If it was difficult for him to take [pebbles] from under his feet as you mentioned due to the heavy crowd, but he went back and returned again and resumed the rest?

The questioner : If it was difficult for him to take [pebbles] from under his feet as you mentioned due to the heavy crowd, but he went back and returned again and resumed the rest?

The Shaykh : There is no blame on him; it is valid.

The questioner : It is valid? He completes the rest.

The Shaykh : If it was impossible.

The questioner : Only the number that flew away?

The Shaykh : Yes, if it was impossible for him and he went back and left the crowd, then took pebbles and went back and threw them, there is no blame; he completes the rest that flew away.

The questioner : He completes only the rest.

The Shaykh : Yes.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : Then, by the way.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : Many of the common people believe that stoning the pillars is stoning the devils, and they say: We are stoning the devil. You find a person coming with great violence, anger, resentment, shouting, cursing, and abusing this pillar, and may Allah protect us from that. I even saw, before the bridges were built over the pillars, a man and his wife riding on the pebbles, hitting this upright pillar with a shoe or boot, cursing and invoking curses upon it and the pebbles. It is amazing that the pebbles hit them and they do not care about this. This is from great ignorance. For stoning these pillars is a great act of worship. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said regarding it: This is the wisdom of these pillars. Therefore, a person says takbir with every pebble; he does not say: I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed devil, but he says takbir, saying: Allahu Akbar, in exaltation of Allah who prescribed the stoning of these pebbles. And in reality, I mean the stoning of the pillars, is the ultimate in worship and humility before Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He), because a person does not find, does not know the wisdom of stoning these pillars in these places, except that it is pure worship of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) and submission to the obedience of Allah, and he does not know the wisdom. This is more eloquent in humility and worship, because among the acts of worship, some have a wisdom that is known to us and apparent, so a person submits to them as worship of Allah the Exalted and obedience to Him, and then following what he knows of these benefits in them. And some, he does not know their wisdom, but the fact that Allah commands them and makes them an act of worship is an act of worship with wisdom, as Allah the Exalted said: And what the heart achieves of turning to Allah, humility, and acknowledging the perfection of the Lord and the deficiency of the servant and his need for his Lord, which it achieves in this act of worship, is among the greatest of benefits and the most noble. Yes.