The Speed of Tawaf and Sa'y, Raising the Hands in Supplication, and What Is Said at the Black Stone
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Question:
Your Eminence the Shaykh, he says: Is the sunnah (recommended practice) in tawaf and sa'y to walk with moderate steps or to be excessive? Is raising the hands for du'a' (supplication) during tawaf and sa'y part of the sunnah? And does falling short occur by saying Allahu Akbar, or by saying Bismillah and Allahu Akbar when passing the Black Stone?
Answer:
Walking during sa'y, or being quick in sa'y or in walking, being quick in walking during tawaf or not being quick, this depends on the person's condition. If he is able to be quick and does not harm anyone or crowd anyone, there is no problem. But if he is weak and cannot be quick, or if being quick harms the people who are rushing, then it is not permissible for him either. He walks according to his ability, and praise be to Allah. As for supplication, he supplicates with whatever is easy for him. No specific supplication has been reported in the authentic texts. The matter is made easy, and praise be to Allah. He supplicates with whatever supplications are easy for him from what came in the Qur'an or from the supplications he has memorized, without committing to a specific supplication. Nothing has been reported except that he says takbir at the Black Stone, touches it if it is easy, or points to it. And he says between the Yemeni Corner and the Black Stone:[Al-Baqarah 2:201] the torment of the Fire. And in the rest of the tawaf, he supplicates with whatever is easy for him. And even if he does not supplicate, if he does not supplicate, it is valid, because supplication is not a condition for the validity of tawaf, but rather it is a recommended practice.
Rather, it is a sunnah and a complement to tawaf. Raising the hands is not a problem if the supplicant raises his hands during tawaf. Yes.
Your Eminence the Shaykh, he says: Is the sunnah (recommended practice) in tawaf and sa'y to walk with moderate steps or to be excessive? Is raising the hands for du'a' (supplication) during tawaf and sa'y part of the sunnah? And does falling short occur by saying Allahu Akbar, or by saying Bismillah and Allahu Akbar when passing the Black Stone?
Answer:
Walking during sa'y, or being quick in sa'y or in walking, being quick in walking during tawaf or not being quick, this depends on the person's condition. If he is able to be quick and does not harm anyone or crowd anyone, there is no problem. But if he is weak and cannot be quick, or if being quick harms the people who are rushing, then it is not permissible for him either. He walks according to his ability, and praise be to Allah. As for supplication, he supplicates with whatever is easy for him. No specific supplication has been reported in the authentic texts. The matter is made easy, and praise be to Allah. He supplicates with whatever supplications are easy for him from what came in the Qur'an or from the supplications he has memorized, without committing to a specific supplication. Nothing has been reported except that he says takbir at the Black Stone, touches it if it is easy, or points to it. And he says between the Yemeni Corner and the Black Stone:
Our Lord, give us in this world [that which is] good and in the Hereafter [that which is] good and protect us
رَبَّنَا آتِنَا فِي الدُّنْيَا حَسَنَةً وَفِي الْآخِرَةِ حَسَنَةً وَقِنَاRather, it is a sunnah and a complement to tawaf. Raising the hands is not a problem if the supplicant raises his hands during tawaf. Yes.
Source
دروس الحرم، الدرس الأول - تفسير — alfawzan.live (56:25)
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