Pada dasarnya orang yang sudah memenuhi syarat-syarat untuk mengerjakan haji, wajib hukumnya menunaikan ibadah tersebut. Akan tetapi, bagaimana jika ia menunda ibadah hajinya?

Ada dua pendapat di kalangan para ulama tentang masalah ini. Pertama, haji wajib segera dilaksanakan apabila seseorang telah memiliki kemampuan untuk pergi ke Baitullah. Pendapat ini didukung oleh para ulama madzhab Hanafi, Maliki, dan Hanbali.

Pendapat kedua, haji wajib dilaksanakan dengan kelonggaran waktu. Artinya, meski seseorang sudah mampu menunaikan ibadah haji namun ia boleh melaksanakannya di lain kesempatan. Pendapat ini didukung oleh ulama madzhab Syafi’i, sebagian ulama madzhab Hanafi, dan sebagian ulama madzhab Maliki.

Terlepas dari dua pendapat yang berbeda di atas, haji tidak dapat ditunda-tunda jika ada hal-hal yang mengharuskannya segera dilaksanakan. Misalnya, karena nadzar, qadha’, kekhawatiran bahwa tahun-tahun berikutnya jatuh sakit atau meninggal dunia, maupun harta benda yang berkurang sehingga tidak cukup digunakan untuk membayar biaya haji.

Dalam kondisi-kondisi seperti itu, menunda pelaksanaan ibadah haji dilarang. Pada saat yang sama, jika syarat- syarat menunaikan haji sudah terpenuhi maka sunnah hukumnya segera melaksanakannya. Wallahu’alam

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BEIJING (AP) — The head of Taiwan's Nationalists reaffirmed the party's support for eventual unification with the mainland when he met Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping as part of continuing rapprochement between the former bitter enemies.

Nationalist Party Chairman Eric Chu, a likely presidential candidate next year, also affirmed Taiwan's desire to join the proposed Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank during the meeting in Beijing. China claims Taiwan as its own territory and doesn't want the island to join using a name that might imply it is an independent country.

Chu's comments during his meeting with Xi were carried live on Hong Kong-based broadcaster Phoenix Television.

The Nationalists were driven to Taiwan by Mao Zedong's Communists during the Chinese civil war in 1949, leading to decades of hostility between the sides. Chu, who took over as party leader in January, is the third Nationalist chairman to visit the mainland and the first since 2009.

Relations between the communist-ruled mainland and the self-governing democratic island of Taiwan began to warm in the 1990s, partly out of their common opposition to Taiwan's formal independence from China, a position advocated by the island's Democratic Progressive Party.

Despite increasingly close economic ties, the prospect of political unification has grown increasingly unpopular on Taiwan, especially with younger voters. Opposition to the Nationalists' pro-China policies was seen as a driver behind heavy local electoral defeats for the party last year that led to Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou resigning as party chairman.