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بسم الله والحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول
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الله وعلى أهله وصحبه أتماعين Inshallah continuing with
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our study of the meaning of the book
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of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala تفسير القرآن Inshallah
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today we're going to be Studying ayah number
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158 of surah al-baqarah.
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So as always I'll begin with the recitation
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of the verse and then share a Translation
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of the verse and then Allah will go
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into further discussion about the meaning of the
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ayah أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم Indeed safa
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and marwa
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are
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from the signs of Allah whosoever performs hajj
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or performs umrah then there is no sin
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upon them for them to walk between the
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two of them and Whoever does an act
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of righteousness out of goodness, then indeed Allah
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is Appreciating of his servants and Allah subhanahu
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wa'ta'ala is all-knowing and all-knowledgeable
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In the previous ayat One of the areas
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of the study of the Quran is التناسب
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المناسبة To understand how the different topics are
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related to one another how we go from
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one subject to another Previously in the beginning
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of the second juz here in surah al
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-baqarah Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala spoke about the
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turning of the qiblah The changing of the
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direction of prayer From al-masjid al-aqsa
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that when the Muslims arrived in al-madinah
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al-munawwara initially for the first 16 months
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the qiblah the direction of the prayer was
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al-masjid al-aqsa and Then after about
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16 months almost a year and a half
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into their residence in the city of Medina
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Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala revealed the verses of
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surah al-baqarah that we went over a
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little while ago in which Allah subhanahu wa'ta
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'ala changed the direction of the prayer of
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their qiblah to al-masjid al-haram the
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sacred house of worship in Makkah al-mukarramah
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and So Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala spoke about
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those ayats that now the qiblah is al
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-masjid al-haram It is the Kaaba.
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It is al-masjid al-haram in Makkah
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Now here in these verses Allah is speaking
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about Safa and Marwah Right and the sa
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'i we're gonna talk more about that But
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the action that we know as a sa
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'i yubayn al-safa wal-marwah the walking
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between the mountains of Safa and Marwah So
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we understand obviously the connection there that Allah
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subhanahu wa'ta'ala is talking about Safa and
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Marwah being the sacred Landmarks there in Makkah
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that are neighboring and adjacent to al-masjid
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al-haram I know when we go now,
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it's one giant complex So it feels like
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it's all one complex but obviously you can
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appreciate and understand even when you go there
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you have the Kaaba you have the area
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of the Tawaf right around The Kaaba and
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back in the day that used to be
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the extent of the masjid So Safa and
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Marwah are off to the side, but nonetheless
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it is still neighboring to there So talking
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about Safa and Marwah after talking about the
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fact that the direction of the prayer now
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is al-masjid al-haram in Makkah you
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understand the Continuity there you understand how it
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segues from that topic to the next However,
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what's more?
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Interesting is that the verses right before this
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verse Talking about sa'i walking between Safa
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and Marwah the verses that we covered in
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the last two sessions Those verses were to
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quickly refresh our memory Ya ayyuhalladheena amanusta'ainu
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bis-sabri was-salah innallaha ma'as-sabireen.
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O ye who believe, seek the help of
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Allah through patience and prayer.
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Indeed Allah is with the patient wa la
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taqoolu liman yuqtalu fee sabi lillahi amwat bal
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-ahya'un walakin la tash'uroon.
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Do not say in regards to those who
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were killed in the way of Allah that
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they are simply dead Rather they are ever
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living.
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You just don't understand and realize wa la
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nabluwannakum bishay'in min al-khawf wal-ju
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'a wa naqasim min al-amwali wal-anfusi
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wal-thamarat And indeed Allah says that we
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shall test you in different ways with elements
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of fear and starvation Loss of property, loss
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of life, and loss of fruits or as
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we talked about young children wa bashir as
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-sabireen.
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And give good news, glad tidings to those
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who practice patience alladhina idha asabatun musibah qaloo
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inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'oon They
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are those people that when they are afflicted
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with a calamity They say to Allah do
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we belong and to him will we return
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ula'ika alayhim salawatun min rabbihim wa rahma
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Those are the people that the special blessings
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of Allah are showered upon them wa rahma,
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in the mercy of Allah showers upon them
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wa ula'ika hum al-muhtadoon And those
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are the people that are rightly guided So
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we talked about this subject.
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We talked about difficulty, test, hardship, starvation, fear
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All of this and Allah talking about be
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patient, be patient, be patient And now it's
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saying, well Safa and Marwah are sacred landmarks
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And so if you go for Hajj or
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Umrah, you walk between them What's the connection
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there?
