Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Masjid alAqsa Calling You

Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi wa Salatu was Salam

ala UD mursaleen while he was Safi, he he marine and buried

Alhamdulillah after being here for the last few days,

in Masjid, Luxa in Jerusalem and in these blessed places

Alhamdulillah I just want to give a quick round up. And the whole

purpose of this is to actually encourage all those brothers and

sisters who live in countries that would be allowed to come and visit

here without too much difficulty. So the whole purpose of this is

just to encourage you, because, yes, there was difficulty for us

at the airport. Numerous people think that because there's so many

problems here, that it's scary to go there, but Alhamdulillah

hamdulillah if you listen to the Palestinians, they get so excited,

and so happy and so satisfied when people from other countries they

come here, in fact inshallah for the people from the West, they

love the people from the West because we're allowed to go and

people do come here. Yes, there's difficulty we had to spend between

some the older fault they got inside very quickly at the airport

in Tel Aviv. Many of the brothers had to stay around for brothers

and young sisters had to stay around for about four hours, but

by about six to six and a half hours Hamdulillah we were all out.

Yes, that was difficult. But getting into these lands has never

been easy. Musa alayhis salam had to wait for his people had to wait

for 40 years to get back 40 years to get inside. In fact, Musa Islam

didn't even make it inside. And that's why the Hadith mentions

that he wanted to then die at least a stone throws away. And

thus he died and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said I

can actually point out his grave to you, which is by this red hill.

So it's never been easy for anybody but well hamdulillah one

thing is that we've got mashallah many older men and women with us,

you know, people who get tired after walking a bit and so on so

forth. But Al Hamdulillah once you get inside the facility of the

hotels, decent food is decent or Hamdulillah. And you go into the

masjid for foreigners, they don't hassle you too much at all. Once

you get inside, it's only a bit of hassle at the airport. Otherwise,

as long as you behave yourself that there's actually no hassle

whatsoever. So hamdulillah for example, today, we went to Jericho

we went to beta lamb and the Mufti of beta lamb, which is Bethlehem,

took us around and showed us showed us the number of places

that are of significance there. And we went to them one of the

oldest in habitations in the world, which is Jericho, that is

below sea level, we quickly pass through the Dead Sea, and we went

possibly school Qumran, but we didn't, we didn't go there. That's

where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. And we saw a number of a

number of other places the maqam of Musa alayhis salam, that's not

where he's buried, but he passed by there he was there. And that's

why they've made a special kind of spot there with a masjid and so

on, so forth. And now we're actually on Mount olives. And

actually behind me, you can see this wonderful picture of the

whole of Masjid Luxa. I just want to clarify something very quickly.

Many of us think that musty Luxa is this building only on the

extreme left of this enclosed walled city, this enclosed walled

city, sorry, the enclosed walled city all the way around, that's

Old Jerusalem. And this top part here that extends from these walls

here, all the way to the back to the end of those trees. That is

all Masjid Luxor. So within this whole Masjid Al Aqsa, they've got

this building at the front which is called the Tivoli mosque. That

is generally known today as Masjid Luxa. And then you've got the Dome

of the Rock. Now I know anytime the Dome of the Rock has shown

people get a bit you know upset that why do they keep showing Dome

of the Rock the Dome of the Rock was the first building here. And

it was Amara, the Allahu Anhu that actually clean this spot out

because the Christians they have the Holy separate separate church

which is actually behind you. It's very difficult to make it out from

here, but it's behind there with those two main domes out there.

That's what they had all built up and this entire area was just a

rubbish dump. So, Amara, the Alon came. And he asked Where should I

you know clear a spot and start, you know, the place of a masjid.

So initially caught up about who was with him, he suggested that he

do it behind the rock, the rock is under the cookbook to Sahara and

under that dome, that's where the rock is. It's holds very great

significance among a number of different people. So he said there

but I'm going to be alone said no, I'm going to make it at the front

because kava bar is idea was that if you make the mustard behind

that behind the Dome of the Rock, then you will be facing to the

dough to the rock and to Makkah Makara Rama So Omar the Allahu

Anhu said to him that you still have some yahoodi hitting you that

you want to do that. So he started it off towards the front. These

buildings obviously are from later times Abdulmalik number one time

the marijuana times. But this whole thing is a masjid. So

initially when you would come into any of those gates of the masjid,

you'd have to take your shoes off straightaway. Now you they don't

make you do that. But all of that

up anywhere in that is the Masjid. So that needs to be clearly

understood that the whole place has a lot of significant sound.

And mashallah, as you can see this, there are issues that take

place, but we met an imam in a place called hellhole yesterday,

where eurosai Islam was supposed to have stopped there and stayed

there for a whole year. Mashallah, if you heard the story of this

Imam, you know, you'd be crying because of how, you know fortunate

we are, because he really hit home to most of us. He said that he has

not been able to come and visit mercy Luxa even though it is just

less than an hour's drive away, he hasn't been able to visit Massey

Luxa for 25 years. And he says, I can't even expect to go now

because number one, they don't give permission for people in the

West Bank to come unless they're over 50. And if you have a record

where you've been in prison before for anything, then you can't ever

get that permission. So for 25 years, he has not been too mushy

Luxor right now Hamdulillah. The amount of Maghrib has just

started. So inshallah we are going to go to pages are Kamala Harris.

I really encourage you all, to try to come and visit this beautiful

place. Just like Kamala Harris