Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Definitive Guide to a Successful Hajj Part 1
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the other side, before we move on to the practical and other
aspects, practical and theoretical aspects of what to do in hajj, and
how to go about it. What we want to discuss versus why we're going
to hedge for I don't have to waste our time here in this particular
gathering about trying to establish the importance of hedge.
That's the whole reason why you've taken this Saturday off to come.
And that's probably why if you're going for Hajj this year, you've
paid huge amounts of money to be able to go and perform this
worship.
So that's something that we don't need to discuss the importance of
it's something clearly that we felt in our heart and that's
what's brought us this first step of the way.
What I want to speak about then is how to get the best out of this
how to really understand the significance. Unfortunately, we
live in a time when the Muslim ummah, the way they're one of the
reasons for our
you can say stagnation is because of our perspective towards our
worship. When it comes to anything of the world and the dunya. Day by
day, we become more refined.
For example, when it comes to food, everybody is an expert on
what is good food and what is bad food. Everybody is an expert, they
will have an opinion. If they go and eat at a different restaurant,
they'll have an opinion. There are many places will say we'll never
eat there again. Clearly, the only reason we say that is because we
have some understanding, we're discriminating about what we like
and what we don't like. For those people who work in the city, who
have to wear a suit, the first time that you had to buy a suit.
You got to Primark 20 pounds, 30 pounds, 40 pounds, you buy a basic
suit, I just need a suit to get to work. But then after that, you
start seeing other suits and you start speaking about it, then
suddenly you become a bit more discriminating. Then you don't
want to be seen dead in a Primark suit, maybe then it has to be next
and it has to be Debenhams, and then what then you even leave
those behind. And then eventually it has to be a tailored hand
stitch tailored suit or canali. Versace Giorgio Armani delicate is
nothing beyond that. Of course, sometimes there's demands for
these things. I had a friend who worked in New York, in
the finance district. And he was a very simple individual, but he
used to buy Brooks Brothers shirts and Gucci blazers and suits and
things instead, what's going on, you know, what is this
contradiction in how you feel and what you actually wear. He says,
Well, in the sector that I work in, in the industry that I work
in, they're very merciless, they unforgiving. They'll come to you
and look at your times, hey, that's a really nice tie and then
look on the other side and looking for the label. And then they'll
make fun of you if it's not from something that they would consider
to be decent and reasonable. Likewise, they come and check your
suit. Oh, that's a very nice suit or a shirt and they'll come and
check your label. So used to protect. So for him to protect
from this kind of criticism, you have to become more refined when
it comes to our cars. We know this bhp. This is the particular type
of color and trim. And these are the gadgets I need. We're very
discriminating with everything. The only thing we're not
discriminating about is with our worship. We take the first off to
shelf worship off the shelf worship, the most generous just
think back to our fasting in Ramadan. How did we fast this year
that was different from last year or 10 years ago. We just took that
off the shelf fast, a generic package of fasting and we did it
just to fulfill the obligation. When it comes to our religion,
we're just happy to just fulfill the obligation taking just any off
the shelf generic, no frills products. But when it comes to
everything of the world, we are very discriminating, we want the
best for ourselves, the area we choose to live in to the car we
drive to the food we eat, when it comes to our worship, as long as
we're just fulfilling it at the basic level. That's enough,
putting a few records down. That's enough hamdulillah we've come to a
level where we're going to do a hedge how to get the best out of
this hedge. The only way you can get the best out of hedge Believe
me, otherwise. Let me ask you a question. Have you ever thought
about this? Why'd you go around seven times around the globe?
Which you get out of it.
I can understand when you're bowing and prostrating to Allah in
namaz in solid. You know, there's a level of submission and
humility. There's a
Physical action that's taking place where it's changing your
posture into the most humble posture possible of bowing and
frustration. But when it comes to going around the club or just
walking, some, some would say and have said, aimlessly around the
Kaaba, that's the criticism. What's the point of it? Well, if
you don't understand the point of it, and I'm speaking for myself,
then it does if you think about it sound aimless, though we do it out
of ritual, and because it's necessary to do the Tawaf is one
of the most important aspects of Hajj.
