Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Is Hajj going to Make You Poor

Another thing now is the hedge. The hedge is coming up very soon.

In about just over a month. The hedges there were already in the

months of hajj as they call them from show while after Ramadan

finishes, the months of hajj start which are called the actual Hajj,

the month of hajj. So anybody that has an amount of money by which

they can pay the expenses, go for the month of hajj, buy a ticket

and pay for the the hotels or whatever it is, and have enough

money to also for the for the people that they leave leave

behind their dependents to be looked after, then they must go

for Hajj. Now when it comes to women, the Hajj for women as such,

I think it's very important that we understand this, that when it

comes to the pillars of Islam, when it comes to the pillars of

Islam, when it comes to the obligations in Islam, like the

individual worships, for example, solid, zakat Hajj, right, fasting,

the husband in that case doesn't have a say in that. Right, the

father doesn't have a say in that in the sense that if he's stopping

you from praying, right, if they're stopping you from praying

or going for Hajj, right, that is the one case where you don't have

to listen to them if they are being if they are being

unreasonable about it. What that means is that if a woman has

sufficient money for Hajj, right, it becomes an individual

obligation on her, then the only other obligation she needs to

fulfill is essentially that she has a Muslim to go with, which

means an unmanageable kin or her husband. So if her husband is

willing to go with her, or if her husband is not willing to go with

her, but her father, her brother, her son, a mature, mature adult

son, right, your adolescent, then she must go, right? Even if the

husband says no, you can't go for hutch, then she is still her

obligation to go because if she dies, she will be disobedient to

Allah subhanaw taala. That's only in this case, right? That's only

in these cases of obligation Subhanallah it's, it's something

that obviously you don't play it in some in some wild way, you have

to actually deal with it in a way of wisdom. For example, if the

husband is saying that, look, we won't go this year, we'll go next

year, I'll come with you as well, then fine, you know, maybe you

could delay it until actually because that's the best Muharram

you could take it nobody else is prepared for you. Right. But for

example, let's just say your father, or your brother, right and

his family is going or your son wants to go you got an old enough

son, but your husband doesn't want you to go because he's gonna miss

you, then you don't have to listen to him. Obviously be nice about

it. Be but nice and firm because at the end of the day, you're

going to sit in front of Allah subhanaw taala separate from your

husband on the Day of Judgment, right for the sake of hygiene

Salatin and so on. Yes, when it comes to knuffel worship, right,

when it comes to a knuffel Hajj, an optional Hajj after you've done

your Hajj of Islam, then it's not the case, then your husband has a

veto right in that sense. He shouldn't stop you from going, he

should encourage you should be encouraging each other. But then

that's a different situation. When I speak about that it's your

obligation and you must go that is the one hedge that is the first

hedge that when Allah He had a nasty head job at Manchester or LA

is a villa that people have to go for Hajj, it's an obligation upon

them, those who have the ability to go then that is what I'm

speaking about the first hedge the hedge of Islam, this is if you

have enough money, right? If you have enough money, and you have

somebody to go with, right that is a matter of yours. Remember, in

the Hanafi is Maliki's and humbly school. Women are not allowed to

go for Hajj on their own or even with another group. If they don't

have a Muhammad them. There is a there is a leeway or a concession

within the Shafi school only right where if they don't have a Muslim

to go with, but there's a large group of trustworthy, reliable

women who are going and some of them have demo homes, then they

can go there, but this is only in the Shafi school but you can

understand the obligation that Allah subhanaw taala in that case,

the Prophet salallahu Salam, when the Imams have understood from

what the Shafi scholars have understood, is that the obligation

of Hajj is so important that he can even overlook the Macromedia

issue, as long as there's still some safety in going because it's

so it's so necessary to go for hedge. So really think about that.

I know there are women out there, you know, we know that there are

women out there who have the money because maybe they've inherited

maybe they've worked, right, maybe they've got, you know, from

wherever they've got their money, right? They've got enough money,

they've got four or 5000 right to be able to go for Hajj, but their

husband is being lazy about it. Or maybe he doesn't have enough

money, right. But their father is going for example, the family is

going the brothers family is going right. Then they should they

should really do this. But again, do it wisely. Do it wisely, but be

firm about it. I'm not encouraging disobedience here because it's not

disobedience. It's just but just do it wisely. That's that's what's

most important. So

Hedge is very important. The benefits of a hedge are just huge,

right? And you've you've probably heard about that we will be having

a hedge workshop very soon for those who are going, but this is

now the time to make your decision and to go and, you know, sign up

for a hedge package. I know it's expensive, but it doesn't seem

like it's going to get any cheaper in the last several years, it's

just been going up. I mean, I remember in 2001, my hedge was

done for including tickets from the US, right, where the tickets

are much more than from the UK, because it's that much distance

extra, right, I probably did my whole hedge for about $1,800,

which is about 12 1300 pounds, right? The entire hedge that

includes the ticket that includes, you know, lodging boarding in,

okay, we didn't stay in the top hotels or whatever. And, you know,

we were a bit, you know, we were a bit careful about that, but it's

just gone a huge amount more now. Right? It's, it's five times as

much or something or four times as much, but it's not going to get

easier, you're not going to get younger, and you're not

necessarily going to get more healthier. All right. So you need

good health, for the best health that you can, younger is better

because you've probably got more energy and more health. And right

now it's probably the cheaper as cheaper is going to get things are

just getting more expensive, the predictions don't seem like things

are gonna get cheaper, petrol is going to get higher, that ticket

cost is just a huge amount, then people down there are becoming a

bit more capitalist in their in their approach to these things.

