Fatwas Archive

Question: In these recent years, a pilgrim does not find a place in Minā to spend the night, and if he intends to sit, the soldiers make him get up; they do not permit spending the night in Minā except...

Question: Today Minā has become constricted because of the camps and roads, and the security personnel in Minā prevent pilgrims from sitting in the streets and thoroughfares and expel them outside Minā on the pretext that the muftis there have...

Question: If the Saudi state announces that the Day of ʿArafah is a given day, and some pilgrims hesitate regarding the correctness of that announcement and suspect that the Day of ʿArafah is the next day, and this hesitant person...

Question: What is the clarification of the time for standing at ʿArafah?

Question: If a pilgrim omitted audible recitation (al-jahr) in the two rakʿahs of Ṭawāf out of ignorance of its obligation, or out of forgetfulness, and only remembered that after the Days of Tashrīq had passed, or after he returned to...

Question: A man performed ṭawāf of the House, and when he passed by the Ḥijr he put his hand on the structure surrounding it, unaware of what the jurists of the madhhab say—that this invalidates the ṭawāf. He only learned...

Question: A man performed ṭawāf for ʿumrah, then did the saʿy and shaved. Some time later he remembered that, at the time of ṭawāf, he did not have ritual purity. What is the ruling?

Question: The scholars say in the chapter of iḥrām that for movement of what is dormant a sheep is due. Is that required every time such movement occurs?

Question: The scholars of the madhhab have said that for movement of what is dormant a sheep is due for the muḥrim; and often this movement occurs during iḥrām—especially with the young. How, then, do you speak about that?

Question: A young man in the prime of his youth, of full build and sound body, performed ḥajj, and during his iḥrām involuntary arousal occurred frequently, without any deliberate cause on his part for that arousal. What is required of...