But there's a massive significance.
There's a massive significance. And the one thing that you need in
homage that is the crux of it all, is love. It's a journey of love.
And when it's a journey of love, then everything becomes
significant. There's a reason for everything. Now, anybody who loves
Allah, which we all profess to do, if we're Muslims, the closest we
get to Allah subhanho wa taala. In speaking, conversing and
intimately discussing with him is in our Sadat.
They say the salah is a mirage of the believer, the ascension of the
believer where the prophet muhammad sallallahu Sallam had a
physical ascension up to the heavens. We don't get a physical
ascension, we try to have a spiritual ascension. That's the
closest we get to salats we understand what we're reading in
solid, all the vicars that we do in Salah you will know that
they're all designed to have a communication and conversation
with Allah subhanaw taala. Again, because of the generic way we we
approach these things we don't know. We just do them as a ritual
Subhan Allah bien Aleem Subhana neurobiol Allah, which is doing
now the closest we get so anybody who loves Allah wants to get close
to him, he does it in solid, then for those who are accepted, Allah
subhanaw taala invites them to his house that one house which is
considered the house of Allah, clearly Allah doesn't dwell in
there physically, because Allah is beyond the physical space and
place and spatial location, but it's the closest we can get. So
people out of their love are going for Hajj. They're going to the
Halloween the two sets of sanctuaries, they're going to the
Kaaba, and they're doing aimlessly with while shedding all human
pretenses, formalities, like specific types of clothing that
people are accustomed to wearing, that allows you to boast that
allows you to look better than someone else. It's all about too
simple sheets for men, for women, that for other practical purposes,
they are allowed to continue to wear the normal clothing, but they
should be humble and subdued. And
they should be toned down and not flashy. So there's a there's a
it's all to show that one day, you're in Mina, you're spending
nights there. You are, then traveling to Ottawa, than to miss
deliver back to Mina, then you go back to Makkah, then you go around
his house, Allah subhanaw taala allows you to do that you kiss the
Blackstone, and you get close to the cover. Unfortunately, most of
our thoughts because of the rush, you never get close to the Kaaba,
right. But believe me, if you can get it off close to the Kaaba,
then that is where it really it's different. It's, it's something.
In fact, I prefer to do that all the time. If I if I'm in the
middle of I will try to get as close Yes, it gets sweaty, it gets
difficult, but there's no, there's no, you know, there's no winning
without the without the sweat without without the difficulty.
That's where you really get something I'm not saying that we
all have to do that clearly going up to the curb or going around and
madly in love. Now, love is a very non rational thing. It's not a
rational or irrational thing. It's a non rational thing. You just
can't pin it down. But with Allah there's many reasons to love him.
Because any of the factors that generally
generate love for anything in this world are generally beauty of
something you start loving them because they're beautiful. You
start loving something because they are generous because it's
generosity, benevolence coming from somewhere.
You get
you love something because of the knowledge that they possess of
some benefits. They give you many reasons. All of those things come
from Allah subhanho wa taala.
You let's take an oft quoted example of this special Romeo
Juliet story. Arab Romeo Juliet story.
So you have this person
who is called the Majnoon of Leila,
right. It's a famous story.