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And one of the connections that some of
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the Mufassirun, the scholars of Tafsir, they mention
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is that obviously when you go for Hajj
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and Umrah, there is an element of difficulty
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within that We might not feel it as
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much today, we still end up feeling it
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at some level But think about in times
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past, in generations past, at the time of
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the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam Think about
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how long and arduous the journey would be
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When we read about, for instance, in the
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biographies of different classical scholars When they would
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go for Hajj, it would be like they
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would turn it into a 4 or 5
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year journey Because it would take them 2,
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3, 4, 5, 6 months just to get
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there on foot And then they would perform
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the Hajj and then it would take another
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6 months to get back They'd be gone
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for like a whole year I remember even
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speaking to my grandmother Who was telling me
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that my grandfather and her went for Hajj
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on a boat On a ship, from India
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And so they said that it was like
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a 6 month long journey, we were just
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gone for 6 months So you can imagine,
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there was difficulty So Allah subhanahu wa ta
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'ala talking about performing Hajj and Umrah After
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talking about difficulty and patience makes sense And
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that is an interesting connection But there's something
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really profound that Imam al-Razi mentions Imam
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al-Razi, in his tafsir, he mentions that
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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is talking about
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all of these difficulties and these adversities And
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being patient And then Allah subhanahu wa ta
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'ala mentions safa and marwa And walking between
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the two of them And the connection there
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is the origin story The origin story of
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that action Of walking between safa and marwa
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That that is a practical demonstration of what
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it looks like to maintain your faith And
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to be patient in the face of near
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death Of starvation, of thirst Of watching, the
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fear of watching your child die That that's
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the practical manifestation of it And that origin
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story, of course, as we know The Prophet
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salallahu alayhi wa sallam mentions it in an
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authentic narration An authentic hadith of Sahih Bukhari
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That Abdullah ibn Abbas radiallahu ta'ala narrates
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From the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam That
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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala commanded Ibrahim alayhi
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salam To leave his wife and his child
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Our mother Hajar salamun alayha And her child,
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their son Ismail alayhi salam In an uninhabited
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valley In an uninhabited valley, nothing grew there
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If nothing grows there, then nothing lives there
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And Allah commanded Ibrahim alayhi salam to leave
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them there So Ibrahim, and it's a very
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There's another narration in Bukhari that's very beautiful
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That when Ibrahim alayhi salam leaves him there
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And he's walking away That Hajar, she asks
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Ibrahim alayhi salam Has Allah commanded you to
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do this?
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And Ibrahim alayhi salam confirms, I guess it's
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the command of Allah She then responds by
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saying Then indeed Allah shall not forsake us
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Allah will not abandon us Allah will not
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forsake us And so the narration goes on
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to say Once he had left them there
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That he had left with them A little
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bag of dates And a water skin That's
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what they used to keep water in And
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there was some water within that Once the
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water ran out, she was thirsty The baby
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was crying, was hungry and thirsty That she
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looked at her child And the child was
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starting to roll around And starting to moan
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and groan from the pangs of hunger and
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from the thirst She just could not stand
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there and just watch him Slowly die in
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front of him So she said, what do
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I do?
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So she saw that this small mountain was
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nearby So she went and she climbed up
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on it The mountain of Safa And she
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stood there And she looked out at the
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valley She didn't see anyone, she's looking around
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Maybe I see someone, maybe I see something
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She didn't see anything And then she saw
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that there was another mountain in the distance
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So she came down from that mountain And
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she ran to the other mountain And she
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climbed up on that mountain Which was the
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mountain of Marwa And she stood on top
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of it Looking out once again Can she
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see anyone or anything?
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When she saw nothing Then she got back
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down off of Marwa And ran to the
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other mountain And it might not even seem
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like that makes sense She's already been on
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that mountain But understand, this is a mother
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Watching her child slowly Withering away From hunger
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and starvation And thirst And The hadith of
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the Prophet ﷺ says She went between the
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mountains seven times And then Abdullah bin Abbas
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says That at that point the Prophet ﷺ
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Telling the story, he said This is why
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we do sa'i between them She heard
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a sound So she said, where was that
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sound?
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She kind of panicked And then she listened
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carefully And
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then finally She heard a voice saying to
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her That help has been sent to you
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And then there was an angel That was
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there at the place Where the well of
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Zamzam is And the narration mentions That then
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He kind of Found it with his heel
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He kind of dug at it Or kicked
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at it with his heel And that's where
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there's a difference of opinion Whether it was
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the angel Or it was the baby Ismail
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But nonetheless At the place where the heel
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was Where the heel struck the ground Whether
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it was the angel or the baby Ismail
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The water started to shoot out of there
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And then she was able to drink that
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water And she was able to then nurse
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her child And that is the story Of
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the well of Zamzam And of course we
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know from the other narrations Imam al-Qurtubi
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mentions That she started to put some rocks
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around it And she started telling it Zamzam,
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Zamzam, Zamzam, Zamzam Like stop, stop And that's
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when the well kind of became The water
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slowed down a little bit And it became
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contained And it became a well And what
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happened because of that water Now that water
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was there Now animals started attracting birds And
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animals and things like that And meanwhile you
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had the refugees People who were fleeing flood
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and starvation And destitution from Yemen Who were
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in that area And when they saw the
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birds circling They realized and recognized that there
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must be a sign That there's water there
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And they arrived there and they asked her
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May we approach And she said yes They
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said can we settle here She said yes
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with one condition She said well actually a
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couple of conditions She said number one that
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this is a sacred place And you must
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respect this place Number two she said that
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this water You will not take ownership of
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it This belongs to no one This is
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a gift from Allah This is a miracle
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And that those people they settled there And
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Ismail Grew up amongst those people And that
