5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

Imâm a’zam:
1 - To be a Muslim.
2 - For a person living in a country of disbelievers to hear (or
know) that the hajj is fard.
3 - To be discreet.
4 - To have reached the age of puberty.
5 - To be free; not to be a slave.
6 - In addition to the necessary livelihood, to have halâl
money sufficient for the round trip for hajj and also for the
subsistence of the household who will be left at home. The
prescribed necessary livelihood here is the same as that which
is prescribed for zakât. [Please see the first chapter!] He who
has harâm property is liable not for the hajj but for returning the
property to its rightful owner (or owners). A person who goes on
hajj with harâm property will escape the torment for not having
performed the hajj but will not attain the thawâb for hajj. It is
similar to performing namâz at a usurped place. Such people
should not be discouraged from worshipping. Sins do not debar
worships. A person who doubts whether his money is halâl
must, as written in The Fatwâ of Yahyâ Efendi, borrow money
from a person whose earnings are halâl, and spend it on the
hajj to attain the thawâb. And then he must pay his debt out of
his doubtful money. [Pious Muslims have followed this
procedure in defraying their needs.]
7 - For the time of hajj to have arrived. The time of hajj
consists of five days: the ’Arafa day, and the (four) days of ’Iyd.
The time spent on the way being taken into consideration, it
becomes fard for a person who has the conditions for
incumbency at the beginning of this time (for hajj) to go and
perform the hajj once in his lifetime. A person who is in Dâr-ul-
Islâm and who has property must know whether or not hajj is
fard for him when the time for hajj comes.
8 - Not to be too blind, too ill, too old, or too disabled to go
on hajj.
B - Conditions for performance are four:
1 - Not to be imprisoned or debarred.
2 - For the route to be taken for hajj and for the place of hajj
to be safe and without danger. The hajj is not fard when one is
compelled to go by dangerous means, by ship, train, bus or
plane. During years when highwaymen attack the hadjis’ lives
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