Al-Hajj Al-Mabroor

When the Imam at the Ka‘bah says, ‘Adjust your rows,’ it does not
mean that rows should be straight, even if the pillars hid the
Ka‘bah. At the Ka‘bah we not only offer Prayers while turning to the
Ka‘bah but we must see the Ka‘bah itself before us. People think that
adjusting the rows there means the straightness of the rows, which
is incorrect, because the Ka‘bah is the determining factor of your
direction in the way that allows you to see the Ka‘bah. Straightness
of rows here should be observed at the side borders of the Ka‘bah,
if you are offering Prayers at the Ka‘bah. But if you are offering
Prayers without seeing the Ka‘bah, it is enough to just turn to it.
In Hajj there is what we call, ‘Needless adherence to acts
unobserved in Hajj,’ so what is that? When we recite the Qur’anic
verse in which The Truth, all praise and glory be to Him, says
(what means):
“And take you (people) the Maqâm (place) of Ibrâhim
(Abraham) [or the stone on which Ibrâhim (Abraham) stood
while he was building the Ka'bah] as a place of prayer (for some
of your prayers, e.g. two Rak'at after the Tawâf of the Ka'bah at
Makkah).” (Al-Baqarah, 2: 125)
We find that these words seem to bear a command, whereas the
actual purport is the opposite, as they convey an allowance. The
Qur’anic verse does not mean that solely the Maqâm (Station) of
Ibrâhîm (Abraham, peace be upon him) [The step-stone used by
Prophet Ibrâhîm during the original construction of the Ka‘bah. The
stone carries the imprints of his feet, and is housed in a glass enclosure
on the north side of the Ka‘bah] is the place of offering Prayers in the
Ka‘bah. But the Station of Ibrâhîm came between the Ka‘bah and
some prayers, who refrained from offering Prayers behind the
Station of Ibrâhîm because it separated them from the Ka‘bah.
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