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became the original people That settled in Mecca
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and these are the ancestors Of the prophet
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So that's the origin story So Allah is
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after Talking about sacrifice and talking About test
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and trial Ibrahim being commanded by Allah To
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leave his family But being patient Being resilient
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Hajar and Ismail Being told to stay there
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And be patient, be resilient This is a
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demonstration Of that resilience and then The bigger
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point that Imam Razi mentions is What a
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profound mercy Of Allah and blessing of Allah
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Was showered upon them That we're benefiting from
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their blessing till today And the billions upon
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billions Upon billions of people that have visited
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there And worshipped Allah there And have drank
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from the well of Zamzam That the origin
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story Of all of that, the beginning of
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all of that Was with this profound sacrifice
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Made by this family That's the reward of
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sacrifice So Now The sabab al-nuzul of
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this ayah Meaning that The circumstances in which
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this Verse was revealed upon the Prophet Sallallahu
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alayhi wa sallam Is spoken about once again
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In the hadith of Sahih Bukhari That There's
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many narrations But a shorter narration It mentions
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from Anas ibn Malik R.A. That Anas
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R.A. was asked about Safa and Marwa
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In this ayah and he said كنا نرى
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أنهما من أمر الجاهلية We We did not
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feel comfortable Initially when we went there To
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perform Umrah because Safa And Marwa we Considered
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them to be practices Of shirk فلما جاء
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الإسلام أمسكنا عنهما So when we When we
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became Muslim and then When we went there
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we were apprehensive About walking between Safa and
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Marwa Performing the sa'i That action, an
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emulation Of our mother Hajar salamun alayha Of
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walking between them We were apprehensive of that
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And the reason for that is that Pre
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-Islamically The mushrikun, the people there In Mecca
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who Were idol worshippers when they had gone
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astray After Ibrahim alayhi salam They had placed
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an idol upon Safa نائل And then they
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had placed Another idol on Marwa إساف And
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they would walk between the two mountains As
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a form of Veneration And worship Of those
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idols And so the Muslims of Mecca They
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Had always grown up seeing that And many
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of them maybe had even participated In that
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And the Muslims of Medina They had heard
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about it and some of them When they
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would have the opportunity to be able to
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go There during the quote unquote Season of
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Hajj They used to see it And it
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was something they were aware of That this
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is a form of worship To these false
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gods, to these idols Now Islam came to
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them The Muslims of Mecca That had become
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Muslim, many of them For a long time
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now Then they made the hijrah to Madina
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The Muslims of Medina The people of Medina
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had come into Islam And six years Had
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passed Living in Medina And after six years
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The Prophet ﷺ announced the intention To go
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and perform Umrah They traveled 1400 Muslims with
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the Prophet ﷺ traveled They were stopped and
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locked Outside of Mecca at the place of
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Hudaybiyyah And the Meccans did not allow them
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to enter But they were able to enter
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into a peace Treaty The Treaty of Hudaybiyyah
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Part of the treaty And the agreement was
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that they would come back The Muslims would
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come back the following year And they would
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have Permission to stay in Mecca For three
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days and perform Umrah And Tawaf and worship
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So now when they came back in the
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seventh year To perform this Umrah They arrived
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there And Mecca is still under the control
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Of the Quraysh, the idol worshippers But this
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is part of the peace Treaty So the
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Muslims are there and The Meccans In order
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to annoy and bother the Muslims Out of
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spite It's as if they had put up
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even more idols Around the Kaaba And so
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this was a very Uncomfortable practice Right, they're
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worshipping They're following the Prophet ﷺ But there's
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idols everywhere So you can imagine how uncomfortable
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it is And when they arrived there To
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do Sa'id Walking between Safa and Marwa
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They see these Giant hideous idols Sitting there
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on the mountains And they just kind of
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froze up a little bit They became very
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apprehensive أَمْسَكْنَا عَنْهُمَا And so Allah ﷻ revealed
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the verse إِنَّ الصَّفَاءُ وَالْمَرْوَةَ مِنْ شَعَائِرِ اللَّهِ
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Allah revealed this verse And as we read
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in the translation That these are sacred landmarks
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that belong to Allah They do not belong
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to these idol worshippers They definitely don't belong
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To those idols But rather they belong to
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Allah And so you worship Allah And To
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talk a little bit about There's a lot
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of very And we'll go into further detail
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here But there's a lot of very Interesting
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vocabulary within this Particular verse The word Safa
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Of course Is the root word That refers
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to something Being very clean or very clear
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And so In classical Arabic the etymology Of
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the word It would refer to Like a
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very clean, shiny, smooth rock Right And it's
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possible That that was a description of what
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the mountain Looked like back in the day
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That it was a mountain that was a
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little bit Had more smooth or shinier rock
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And so they called it Safa The second
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Mountain Al Marwa Marwa in the Arabic language
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It refers also to A rock or a
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stone But potentially one That is either It
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would refer to a rock or a stone
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That was Small Smaller rocks Not big boulders
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But a smaller hill That has like Smaller
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pebbles and rocks Number one.
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Number two is it also refers to Something
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that is a bit Softer.
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Obviously it's still a mountain That's made of
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rocks.
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It's not like it's soft But by Virtue
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of it not having giant boulders But it
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having smaller rocks They called it that it
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was softer Because you can move the rocks
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around It was more malleable So they called
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it Marwa And There's also Some other narrations
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that mention That when Adam alayhi salam And
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his wife Hawa Were sent down upon the
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earth And then they made their Tawba That
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they were reunited At the place of Safa
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and Marwa And so Safa because that's where
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Adam alayhi salam arrived Marwa is where Hawa
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arrived and so that's why I received those
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names but these are all Different different narrations
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and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala knows best
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There's even really bizarre You know there was
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a bizarre Folklore that surrounded Safa and Marwa
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That these were two people Who had committed
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a major sin At the Kaaba and so
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as a punishment God turned them to stone
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Which obviously is nonsense But These were the
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names given to these mountains And they were
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placed there So Some more of the vocabulary
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Very interesting vocabulary within this particular verse Is
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The word Right It refers to These are
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landmarks Of the religion of Allah And the
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word Is plural of the word The word
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means An indication a sign that's why I
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keep translating it as a landmark Okay A
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landmark And why is it called a landmark?
