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Adding to the common mistakes we have mentioned
before about circumambulating the Ka`bah, we’d like to draw
people’s attention to some other mistakes that are committed in
Farewell Circumambulation (Tawaf) around the Ka`bah:
1- Some pilgrims leave Mina on the Day of Nafr
(12th or 13th of Dhul-Hijjah) to perform Farewell Tawaf around the
Ka`bah and then return back to Mina to throw the pebbles (part of
Hajj rituals) and then go back home therefrom. Hence stoning would
be the last thing pilgrims do before departing the Sacred Land
, not Tawaf. So Farewell Tawaf should be the last Hajj ritual to
be performed by pilgrims before leaving.
2- Some pilgrims get out of the Sacred Mosque with
their faces turned towards the Ka`bah, thinking that doing so they
are glorifying it. Yet this is a sheer innovative act in Islam.
3- After finishing Farewell Tawaf, some pilgrims
turn towards the Ka`bah while getting out of the doors of the
Sacred Mosque reciting some prayers as if bidding farewell to it.
Yet this is a baseless act in Islam.
4- Some pilgrims neglect performing Farewell Tawaf
just out of laziness. However, if a woman was in her menstrual or
postnatal period, and had performed Tawaf al-Ifadah, then she is
exempted from performing Farewell Tawaf.
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