Covering the head of a baby during umrah
Q: Does a 7 month old baby girl have to cover her head while doing umrah? If yes, is a cap fine? As a scarf wont be easy for her.
Hajj & Umrah
Performing hajj or umrah only after one's parents go
Q: For doing Umrah or Hajj is it obligatory that only after parents do Umrah or Hajj then only son or daughter can do?
Using one's children's investment money or taking an interest free loan to go for hajj
Q:
1. If I am planning to go for hajj and trying to gather funds, can I use the investments I made for my kids towards my hajj? Do I have to repay it when I get back?
2. Can family members (wife/mother) give me money for hajj as an interest free loan to be repaid as I see fit when I return?
Purdah touches one's face while in ihraam
Q: I am going for umrah next week insha-Allah. How much sadaqah do I have to give if the purdah touches my face? Is it okay to wear the normal purdah and later give sadaqah or does one have to wear the cap purdah?
Putting on the ihraam before passing the miqaat
Q: I am going for umrah next week insha-Allah. I am a female. I am going to Makkah first. Do I have to don the ihraam on the plane when they make the announcement that we are passing the miqaat or is it okay to reach Makkah and then go back to the miqaat and don the ihraam?
Passing the meeqaat with the intention of performing umrah without tying ihraam
Q: 3 weeks ago I came from Pakistan to Riyadh. Now I went from Riyadh to Jeddah to my brothers house but I didn't wear ihram and I didn't take any niyyat for Umrah. I was thinking that I will go for Umrah after 3-4 days. But now my father says that I have to give damm (penalty) because I supposed to go for Umrah first. I am in confusion about this issue.
Women travelling without a mahram according to the new law of the Saudi government
Q: Saudia Arabia has announced that women do not need a mahram for umrah or hajj. They can come by their own and perform umrah or hajj. How valid is this fatwa?
My sister has gone without mehram for umrah. There are 10 females and one male (the male is not a mahram for my sister). What is the validity of her umrah? She says that the Saudi government has given a fatwa so she can go without a mahram.
When she comes back, she is planning to go with my mother who is 75 years old without a mahram after 2 months. Only the 2 of them will be going. Can they go according to the new Saudi rule?
Umrah and hajj are now very expensive and spending money and going there just to know that they were not valid feels very sad.
Penalty for pulling out one's hair by mistake in ihraam
Q: What is the penalty for pulling out hair by mistake in ihraam?
Mahram accompanying a woman to the Haram Shareef
Q:
1.When going for Umrah, in light of it being makrooh for women to go to the Masjid, should a woman rather remain in her room for salaah (in Madinah Shareef as well)?
2. Usually men go to the Haram for salaah, tawaaaf, Rawdha, etc. and the women go by themselves in their own time. Is this OK or should the mahram accompany them?
Old person desiring to go for hajj again
Q: I have been for hajj in 1989 when I was 29 years old and wish to go again now that I am 63. In principle, is this encouraged or am I seen to be depriving someone else who has not been for hajj the opportunity of going for hajj?