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Because obviously these are places of The worship
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of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Furthermore It's
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also mentioned that these are places Where we
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worship Allah Where we obey Allah And that's
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exactly why also The places where the hajj
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is performed The valley of Mina Arafat, Muzdalifah
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Those are also called Sha'air al-hajj
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Or al-mash'ar al-haram The mash
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'air That comes from the same word And
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this word is used other places in the
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Quran as well Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
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says وَالْبُدْنَ جَعَلْنَاهَا لَكُم مِّن شَعَائِرِ اللَّهِ When
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people go for hajj And they take the
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animals for sacrifice The animals that are offered
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For sacrifice are also called Sha'air Allah
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That this is also a sign of the
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obedience of Allah Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
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says وَذَلِكَ وَمَن يُعَظِّمْ شَعَائِرَ اللَّهِ فَإِنَّهَا مِن
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تَقْوَى الْقُلُوبِ That respecting Honoring The places of
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the worship of Allah This is from the
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piety of the hearts And that's why Many
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different actions Many different places Whatever is involved
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in the worship of Allah Is considered a
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sha'air It's from the sha'air Allah
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That's why the masajid Places of worship are
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from the sha'air Allah And that's why
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we have this sense Of respecting the houses
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of Allah Respecting the masajid The adhan, the
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call to prayer Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar Proclaiming
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the greatness of Allah That is also From
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the sha'air That is also a sign
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of You know the worship and the obedience
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Of Allah and that's why we respect the
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adhan When the adhan is called we should
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not Speak over it or talk over it
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We should be quiet and silent And respond
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to the adhan Right, so that's This word
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sha'air Similarly A couple of more words
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that are very interesting Within this ayah This
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ayah is loaded with a lot of this
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kind of Religious terminology Hajj and awia tamara
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Right, so this is one of the first
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times In the Quran that we see the
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word Hajj and we see the word For
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umrah The word hajj in the Arabic language
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Linguistically It refers to al-qasd To make
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an intention, a firm intention And it's called
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that because When you set out from your
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home to perform hajj Then you have the
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intention to worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
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The word umrah means to Visit Because when
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you perform umrah you are visiting The sacred
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house of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala In
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Mecca Similarly, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala In
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this particular verse he mentions the word And
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The word Now Typically we understand walking around
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The Kaaba in a circle Circumambulation Right, that
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that is called But here we're walking between
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And that's also called Because Linguistically in its
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origin The etymology of the word is It's
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any kind of repetitive Ritualistic act It's repetitive
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Behavior that is done With the intent to
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worship So walking from safa to marwa Then
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from marwa back to safa Then from safa
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to marwa You see the repetitive nature of
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it And it's being done as an act
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of worship And an act of devotion And
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then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala also mentions
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The word here, al-tatawwa Al-tatawwa also
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means To submit yourself to Allah To be
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obedient to Allah To offer worship for the
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sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala So
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Now Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala As we
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were talking about previously That when the Muslims
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Arrived To perform the umrah In the seventh
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year of hijrah They were very anxious And
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uncomfortable with Performing the sa'i because of
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these idols So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
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Revealed the verse saying These are from the
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sacred landmarks of Allah And people polluting them
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Selling them Denigrating them Even if it is
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with symbols Of shirk and idolatry And disbelief
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in Allah That does not take away from
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the sacredness of the place So we understand
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that We understand that For those who've had
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the Blessing and the opportunity To visit al
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-Masjid al-Aqsa Bayt al-Maqdis May Allah
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subhanahu wa ta'ala grant freedom To Masjid
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al-Aqsa and Bayt al-Maqdis and the
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Muslims of Palestine Those who've had the Opportunity
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to visit there One of the very interesting
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parts Of the history that you see That
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you experience, that you interact with When you
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go there, when you go to al-Aqsa
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al-Qadeem When you go underground They actually
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show you the old pillars Of the old
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part of the masjid And there are these
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holes In these giant stone pillars And they
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explain That the reason why there are These
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holes made into these pillars Is that while
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the Crusaders, the Christians When they had come
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and they had Taken over Masjid al-Aqsa
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And massacred and murdered the Muslims And taken
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over Masjid al-Aqsa They had turned Masjid
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Qibli Masjid al-Aqsa They had turned it
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into A stable And they had tied their
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horses And so they made these holes in
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the pillars To put the hooks into Where
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they could tie their horses And their animals
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So they desecrated it But that did not
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take away its sacredness That did not take
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away Its sacredness And so when the Muslims
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were able to Free Masjid al-Aqsa Salah
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al-Din Ayubi and the Muslims were able
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to free it They cleaned it up and
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they Immediately returned to the worship of Allah
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subhanahu wa ta'ala.
