Due to business loss, my husband owes very big amount of debt to banks & relative, it will take him many years to pay back, can we go for Hajj or Umrah at this stage?
Praise
be to Allaah.
One of the conditions of Hajj is that one should be able
to do it, which includes being financially able. Whoever owes a debt
and is being asked to repay it in the sense that his creditors will
not let him go for Hajj until after he has paid off the debt should
not go for Hajj, because he is not able to. But if they are not asking
him to repay and he knows that they don’t mind, then he may go for Hajj
and his Hajj will be valid. It is also permissible to go for Hajj if
there is no set time limit for repayment of the debt and he is allowed
to repay when it is easy for him. Hajj may be a good thing that may
lead to his paying off the debt. And Allaah knows best.
See Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah, 11/46; Fataawa Islamiyyah, 2/190.