I don't like quoting it often. But in this it's very relevant. He
couldn't get his beloved
So what happens then? Is he
because he couldn't get her, he would go to her vicinity, and
touch the walls. And somebody said, What a crazy person are you
that you're touching the walls in this area? Would you get out of
that? So then he says that it's not the walls and the love of
these walls that have shaved off knuckle V that have overtaken my
heart, while Kinman second Diarra, it's the one who lives in this,
this is the closest I can get to it. And people know that. If your
beloved somebody you're madly, especially amorously in love with,
and they've given you something, then when you can't have them
people sleep with the gift with something they've given or
something they've touch, or the pillow or something, it's just
about being close to the next best thing. That's love, we,
unfortunately, with Allah subhanho wa taala, we don't know how to
apply our love, it's clearly a different love to love that you
can give to any human being or any other creature. But the way our
heart is overcome needs to be like that, then all of these things
suddenly makes a lot of sense. For example,
Hasan Basri, who was one of our great
saints of the past, who lived at a time of the Sahaba, he once saw
this young woman going around the Kaaba. And she was saying this
love poetry, as though she's speaking to her boyfriend. It
sounded like that, because poetry is quite amazing in the sense that
it's difficult to understand what they're talking about till you you
can really study it, and ponder over it. So he's a big chef. He's
a big island, he criticizes What's wrong with you that you're in such
a honorable, sanctified place, and you're saying this kind of dirty
poetry? Dirty, not dirty, but you're saying this lowly poetry,
you're thinking about a creature in the house of Allah close to the
house of Allah, she turned around to him, she says, You have no
idea. What you're doing is you are going around the stones of this
house. And I am making Tawaf of the majesty of the owner of this
house. And what I'm speaking about is Allah and not a boyfriend. It's
just a stereotype, an assumption that he made, and he blamed her
for that. But she turned around and she says, No, who I'm speaking
to, is Allah. And look at her response, look at her answer.
So we're not going around the stone house. We're going around
Allah, Allah has house this is the closest we can get to go around to
just to show Allah Allah, we're here going around your house to
get to you, then suddenly, we're going there, suddenly, we're going
here. So Hajj is really significant.
When you get there, what you will notice is that there's people from
countries that you've only imagined, there's people who
look different, eat differently, speak differently, behave
differently. That's one of the challenges there. But then you see
the beauty of it, when at nighttime, if we're to close all
the lights in this room, and just have one light, you will see that
the insects will be immediately drawn to that light. So people
spiritually speaking
people who have a somewhat of a sound heart, they will become
drawn to the spiritual light, which is emanates from the cab,
not from,
not from the big structure next to it. That big, big bend that
they've got up there next to the cabinet, but the cab but that's
where it's, that's where we need to be drawn. We shouldn't be drawn
to the marketplaces there to the malls. This is where we need to
be. That's going to be a big challenge, but the whole world is
drawn there. Ibrahim alayhi salam, he made a dua after constructing
the Kaaba.
And he said to Allah, Allah, Allah subhanaw taala told him, invite
the people to come and perform the pilgrimage. He said, who's gonna
hear me here in the middle of the desert, there's nobody here. So he
said, you make the call for us is to deliver it.
And he made the call.
And so Hala what the Allama mentioned is that you and I who
have decided to go for Hajj we have been we have heard the call
and were the ones who are saying the bake to it. That's why when
the one of the major features of Hodge is to say, the bake Allah
Humala, bake the bake, again, understand what it means don't
just say it the, the bake means I am present. It's an expression in
Arabic to say I am present I'm here for you.
So the bake, Oh Allah, Allah bake. I am here I am present. I've
answered the call. I'm here to respond. So a person puts the
arrow
Amman gets madly in love. And he's just That's all he's focused on.
That's why the prophets, Allah Islam said, Elijah, Elijah with a
Jew. Hajj is essentially a disheveled state, and soil
clothing. So a person is not concerned about what their hair
looks like, or what their clothing are like, that's why you're going
to be soiled, your garments are going to be soiled. But you know,
that's why it's mcru generally is disliked to use special cleansers,
like soap and things like that, to remove the dirt from your body, it
shouldn't be focused on that, unless, of course, somebody has a
special condition, impurity has to be removed, because there's a
purity aspect, but the general, so if you're worried about brushing
your teeth, with your special fluoride, and you know,
mouthwashes, and all that, that's not the point, use miswak for that
time for those signs, because one is,
which is getting into the thick of it, which is that you can't use
anything with scent, or fragrance, which means Mint is out of the
picture. So you can't use that. But for example, you can buy soaps
that are fragrance free. Can you use those? Technically, yes, you
can use those, but they're better not to use unless they're to
remove an impurity. So for general just feeling not as soiled, then
it's better not to yes, you can take a shower, or preferably don't
use anything as you would normally do.
Because the professor Lawson said that the state we want you to be
in to prove your madness in love your your your focus on Allah
subhanaw taala. I wish my Sheikh I went to visit
I attended a lecture he gave and it was quite difficult to get to.
