How should a person act if he is performing tawaf and the time for prayer arrives?
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The questioner : The second question says: During the tawaf for 'Umrah or Hajj, the time for the midday prayer, the afternoon prayer, or any other obligatory prayer arrives. Does he pray and then complete the remaining circuits of tawaf, or does he pray and start the tawaf all over again, or does he complete the tawaf and then pray late?
The Shaykh : If the prayer is called for while you are performing tawaf, whether it is the tawaf of 'Umrah, the tawaf of Hajj, or a voluntary tawaf.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : If it is a voluntary tawaf, you leave your tawaf and pray, then you return and complete the tawaf without starting it anew. You complete the tawaf from the point where you stopped before.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : There is no need to repeat the circuit from the beginning.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Because what has already been done was based on a valid foundation and by virtue of a Shari'ah permission, so it cannot be invalid. Yes.
The questioner : Whoever does any of the prohibitions of ihram.
The Shaykh : If the prayer is called for while you are performing tawaf, whether it is the tawaf of 'Umrah, the tawaf of Hajj, or a voluntary tawaf.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : If it is a voluntary tawaf, you leave your tawaf and pray, then you return and complete the tawaf without starting it anew. You complete the tawaf from the point where you stopped before.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : There is no need to repeat the circuit from the beginning.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Because what has already been done was based on a valid foundation and by virtue of a Shari'ah permission, so it cannot be invalid. Yes.
The questioner : Whoever does any of the prohibitions of ihram.