What is your guidance regarding the laxity of many people in many of the rites of Hajj and their failure to ask the scholars, even though the scholars are present?
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The questioner : Shaykh, many people are lax in these rites and do not, I mean, they do not ask the scholars, even though the scholars are present, praise be to Allah. What is your guidance in this matter?
The Shaykh : My guidance in this is that it is obligatory for a person not to perform a worship, especially Hajj, which does not occur except rarely in a person's life, until he knows what is obligatory in this worship and what is prohibited in it. He should also know what is recommended in it and what is disliked. As for walking without guidance, this is a great danger. If a person wanted to travel to a country, he would not travel until he knew the way. So how is it with the journey to the Hereafter? How can he take the risk and walk on a path of which he knows nothing? Then, some people remain for a period after performing the worship and then ask afterwards. This may be excused in the sense that it did not occur to him that he had erred in it. Then, through the talk of people and discussions, it becomes clear to him that he made a mistake, so he asks. We give an example of this: many people are unaware that when a man has intercourse with his wife, it is obligatory for him to perform the full ritual bath, even if he does not ejaculate. You find that he has cohabited with his family for a long time in this manner without performing the full ritual bath. Then, after two or three years, he asks. This is a great danger, because this is the most emphasized pillar of Islam after the testimonies of faith.
Therefore, we say, and although this was not mentioned in the question, that when a man ejaculates semen for pleasure, it is obligatory for him to perform the full ritual bath, whether through intercourse or otherwise, even through thinking. And when he has intercourse, it is obligatory for him to perform the full ritual bath, whether he ejaculates or not.
Therefore, we advise our brothers that when they intend to perform a worship, they should learn it before they perform it. And if it is decreed that they performed it without asking and then erred in it, let them hasten to ask so that their consciences are clear and so that they meet Allah, Mighty and Majestic, while they are not being held accountable for anything of what Allah has made obligatory upon them. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh : My guidance in this is that it is obligatory for a person not to perform a worship, especially Hajj, which does not occur except rarely in a person's life, until he knows what is obligatory in this worship and what is prohibited in it. He should also know what is recommended in it and what is disliked. As for walking without guidance, this is a great danger. If a person wanted to travel to a country, he would not travel until he knew the way. So how is it with the journey to the Hereafter? How can he take the risk and walk on a path of which he knows nothing? Then, some people remain for a period after performing the worship and then ask afterwards. This may be excused in the sense that it did not occur to him that he had erred in it. Then, through the talk of people and discussions, it becomes clear to him that he made a mistake, so he asks. We give an example of this: many people are unaware that when a man has intercourse with his wife, it is obligatory for him to perform the full ritual bath, even if he does not ejaculate. You find that he has cohabited with his family for a long time in this manner without performing the full ritual bath. Then, after two or three years, he asks. This is a great danger, because this is the most emphasized pillar of Islam after the testimonies of faith.
Therefore, we say, and although this was not mentioned in the question, that when a man ejaculates semen for pleasure, it is obligatory for him to perform the full ritual bath, whether through intercourse or otherwise, even through thinking. And when he has intercourse, it is obligatory for him to perform the full ritual bath, whether he ejaculates or not.
Therefore, we advise our brothers that when they intend to perform a worship, they should learn it before they perform it. And if it is decreed that they performed it without asking and then erred in it, let them hasten to ask so that their consciences are clear and so that they meet Allah, Mighty and Majestic, while they are not being held accountable for anything of what Allah has made obligatory upon them. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you.