If a person goes to Makkah in the year in which he can...

If a person goes to Makkah in the year in which he can afford to perform Hajj but cannot reach 'Arafaat and Mash'arul Haram at the prescribed time, and cannot afford to go for Hajj during the succeeding years. Hajj is not obligatory on him. However, it he could afford to go for Hajj in the earlier years and did not go, he should perform Hajj although it may be hard for him. 2056.

If a person does not perform Hajj in the year, in which he can afford to go for Hajj, and cannot perform Hajj thereafter, owing to old age, or ailment, or weakness, and loses hope that in.future he will be able to perform Hajj in person, he should send someone else to perform Hajj on his behalf. Rather, even if he does not lose hope, the obligatory precaution is that he should hire a person, and in case he gains strength afterwards he should perform Hajj himself also.

And the position is the same if in a certain year, he acquires sufficient means to go for Hajj and cannot perform Hajj on account of old age, ailment or weakness and loses hope of gaining strength. In all these cases however a man should, on the basis of obligatory precaution, depute such a person as is going to perform Hajj for the first time. 2057. A person who has been hired by another person to perform Hajj should also perform Tawaf un Nisa on his behalf failing which his wife (i.e.

the wife of the hired person) becomes unlawful for him. 2058. If a person does not perform Tawaf un Nisa correctly, or forgets to perform it, and if he remembers it after a few days and returns from the way and performs it, his action is in order. And if his returning from the way is hard for him, he can depute another person to perform the tawaf on his behalf. Previous…