The ruling on one who appoints a person who manipulates the Hajj on behalf of others
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Question:
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh Abu 'Abdullah, a man appointed someone to perform Hajj on behalf of his mother, but he later learned that this person had taken on many such appointments. What is the ruling?
Answer:
If it is known that he is a deceiver and that he takes agency from people in order to take money from them, then it is not permissible to appoint him as an agent, because he intends the money and plays with people. Rather, he must be reported to the authorities so that he is disciplined and prevented from this ugly act. The intended meaning of agency in Hajj is worship and clearing the obligation of the one for whom the agency is performed, while the money is secondary; he takes it to help him with the expenses of Hajj. Because he intends money by his Hajj, if his intention in performing Hajj is to take money, then he has no Hajj. Whoever performs Hajj in order to take money has no Hajj, but as for the one who takes money in order to perform Hajj, there is no harm in that. Allah, Glorified and Exalted, said:[Hud 11:15] meaning he intended by the worship the desire for this world. [Hud 11:15] [Hud 11:16] Yes.
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh Abu 'Abdullah, a man appointed someone to perform Hajj on behalf of his mother, but he later learned that this person had taken on many such appointments. What is the ruling?
Answer:
If it is known that he is a deceiver and that he takes agency from people in order to take money from them, then it is not permissible to appoint him as an agent, because he intends the money and plays with people. Rather, he must be reported to the authorities so that he is disciplined and prevented from this ugly act. The intended meaning of agency in Hajj is worship and clearing the obligation of the one for whom the agency is performed, while the money is secondary; he takes it to help him with the expenses of Hajj. Because he intends money by his Hajj, if his intention in performing Hajj is to take money, then he has no Hajj. Whoever performs Hajj in order to take money has no Hajj, but as for the one who takes money in order to perform Hajj, there is no harm in that. Allah, Glorified and Exalted, said:
Whoever desires
مَن كَانَWhoever desires the life of this world and its adornments - We fully repay them for their deeds therein, and they therein will not be deprived.
مَن كَانَ يُرِيدُ الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا وَزِينَتَهَا نُوَفِّ إِلَيْهِمْ أَعْمَالَهُمْ فِيهَا وَهُمْ فِيهَا لَا يُبْخَسُونَThose are the ones for whom there is not in the Hereafter but the Fire. And lost is what they did therein, and worthless is what they used to do.
أُولَٰئِكَ الَّذِينَ لَيْسَ لَهُمْ فِي الْآخِرَةِ إِلَّا النَّارُ وَحَبِطَ مَا صَنَعُوا فِيهَا وَبَاطِلٌ مَّا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/262 — archive.org (12:35)
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