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There we are not deterred By somebody else
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Polluting it in any way and so this
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is A very powerful reminder from Allah subhanahu
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wa ta'ala That wherever We worship Allah
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is a sacred Landmark and we are not
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deterred by Anyone else's polluting Or denigrating or
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Vandalizing of that place فَمَنْ حَجَّ الْبَيْتَ وِعَتَمَرَ
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فَلَا جُنَاحَ عَلَيْهِمْ يَطَوَّفَ بِهِمَا فَلَا جُنَاحَ عَلَيْهِمْ
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يَطَوَّفَ بِهِمَا They have to walk between Safa
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and Marwa They have to perform the Sa
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'i Now there's obviously the Fiqh of this
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And the Fiqh, the legal Technical ruling that
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comes from this Is that it is an
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Obligatory act Right, that when a person goes
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for Hajj And Umrah that they have to
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perform The Sa'i, they do Tawaf and
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they perform The Sa'i In order to
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be released from the restrictions Of the Ihram
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Alright, so this comes to us From this
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particular ruling and also from the Demonstration of
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the Prophet ﷺ There's a very nuanced And
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interesting Point here And it's a little bit
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On the technical side It's a little bit
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on what I like to Endearingly call the
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nerdy side But bear with me The language
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Of the verse If you translate it very
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literally It's saying somebody who goes for Hajj
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or Umrah There's no sin There's no problem
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if they walk Between Safa and Marwa Now
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when I say that in English It's okay
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There's no problem if you walk between Safa
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and Marwa That makes it sound like the
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Ruling of doing Sa'i is Optional It
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makes it sound optional There's no problem You
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can do it Saying you can do it
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Doesn't sound like I'm saying You must perform
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it Right, you see the difference So When
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some of the younger companions Or not even
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the Companions, excuse me When some of the
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Tabi'oon Like Urwa ibn Zubayr And some
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of the Tabi'oon The next generation of
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Muslims The younger ones When they read this
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verse There's an interaction with our mother Aisha
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Siddiqa That Urwa Her nephew He said to
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her That فَمَا أَرَى عَلَىٰ أَحَدٍ شَيْئًا أَلَّا
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يَطُوفَ بِهِمَا So he said to his Aunt,
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our mother Aisha radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu who
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was also his teacher He said that, oh
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okay So there's no problem if someone chooses
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00:31:28
Not to do Sa'i So Aisha radiyaAllahu
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00:31:30
ta'ala anhu said بِعْسَ مَا قُلْتَيْ ابْنَ
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00:31:32
أُخْتِي He said no, she said no you're
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00:31:36
wrong And she said that No, you are
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00:31:39
not understanding The meaning of the verse He
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00:31:41
said wait, but the language of the verse
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00:31:43
is saying There's no problem if They do
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00:31:46
Tawaf, which means they can They're allowed to
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00:31:49
That also means it's okay if you don't
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00:31:51
And she said no, you have to understand
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00:31:55
The context You have to understand When it
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was revealed, why it was revealed How it
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00:32:00
was revealed, upon whom it was revealed What
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the circumstances were What was going on It's
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00:32:06
called the سَبَابُ النُّزُول The circumstances of revelation
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00:32:10
And she explained This verse was revealed at
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00:32:13
a time When Muslims arrived there And they
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00:32:16
knew they had to do Sa'i But
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00:32:19
they felt anxious And apprehensive about doing it
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00:32:22
Because they saw the idols And they thought
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00:32:24
it would be sinful for them Because it
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00:32:27
would look like They were worshipping idols And
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00:32:29
so Allah said no, no, no It's okay
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00:32:32
for you to do it Meaning you'll be
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00:32:35
performing proper worship Ignore the idols So why
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00:32:37
am I mentioning this It's a technical kind
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00:32:40
of point I'm mentioning this because There's a
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00:32:42
very important lesson A valuable lesson that we
