5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

command him to come back. In Ukûd-ud Duriyya, it is written,
“Although it is permissible for a poor person who has not
performed his duty yet to perform hajj instead of someone else,
when he arrives in Hil, it will become fard for him also to
perform hajj. In this case he will have to stay in Mekka and to
perform his own hajj the next year. On the other hand, due to
his staying and not returning home, after the previous hajj, the
dead person’s hajj will remain incomplete. If the deputy is told to
do whatever he wishes, then the deputy may also delegate
someone else.” [If he finds a deputy in Mekka he performs his
own hajj also in the same year]. A hadji’s going on hajj as a
deputy (for someone else) is better than his going on hajj once
more for himself.
If a poor person goes on supererogatory hajj, when he
reaches Mîqât he becomes like a Meccan and it becomes fard
for him to make the hajj walking, and therefore he must make
his niyyat to perform the fard. If he makes niyya (intends) to
make supererogatory hajj, it becomes necessary for him to
make hajj again. But the case is not so with a deputy who is
poor. For, he has reached there, and will go back, with
someone else’s power. If a deputy, (that is, a person appointed
by a rich person to make hajj on behalf of the rich person), has
not made hajj for himself, he must stay in Mekka and one year
later make the hajj for himself, too. The thawâb for a rich
person’s hajj is greater than the thawâb for a poor one’s. If the
poor person dies of hunger or exhaustion on his way to hajj, he
becomes sinful. Going on hajj is makrûh for a poor person who
will be in need and will have to ask for help from others on the
way. A deputy who has been given a choice can give the
money to another person and send him instead, regardless of
whether or not he becomes ill on the way. But he cannot send
another person if he has not been given permission. A hadji
who dies before standing on Arafât does not have to command
in his last will that his hajj should be made, if his going on hajj
and dying happen in the same year when the hajj becomes fard
for him. But if he goes on hajj a few years after (the hajj became
fard for him), it will be wâjib for him to command in his last will
that a deputy should be sent from his own city. A deputy may as
well be sent from the place he has appointed or from any place
whence it is possible to send one with the money he has
allotted. Words used in a will must be chosen with care.
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