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Taking money to perform Hajj on behalf of others for the purpose of making money

Question: 21698

What is the ruling on one who takes money in order to perform Hajj on behalf of others, and his only intention is to make money?.

Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah and his family.

This question was put to Shaykh Muhammad ibn ‘Uthaymeen (may
Allaah have mercy on him) and he said: 

The scholars say that if a person does Hajj for worldly
purposes and to make money, this is haraam. It is not permissible for him to
have any worldly gains when doing an action that is for the Hereafter,
because Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): 

“Whosoever desires the life of the world and its glitter,
to them We shall pay in full (the wages of) their deeds therein, and they
will have no diminution therein.

They are those for whom
there is nothing in the Hereafter but Fire, and vain are the deeds they did
therein. And of no effect is that which they used to do”

[Hood 11:15]

Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah said: Whoever does Hajj in order
to make money will have no share in the Hereafter, but if he takes money in
order to do Hajj or help him do Hajj, there is nothing wrong with that and
there is no sin on him. 

Hence one must avoid taking money for the former purpose,
because there is the fear that his Hajj will not be accepted from him and
that the Hajj of the person on whose behalf he is doing it will not be valid
either. In that case he has to return the money to the person who gave it to
him, because we say that his own Hajj is not valid and the Hajj of the
person who delegated him to perform Hajj on his behalf is also not valid.

 But a person may take money as a means to enable him to perform Hajj on behalf of another, and he should make his intention to do what the one who paid the money wants him to do, and to draw closer to Allaah by worshipping Him through the rituals of Hajj and at the House of Allaah.

Source

From Daleel al-Akhta’ allati yaqa’u fiha al-Haaj wa’l-Mu’tamir

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