Does unintentional contact between men and women during Hajj cause harm?

Question:
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, from the questions of this questioner, Honorable Shaykh, from Jazan, she says: In her question, your sister, Ayn, Ayn from Jazan, says: The contact between men and women during Hajj and 'Umrah, given the density of the human numbers performing Hajj, and since this is something outside of one's control and something that must happen no matter how careful a person is, what is the ruling on that?

Answer:
She means, as the questioner intends, if contact occurs between the pilgrims, especially between men and women, this does not cause harm if it is unintentional; it does not cause harm. What is forbidden is to push against women intentionally in order to take pleasure in it or to seek sexual gratification; this is forbidden. However, if there is a crowd and some contact occurs between the crowded people unintentionally, this does not cause harm. But a person should avoid the crowd as much as possible; he should avoid the crowd as much as possible, so he does not intend to enter the crowd, whether in the tawaf or otherwise. Rather, he should wait for times when there is no crowd, and be at the far end of the tawaf path, be at the far end of the tawaf path, even if he is far from the Ka'bah, if in that his tawaf is safe from the crowd and from mixing with women. He should strive to avoid these matters. But if he falls into any of them unintentionally, there is no blame on him for that. Yes.