The Ruling on Performing Hajj with Money from Which Zakah Has Not Been Paid
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The questioner : What is the ruling on performing Hajj with money from which zakah has not been paid?
The Shaykh : Performing Hajj with money from which zakah has not been paid is valid. But it is strange for this man to perform Hajj while neglecting zakah, when zakah is more emphasized than Hajj by the consensus of the Muslims?
For this reason, Allah the Exalted made it obligatory every year, and did not make Hajj obligatory except once in a lifetime. Even stranger and more bizarre is a man who does not pray but performs Hajj. As for the one who does not pray, I say it is not permissible for him to enter Makkah.
Nor is his Hajj, charity, jihad, or any righteous deed accepted from him, because abandoning prayer is disbelief that expels one from the religion, and the disbeliever, the apostate who has exited the religion of Islam, has no righteous deed accepted by Allah. So I am amazed at some Muslims who, if I may say so, have an emotional Islam more than an intellectual one and one of submission. You find them, for example, striving to fast while they do not pray the prayer at its time. He fasts, eats the pre-dawn meal at the end of the night, and sleeps, and does not pray the dawn prayer except with the midday prayer. Where is the fasting? Or perhaps he does not pray at all. And in Hajj as well, a person strives with utmost effort, to the point that he strives to perform Hajj even though Hajj is not obligatory upon him, while he is neglecting many obligations. The obligation is that a person's Islam be submission to Allah.
And an intellectual Islam in which a person rules with reason over emotion, and looks at what Allah and His Messenger have presented and gives it precedence, without giving precedence to what his soul desires and leaving what it does not desire.
For this reason, the scholars said that worship is humility before Allah Mighty and Majestic, such that a person follows what Allah has commanded, rather than following what his soul follows. The effect of it. The remaining questions, may Allah bless you, for the next lesson, if Allah wills, because we do not want to prolong things for the people, if Allah wills.
The questioner : Honorable Shaykh, all good, and I would like to point out that the next meeting, by the permission of Allah, will be about the description of Hajj and 'Umrah, immediately after we finish with the prohibitions of ihram.
The Shaykh : Yes, and the questions that are present, keep them for yourself.
The Shaykh : Performing Hajj with money from which zakah has not been paid is valid. But it is strange for this man to perform Hajj while neglecting zakah, when zakah is more emphasized than Hajj by the consensus of the Muslims?
For this reason, Allah the Exalted made it obligatory every year, and did not make Hajj obligatory except once in a lifetime. Even stranger and more bizarre is a man who does not pray but performs Hajj. As for the one who does not pray, I say it is not permissible for him to enter Makkah.
Nor is his Hajj, charity, jihad, or any righteous deed accepted from him, because abandoning prayer is disbelief that expels one from the religion, and the disbeliever, the apostate who has exited the religion of Islam, has no righteous deed accepted by Allah. So I am amazed at some Muslims who, if I may say so, have an emotional Islam more than an intellectual one and one of submission. You find them, for example, striving to fast while they do not pray the prayer at its time. He fasts, eats the pre-dawn meal at the end of the night, and sleeps, and does not pray the dawn prayer except with the midday prayer. Where is the fasting? Or perhaps he does not pray at all. And in Hajj as well, a person strives with utmost effort, to the point that he strives to perform Hajj even though Hajj is not obligatory upon him, while he is neglecting many obligations. The obligation is that a person's Islam be submission to Allah.
And an intellectual Islam in which a person rules with reason over emotion, and looks at what Allah and His Messenger have presented and gives it precedence, without giving precedence to what his soul desires and leaving what it does not desire.
For this reason, the scholars said that worship is humility before Allah Mighty and Majestic, such that a person follows what Allah has commanded, rather than following what his soul follows. The effect of it. The remaining questions, may Allah bless you, for the next lesson, if Allah wills, because we do not want to prolong things for the people, if Allah wills.
The questioner : Honorable Shaykh, all good, and I would like to point out that the next meeting, by the permission of Allah, will be about the description of Hajj and 'Umrah, immediately after we finish with the prohibitions of ihram.
The Shaykh : Yes, and the questions that are present, keep them for yourself.
Source
جلسات الحج 1409هـ - 3 — binothaimeen.net (44:28)
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