And I was thinking should I go? Shouldn't I go. And then
eventually I said, You know what, let me go. And I really thanked
Allah that He made me go, because he just gave me a different
perspective. One of there were two things that he said, which really
struck and I'm going to share those with you.
Allah subhanho wa Taala has made this journey of hedge a spiritual
washing machine.
That's such a great metaphor, that you're tumbling around from one
place to the other out of funds that he found Minna, hot on this
place that place to purify yourself, you can only be
purified, the clothes can only be purified if they're wrong. And if
they beaten and if they moved around, and if they spun. So this
is what we're doing. It's this is exactly what it is because the
prophets of Allah Islam said, the best hedge is the one. When you
come back, you are like the day your mother gave you birth towards
any purified. Another Hadith mentions that when a person comes
back from Hajj,
shake his hand before he enters his house and greet him before he
enters his house.
And ask him to seek forgiveness for you.
Because he's come back forgiven. This person has come back from
Hodges, this man or this woman, they've been forgiven. If they've
if this is an accepted hedge, they've been forgiven. But before
they enter the house, you must do this. Because once they enter the
house, then you're back into your normal toil, and you lose the
purity because you're back into the world. So they're still on
their journey, visit them at the end, when people used to do that
before they used to visit them, tell them to seek forgiveness for
you because they're in a pure state and people in a pure state
if they make dua for you. And I've actually felt the effects of draw,
I went in 2001. Then I went last year 2013. In between that about
seven, eight years ago, there was some work I was doing and it just
wasn't getting done. And I suddenly,
out of nowhere, things suddenly started becoming easier.
And it was significant. One is that, you know, something just
suddenly clicks. But the other is that things suddenly just started
becoming easier. And I was just thinking what happened. There was
a marked difference. And then the only thing I could relate it to is
that this was how much time I wasn't there. But I probably
hadn't held a huge class and told a lot of people to make the offer
me. And somebody must have been making a few people may have made
the offer and those who are being accepted. That's the only thing I
could put it down to.
You will never know. But you couldn't you know, you could
assume these things. So the whole * experience is a spiritual
washing machine when you're there consider it that and that will
make things easier. You'll have patience. People do strange
things. You're going to see people from different countries, they're
going to do strange things.
Because not everybody's not everybody acts and behave like the
way we do every society and culture have their own things.
There's going to be people you're going to be waiting in a line.
Generally you will generally be with your own kind of people
because the European temps are together and the US tensor
together
earn the Malaysian tensor together, but sometimes what you
will see is we may be very used to being in a line in this country
and observing the rules and etiquettes of a line, but you will
get some old person or something just coming in pushing him. I like
put your hands up, I'm not gonna fight with you. Because what's the
point?
You're gonna you're gonna see in the Haram, you're going to be
there a group of women will come from different countries and
notice buys through you.
And what are you going to do about that? So you have to preempt all
of this and just be really calm and collected. Because it's a
washing machine. It's all a process that Allah wants you to
take to undertake. Another thing they say is that Ramadan is a
month of efforts for Allah. Have you noticed that Ramadan is a big
worship and a big occasion and then Hajj is a big occasion and is
only to two months and some days in between the missile close
together. Some other ma have linked them together by saying
that if you try hard in Ramadan, Allah will invite you to come to
Him for Hajj. And for a lot of people that does ring true. The
year they go for Hajj, generally is the year that they've spent
probably the best Ramadan as well. Well, Allahu Anam. The other thing
is
Ramadan is the time to purify ourselves.
Which means to seek lots of forgiveness too fast so that we
don't do we lose the habits we get to control of our knifes in Arabic
that's called taglia which means to a removal process.
detoxification process. Now once there's a detox once is, once
you've removed all of these things, then of course then you
have to be adorned and embellished. Then you want you
don't want to go back and do the same things again, what then you
want to do is
take a good color on, take good things on. For that you go for
hydrosol while Ramadan is called dudleya.
Hajj is called dudleya.
