Postponing the obligatory Hajj for the sake of term papers
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The questioner : Your Eminence the Shaykh! We are university students, and we have term papers, so we postpone the obligatory Hajj for them, and some of us do not realize that we are in danger. May Allah guide us and grant you success.
The Shaykh : What can I say? Does performing Hajj harm them in their studies? If it does, there is no blame on them for postponing the Hajj to a year when they are free. If it does not harm them, and that is what I think, let them seek help from Allah and perform the Hajj. Now, a person can go to Hajj in one week; he can go on the seventh day.
And he returns on the thirteenth day, is that not possible? So the seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth—seven days within the week. I think, if Allah wills, that a person, even if he has papers, can perform the Hajj and return to his research. Perhaps, if he goes there and supplicates to Allah the Exalted to facilitate his affairs, expand his chest, and help him with his task, much good will come of it. And a person does not know; perhaps he will not be able to perform the Hajj after this year, whether due to illness, poverty, death, or fear. I advise my young brothers to seek help from Allah and perform the Hajj, and that will not harm them in any way, if Allah the Exalted wills. May Allah reward our Shaykh, Your Eminence, with the best reward, and place that in his scales of good deeds, and benefit us with what we have heard. May Allah grant him health and well-being, and prolong his life in obedience and faith. The Imam University. Peace. And Imam University, with its manager, Your Excellency, at its head, appreciates this response from Your Eminence the Shaykh to this invitation and prays for his success. We ask Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, to make our knowledge and our actions sincere for His face, and to grant us sincerity in
The Shaykh : What can I say? Does performing Hajj harm them in their studies? If it does, there is no blame on them for postponing the Hajj to a year when they are free. If it does not harm them, and that is what I think, let them seek help from Allah and perform the Hajj. Now, a person can go to Hajj in one week; he can go on the seventh day.
And he returns on the thirteenth day, is that not possible? So the seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth—seven days within the week. I think, if Allah wills, that a person, even if he has papers, can perform the Hajj and return to his research. Perhaps, if he goes there and supplicates to Allah the Exalted to facilitate his affairs, expand his chest, and help him with his task, much good will come of it. And a person does not know; perhaps he will not be able to perform the Hajj after this year, whether due to illness, poverty, death, or fear. I advise my young brothers to seek help from Allah and perform the Hajj, and that will not harm them in any way, if Allah the Exalted wills. May Allah reward our Shaykh, Your Eminence, with the best reward, and place that in his scales of good deeds, and benefit us with what we have heard. May Allah grant him health and well-being, and prolong his life in obedience and faith. The Imam University. Peace. And Imam University, with its manager, Your Excellency, at its head, appreciates this response from Your Eminence the Shaykh to this invitation and prays for his success. We ask Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, to make our knowledge and our actions sincere for His face, and to grant us sincerity in
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لقاء بمبنى المؤتمرات بجامعة الإمام — archive.org (27:36)
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