The ruling on one who passes the miqat to visit relatives before Hajj
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Your Eminence! A man works in the Eastern Region and wishes to spend his vacation with his family in Jeddah, but at the same time he wants to perform Hajj. Should he enter the state of ihram from Jeddah or from the Eastern Region?
If his coming to his family is not as family with whom he resides, he must enter the state of ihram from the miqat.As for if he is studying and says: I have not resided in this country except for study, and my family is my family in Jeddah, and I am going to my family. When the time comes, I will enter the state of ihram from Jeddah, and there is no harm in that.Meaning: There is a difference between a person who moved from his city of Jeddah to the Eastern Region, and a person who did not move and does not consider himself to have settled in the Eastern Region. The one who considers himself to have settled in the Eastern Region must not pass the miqat without entering the state of ihram.And the one who says: No, I have not settled there, but I remained for study. If it were to happen that I return to my family today, I would return. And if his return from the Eastern Region to Jeddah is a return to his family, then he does not need to enter the state of ihram; he enters the state of ihram from Jeddah.
If his coming to his family is not as family with whom he resides, he must enter the state of ihram from the miqat.As for if he is studying and says: I have not resided in this country except for study, and my family is my family in Jeddah, and I am going to my family. When the time comes, I will enter the state of ihram from Jeddah, and there is no harm in that.Meaning: There is a difference between a person who moved from his city of Jeddah to the Eastern Region, and a person who did not move and does not consider himself to have settled in the Eastern Region. The one who considers himself to have settled in the Eastern Region must not pass the miqat without entering the state of ihram.And the one who says: No, I have not settled there, but I remained for study. If it were to happen that I return to my family today, I would return. And if his return from the Eastern Region to Jeddah is a return to his family, then he does not need to enter the state of ihram; he enters the state of ihram from Jeddah.