Q649 :If I travel in Jeddah for some personal
business and then perform Umrah after its netpletion, where do I enter
into the state of consecration?
A649 : If your journey is for some business which
may take you a day or two, and then you want to do the Umrah after you
have finished, you do not have to enter into the state of consecration,
i.e. Ihram, at the point of Meeqat. Indeed, your point of Meeqat is
Jeddah, because that is the place where you are at the end of your
business. I should point out that much of this question depends on
intention. Let me give you the other possibility. If a person in your
home town decides to do the Umrah, and then it occurs to him that he
has some business to do in Jeddah, then his case is totally different.
Although he wishes to go to Jeddah first in order to netplete his
business, he should enter into the state of consecration at the point
of Meeqat, i.e. Rabigh. The difference between the two situations is
the intention. In the first case, the trip to Jeddah is for business.
In the second, the whole trip is for Umrah. Therefore, in the second
case, every condition of the Umrah should be observed right from the
beginning. A pilgrim or a Muslim doing the Umrah must enter into the
state of consecration at the point of Meeqat. In the first case, the
trip to Jeddah is the original trip, and the intention is to do the
business there. The Umrah is incidental to the journey and, therefore,
it begins with entering into the state of consecration at the point of
Meeqat relevant to him. Since he is in Jeddah, then Jeddah is his
Meeqat.
Our Dialogue ( Source : Arab News – Jeddah )