The Effect of a Fall or Rise in the Value of the Rupee

Question

Several brothers hold jointly owned property left by their late father. All of these brothers, by mutual consent, made an agreement that from the income of this joint property each brother, one after another, would perform the obligatory (fard) Hajj once, since it was difficult to gather at one time a sum large enough for all of them to perform Hajj together. This agreement was made in 1963.

Answer

A fall in the value of the currency note does not have much effect within the country, but with regard to Hajj and the like it certainly does. Although the agreement that was made did not explicitly specify an amount, yet, because it was fixed officially, it was as if the amount was not specified at all; but it is also evident that the amount was not the primary aim in this…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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