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00:32:45
can take from this story Or this narration
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00:32:48
The story that we take from this is
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00:32:50
That when we talk about the understanding of
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00:32:54
the Quran The Quran Is of course the
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00:32:57
speech of Allah It is guidance from Allah
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00:33:02
But the Quran is Very nuanced The study
00:33:02 -->
00:33:05
of the Quran The tafsir of the Quran
00:33:06 -->
00:33:09
Extrapolating rules And regulations from the Quran Is
00:33:09 -->
00:33:14
a very nuanced Intricate detailed science And you
00:33:14 -->
00:33:16
can't just Look at the words and be
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00:33:18
like Okay this is what I'm getting from
00:33:18 -->
00:33:21
it There's a lot more that goes into
00:33:21 -->
00:33:23
it You have to understand the nuances Of
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00:33:25
the Arabic language You have to understand the
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00:33:27
context In which it was revealed You have
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00:33:28
to look at the life and the actions
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00:33:32
And the sayings of the Prophet Surrounding it
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00:33:34
And then you're able to extrapolate something from
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00:33:38
it And so it's a little You even
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00:33:40
see this great tabi' This great student of
00:33:40 -->
00:33:44
Aisha R.A Coming to the incorrect conclusion
00:33:44 -->
00:33:48
And then his teacher Who happened to be
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00:33:52
our mother Aisha Siddiqa R.A Correcting him
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00:33:54
And so it's a humbling reminder Of the
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00:33:56
fact that when we talk about The Quran
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00:33:58
and the study of the Quran And the
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00:34:00
meaning of the Quran That there's a lot
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00:34:02
of depth there And that we should get
00:34:02 -->
00:34:04
that knowledge from the proper places And the
00:34:04 -->
00:34:07
proper channels There's a whole course of study
00:34:07 -->
00:34:11
And if we haven't been able to Fulfill
00:34:11 -->
00:34:15
that course of study yet Then Then we
00:34:15 -->
00:34:18
go to the people Who have that knowledge
00:34:18 -->
00:34:20
And have that course of study So that
00:34:20 -->
00:34:23
we don't arrive at the incorrect Conclusion So
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00:34:26
that's a very important and valuable Lesson that
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00:34:32
comes from this And then Allah says And
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00:34:40
whoever Worships Allah Out of goodness Sincerity Devotion
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00:34:43
And there's actually two meanings that we can
00:34:43 -->
00:34:47
take From Number one is The first meaning
00:34:47 -->
00:34:51
of it is It means that whoever Worships
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00:34:58
Allah Whoever worships Allah Sincerely And with the
00:34:58 -->
00:35:03
correct procedure That Allah will appreciate that person's
00:35:03 -->
00:35:06
efforts And Allah knows and documents That person's
00:35:06 -->
00:35:09
good deeds So the first lesson we take
00:35:09 -->
00:35:12
from this Is we worship Allah That's fine
00:35:13 -->
00:35:15
But we always struggle with this And we
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00:35:18
talked about it previously as well That we
00:35:18 -->
00:35:20
have to find a way To make the
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00:35:23
ritual spiritual We have to make the mundane
00:35:23 -->
00:35:26
Meaningful We have to find a way to
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00:35:31
be sincere And to perform it properly But
00:35:31 -->
00:35:34
we should be very cautious And we should
00:35:34 -->
00:35:37
be alert That at no point do we
00:35:37 -->
00:35:40
Allow ourselves to just simply Be going through
00:35:40 -->
00:35:45
the motions That's a danger to ourselves Spiritually
00:35:45 -->
00:35:48
And every single time we catch ourselves That
00:35:48 -->
00:35:49
we're starting to just go through the motions
00:35:49 -->
00:35:55
Allahu Akbar Or when we go there And
00:35:55 -->
00:35:57
we're performing Umrah And we're just kind of
00:35:57 -->
00:36:00
like walking Thinking about how much our feet
00:36:00 -->
00:36:03
hurt And we take out our phone And
00:36:03 -->
00:36:06
we're catching up on WhatsApp messages And we're
00:36:06 -->
00:36:09
just walking We're not just walking in the
00:36:09 -->
00:36:13
park We're walking at the most Sacred place
00:36:13 -->
00:36:16
on earth Performing a great Act of worship
00:36:16 -->
00:36:19
that our Messenger of Allah Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu
00:36:19 -->
00:36:22
Alaihi Wasallam performed Walking in his footsteps And
00:36:22 -->
00:36:28
so We need to be more mindful And
00:36:28 -->
00:36:32
that's why Allah is saying Worship Allah But
00:36:32 -->
00:36:35
do it in a good way Be sincere
00:36:35 -->
00:36:38
Follow the proper procedure And also what's about
00:36:38 -->
00:36:41
the proper procedure Think about how much we
00:36:41 -->
00:36:44
prepare We're planning a vacation How much do
00:36:44 -->
00:36:50
we research Right How many different Instagram posts
00:36:50 -->
00:36:53
do we like Save and bookmark I gotta
00:36:53 -->
00:36:55
go here, I gotta go there Gotta drink
00:36:55 -->
00:36:58
coffee here, drink coffee there Think about that
00:36:59 -->
00:37:02
We put so much preparation If you can
00:37:02 -->
00:37:05
call it that So much preparation Into something
00:37:05 -->
00:37:10
that is actually mundane And meaningless Okay When
00:37:10 -->
00:37:13
we're going for Umrah When we're going for
00:37:13 -->
00:37:17
Hajj We should put work into it Work
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00:37:19
into it SubhanAllah just this past weekend I
00:37:19 -->
00:37:22
was visiting a community There's a group of
00:37:22 -->
00:37:26
families there Who go and perform Umrah together
00:37:26 -->
00:37:29
Every single year Last year when we were
00:37:29 -->
00:37:31
there at Umrah We were there at the
00:37:31 -->
00:37:32
same time And I had a chance to
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00:37:33
kind of visit with them for a little
00:37:33 -->
00:37:38
bit And they start They have a whole
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00:37:40
course that they complete A two month long
00:37:40 -->
00:37:44
course They have weekly sessions They have study
00:37:44 -->
00:37:48
material They have recordings That they have to
00:37:48 -->
00:37:50
listen to That's how I came into contact
00:37:50 -->
00:37:52
with them They reached out because they utilize
00:37:52 -->
00:37:56
some of our Podcasts And they go through
00:37:56 -->
00:37:59
a whole two month Course of study And
00:37:59 -->
00:38:02
