What explains why obligatory Hajj does not recur every year merely because the House remains?
Causes of Legal Obligations: Time, Worship and Purification
- Hajj’s cause necessarily arises as an entirely new cause each year
- The duty is specified once in a lifetime; persistence of the cause does not multiply it
- The first Hajj turns every later Hajj into a make-up obligation
- One occurrence of ability necessarily produces an annual new duty