QUESTION: If I take my family like mother, sister, daughter or wife to makkah, can they do tawaf or umrah alone or is it compulsory for them to do it with the mahram.

Hajj and Umrah, Halal/Haram Matters, Mahram
25 Apr

ANSWER: No problem in doing it alone. What is not permissible for them is to travel to Makkah without a male mahram.

Read more

QUESTION: After how many days a person can become muqeem of jeddah to perform umrah from jeddah.

Hajj and Umrah
21 Mar

ANSWER: As long as he came with the intention of umrah and did not assume his Ihram from the meeqat, he needs to go back to the meeqat or slaughter a sheep in Makkah and distribute the meat over to the poor there.

Read more

QUESTION: Can you use someone’s wealth after they pass away to do hajj for them?

Hajj and Umrah, Inheritance
19 Mar

ANSWER: This is not permissible as the money now belongs to the heirs of the deceased.  If they all agree to take a portion of it to perform hajj if he did not perform his fard hajj, this is fine. 

Read more

QUESTION: According to the hadith umrah in ramadan is like doing hajj in reward.. so if someone does umrah in Ramadan on behalf of a deceased will the reward be the same as doing hajj?

Fasting and Ramadan, Hajj and Umrah
23 Feb

ANSWER: Yes

Read more

QUESTION: Nowadays we see people are wearing slippers in haram while performing umrah , I have sciatica problem and wear medicated slippers, shoes I’m planning to go for umrah pls guide me can I wear can’t walk bare foot. Even for others as well what’s ruling on this wear shoes in haram while performing.

Hajj and Umrah
30 Jan

ANSWER: No problem in that at all. 

Read more

QUESTION: My question is that can the parents go to Hajj even when there daughter is unmarried?I don’t know if these is just a big misconception or not.

Hajj and Umrah
30 Jan

ANSWER: No problem in this at all! There is no relationship between their unmarried daughter and them performing Hajj

Read more

QUESTION: I done umrah with my wife then I’m tired go to hotel for rest so can my wife go alone to do tawaf or umrah by her self

Hajj and Umrah
22 Jan

ANSWER: No problem 

Read more

QUESTION: I have seen people online walk from Makkah to Medina trying to follow the hijrah route. Is this an Innovation?

Hajj and Umrah, Innovations
17 Jan

ANSWER: Yes.

Read more

QUESTION: If someone is doing tawaf on wheelchair and is so sleepy during tawaf he suddenly, dozed off for few seconds and felt as if he had passed a wind, but he wasn’t sure he thought he had a dream for a second in which he passed wind when he dozed off briefly. He is still not sure either he passed it or not. Does his tawaf during Umrah valid?

Ablution (Wudhu), Hajj and Umrah
15 Jan

ANSWER: This has no impact on the Umrah  The most authentic opinion is that you don’t require wudu to do tawaf and sa’ee

Read more

QUESTION: I want to ask can a woman perform Hajj without Mehram? As if her father is dead,have no brother and she is divorced?

Hajj and Umrah
12 Jan

ANSWER: No, this is not permissible as she’s exempted from performing hajj due to not having a mahram to accompany her. 

Read more