That's called the purification process here in Ramadan, in hajj,
it's called an adornment process, where you're adorned with all the
bounties from Allah subhanaw taala. So that when you come back,
you're even better off.
So the heart becomes filled with the love of Allah. And when the
heart field becomes filled with the love of Allah, you gain
greater conviction. When you have greater conviction, your religion
is easier to follow because then you follow it not out of ritual,
only. You follow it out of love. When you do anything out of love,
it's going to be much easier, much more satisfying, and part of
improvement in your life than it is in any other situation.
Another thing that you have to realize is that you're going there
for Allah only and that should be your main primary and only
objective.
Now think about it. Allah is extremely generous and honorable.
If you go to a rich person's house was an honorable, rich person.
And you come back from there and you start telling people, he was
tight. You were stingy. He didn't really give me any.
What befits his status, How bad would that rich person feel? That
would be a massive affront. And that would be a massive criticism
on you know for him. Now, can you imagine that you go to Hajj and
you come back and you say I didn't get anything out of it. You think
Allah is not going to give somebody who's gone all the way as
long as they're trying their best? Yes, you do get people
unfortunately. And the prophets Allah was prophesied this that a
time will come
when people will go to the sanctuaries haram in Makkah
macaron Medina, for touristic purposes. And unfortunately,
the environment there around the masjid is becoming like that, with
the super mega malls. You know, the malls, they're better than the
malls here. And the reason I'm telling you this, because I've
traveled to about 3040 countries in the world. And you get the best
of all of those countries in Makkah and Medina in those malls.
So here when we go to our Oxford streets and or Westfield will get
all the British shops and the designer wear and you will get a
few from Europe. But when you go to
the malls there, unfortunately, you get the best of the Italian
designers, the French, the American, the
the Spanish and the British. You've got you've got your British
homestore Mothercare from England and you've got all these others
and for people who love that kind of stuff. Unfortunately, it
becomes a massive, massive problem. So be very careful about
those who that's not what you're going for. It's allowed to do a
bit of Islamic shopping because you
Get a lot of good Islamic products that helps you them to maintain
your connection with Allah subhanaw taala afterwards, but
don't go there to go into American Zozo or, you know, all of these
other companies that you got out there. They're not cheaper, by the
way, just for your information, remember they they have to ship
the stuff over there. It's much cheaper in England, I'll tell you
that just from experience that I've gathered. So don't need all
that don't even bother. It's not worth it, you get better and more
variety here for what you want.
But it's an affront to Allah subhanaw taala that you think he
can't do for you what you want, that he can't give you your
permissible needs, that's an affront to Allah. He's there,
Allah says I am with my servant as he thinks of me, as he or she
thinks of me. Now. That is the place where 3 million people
approximately are doing the same thing. And it's the best
environment that you can ever get. after Ramadan is the most
spiritual environment. The difference is that it's even more
intense, because only select people from around the world get
to it. Whereas in Ramadan, the whole world does Ramadan, or can
do Ramadan, observe Ramadan.
The Day of Arafah is the pinnacle of all of this, it's the day that
you do walk off of Arafa walk off means literally standing, you're
supposed to stand in the heat in the sun, as far as possible and
make your dua to Allah subhanho wa taala. I wish he told us that
every moment this was really striking for me, he says that
every moment of Orissa, every minute on moment, is so valuable.
It's enough to turn the greatest sinner of this world into the
greatest friend of Allah, every moment of it, we're going to look
for that moment, we're not going to waste time on that day. The
worst of the people may be those who on that day, are calling home
on their mobile phones to find out if Liverpool or Manchester United
won.
And this happened. That's why I'm mentioning it. I'm not making this
up. Somebody in the Haramain is calling back. What are the scores,
you know that those were, this was a few years ago, when you didn't
have internet on your phone, through text messaging. From
phone, they did this. That's the same. It's only for several hours
from door to just be for Margaret. You don't want to have any
distractions. Don't even consult your phone on that day. Just be
focused on worship, you stand up, you sit down, we'll we'll talk
about that. But that's a very powerful moment. Shaytan is not
seen more despicable and humiliated than on that day. And
during the Battle of butter. The Battle of butter was a major
defeat for the disbelievers at that time. And shaytaan was just
seen in a really bad state. And on our offer, that's when he seemed
like that as well. He just from afar, he is looking at the massive
showers have mercy on the people. And he just thinks there's nothing
I can do here. So anybody who's there, and he still thinks that he
can't connect to Allah, it's his own shortcoming. Even a sheath the
hand is defeated. So it's only then us left to our expression of
love and our connection to Allah subhanaw taala.
