IRREGULARITIES IN TAWAAF

IRREGULARITIES IN TAWAAF

If a pilgrim interrupts a Tawaaf in order to obtain the benefit of praying at the earliest time or join congregational prayers or perform the recommended prayers, then he must complete the Tawaaf from where he interrupted it after completing his prayers. As a matter of caution, he should repeat the Tawaaf after completing it if the interruption was in the course of an obligatory Tawaaf and occurred before completing the fourth round.

If during a Tawaaf an omission is made by inadvertence and the pilgrim becomes conscious of the impropriety before the sequence of continuity is broken and he has not left the area of Tawaaf, he should complete it and it will be valid.However, if he becomes conscious of it after the sequence is broken, then if he had forgotten to perform one round or two or three rounds, he should perform it or them, and the Tawaaf will be valid. If he cannot perform it personally even though he remembers after returning to his home, he may appoint an agent to perform it on his behalf. If he had forgotten more than three rounds, he should return and perform the missed ones but it is better that having done so, he should perform another full Tawaaf.