I have already performed Hajj, and praise be to Allah, but my parents passed away without having performed Hajj, and I want to perform Hajj, but should I start with my mother or my father?
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The questioner : He says: I have already performed Hajj, and praise be to Allah, but my parents passed away without having performed Hajj, and I want to perform Hajj, but should I start with my mother or my father? And if I perform Hajj on behalf of one of them, I want to incur a debt to appoint a proxy to perform Hajj on behalf of the other so that the obligatory Hajj is completed. Please give us a ruling, may Allah reward you, as soon as possible.
The Shaykh : We say: Perform Hajj on behalf of your mother first, because the mother has a greater right to kindness than the father, and both she and your father are under an obligatory duty. If the mother’s Hajj were voluntary and the father’s were obligatory, we would say to start with the father’s obligatory Hajj, but both are obligatory, or rather, each is an obligatory duty, so start with the mother and do not incur a debt to appoint someone to perform Hajj on behalf of your father. If you are able next year, then perform Hajj on behalf of your father. And it is better for you to perform the Hajj yourself than to appoint someone else, because your sincerity toward your father is far greater than the sincerity of another person toward your father. For this reason, we say it is not permissible to incur a debt in order to appoint a proxy to perform Hajj on behalf of your father. Rather, perform Hajj on behalf of your mother this year as long as you are able, and next year, if you are able, perform Hajj on behalf of your father.
The Shaykh : We say: Perform Hajj on behalf of your mother first, because the mother has a greater right to kindness than the father, and both she and your father are under an obligatory duty. If the mother’s Hajj were voluntary and the father’s were obligatory, we would say to start with the father’s obligatory Hajj, but both are obligatory, or rather, each is an obligatory duty, so start with the mother and do not incur a debt to appoint someone to perform Hajj on behalf of your father. If you are able next year, then perform Hajj on behalf of your father. And it is better for you to perform the Hajj yourself than to appoint someone else, because your sincerity toward your father is far greater than the sincerity of another person toward your father. For this reason, we say it is not permissible to incur a debt in order to appoint a proxy to perform Hajj on behalf of your father. Rather, perform Hajj on behalf of your mother this year as long as you are able, and next year, if you are able, perform Hajj on behalf of your father.