Abu Taymiyyah – Emotional Khutbah in Arafat
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My dear respective brothers and sisters,
first and foremost my brothers and my sisters,
I want to remind myself
and everybody sitting here to say Alhamdulillah.
Thank your Lord and praise him that he
gave you the opportunity
to be able to come with this great
pillar of Hajj.
And that is my brothers and my sisters
to be able to be sitting here today.
Because if we did not come here today,
as the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he
said, Al Hajj your Arafa.
Your Hajj is going to Arafah.
And if you miss this day, then you
can wave goodbye to your Hajj.
Then our Hajj would be invalid.
So we should be really really My brothers
and my sisters, be thankful to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
There's people who couldn't make it.
They had leave us behind
over there in the UK.
Some people they managed to get here, but
unfortunately,
they may have gotten into an accident.
Maybe they weren't able to come to Arafa
even though they managed to get on the
flight.
Like I mentioned time and time again, Al
Sharif towards inviting you to perform your Hajj.
This is an invitation from Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
The messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam, he said,
The one who goes for Umrah, the one
who goes for Hajj, the one who goes
for Jihad,
all of them are the guests
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
He invited them and they accepted the invitation.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala my brothers and my
sisters,
He picked you out
from 1,800,000,000
Muslims.
He chose you.
That should my brothers and my sisters
make you feel really really special.
That should make you be thankful to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala
that He chose you from all of these
people
to be able to be here today.
On this great day my brothers and my
sisters,
and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
my brothers and my sisters, He doesn't swear
on anything except if it is really really
important. When Allah
said, These 10 days that we are currently
living in, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, he swore
by it.
And one of these days is the day
of Arafa. Also in Surat Al Buruj, when
Allah
said, the again, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
he's swearing by the mashood
which is the day of Arafah.
This day my brothers and my sisters is
not a normal day. It is the best
day of your life. It is the most
important day of your life. The messenger salallahu
alaihi wa sallam told us,
There isn't any time that you can do
righteous deeds that is more beloved to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala
than in these 10 days.
And from these 10 days is the day
of Arafah.
This is the day my brothers and my
sisters,
the great aya, the great verse in Quran
came down.
A Jew came
to and he said to him,
There was an ayah that came down upon
you Muslims.
If this ayah came down
upon us yahud,
upon us Jews, we would have taken that
day as a Eid. We would have taken
that day as the day of celebration.
So Umar ibn Khattab, he asked him, which
eye are you speaking about? He said to
him,
When Allah he said in surah Al Maidah,
the day when I completed your religion
and I chose Al Islam as your religion
and I completed my favor upon you. This
ayah my brothers and my sisters, it came
down when the Messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam
was given the Khutbatulwada.
The final farewell khutbah, and he was standing
in Arafah, and this is when this ayah
came down. My brothers and my sisters,
this is the day when the Messenger sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam he said,
This is the day that Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
There is no day that Allah frees
as many necks from the fire.
Many people are freed from the fire
on this day. So ask Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala
to make you from those who are protected
from the fire. Then the messenger sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam he said,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala comes down. He comes
close to the servant.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
he begins to boast
to the malaikah. And he says to them,
What did they come for?
Showing them
that all of these
judge, whether he is rich, whether he is
poor, whether he is somebody who's living a
wonderful lifestyle,
whether this individual
is in any part of the world,
all of them came in these two garments
for Allah
There is nothing that separates them
except these two garments.
All of them are wearing the same thing
for Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala,
begging him to forgive their sins. My brothers
and my sisters, there was a time when
the great Tabia'i,
Abdullah ibn Mubarak,
Rahimullah wa ta'ala,
He came to Sufyanath Thuri. He's another great
savior. And Sufyanath Thuri
was on his knees
on the night of Arafah.
On the night of Arafah, he asked him
a very
important question.
He said to him,
Who is the worst of the people who
have come here today? He said,
The worst of those who came here today
is
The one who thinks that Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala
is not going to forgive him. My brothers
and my sisters, this is your opportunity
that we have been waiting for. We've accumulated
so many sins
throughout our lives. We've made so many mistakes.
We've oppressed so many people. We've backbited so
many individuals.
We've slandered.
