The ruling on compelling family members to kiss the Black Stone when it causes hardship

Question:
Some people say, “Shaykh, it is difficult for their family, and they oblige them to kiss the Black Stone. Is there anything wrong with that?”

Answer:
Yes, this is not permissible if kissing the Black Stone leads to crowding and causes harm to the person and to people through the crowding, and also leads to the mixing of women and men through the crowding, which causes fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). Kissing the Black Stone is a sunnah (recommended practice), and these things are forbidden: harming oneself and others, the mixing of a woman with a man, and the close contact between them, which causes fitnah. This is what is wrong. These are forbidden things. One should not risk them in order to obtain a sunnah (recommended practice). Rather, one should point to the Black Stone from a distance, from the far end of the tawaf (circumambulation of the Ka'bah), or from the middle of the tawaf, according to what is easy for him. And praise be to Allah. Yes.