—namely, the same ruling as the people of the region from which he set out.

Repeating ʿUmrah within a short interval

Question: After I have entered iḥrām to perform an ʿumrah and completed it, I would like to perform another ʿumrah on behalf of my father and yet another on behalf of my uncle. Would it be enough merely to perform ṭawāf and saʿy for each of them while remaining in the original iḥrām I assumed at the miqāt for myself, or must I return to the miqāt and enter a new state of iḥrām for each ʿumrah?

Answer: First, repeating ʿumrah in such a short span of time is, at best, questionable and ill-suited; some scholars have disapproved of it outright, so the matter is one of legitimate scholarly disagreement.

If a Muslim performs one ʿumrah on his own behalf and, during his ṭawāf, saʿy, and the rest of his stay in the Sacred Mosque, earnestly prays for his parents and relatives, that is sufficient—God willing—and we hope they will receive the benefit of his devotion and kindness.

However, if he does as the questioner proposes—first performing an ʿumrah for himself, then one for his mother, and so on—there is no sin in it, though it is contrary to what is preferable. Should he choose to do so, each ʿumrah requires a separate iḥrām. He must leave the Ḥaram and go to the area outside the sanctuary (al-ḥill)—to Tanʿīm, or to ʿArafāt, or to al-Jiʿrāna—beyond the boundary markers, and there enter iḥrām for the ʿumrah. If he wishes to undertake yet another ʿumrah, he must go out a second time, and a third, and so on. One must exit the Ḥaram to assume iḥrām for every single ʿumrah; several ʿumrahs cannot share a single iḥrām, as the questioner suggested.