What is your advice for the one who came to perform 'Umrah, circumambulated the House, and used to circumambulate the graves in his country?
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Question:
May Allah reward you. The questioner asks: What is your advice for the one who came to perform 'Umrah, circumambulated the House, and used to circumambulate the graves in his country?
Answer:
It is obligatory for the one who circumambulates graves, or calls upon the dead, or seeks their aid to repent to Allah and enter Islam anew, because the one who seeks aid from the dead, slaughters for the dead, and draws near to the dead is one who commits major shirk (associating partners with Allah). So he must repent to Allah, pronounce the two testimonies of faith, and enter Islam anew. Allah has not prescribed circumambulation except for the Ancient House[Al-Hajj 22:29] As for graves, they are not to be circumambulated, nor prayed to at them, nor slaughtered for, nor vows made to them. This is major shirk: calling upon other than Allah the Exalted, slaughtering for other than Allah, and worshipping other than Allah. This is major shirk.
So it is obligatory for the one who has fallen into any of that to hasten to repent and enter Islam anew, because before that he was not upon Islam. As long as he associates partners with Allah, he is not upon the religion of Islam.
May Allah reward you. The questioner asks: What is your advice for the one who came to perform 'Umrah, circumambulated the House, and used to circumambulate the graves in his country?
Answer:
It is obligatory for the one who circumambulates graves, or calls upon the dead, or seeks their aid to repent to Allah and enter Islam anew, because the one who seeks aid from the dead, slaughters for the dead, and draws near to the dead is one who commits major shirk (associating partners with Allah). So he must repent to Allah, pronounce the two testimonies of faith, and enter Islam anew. Allah has not prescribed circumambulation except for the Ancient House
perform Tawaf around the ancient House."
وَلْيَطَّوَّفُوا بِالْبَيْتِ الْعَتِيقِSo it is obligatory for the one who has fallen into any of that to hasten to repent and enter Islam anew, because before that he was not upon Islam. As long as he associates partners with Allah, he is not upon the religion of Islam.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما نصيحتكم لمن جاء لأداء العمرة، وطاف بالبيت، وكان في بلده يطوف بالقبور؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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