The way you get connected to Allah and start to love him is by doing
an abundant amount of liquor. So from now you have a few weeks
left, sit down and spend about half an hour at least in doing
some kind of disobeys some kind of meditation, so that you build up
yourself you know, people generally tell you walk a lot so
that you get used to the walking there, get a bit fit, if you can,
well I'm telling you do a bit of vicar about half an hour of extra
liquor extra remember to sitting down and focusing on Allah and
you'll see that when you get there it'd be a different experience
inshallah whatsoever.
The situation we're in the is you have three sanctified states all
converging together and providing for you the best.
One is what they say, Hold on metal makan. The sanctity and a
special status of the area that you're in. These are places of
blessing historical places of blessing, number one. It's had
time. Those days are very blessed. So you got blessing days blessing
place. And over the top of that, you've got a blessed state that
you're in which is the State of Iran. You've just put yourself
into this ritual state of Pilgrim sanctity. When you're, each of
these states are blessed when you got three of these blessings come
together. It can only be full of mercy. So you take advantage of
that.
Another thing which our Sheikh said,
which stuck with stuck with me, is Allah is giving you on the Day of
RFI especially in hudge a blank check
right on it as much as you can muster from yourself.
because Allah's treasures are limited limitless, so you can put
on there as much as you think you can get. And the one who knows
Allah more
will put on very huge figures that only your mind can limit you only
your practice your mind, your perspective can limit you.
Otherwise, Allah is unlimited, He's infinite. It's a blank check,
write what you want on there and come back with it. It's the work
has to be ours. Allah is providing the environment, the Wi Fi is
there. There is no restrictions on how many people can connect, and
for how long you can connect. It's so many gigabytes a second, well,
it's limitless. How much do you want to take you download as much
as you want? When you get there?
It's as simple as that.
And
how much do you ask Allah? When you do too,
you can only find this out from people who are really experiencing
this. So
he's the Sheikh said, Ask him, ask him ask especially on our offer
and throughout in Minar, ask him was Delhi for asking the Haram
asking Madina Munawwara. And each time you ask and ask until your
heart feels content that I have asked enough.
Because there has to be a an etiquette approach to this. So you
ask and ask until you think you've asked enough. The heart feels
content.
Now remember, Allah loves that you ask him a lot. He's not like
others when you keep asking him to get bothered. Like you already
told me 10 times, don't worry, I'll give it to you. with Allah
subhanho wa taala. He wants you to ask him more because the prophets
of Allah Islam said,
do our is worship
dua in itself is a worship, even though you're asking something to
your own benefit, it's a worship. So you're being rewarded for every
moment, you're saving the whole day and asking, it's fine. Allah
loves it.
Unfortunately, there's the mobile phone, which I will shake, he
says, The cell phone is a * phone, especially in these places.
So he goes Be very careful. I remember when he was talking, I
had no other place to write. And that's why I'm using it right now.
I have no other place to write these. I just go in there for an
inspiration lecture. But he was coming out so many great pills.
And I thought I have to take this down. So I pulled out my phone, I
was kind of sitting at a distance. And I was putting these downs. And
that's when he said this. He said, the mobile phone is a massive
fitna, it's as he calls it a cell phone. So he says, it's the *
phone and I'm thinking and feeling so guilty, but I kept writing.
Right. And then after that, I told him one day that you know, all you
said a few days later, when I met him, I said, you know, all that
you were saying that they actually took it down on my phone, just to
justify to him that I wasn't playing with my phone, right
browsing or surfing while he's giving a lecture.
