What is your advice, Shaykh Salih, to those who organize Hajj tours?

Question:
What is the advice of Shaykh Salih to those who organize Hajj tours?

Answer:
There is nothing wrong with that if they organize the Hajj tours as required, without injustice or greed toward the people. Also, a very important matter for the tours and the mutawwifs is to enable the pilgrims to perform the rites in the prescribed manner; because some mutawwifs and some tours care only about taking the money, even if they neglect the rites of Hajj. They do not allow their pilgrims to stay overnight in Muzdalifah, nor do they allow them to remain at 'Arafah until the sun sets, nor do they allow them to descend to Mina and stay overnight in matters that are obligatory for the pilgrims, nor do they allow them to perform the stoning at the prescribed time. They may press them, and they stone at a time other than the prescribed time, before the sun passes its zenith, in the morning. This is a mistake, except on the Day of Sacrifice. They may take them out of Muzdalifah before the middle of the night, and this is a mistake, and this is abandoning what is obligatory. So the tours and the mutawwifs should fear Allah, and not deceive the pilgrims, nor burden them with what they cannot bear, nor neglect their rites, because this is a trust they have taken on, and they will be questioned about it on the Day of Resurrection. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good.