Q. "It
is commonly heard that if one performs Umrah once, then performing Hajj
becomes mandatory (Wajib) for him. Please clarify this point.
(Yousuf
Ghani, Karachi)
A. This is not correct. Merely performing Umrah does not make Hajj
mandatory. But if a person who did not perform Hajj before he reaches
Makkah for any reason in the month of Shawwal or anytime thereafter before
the 10th of Zilhijjah and he has resources to stay there upto the days
of Hajj, only in that case it becomes obligatory on him to perform Hajj
either
that very year or in any subsequent year.
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