Finally, after doing all of that, you come back and you do the top
of that office era, you've been to miss Delphi, you've been to Mina,
you've been to Arafa you stayed you've pelted the shaytaan. Then
finally you come back and you go and do the main tawaf and believe
me, there's a different atmosphere when you do that, though of that
the Office era, this is your fourth tawaf that is when you've
done all of this, and you're coming now, again, close to
Allah's house, and your subcommittee relating that again,
you're, you're going around that and that's just amazing.
That is like the pinnacle of it, if you're in the right state of
mind. Remember, there will be many opportunities for you to get
tired.
It's fatigue, you're not used to working so much with just slippers
that don't cover every part of your foot. Without socks sometimes
can be very hot, it can be very cold, very irritating. Sometimes.
The toilets, you may never get used to them. Although this year,
I've actually managed to find pictures of toilets, because that
helps people to psychologically there are people who've gone
there. And for three days, they didn't go their stomach seized up
this system, but that's bad for you. What happens and it spoils
your worship, do you understand unless you do it out of love. But
if you do it out of being refined, and to particular then this is the
place where it breaks all of that. You know, we're human beings at
the end of the day. Most of the world doesn't live the way we do.
We are blessed. We just want to make sure that blessing doesn't
turn to
a deception for us. And that's what is we have to thank Allah for
what He has given us and what he's allowed us to do. The other thing
you have to remember is that from this country, the pilgrim quota
that they have every year is a blessing. The only thing that
restricts you nowadays because of the limitation there is the five
year rule that if you've been in five years, you can't go again.
But a place like South Africa, only 2000 people are allowed to go
every year. Now quoting from England is much bigger than that.
So as long as you haven't as long as you haven't been the last five
years and even if you have but you
We're taking your mom with you who doesn't have any other companion
then it's just money that you use need the money and you can still
go there's never like this We can't wait the quarters finished.
The only problem is the five year rule as long as you can find seats
now there's they said last year, I found a lot of people in Makkah it
was quite difficult. Medina know what it was easier. But mocha
mocha Rama an hour before solids, they closed the bottom floor. So
you can't go into the MATA was very frustrating. And because of
all the construction and demolitions in different areas and
the expansion, seriously, you didn't even know where what was
anymore. If you'd been before it was so complicated.
So then you're just forced to take you upstairs, you go upstairs, and
I like praying at the bottom. And it was just very difficult.
But it was a huge amount of people just getting out and then going to
your hotel, you had to go through crowds that would have taken you
five minutes to walk this will take you 15 or 20 because of just
trying to go through the crowds outside.
And they said that this year has been the least people, friends I
know who've been every year. So this is very less this year. I was
like wow, what's it going to be like when
when it comes back to full quota again, so if you're going this
year, I think it's still considered less people.
But it's never late to go. So inshallah it's a good time to go.
May Allah help us?
Okay, so the way we're going to
run this seminar today is now we're going to start looking at
the rituals, preparations. And we're going to first look at pre
Hajj preparations from now to Hajj, then how to do camera,
because most people nowadays they'll go into a camera first.
Then, once we've understood the camera, and within the camera will
understand restrictions, we will understand what are the
restrictions, what are the permissibility is within the
Haram, all of that inshallah will be covered there. So a big amount,
a large amount of the rules and regulations in terms of what you
can and what you can't do will be covered in this first section.
That's going to be then followed by
the different types of Hajj. So then we're going to go through in
detail the days of hutch, what to do on this day, what to do on this
day, and the the four days and the five days. And then after that
we're going to deal with violations and infractions. If you
did make a mistake, you miss this out, or you put some perfume on by
mistake, or you use some soap, with fragrance or whatever the
case is what happens then what are the penalties that you have, so
we'll deal with that. And then there's a special section a small
section. For women in particular, though we'll be covering the most
the hedges the same, just in certain aspects. Women do things
differently. We'll be covering that as we go along anyway, and
then we'll finish off with a visit to Madina Munawwara
and then a few other interesting things in Sharla. What we'll do is
we'll just give her three minutes, just relaxation break in just just
relax stretch if you need to, and then we'll start in three minutes
in Java