then they go and they perform Umrah And
00:38:02 -->
00:38:04
they say it changes their life every single
00:38:04 -->
00:38:07
time As opposed to just kind of Jumping
00:38:07 -->
00:38:08
on a plane and getting there And being
00:38:08 -->
00:38:10
like okay what do I do Now let
00:38:10 -->
00:38:12
me download an app and try to figure
00:38:12 -->
00:38:21
this out So Sincerely Properly Prepared Knowledgeable As
00:38:21 -->
00:38:24
much as we can be And the second
00:38:24 -->
00:38:29
meaning of وَمَن تَطَوَّعَ خَيْرًا Is actually really
00:38:29 -->
00:38:33
Really beautiful Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala The
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00:38:37
word خَيْرًا The word خَيْر in the Quran
00:38:37 -->
00:38:42
Is used In the meaning of money We
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00:38:44
know خَيْر Means good but Allah has used
00:38:44 -->
00:38:46
the word خَيْر In the meaning of money
00:38:46 -->
00:38:48
in the Quran Multiple places Allah subhanahu wa
00:38:48 -->
00:38:52
ta'ala says وَإِنَّهُ لِحُبِّ الْخَيْرِ لَشَدِيدٌ The
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00:38:56
human being Loves his money Allah says وَإِن
00:38:56 -->
00:39:01
تَرَكَ خَيْرًا الْبَقِيَةُ لِلْوَالِدَيْنِ وَلَا قَرَبِينَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ That
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00:39:03
if somebody Dies and they leave money behind
00:39:03 -->
00:39:07
It passes on to their family Inheritance, estate
00:39:07 -->
00:39:10
Alright So the word خَيْر in the Quran
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00:39:13
Multiple places is used in the meaning of
00:39:13 -->
00:39:18
money Allah says وَمَن تَطَوَّعَ خَيْرًا امام الرازي
00:39:18 -->
00:39:21
رحمه الله He says that This is a
00:39:21 -->
00:39:23
very Powerful point that Allah makes in this
00:39:23 -->
00:39:26
verse That the best thing you Can spend
00:39:26 -->
00:39:29
your money on Is Hajj and Umrah The
00:39:30 -->
00:39:32
best thing you can spend your money on
00:39:32 -->
00:39:36
is Hajj and Umrah وَمَن تَطَوَّعَ خَيْرًا So
00:39:36 -->
00:39:37
whoever is willing to spend their money On
00:39:37 -->
00:39:40
that, now that does not justify The price
00:39:40 -->
00:39:44
gouging and the Overcharging and the You know
00:39:44 -->
00:39:47
profiteering Off of people's ibadah But they're going
00:39:47 -->
00:39:50
to have to answer to Allah If somebody
00:39:50 -->
00:39:52
is truly profiteering They're going to have to
00:39:52 -->
00:39:56
answer Allah But that Should not deter me
00:39:56 -->
00:39:58
I won't talk about nobody else That should
00:39:58 -->
00:40:01
not deter me from going for Hajj or
00:40:01 -->
00:40:05
Umrah Because that is the best investment That
00:40:05 -->
00:40:07
I can make with my money Is to
00:40:07 -->
00:40:09
go and to worship Allah subhanahu wa ta
00:40:09 -->
00:40:11
'ala To go and find a more deeper
00:40:11 -->
00:40:13
Meaningful connection with Allah And the Prophet ﷺ
00:40:13 -->
00:40:15
and the Quran and Islam My deen over
00:40:15 -->
00:40:19
there So وَمَن تَطَوَّعَ خَيْرًا And then Allah
00:40:19 -->
00:40:21
subhanahu wa ta'ala Says so whoever worships
00:40:21 -->
00:40:24
Allah And an example of that is Hajj
00:40:24 -->
00:40:28
and Umrah Walking between Safa and Marwa And
00:40:28 -->
00:40:31
whoever Worships Allah sincerely, properly Whoever is willing
00:40:31 -->
00:40:33
to invest their time Their energy, their money
00:40:34 -->
00:40:37
Into this ibadah and worship Of Allah, then
00:40:37 -->
00:40:39
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Concludes by saying
00:40:39 -->
00:40:44
فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ شَاكِرٌ عَلِيمٌ Then indeed Allah subhanahu
00:40:44 -->
00:40:49
wa ta'ala Is appreciative And what that
00:40:49 -->
00:40:50
Actually means, even the word appreciative Is not
00:40:50 -->
00:40:54
a proper translation here Because appreciation is a
00:40:54 -->
00:40:57
human Characteristic, we don't assign those Kinds of
00:40:57 -->
00:41:01
characteristics to Allah This is very common With
00:41:01 -->
00:41:03
a number of the attributes of Allah Subhanahu
00:41:03 -->
00:41:07
wa ta'ala That when, think about this
00:41:07 -->
00:41:09
Just follow the language Where we're understanding the
00:41:09 -->
00:41:13
language Allah has used If I am appreciative
00:41:13 -->
00:41:15
Of someone Doing something, what am I going
00:41:15 -->
00:41:15
to do?
00:41:16 -->
00:41:19
I'm going to reward that person So that's
00:41:19 -->
00:41:22
why the scholars explain فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ شَاكِرٌ What
00:41:22 -->
00:41:25
that actually means is Allah will reward the
00:41:25 -->
00:41:28
person abundantly Meaning Allah is appreciative of that
00:41:28 -->
00:41:32
person's worship Meaning Allah will Reward the person
00:41:32 -->
00:41:36
abundantly عَلِيمٌ And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
00:41:36 -->
00:41:41
Is all-knowing And knowledgeable Allah knows how
00:41:41 -->
00:41:44
much time How much energy How much sacrifice
00:41:44 -->
00:41:48
went into it Allah knows how sincere Or
00:41:48 -->
00:41:53
not sincere the person is Allah knows We've
00:41:53 -->
00:41:57
seen situations With other members of the Qalam
00:41:57 -->
00:41:59
team We'll sometimes have groups that will take
00:41:59 -->
00:42:04
their The most Devoted and dedicated people Allah
00:42:04 -->
00:42:07
knows what's in the hearts But subhanallah people
00:42:07 -->
00:42:10
have made Great sacrifices They're so devoted, so
00:42:10 -->
00:42:13
dedicated Subhanallah, it's not in their hands They'll
00:42:13 -->
00:42:16
arrive there and become deathly ill We've seen
00:42:16 -->
00:42:18
so many situations They're bedridden It's not somebody
00:42:18 -->
00:42:21
just being like Oh, I think I'm tired
00:42:21 -->
00:42:25
No, no, no, this person's like Out, unconscious,
00:42:26 -->
00:42:28
hooked up To all these wires and cables
00:42:29 -->
00:42:30
We're not sure if that person's going to
00:42:30 -->
00:42:32
survive So this person made all these sacrifices
00:42:32 -->
00:42:36
Went all the way there And laid out
00:42:36 -->
00:42:39
in a bed Allah knows how sincere that
00:42:39 -->
00:42:42
person is And those people oftentimes They feel
00:42:42 -->
00:42:45
so terrible I came all the way here
00:42:45 -->
00:42:48
And now this is where I'm stuck I
00:42:48 -->
00:42:50
can't get out of this bed Allah knows
00:42:51 -->
00:42:55
And on the flip side We also May
00:42:55 -->
00:42:56
Allah protect us all Not to talk about
00:42:56 -->
00:43:00
anyone else But we have witnessed situations Where
00:43:00 -->
00:43:02
someone is completely fine and healthy And all
00:43:02 -->
00:43:09
good to go They're just Not that invested
00:43:11 -->
00:43:12
And sometimes it kind of feels like You're
00:43:12 -->
00:43:15
like dragging them Like, come on, let's go
00:43:15 -->
00:43:18
to the masjid Allah knows May Allah protect
00:43:18 -->
00:43:20
us all So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
00:43:20 -->
00:43:22
says this And as I said, the word
00:43:22 -->
00:43:24
shakir means That Allah will reward the person
00:43:24 -->
00:43:28
But Allah using the verbiage Which means appreciation
00:43:28 -->
00:43:30
That is from the graciousness and the mercy
00:43:30 -->
00:43:32
of Allah This is similar to what Allah
00:43:32 -->
00:43:34
subhanahu wa ta'ala Says in the Quran
00:43:37 -->
00:43:41
Who will loan Something beautiful and good To
00:43:41 -->
00:43:42
Allah?
