Adnan Rajeh – Appreciating Hajj #02
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Yesterday, I talked about the the the, the
issue of the yesterday's hadith and today. So
I'm not gonna repeat this again. But that
there is a lot of debate on its
authenticity. And I usually don't narrate a hadith
that have any debate on their authenticity, but,
when I feel that the theme is help
it's helpful for the theme, and I feel
comfortable with the, Yani, with the argument of
why that their their, authenticity is reasonable, I
go ahead and this is an example. Even
though there may be many scholars who disagree,
but that's, you know, there are scholars who
don't or agree with it, and I take
their opinion, especially if I think it's reasonable.
And the reason that this hadith has some
issues of authenticity is because,
the there's a man from that is not
named who is, from Ahl al Madinah between
between,
the one of the Imams and Abu al
Zubayr. So and
scholars have different ways of looking at that
phrase and whether they think something can be
authentic with it or not is something that
is open for debate. Anyways, that's just a
quick reminder. So and and the theme is
is about Hajj.
And, we're gonna we altogether, we may maybe
get through 8 or 9, a hadith. That's
pretty much it.
And I wanna reiterate a hadith that didn't
narrate the years the 2 years that, the
2 years before because, I wanted to kinda
give you a little bit of a different
perspective. And the perspective I want to offer
this year is that looking at Hajj from
the, the lens of prophets
as as Hajj is something that is not,
specific just to Umit Muhammad
It's something that all of these prophets have
been a part of. And this hadith is
very clear with them. And then he said,
So then there is no prophet except they
have performed Hajj to this house, except what
happened with the issue of
and
performed Hajj. And the majority of opinions of
scholars is that the Khabr of Nuh is
in Mecca. The majority opinion the vast majority
of scholars believe that the the the, the
grave of Nuh alaihis salam is in Mecca
because he had done his Hajj then he
passed away afterwards.
Yeah. When the house, I mean, the
was affected
by what the earth was affected with with
the water and the and the
in the house, the I mean, the Kaaba
before this, was on a higher it was
it was not, it it was not at
the same level of earth. It was on
a higher little hill, and it was a
hill that was colorful, meaning there was a
lot of green there. There was different things.
So it was not what it what we
see it to be today, where where it's,
it's actually lower than everything else, and it's
it's it's just rock and sand. So this
is this hadith is kinda pointing out that,
that this that that date looked different. So
what happened was that the new hadith alayhi
salam performed Hajj and then the, the flood
that occurred affected this part of the world
as well. And the bait was the Kaaba
was affected by what
And then Allah
pointed out to Ibrahim where the house was
once because it was after the the flood,
it was no longer apparent. And Ibrahim performed
his Hajj, and then every prophet after Ibrahim
performed his Hajj. And all these things that
I'm telling you in this this hadith, even
if the hadith itself has some degree of
question of its authenticity, the actual information doesn't.
Meaning, there are there are authentic evidence for
each of these,
phrases, but I just I don't have a
hadith that puts them all together except this
one. So I can narrate it to you,
but the actual information is there. And he
said in
that after Ibrahim, every prophet will perform Hajj,
I'm gonna narrate for you, a few authentic
hadith over the next week that where the
prophet, alayhi, sallam, points that out specifically. And
he he points out that he called the
had the name the prophets out like Yunus
and like Musa alayhi salaam. So the concept
of and this is why I think it's
a beautiful thing. So yesterday, I told you
that Hajj has 3 levels. There's 3 or
there's 3, Yani,
methods or,
3 roads or routes you can take when
you're thinking about Hajj. You can think about
Hajj from the perspective of Muhammad
and then walk in his footsteps
and remember his Hajj. Or you can walk
Hajj in the footsteps of Ibrahim Al Khalil
and his family Hajj and Isma'il, or you
can walk Hajj in the footsteps of Adam
and Hawa as the and all 3 are
are are are routes that you will learn
a lot from if you perform Hajj. But
also remember that all the prophets in between
performed this. That all the prophets in between
knew the importance of Hajj. And if though
if they couldn't make it to perform Hajj,
then they knew at least where the Bayt
al Atith was, where the old where the
original where the authentic house of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala was, and they wish they could
even if they didn't in their lives for
for whatever reason, which is why he points
out who the
was. I mean, there are mere prophets that
were sent by Allah all across the world
in different parts. They all knew about the
Kaaba. And whether they were able to perform
Hajj or not is something that comes back
to their ability to actually do it. But
all the all the prophets within the area
of the Middle East, they all performed Hajj.
And I think it's something that's worth, you
know, you're thinking about. Because when you go
and do this, this pilgrimage, whether you do
a Umrah or you do Hajj, you're you're
given the opportunity to understand
that you are now in the on the
earth where most of the Allah's
prophets, if not all of them, once walked.
They walked here at some point in their
lives. They came and performed this Hajj. Whether
the house was the way it is right
now or was it whether it was different,
or something similar to something
that or whether it was not something even
apparent. So they would they just knew that
the the house is here. So they went
and they performed tawat to the best of
their ability, but they knew that this is
the spot that it all started from. This
is where Adam this is the first how
that Adam and the Malaika and Hawa put
there, and they understood the the the the
significance
of of that. And I think it's something
that we miss a lot when we talk
about Hajj. We miss this, the the symbol
see, Hajj is a symbolic journey.
If you make it mechanical, it dies off.
Like, it it doesn't have much meaning to
it. But if you understand the symbolism behind
it, if you have the significance of where
you are, who walked here once, why this
house is here specifically, who started all of
this, and who continued this legacy, you go
it becomes very meaningful.
It's actually hard to ever want to leave.
Like, you'll be you'll you'll be glued to
it because you're because there's so much there
for you. Like, there's so much there's so
much history and there's so much originality and
authenticity. There's so much much meaning and profoundness
there that it's just hard to walk away
from it. But and that's the beauty of
always going back. You always go back for
for a visit and you perform another umrah,
and it's just like you did the first
time around. If you have the understanding of
the of what the prophet
explained