What is the ruling on staying in Makkah during the day and spending the night in Mina for the sake of luxury?
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The questioner : In the caravans, they rent a tent in Mina and a building in Makkah. So at night they stay in Mina, and during the day they return to the building in Makkah and stay there. This is luxury, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : I mean, it is luxury.
The Shaykh : Yes. Finish, it is over now. What is the question about?
The questioner : The question is about the ruling on their work?
The Shaykh : There is no doubt that their work, from the perspective of the principles of jurisprudence, is permissible. But in my view, these people have actually come for a leisure trip, because they did not follow the Sunnah as it came from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) stayed in Mina by day and by night, and Hajj is a struggle, not a luxury.
And I do not know how these people feel they are in worship and turning to Allah, and that they are continuing in Hajj, while they move to a house of comfort, and perhaps they have instruments of amusement with them, and then they return to Mina for part of the time. I do not know how they feel that they are in worship?
Therefore, Muslims should be alerted to this issue, in which many people have become engrossed. They took the rules of the jurists, or what the words of the jurists require, and they forgot that the issue is worship. It is worship that a person should perform as the Prophet (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) performed it.
How is it when he says:? Stay in your tent, even if it is hot, even if you get sweat, even if you get hardship and harm. He is in obedience to Allah.
And the issue is for the days of all Hajj, which does not exceed six days:
The eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth for those who delay. Six days.
And you come from your country, leaving your family and your wealth, and the dangers of travel, and you are unable to hold yourself back for six days, or five, or less than this, four days. So, by Allah, this saddens me greatly and pains me greatly.
And if some people issue a ruling based on what the words of the jurists require, then Hajj will thereafter turn into a leisure trip. So we ask Allah for guidance for us and for them. I see that the Hajj of these people is incomplete, without doubt, because they did not follow the Sunnah of staying in Mina by day and by night. Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : I mean, it is luxury.
The Shaykh : Yes. Finish, it is over now. What is the question about?
The questioner : The question is about the ruling on their work?
The Shaykh : There is no doubt that their work, from the perspective of the principles of jurisprudence, is permissible. But in my view, these people have actually come for a leisure trip, because they did not follow the Sunnah as it came from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) stayed in Mina by day and by night, and Hajj is a struggle, not a luxury.
And I do not know how these people feel they are in worship and turning to Allah, and that they are continuing in Hajj, while they move to a house of comfort, and perhaps they have instruments of amusement with them, and then they return to Mina for part of the time. I do not know how they feel that they are in worship?
Therefore, Muslims should be alerted to this issue, in which many people have become engrossed. They took the rules of the jurists, or what the words of the jurists require, and they forgot that the issue is worship. It is worship that a person should perform as the Prophet (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) performed it.
How is it when he says:
Take your rituals from me
خذوا عني مناسككمAnd the issue is for the days of all Hajj, which does not exceed six days:
The eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth for those who delay. Six days.
And you come from your country, leaving your family and your wealth, and the dangers of travel, and you are unable to hold yourself back for six days, or five, or less than this, four days. So, by Allah, this saddens me greatly and pains me greatly.
And if some people issue a ruling based on what the words of the jurists require, then Hajj will thereafter turn into a leisure trip. So we ask Allah for guidance for us and for them. I see that the Hajj of these people is incomplete, without doubt, because they did not follow the Sunnah of staying in Mina by day and by night. Yes.