We've spoken idle filthy speech.
This is the day to ask Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
My brothers and my sisters, if we don't
get forgiven today, when do you think we're
going to be forgiven? When Allah
is saying to you, ask me so I
can forgive you.
One of the things my brothers and my
sisters that makes this day so special
is the fact that the du'a you make
is being responded back to, is being accepted.
The messenger said,
The best dua that a person can make
is the dua on the day of Arafah.
And the best thing that I and the
Prophet said before me is to say,
Do not feel shy to ask Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
Ask Allah
with certainty.
Do not think, maybe if I ask, I
will get accepted.
This is the wrong mentality,
the wrong way to ask Allah
The messenger salallahu alayhi wa sallam, he said,
When you make dua,
make the dua with certainty
that Allah
is going to respond back to you. You
have to be certain that Allah
can give you anything
at any place and any time. And I
always say this my brothers and my sisters,
the word impossible
the word impossible
should not exist
in the dictionary of a Muslim,
especially on a day like this.
The word impossible
should not exist.
Anything is possible, my brothers and my sisters,
on this day. But it requires you to
ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. In another hadith,
the messenger salallahu alaihi was telling me
Allah is too shy, he is too generous
that when his servant,
he raises his hands to him, that he
sends him back empty handed.
It is you that needs to ask, and
Allah is too shy to reject you. So
my brothers and my sisters,
make the dua for yourselves,
for your
and
difficult time. Make du'a for everyone
that you know, and yourself especially with all
the problems that we are going through.
And last but not least my brothers and
my sisters, from the Maqasidul Hajj,
from the objectives of Hajj, is that you
remember the ambiya.
That you remember the ambiya, the prophets, the
messengers,
and especially the messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Some of us, we come from homes, we
come from backgrounds where we are living a
very very luxurious lifestyle.
We have very very wealthy backgrounds.
We came to Mecca,
some of us were staying
in very very high priced hotels,
some of us were staying in normal hotels.
If you look at Hajj, my brothers and
my sisters, it makes a person humble.
It causes a person to attain
a characteristic, and that is what
to become a humble individual.
I mentioned this in the bus, and I'm
going to mention it again. The Messenger salallahu
alaihi wa sallam, they didn't have these buses,
they didn't have these planes, they didn't have
virgin Atlantic
that we might have back home. They used
to be walking
on their feet
in this blazing heat.
But alhamdulillah,
Allah gave us these buses.
Remember these prophets,
these messengers,
the messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
Muhammad ibn Abdullah,
and also his companions
who used to walk
from place to place. You can see how
much difficulty we are going through
even though we have all of these things.
But my brothers and my sisters,
when you take this principle,
and you apply in your life, it will
make you a more thankful individual.
The messenger said,
Look at those below you, look at those
who are less fortunate than you, look at
those who have less than you, and do
not look at those above you. Because that
will make you
thankful to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Always remember this in every aspect of your
life, whether it is in your marriage, whether
it is in your families,
whether it is in your children, whether it
is in your jobs,
look at those below you because that will
make you more thankful.
All of this that which we are doing
my brothers and my sisters,
one aspect, one characteristic,
one quality
that we should take back home is thanking
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Because my brothers and
my sisters, if you thank
Allah that He chose you to be here
today, it could be a reason why Allah
brings you back again. The Messenger sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, or shall I say Allah says,
This is a favor, this is a blessing
from Allah
and He will reward those who are thankful.
Allah also He says,
Thank me, and I'm going to give you
more. How many of us my brothers and
my sisters, when we came here, when we
received the news that we are going on
Hajj, we thanked Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Wallahi,
if we didn't my brothers and my sisters,
we are really really falling short
because the person who has been blessed,
he thanks Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and he
rushes to it. The messenger salallahu alaihi wa
sallam as he came in the hadith,
If he was given the good news that
something of something that makes him happy, he
would rush
to making sages of shukr. He would prostrate
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in thanks. That's
something the least that we can do. My
brothers my sisters, and perhaps Allah will keep
giving us more and more and more.
And inshaAllahu ta'ala now, we're going to pray
2 duhr and 2 asr, and we're going
to combine between these 2, insha'Allah ta'ala.
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