The Shocking Fitnah of Intermingling in the Haram
A Brother from UK who had performed his Fardh Hajj explaining his observation, says: “My heart was grief-stricken by some of the disgusting abominations that I witnessed in the Haram Shareef. For example, the Saudi authorities issue a passport card with one’s photo to each pilgrim. They have made it compulsory to have it always on display by attaching it to a lanyard which one is meant to wear like a necklace.
Security guards are posted everywhere to ensure that no one enters the Haram Shareef without one’s Haraam photo on display. Countless Musallis are forced to have one’s photo on display while praying or performing the Hajj or Umrah rites. Most, however, don’t seem to see anything wrong with this. I was stopped several times as I tried to sneak into the Haram Shareef amongst the intense crowd without the Haram passport on display.
The ikhtilaat (mingling) between men and women in this most sacred of places is absolutely horrendous. Men and women brushing past each other physically is a common and unavoidable reality. In such a context, the reports of many women being aghast and surprised at some of their bodily protrusions being groped and fondled with is indicative of their Nuqs fil Aql (Intellectual deficiency as stated by Rasulullah – Sallallahu alayhi wasallam).
For those who still understand the horrendous degree of perversion involved in the severe ikhtilaat that has become commonplace at the Haram Shareef, it is a big proof and vindication for the Sahabah radhiyallahu anhum initiating the ban on women attending even the most sacred and spacious of Masjids.
The scope for Fitna is even greater in other sacred sites such as the camps of Mina. While in the intense crowds of the Haram Shareef the ikhtilaat is between ghayr mahram men and women who are unlikely to brush past each other again, in the Mina camps the same groups of men and women are forced to repeatedly brush past each other in the extremely narrow corridors in order to fulfil basic necessities such as going to the toilet and the canteen. It is not uncommon for ghayr mahram men in their ihraam and women in inadequate Hijaab chatting with each other within these narrow corridors. The entire design of the place is a clear recipe for disaster and Zina relationships being struck up.
The most shocking thing, though not surprising at all, regarding the above and many other abominations vividly apparent there is the absolutely deafening silence of the innumerable Ulama who go on Umrah and Hajj, many quite regularly, and who are able to directly witness and experience the flagrant Haraam transgressions of the Shariah on brazen display at the most holy of sites.”
(End of the Brother’s report – The Majlis Vol.27 No.10)