Hajj and ‘Umrah

[1] Safety for one’s person and property from predators and enemies, whether the latter be non-Muslims or highway robbers, even when the amount is inconsiderable including hajj fees.

[2] To be able to pay for the provision and transportation for the journey, with money one has that is in excess of the amount one requires to support and cloth the members of one’s family. This applies to one who is travelling there and back, and while obtaining lodgings for oneself, and that is in excess of any money one owes for debts, even those not yet due. It is also a condition that one have sufficient time to travel to Makkah al-Mukarramah means that one can reach Makkah and having sufficient time to perform all the rituals of hajj.

[3] On the 10th Dhul hijjah, one enters Makkah and performs tawaf al-Ifadah, which is an integral without which the hajj remains unfinished (meaning that, it may not be compensated for by merely slaughtering, though the time it may be performed is anytime thereafter).

[4] Seven times, one begins at safa and ends at Marwah.

[5] The best way for men is to shave the entire head, though one may confine oneself by removing, by any means, three hairs thereof from the head, not something such as the beard or moustache, or may merely shorten it, for which the optimal is to clip a little less than two centimetres from all the hair. As for women, it is optimal for them to shorten their hair in the latter way, it being makruh (offensive) for a woman to shave her head.

[6] Arkan (integrals) and wajib (requisites) are synonyms except in this chapter, the integral means that hajj will not exist except with it, and the requisite means the dam (expiation) becomes compulsory by leaving it.

[7] When the sun sets on 9 Dhul hijjah, those on hajj go forth to Muzdalifah occupied with dhikr and talbiyah proceeding with tranquillity and dignity, and they join the Maghrib and ‘Isha’ at Muzdalifah.

[8] Ayyam al-tashriq – 11, 12, 13 of Dhul hijjah.

[9] When finished with the tawaf al-Ifadah and going between safa and Marwah, [doing the latter if one had not yet previously performed it after the Tawaf qudum (arrival circumambulation)], one is obliged to return to Mina to stay overnight there and to stone on the days following the ‘Eid (Ayyam al-Tashriq). It is desirable to arrive before noon to perform the Zuhr prayer there as the Prophet did, and to spend the night there. One picks up twenty-one pebbles from Mina on the days after the ‘Eid, taking care to shun the three places of stoning.