If I left off an obligatory act out of dutifulness to my mother, is a sacrificial animal required of me?

The questioner : Heh... No, if Allah wills. If I left as a person of sound judgment, hoping for dutifulness to my mother, and I did not throw the stones, but I did stay the night, is a sacrificial animal required of me?

The Shaykh : I am telling you something now. Is this your obligatory Hajj?

The questioner : No, it is a voluntary one.

The Shaykh : What do you think? Why don't you not perform Hajj and go be dutiful to your mother?

The questioner : ... If Allah wills.

The Shaykh : So, dutifulness to your mother without Hajj.

The questioner : I would like, if Allah wills, to have both matters: the matter of Hajj and the matter of...

The Shaykh : What you like is what we advise you to do, but you want to twist and turn and rule for yourself that you have performed Hajj, as he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: to the end of the hadith. But despite that, you do not want to take his (peace and blessings be upon him) rituals as he taught you, with a Hajj of dutifulness to your mother. Yes, dutifulness to your mother without Hajj; no one would say to you, "Why didn't you perform Hajj?" But if you performed Hajj and did not come to a pillar, would this tell you that you did good?

The questioner : No, I did not.

The Shaykh : Would he say to you, "You did well"?

The questioner : I mean, perhaps there is some reward in the matter, if Allah wills.

The Shaykh : May Allah protect us.

The questioner : You left off an obligatory act; is an expiation required of you, or is it upon you?

The Shaykh : He needs to reach his goal, because he is planning for the double... according to the Shari'ah, it is not upon me. If I left off an obligatory act, am I pleased with Allah and His Messenger, or am I sinful? These are matters you do not know.

The questioner : If Allah wills, I am pleased and sinful, meaning I stood up for this, but my effort fell short, so the blood is required for my shortcoming in effort.

The Shaykh : Shortcoming means you are unable and it is not within your capability?

The questioner : I am capable and I am not capable. I am capable of waiting, but I am not capable because I am a traveler!

The Shaykh : You travel on the second Sunday.

The questioner : And I wait a full week?

The Shaykh : Yes, but you felt that you were doubled, didn't you? No? If you travel on the first day of the days of Tashreeq, ah.

The questioner : I travel on the second day.

The Shaykh : If you travel on the first day of the days of Tashreeq after you have thrown the stones, are you sinful or not?

The questioner : The Hajj is valid and the blood is upon me.

The Shaykh : Are you sinful or not?

The questioner : Sinful, sinful.

The Shaykh : Why are you bold here and say "sinful" not once, but "sinful, sinful," dividing it in half? Say "sinful" here and answer the next question with "sinful." If you travel on the second day before you throw the stones, are you sinful or not? You have become like the idol. Ibrahim (peace be upon him) said to them: ... .

The questioner : No, I am saying here, by Allah, the matter is... by Allah, I...

The Shaykh: May Allah guide you.

The questioner : First, I came with the night stay, and only the throwing remained, so I delegated it to someone, so there is nothing upon me, meaning.

The Shaykh : And this one who delegated on the first day and delegated what is in it, is there anything upon him?
One of the attendees: The night stay of the eighth. He did not stay.

The Shaykh : And delegate, and delegate.

The questioner : Delegate with the throwing? For the night stay, it is necessary; it is not valid without it.

The Shaykh : And delegate with the night stay.

The questioner : That is not valid.

The Shaykh : And delegate with the night stay? Then he will bring you a non-mahram who will delegate it, and he will stay the night for him too. ... O Shaykh, may Allah guide you, fear Allah in yourself and do not play with the rulings of the Shari'ah of your Prophet. ... So you are at ease; you do not perform Hajj in the first place, you enjoy all those days, no one will say to you, "Why didn't you perform Hajj?" But look, now you are with me when I show you a person who wants to throw the stones on the first day of the days of Tashreeq and wants to delegate. Is it not better for him not to perform Hajj? No one will say to him, "You are sinful," like a person who stands to pray a voluntary prayer but prays without purity, so he is sinful; he prays without tranquility, so he is sinful. But if he did not pray, no one would say to him, "Why didn't you pray?" This is like that. Meaning, a Muslim who commits to performing a worship, even if voluntary, must come to its obligations and pillars. Yes, and you admit that the throwing is obligatory, but delegated. Who told you to delegate when you are capable? Who?

The questioner : I am not saying that I delegated, meaning I did not say it so casually as they say.

The Shaykh : Meaning you want to delegate. I do not understand why you want to delegate? Meaning you think? And so you explain to me the first time, the second time, and the third time.

The questioner : The point in the matter is that some of the Imams say this, meaning, they say, as long as you stayed the night of the twelfth, which is the night permitted for hastening during the day, there is no harm upon you if you delegated the throwing, as long as you came with the night stay, because the night stay is the obligatory act and the throwing is, meaning, less than it, if Allah wills. As for those who say this, but what we hold is that it is obligatory if it is completed, but if it is delegated, if Allah wills, it is completed. Meaning, I came to all the pillars, and praise be to Allah, and the obligations, and I left only the throwing of the second day. Yes, I delegated.

The Shaykh : Fear Allah, fear Allah.

The questioner : May Allah make us among the righteous.

The Shaykh : If he left off the night stay, is his Hajj invalid?

The questioner : No, it is not invalid.

The Shaykh : If he left off the throwing, is his Hajj invalid?

The questioner : His Hajj is not invalid; no one says this.

The Shaykh : Okay, if he left off the night stay, his Hajj is not invalid. If he left off the throwing, his Hajj is not invalid. If he left off the night stay, his Hajj is not invalid with sin?

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : And if he left off the throwing, his Hajj is not invalid with sin.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : Look, when did you get this word?

The questioner : At the end.

The Shaykh: Allahu Akbar.