM by walk before reaching Makkah so you can say that I was already tired enough in the start but I did up to first day of Jamarat (Stonning Ist day) but after that I was helpless and having no money no food and dead tired.

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Answer:

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, is His slave and Messenger.

You did not clearly explain to us, dear Brother, the Hajj rites that you did not perform. What we can say to you now is that if you did not perform Tawaaf Al-Ifaadhah and Sa‘y, then you have not completed the Hajj rites and you have to go back to Makkah and perform Tawaaf Al-Ifaadhah and Sa‘y in order to complete the Hajj.

For the obligatory Hajj rites that you have missed, an atonement of slaughtering a sacrifice and distributing its meat among the poor in Makkah is required. For missing the stoning of the Jamaraat on the days of Tashreeq, it is required that you slaughter a sacrifice; for not staying overnight in Mina on the days of Tashreeq, it is required that you slaughter a sacrifice; for missing Tawaaf Al-Wadaa‘ (Farewell Tawaaf), it is required that you slaughter a sacrifice.

For whatever actions prohibited during Ihraam you have done, it is also required that you offer the expiation. If you did not make the first Tahallul (minor terminating of the state of Ihraam), then you have to offer an expiation if you applied perfume, wore sewn clothes, cut your hair or your nails. You have to make expiation for each act by either fasting for three days, slaughtering a sheep and distributing its meat among the poor in Makkah, or feeding six poor people. If you had sexual intercourse during the state of Ihraam before the first Tahallul, then your Hajj is invalid and you are obliged to make up for it the following year and slaughter a camel (or a cow) and distribute its meat among the poor of Makkah as an atonement (Fidyah).

The first Tahallul takes place when the pilgrim performs two of these three Hajj rites: throwing the pebbles, shaving the head and performing Tawaaf Al-Ifaadhah and Sa‘y. The second Tahallul (major terminating of the state of Ihraam) takes place when the pilgrim performs the third of these rites.

If you made the first Tahallul, then sexual intercourse was the only remaining prohibition. So if you had intercourse after the first Tahallul, then your Hajj is not invalid, but the state of Ihraam is invalid; therefore, you have to assume the state of Ihraam from outside Makkah, perform Tawaaf Al-Ifaadhah and then Sa‘y, and in this case you are obliged to offer the expiation.

However, if you did not have intercourse but engaged in Mubaasharah (i.e. lesser forms of intimacy like caressing, foreplay, kissing, touching and so on) after the first Tahallul but before the second Tahallul, then scholars held different opinions concerning this. Based on the view that it is prohibited, the expiation is required as with the other prohibited acts during the state of Ihraam that we mentioned above.

Allaah Knows best.