A person moving from the more meritorious to the less meritorious, even if the more meritorious is obligatory, is not blameworthy if they are of the same type.

The Shaykh : This is that a person moving from the more meritorious to the less meritorious, even if the more meritorious is obligatory, is not blameworthy if he moves to one of the same type. For this reason, if a person enters the state of ihram for an individual Hajj, and then sees the crowds and the intensity of the Hajj, and converts it to an Umrah to exit the state of ihram, is this permissible or not? It is not permissible, because this is a stratagem to invalidate the ritual he was prescribed to perform, not to move to something better than it. For this reason, the jurists (may Allah have mercy on them) qualified this issue by saying: It is recommended for one performing Qiran or Ifrad to make it... an Umrah so that they become those performing Tamattu'. With this qualification, they become those performing Tamattu'. However, if he converts it to an Umrah to perform Tawaf and Sa'y, and shave or cut his hair, and then return to his family, this is not permissible. Thus, converting Qiran and Ifrad to Tamattu' is from completing the Hajj and Umrah, because the man moved from the more meritorious to the more excellent. Yes.