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Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
Dear sister in Islam, thanks a lot for your question and your apparent fear of contradicting Allah’s laws. May Allah enlighten our hearts with the light of Islam!
First of all, it should be clear that a pilgrim has to follow the guidance of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) when offering Hajj or `Umrah, for it’s the Prophet’s command for Muslims to take their rituals from him. Violations should be avoided as much as possible.
In his well-known book, Fiqh As-Sunnah, the late Sheikh Sayyed Sabiq states:
“For Sa`i to be valid and acceptable, it must meet the following conditions:
1- It should be performed after Tawaf (circumambulation of the Ka`bah).
2- It must be performed in seven rounds.
3- It must begin from Safa and end at Marwah.
4- It must be performed in Al-Mas`a, the path between Safa and Marwah, because the Prophet (peace be and blessings upon him) did so, and moreover he explicitly told us: "Take your (religious) rites from me." Therefore, a Sa`i performed without performing Tawaf prior to it, or one that starts from Marwah and ends at Safa, or is performed in a place other than the specified area, is void. [However,] the Hanafi school holds that Sa`i after Tawaf and starting it at Safa and ending it at Marwah are two essential conditions for the validity of Hajj. Thus if someone makes a Sa`i before making Tawaf, or starts his Sa`i at Marwah and ends it at Safa, his Sa`i is valid, but he is required to slaughter an animal.”
Based on the above facts, it becomes clear that Sa`i that starts at Marwah and ends at Safa is void according to some scholars, while others say that it’s valid but requires the slaughter of an animal. A Muslim is highly recommended to follow the suit of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) so as to achieve success in this world and the world to come.
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