If a person performs four circuits of tawaf, then interrupts the tawaf for the sake of prayer and the crowd, and then completes it afterwards after an interval of approximately (25 minutes)?
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The questioner : If a person performs four circuits of tawaf, then interrupts the tawaf for the sake of prayer and the crowd, and then completes it afterwards after an interval of twenty-five minutes, what is the ruling on this tawaf?
The Shaykh : This tawaf has been broken by the length of the interval.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Between its parts, because if he interrupts it for the sake of prayer, the duration will be short; the prayer does not take more than ten minutes, or a quarter of an hour, or something like that. But twenty-five minutes is a long interval that invalidates the building of some circuits upon others. Accordingly, let him repeat his tawaf so that it becomes valid, because tawaf is a single act of worship, so it is not possible to separate its parts and fragments such that some are disconnected from others by an amount of twenty-five minutes or more. Continuity between the circuits of tawaf is a condition, a condition that is necessary. However, some scholars granted a dispensation for something like what I mentioned.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : The funeral prayer, the obligatory prayer, fatigue, then he rests a little and then continues.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : And what is similar to that. Yes.
The questioner : Good, may Allah bless you. This listener, Abdul Aziz, says.
The Shaykh : This tawaf has been broken by the length of the interval.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Between its parts, because if he interrupts it for the sake of prayer, the duration will be short; the prayer does not take more than ten minutes, or a quarter of an hour, or something like that. But twenty-five minutes is a long interval that invalidates the building of some circuits upon others. Accordingly, let him repeat his tawaf so that it becomes valid, because tawaf is a single act of worship, so it is not possible to separate its parts and fragments such that some are disconnected from others by an amount of twenty-five minutes or more. Continuity between the circuits of tawaf is a condition, a condition that is necessary. However, some scholars granted a dispensation for something like what I mentioned.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : The funeral prayer, the obligatory prayer, fatigue, then he rests a little and then continues.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : And what is similar to that. Yes.
The questioner : Good, may Allah bless you. This listener, Abdul Aziz, says.