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Sister Sajita emails that she was planning to go for hedge,

but now the government has announced that the hedge has been cancelled,

and so she had saved up some money is she sinful in taking

that money and using it for her other expenses given the fact that she is

saying their situation is not as financially strong as it was because of the COVID crisis.

And also we have Brother Taha emailing asking my opinion about is this something permissible is it allowed to stop people for coming for hedge so

this question will be about the hedge

regulations that have come

and the fichy issue is pertaining to that. K

I'll Allah Rijalan no he I'll a him

fas alu al-Ahah al-A-Lahdikri

in kuntumlata. I'll start with the second question first regarding whether it is permissible or not in the end.

I'll start with the second question first regarding whether it is it is permissible or not in the end of the day we have to deal with what we are given I'm not in charge of this decision it is the Ministry of Hajj and the Ministry of Health that has decided this and I am sympathetic to it overall I

understand that it is not the wisest at this stage to have millions of people from

across the globe come together.

The question of whether this has ever occurred in the past or not, well, it is true that

in Islamic history, there have been a number of times where the Hajj has been severely impeded.

For example, in the year 317 Hijra, there was an internal revolt, a fanatical sect called the Karamitra, the karamations the karamitah.

They were a very extreme fringe sect that were on the esoteric branches of Islam and they

had very bizarre beliefs that they were not

considered mainstream Muslims and they attacked the kabah during Hajj in the year

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