The ruling on performing Hajj on behalf of parents who are unable to do so
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The questioner:
May Allah reward you. Please, my brother Ibrahim, join us on the line as well. Go ahead. Peace be upon you. And upon you be peace. May Allah keep you in good health, Shaykh 'Abd al-Karim. May Allah keep you alive, Shaykh Salih is with you, go ahead. Go ahead with your question. My question is for Shaykh Salih, peace be upon you, O Shaykh Salih. Peace and the mercy of Allah. Your question, Ibrahim. I performed Hajj, O Shaykh Salih, may Allah keep you alive, on behalf of my father and my mother, and they are ill and cannot go to the bathroom, and by Allah's grace, urination and defecation are required of them, and by Allah's grace they cannot even go to the bathroom without assistance. So I performed Hajj on behalf of my mother in one year. And I performed Hajj on behalf of my father in another year. And they are still, up to now, in their condition.
The Shaykh:
But they performed it first.
The questioner:
They are like this in life.
The Shaykh:
I say they did not perform it before.
The questioner:
No, they did not perform it before, O Shaykh Salih, no, they did not perform it before and they cannot perform Hajj. They cannot, neither financially nor physically.
The Shaykh:
Then they have no Hajj obligation.
The presenter:
Praise be to Allah.
The Shaykh:
If they cannot afford it financially, then they have no Hajj obligation, but if it is physically, they are carried to perform it, my brother.
The questioner:
Praise be to Allah, and it is a Hajj on their behalf, the father in one year and the mother in one year.
The Shaykh:
I do not know about his condition. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah bless you, Honorable Shaykh.
May Allah reward you. Please, my brother Ibrahim, join us on the line as well. Go ahead. Peace be upon you. And upon you be peace. May Allah keep you in good health, Shaykh 'Abd al-Karim. May Allah keep you alive, Shaykh Salih is with you, go ahead. Go ahead with your question. My question is for Shaykh Salih, peace be upon you, O Shaykh Salih. Peace and the mercy of Allah. Your question, Ibrahim. I performed Hajj, O Shaykh Salih, may Allah keep you alive, on behalf of my father and my mother, and they are ill and cannot go to the bathroom, and by Allah's grace, urination and defecation are required of them, and by Allah's grace they cannot even go to the bathroom without assistance. So I performed Hajj on behalf of my mother in one year. And I performed Hajj on behalf of my father in another year. And they are still, up to now, in their condition.
The Shaykh:
But they performed it first.
The questioner:
They are like this in life.
The Shaykh:
I say they did not perform it before.
The questioner:
No, they did not perform it before, O Shaykh Salih, no, they did not perform it before and they cannot perform Hajj. They cannot, neither financially nor physically.
The Shaykh:
Then they have no Hajj obligation.
The presenter:
Praise be to Allah.
The Shaykh:
If they cannot afford it financially, then they have no Hajj obligation, but if it is physically, they are carried to perform it, my brother.
The questioner:
Praise be to Allah, and it is a Hajj on their behalf, the father in one year and the mother in one year.
The Shaykh:
I do not know about his condition. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah bless you, Honorable Shaykh.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، حكم الحج عن الوالدين العاجزين – الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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