They're monopolizing certain, certain things, and it's just it

just it's not going to get cheaper, right. And the main thing

is that even if you have a huge amount of money, you're not

necessarily going to be more healthier or younger, to be able

to to be able to go so really try to go and the other thing is that

Subhanallah the amount of benefit you'll get in this from this hedge

is is huge. It's just absolutely huge. And the reason the reason

for that is Allah subhanho wa Taala promises many things there,

for example, Abdullah Abdullah Mubarak, he looks at actually for

the luminary out, Abdullah robotic, he saw Sophia on

authority during the during Arafa.

During the days of Hajj that he is he is standing on his knees, and

he has got this look on his face, and he's in treating Allah

subhanaw taala he's humbly in treating Allah subhanho wa taala.

And then he says to him, I'm delighted and Wallach says to him

that Who do you think is the worst off today?

Who do you think is the worst off today? And the reply he gets is

that the one who

the one who thinks that Allah subhanaw taala is not going to

forgive him. That is the worst of the people that the person with

the wrong thoughts. That's why the wrong thoughts, if we have the

wrong thoughts about Allah subhanho wa taala. We don't think

of him as generous enough, as forgiving enough, then we were to

blame ourselves. And it's to our own disadvantage. Because what's

expressed there is that the worst of the people is the one who

thinks that Allah subhanaw taala is not going to forgive them,

which means that everybody who thinks Allah subhanaw taala is

going to forgive them. That is, those are the people that will be

successful. And that's why we must have a good opinion about Allah

subhanho wa Taala and not feel that we're, we're not religious

enough to be able to go for Hajj you know, we're going to wait

until we become more religious, that is the place to become more

religious and ask Allah subhanho wa Taala for piety, ask Allah

subhanaw taala for forgiveness, and may Allah subhanaw taala give

us that ability, another Hadith of Timothy and soon on the site, you

mentioned that do hajj and umrah over and over again follow it up

one with another because it removes poverty and sin. And

that's that's just such a juxtaposition, it sounds because

it shows that you have money to pay two 3000 for ombre, three

4000 5000 for a hedge and it's saying that it's going to remove

poverty, you just see this large chunk of your money right there

you've saved up for a long time suddenly go but the but what's

been told us to us in this hadith is that it removes your poverty

and so 100 that trust must be held in Allah subhanaw taala right that

is where the reliance and trust comes you will get your money back

Allah subhanaw taala will give you I've seen people for years and

years that they go or mana or hedge often and they don't make so

much money and there's other people who don't who can't even

though they have a huge amount of money even though they expressed

the desire to go but they will is not there. Right They just think

certain things like you know, I'm not going to get off from work

right although they will if they really push it but they just don't

want to seem like a fundamentalist or something. They don't want to

seem like

they don't want to be seem like a religious person as such. So

they're not willing to go and say I need to take off why you know

because I need to fulfill my obligations the time when I can't

normally take off but I really need to go they just don't want to

be show themselves out to be religious. And that's really sad.

Because then 578 10 years, they haven't been for Hajj yet they've

got the ability to do Hajj every year for example, right, good

paying jobs and the rest of it. So really, this is not something we

can slack off him because it is a pillar of Islam. This is not just

an additional worship, you know, we're not encouraging you just to

do extra now Orfila day or keep fast every Monday and Thursday.

For example, this is an obligation

This is a pillar of our faith. Right one of the five pillars. And

if one of the pillars is missing, or it's, it's weak, then it's that

our structure of Eman is drooping. It's weak, right? It's lopsided,

it's just not right. May Allah subhanaw taala give us all the

Tofik. And

there are numerous, numerous stories, that women are the ones

who are helping their husbands. They are the ones who are who are

causing them to think in the correct way. And it's happened

many times, sometimes the man has got so many things to think about,

right? That he comes home and is just totally restless, totally

undecisive

about something totally concerned and worried. The best partner and

wife is the one who will calm them down, make them see some sense.

And subhanAllah women have done it over and over again to the best of

men. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Right? It was it was

just before it was it was the profit and loss and I had gone to

perform a pilgrimage, but they were not allowed to go inside

Makkah. This was during the first several years in Madina Munawwara

they were they were prevented from going into Madina Munawwara. So he

was told that he decided to tell us a harbor, look, we can't go in,

let's break our Iran nullify our Arab, they had actually already

entered the State of Iran. Let's break it, sacrifice our animals,

and let's go back. So he still has his or her arm and he's telling

everybody to do this. Nobody's apparently listening to him.

Because they're thinking that maybe he's going to do it, maybe

something's going to happen, maybe we're still going to be able to

because they really wanted to go to the Kaaba, they really wanted

to go and perform the pilgrimage. So the price the loss was started

getting worried, because he's thinking that if this harbor don't

listen to me, that's going to be their destruction. He goes back

into his tent, and his wife,

almost sell them out of the Allahu anha is there and he tells her

about like, These people aren't listening to me what's going on?

She said, Look, you go, and you go and end your haram in front of the

when they see you do it, they'll be more than happy to do it. He

did exactly that. And they and they ended the Islam. So now you

can see from this, that it's the best of man. But sometimes that's

the that is the relationship between the husband and wife, the

pious related relationship that they can encourage each other.

That's why the Hadith mentions about one partner waking up the

other for tahajjud right encouragement because the thing

about a husband and wife is that they're supposed to be the couple

together in Jannah. So you want to encourage each other so you we can

both be in Jannah and that's what it is. May Allah give us all the

trophy?