A senior Saudi scholar has warned against reserving pray space in the Grand Mosque as millions of Muslims perform Umrah.
Such a practice is an act of vanity and pride, Saleh Al Luhaidan, legal and scientific adviser to the International Society for Mental Health, was quoted as saying by Arab News.
Pilgrims also were not allowed to reserve their space by leaving a piece of “fancy carpet” or sending an employee or child to reserve the space, because it breached others’ rights, he said.
Officials had been employed specifically to confiscate such carpets and to ensure spaces were not reserved.
The rule dated back to the time of the Prophet (PBUH), whose companions did not do such behaviour, Al Luhaidan said.
More than 14 million pilgrims already have performed Umrah at the Grand Mosque in Makkah, Islam’s holiest city, according to local media.
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