00:43:42 -->
00:43:45
Allah doesn't need a loan But Allah subhanahu
00:43:45 -->
00:43:48
wa ta'ala positions it As, imagine you're
00:43:48 -->
00:43:51
giving Allah a loan In order to make
00:43:51 -->
00:43:54
That act even that much more meaningful And
00:43:54 -->
00:43:56
that much more powerful And that much more
00:43:56 -->
00:43:58
beautiful So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala concludes
00:43:58 -->
00:44:02
This ayah by saying That whoever worships Allah
00:44:02 -->
00:44:05
subhanahu wa ta'ala With sincerity With devotion
00:44:05 -->
00:44:09
Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Will reward
00:44:09 -->
00:44:12
the person Beautifully and abundantly And Allah subhanahu
00:44:12 -->
00:44:15
wa ta'ala knows Exactly what's in the
00:44:15 -->
00:44:17
heart of the person And Allah subhanahu wa
00:44:17 -->
00:44:20
ta'ala knows What the person intends And
00:44:20 -->
00:44:22
what they've invested into this And Allah will
00:44:22 -->
00:44:26
reward them accordingly I'll end and conclude here
00:44:26 -->
00:44:29
With a beautiful narration From the Jamia of
00:44:29 -->
00:44:31
Imam Tirmidhi And the Sunan of Imam Abu
00:44:31 -->
00:44:35
Dawood That our mother Aisha Sidiqa radiyallahu ta
00:44:35 -->
00:44:37
'ala Says that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
00:44:37 -->
00:44:47
sallam said That
00:44:47 -->
00:44:49
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Made the tawaf
00:44:49 -->
00:44:51
around the Kaaba Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
00:44:51 -->
00:44:55
Made the walking between Safa and Marwa Allah
00:44:55 -->
00:44:57
subhanahu wa ta'ala Made the pelting of
00:44:57 -->
00:45:01
the pillars The Ramyul Jemar Where the Hujjaj
00:45:01 -->
00:45:03
throw the pebbles At those pillars, the Shayateen
00:45:04 -->
00:45:07
Allah made all of this As an establishment
00:45:07 -->
00:45:09
of the remembrance of Allah And this has
00:45:09 -->
00:45:12
nothing to do with anyone else Never conflate
00:45:12 -->
00:45:15
this with anything else And I will touch
00:45:15 -->
00:45:20
on one current I don't think it's that
00:45:20 -->
00:45:22
controversial But maybe to some it might be
00:45:22 -->
00:45:26
semi-controversial One current issue that is Kind
00:45:26 -->
00:45:30
of in the conversation Of the community That
00:45:30 -->
00:45:38
At times of Difficulty in the Ummah When
00:45:38 -->
00:45:42
The people who might Currently be governing over
00:45:42 -->
00:45:48
Those sacred places Their activities Their political activities
00:45:48 -->
00:45:54
Are Disappointing to say the least And disgusting
00:45:54 -->
00:45:57
To speak more appropriately And it feels like
00:45:57 -->
00:46:02
a betrayal And someone Is obligated to go
00:46:02 -->
00:46:05
for Hajj Someone hasn't seen The Kaaba in
00:46:05 -->
00:46:06
a decade and they want to go and
00:46:06 -->
00:46:10
perform Umrah And they feel this kind of
00:46:10 -->
00:46:16
Burden on their heart That Going there and
00:46:17 -->
00:46:20
You know Quote on quote You know Kind
00:46:20 -->
00:46:26
of supporting That economy Right Is that in
00:46:26 -->
00:46:31
some way Implicitly making me culpable Liable Am
00:46:31 -->
00:46:34
I becoming a part of the problem And
00:46:34 -->
00:46:35
they feel that burden Or maybe they've heard
00:46:35 -->
00:46:36
somebody talk about it And it makes them
00:46:36 -->
00:46:39
kind of shaky or unsure That's why I
00:46:39 -->
00:46:42
ended with this Hadith of the Prophet The
00:46:42 -->
00:46:48
Prophet makes rules We don't The internet doesn't
00:46:50 -->
00:46:54
A viral tweet does not The Prophet Said
00:46:55 -->
00:46:59
Around the Kaaba Walking between Safa and Marwah
00:47:00 -->
00:47:03
Throwing the pebbles at Hajj Staying at Mina
00:47:03 -->
00:47:07
Standing and making dua at Arafat Drinking the
00:47:07 -->
00:47:11
Zamzam there Praying at the Kaaba Saying Salam
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to the Prophet Praying in Al-Masjid Al
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-Nabawi All of this Is to Establish the
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Remembrance of Allah It's a worship of Allah
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Remember what it said These are sacred Landmarks
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that belong to who They belong to Allah
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Not to anybody else It doesn't belong to
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anyone else We'll be judged for our intentions
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And for doing things properly As long as
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we're following In the footsteps of the Prophet
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Fulfilling the Sunnah with the right intention And
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then making the duas That should be made
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there for the Ummah For our brothers and
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sisters Then we don't need to feel any
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further burden Upon our heart May Allah Subhanahu
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Wa Ta'ala forgive us all May Allah
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accept from us all And may Allah Subhanahu
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Wa Ta'ala invite us to his house
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Over and over again Ameen
