Performing Hajj on behalf of someone who draws nearer to Jinn
Question:
“My mother is 85 years old. She says that her late mother asked her to perform Hajj on her behalf. However, her mother was one of those who used to slaughter animals as a means to draw closer to the Jinn (creatures created from fire), believing that by so doing one is protected from their evil; otherwise, they shall harm the person. All this is the result of her absolute ignorance of religious matters. Is it permissible for my mother to carry out this will? Is it permissible for her to supplicate to Allah to be merciful to my grandmother given the aforementioned situation?”
Answer:
“If the reality is as you mentioned, that your grandmother died persisting in slaughtering sacrifices to other than Allah, she is thereby a Mushrik (one who associates others with Allah in His Divinity or worship) and it is not permissible to perform Hajj on her behalf, make Du‘a’ (supplications) to Allah for her, nor seek His Forgiveness for her, as Allah (Exalted be He) says (what means):
{It is not (proper) for the Prophet and those who believe to ask Allâh’s Forgiveness for the Mushrikûn (polytheists, idolaters, pagans, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allâh), even though they be of kin, after it has become clear to them that they are the dwellers of the Fire (because they died in a state of disbelief).} [Surah at-Tawbah 9:113]
May Allah grant us success. May peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and Companions.”
Permanent Committee for Scholarly Research and Ifta'
Shaykh 'Abdul-'Azeez bin Baaz
Shaykh 'Abdul-'Azeez Aal ash-Shaykh
Shaykh Saalih Al-Fawzaan
Shaykh Bakr Abu Zayd
Source: www.alifta.net - Fatwa no. 20076
“My mother is 85 years old. She says that her late mother asked her to perform Hajj on her behalf. However, her mother was one of those who used to slaughter animals as a means to draw closer to the Jinn (creatures created from fire), believing that by so doing one is protected from their evil; otherwise, they shall harm the person. All this is the result of her absolute ignorance of religious matters. Is it permissible for my mother to carry out this will? Is it permissible for her to supplicate to Allah to be merciful to my grandmother given the aforementioned situation?”
Answer:
“If the reality is as you mentioned, that your grandmother died persisting in slaughtering sacrifices to other than Allah, she is thereby a Mushrik (one who associates others with Allah in His Divinity or worship) and it is not permissible to perform Hajj on her behalf, make Du‘a’ (supplications) to Allah for her, nor seek His Forgiveness for her, as Allah (Exalted be He) says (what means):
{It is not (proper) for the Prophet and those who believe to ask Allâh’s Forgiveness for the Mushrikûn (polytheists, idolaters, pagans, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allâh), even though they be of kin, after it has become clear to them that they are the dwellers of the Fire (because they died in a state of disbelief).} [Surah at-Tawbah 9:113]
May Allah grant us success. May peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and Companions.”
Permanent Committee for Scholarly Research and Ifta'
Shaykh 'Abdul-'Azeez bin Baaz
Shaykh 'Abdul-'Azeez Aal ash-Shaykh
Shaykh Saalih Al-Fawzaan
Shaykh Bakr Abu Zayd
Source: www.alifta.net - Fatwa no. 20076