I did not do tawaaf al-ifaadah, because I thought that the first tawaaf was sufficient. What should I do?.
Praise be to Allaah.
Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen said:
Tawaaf al-ifaadah is one of the pillars (essential parts) of
Hajj without which Hajj is not complete. If a person does not do it, then
his Hajj is not complete, and he has to do it, so he has to go back – even
from his own country – and do tawaaf al-ifaadah. In this situation, so long
as he has not done tawaaf al-ifaadah, it is not permissible for him to be
intimate with his wife, because he has not fully exited ihraam, because one
does not fully exit ihraam (the second stage of exiting ihraam) until after
doing tawaaf al-ifaadah and saa’i, if he was doing Hajj tamattu’ or
qiraan and he did not do saa’i along with the tawaaf of arrival
(tawaaf al-qudoom).
