the acceptance of his supplication; for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “By the One in whose hand is my soul, you must certainly command what is right and forbid what is wrong, or Allah will soon send upon you a punishment from Him; then you will call upon Him and He will not answer you.” (1)

25 – He must keep away from every act of disobedience: he should harm no one with either his tongue or his hand; he must not shove or jostle the pilgrims and those performing ʿumrah in a way that hurts them; he is not to spread malicious gossip or fall into backbiting; he should discuss matters with his companions and others only in the most courteous manner; he must not lie, nor speak about Allah without knowledge, and he must abandon every other form of sin and wrongdoing. Allah the Exalted says: “The pilgrimage is during well-known months; whoever undertakes the pilgrimage therein must abstain from sexual talk, from sin, and from arguing during the pilgrimage.” (2) And He says: “Those who harm believing men and believing women without their having earned it have surely shouldered a slander and a manifest sin.” (3) Sins committed within the Sacred Precinct are not the same as sins committed elsewhere,