The Grand Mosque in Mecca received ten million pilgrims and worshipers during the first ten days of the holy month of Ramadan, and the number will increase in the middle of it to reach its peak during the last ten days, amid great preparations to provide the best services and double efforts to facilitate the pilgrims and visitors to the Sacred House, especially after the great facilities taken by the state, may God preserve it. To obtain a visa to come to the Holy Land.
However, the geography of the place prevents an increase in the area that accommodates the huge numbers flowing around the clock, and here we must stop for a while and reflect on the meaning and purpose of Umrah.
First, the people of Makkah do not perform Umrah, whether they are pilgrims or non-pilgrims, during Ramadan or at other times. The Umrah in the language is to live in a place empty of people, so the people coming to this area is a way of rebuilding and multiplying them, and this is what Abraham called upon his Lord (so make the hearts of the people yearn towards them), so his Lord responded to him by saying: (and proclaim to the people the pilgrimage, they will come to you on men) so it became Mecca is full of pilgrims.
However, the days of Hajj are limited, and the pilgrims return to their countries, so loneliness and lack of people return. Hence the Umrah, and its ruling is desirable for horizons far from Makkah and it is disliked to do it in the months of Hajj, because people are present for the Hajj, so whoever wants to perform the Umrah must make it in months other than the Hajj months so that Makkah will be full throughout the year. Therefore, the intention to perform tamattu’ during the pilgrimage is better than the Qur’an and ifrad, because the pilgrim doing tamattu’ included the Umrah in the pilgrimage, and thus there is an opportunity to perform it in months other than the pilgrimage months. Thus, Makkah is not cut off from the large number of people throughout the year. And Omar, during his caliphate, did not encourage people to perform Umrah during the Hajj, in order to encourage them to perform it at other times, so that Makkah would not be cut off from the large number of people in it.
Likewise, the people of Makkah are originally the ones who build the house, because they live in it, residing throughout the year. Ibn Abbas said: The people of Makkah do not have to perform an Umrah, and when they leave Makkah to enter into the state of Ihram for the Umrah, it is an undesirable act because it contradicts the work of the Messenger and his honorable companions, and if this work was correct, Ibn Abbas would have done it while he was the resident. In Mecca with other companions. And no knowledge was conveyed to us that they did it, let alone its recurrence, just as the Prophet did not perform Umrah from Makkah, neither from Al-Hudaybah, nor from Al-Ja’ranah, nor from Al-Tan’im, and all of his four years of life were in it coming to Makkah and not leaving it to Al-Hal. Ibn Taymiyyah emphasized that frequent and frequent Umrah is hated by the agreement of the predecessors, and Ibn Uthaymeen chose this saying.
Secondly, some believe that the hadith of the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, “Umrah in Ramadan is equivalent to Hajj with me” means the necessity of performing Umrah in this month. Al-Madinah is for Hajj and Umrah, and it is for Hajj only, so she cried, so the Messenger ordered her brother, Abd al-Rahman, to take her out to Al-Tan’im to perform Umrah, and he told her this saying of his to sweeten her mind.
And in a narration by Ibn Abbas that the Messenger of God said to a woman from the Ansar, “What prevented you from going on pilgrimage with us?” She said: “We had nothing but two camels. Ramadan, so perform 'Umrah, for 'Umrah in it is equivalent to performing Hajj with me. And in a third narration that some women missed Hajj with the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, so when he came, I asked him what would suffice from that Hajj, he said: (Perform Umrah in Ramadan, for Umrah in Ramadan is equal to Hajj with me).
Some scholars, including Saeed bin Jubair, confirmed that it is a hadith specific to the woman who asked or to Mrs. Aisha, and it is not permissible for anyone else, and it is a troubled hadith, which undermines its validity.
Therefore, it is the duty of the honorable scholars to explain this to the people in order to preserve their lives, as they did previously when the extremists were standing with their microphones in Mina preventing people from throwing the Jamaraat before noon with loudspeakers shouting that stoning before noon is not permissible, although it is a controversial issue, and because of these calls the pilgrims were crowding before noon Then thousands set off to be stoned in the midst of death and the cohesion of bodies. When the tragedy occurred, the fatwa changed and they permitted stoning before noon.
Repeating the Umrah in Ramadan leads to overcrowding, harassing those coming from outside the Kingdom, and dispersing efforts, which leads to destruction, and it is prohibited by Sharia.
Najeeb Yamani