Some people consider the arrival tawaf to be obligatory and the farewell tawaf to be a recommended practice; should they be left as they believe, or is it necessary to clarify it to them?
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The questioner : May Allah reward you. Some people consider the arrival tawaf to be obligatory and the farewell tawaf to be a recommended practice; should they be left as they believe, or is it necessary to clarify it to them?
The Shaykh : By Allah, we see that if a person’s opinion is acceptable, then the truth must be clarified. But if it is not acceptable, then let people be left to their school of jurisprudence. Similarly, in the case of seeking a ruling, if a person asks you for a ruling and you know that his school is the Maliki school, for example, then you say to him, “Has anyone issued a ruling for you?” If he says, “Yes, they ruled for me that the farewell tawaf is a recommended practice and the arrival tawaf is obligatory,” then we leave him alone and do not oblige him with anything in which there is scholarly disagreement, especially since he has consulted a scholar whom he believes to be correct. As for what some muftis do when someone comes to ask them for a ruling and they say, “Come, what is your school?” If he says, “My school is, for example, the Hanafi school,” and they issue a ruling for him according to the Hanafi school, this is not permissible. But if a person has done something and said that he did it by following a specific school of jurisprudence, we leave him alone. Is that clear? Three.
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The Shaykh : Three. There is no connection, because if we said there is a connection, someone would come and say, “There is a connection here,” and we would say, “There is no connection,” and he would say, “Well, the connection is such and such,” and he would start philosophizing to us. Yes.
The Shaykh : By Allah, we see that if a person’s opinion is acceptable, then the truth must be clarified. But if it is not acceptable, then let people be left to their school of jurisprudence. Similarly, in the case of seeking a ruling, if a person asks you for a ruling and you know that his school is the Maliki school, for example, then you say to him, “Has anyone issued a ruling for you?” If he says, “Yes, they ruled for me that the farewell tawaf is a recommended practice and the arrival tawaf is obligatory,” then we leave him alone and do not oblige him with anything in which there is scholarly disagreement, especially since he has consulted a scholar whom he believes to be correct. As for what some muftis do when someone comes to ask them for a ruling and they say, “Come, what is your school?” If he says, “My school is, for example, the Hanafi school,” and they issue a ruling for him according to the Hanafi school, this is not permissible. But if a person has done something and said that he did it by following a specific school of jurisprudence, we leave him alone. Is that clear? Three.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : Three. There is no connection, because if we said there is a connection, someone would come and say, “There is a connection here,” and we would say, “There is no connection,” and he would say, “Well, the connection is such and such,” and he would start philosophizing to us. Yes.