Adnan Rajeh – Appreciating Hajj #08
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The speaker discusses the importance of the Hadith cycle, highlighting its significance for personal and professional reasons. They also discuss the historical significance of the cycle, including a person who stood on the Mount of Safa for 20 years before being abandoned by their own people. The narratives of the speaker's actions speak of his promise to do whatever he says, followed by a brief moment of observation before becoming a member of the Islamist movement. The importance of following tests to determine success and failure of a journey is emphasized.AI: Transcript ©
Upon
the prophet
in every good deed.
This will be the finest final hadith that
I I narrate in,
the theme of appreciating Hajj or in preparation
for Hajj. The issue will probably, narrate a
hadith tomorrow night and then the night of
Arafa as well.
And Eid is on
Sunday. So
And this hadith,
that that I'll end with is
similar to yesterday, but a little bit different,
but it's a similar theme in terms of
the prophet
moments.
There's a lot of moments that are very
meaningful. And if I I I, you know,
I didn't plan this out appropriately in terms
of how many nights I had to do
this, so I don't I didn't get through
all of them. But, this one's a nice
one to kinda end end with. And
and hadith is a is a continuation or
it's a part of the hadith that I
rated 2 nights ago,
that I told you. And Imam is Sahih
Muslim. And, of course, it has a similar
you find it also in Bukhari, but not
not in that length. But Sayyid Muslim have
a long hadith narrated by Sayyid Najjar ibn
Abdullah. He just he just tells everything. He
tells the full story as as to the
best of his ability to remember it. And
it's just a very long, how to use
pages upon pages.
And it's probably the longest authentic hadith that
we have. And I can't by some point,
we'll make a series just to read it.
But, I narrated this another piece of it.
So he's he's telling us the story and
he's he's at the point where the prophet
is performing a say, and this is towards
the end of his Hajj
Right? So he says when he when he
came close to Mount of Safa,
which is yeah. He's a it's a mountain
that has a certain, significance to him
outside
of Hajj and Umrah specifically. Like, outside like
I told you, there's, like, 3 levels
of Hajj really or Umrah. Really, there are.
Like, if you go, you can either walk
in the footsteps of Adam and Eve. You
can walk in the footsteps of Ibrahim and
his family or Muhammad
and his companions, or you can do all
3 of them. But whatever you do, you
make sure that you have a a track
that you follow in.
And the prophet part of understanding the Mount
of Safa. See, not only so the Mount
of Safa is significant,
to Adam and Eve, it's significant to
alayhis salam. It's also significant to him alayhis
salam. That's where he stood the first time.
That's where he stood 20 years prior to
that moment, and he told people.
And he called upon his people to come
to Islam, and they and they basically cursed
him out and told him to come off
come off the mountain. And at that point,
he had very few people following him. So
this is him on Mount El Safa again.
This is him coming on this mountain 20
years later.
But the first time he got on, he
was alone.
And he and and people were no one
listened to him, and no one responded to
him. And his own family didn't even show
him respect
But today, he's on Jabal Al Safa, and
you can barely you can barely walk.
You can barely move due to the number
of people that are surrounding him
There's too many people.
You know? He he can't even move properly
because he's so busy and everyone's standing with
him. But if, he he comes to
these verses. The verse
in
amongst the rituals of God. Because there are
some people who weren't, at the time, the
Arab, they knew Tawah, but they didn't all
know and there was question about it. So
this ayah came and solidified that that was
a part of the, of the ritual.
So he
says,
I will start my my my side with
what Allah started within his book.
So he went up the mountain until he
was. He went up until he could see
the Kaaba from where he was.
And if you do now I don't know.
I haven't been there in 25 years now,
so I don't know what it's like anymore.
But I remember that you could get on
the Mount of Safa. And if you maneuvered
yourself appropriately, you could see the Kaaba even
now. Even even with with with what they've
done, you can still see the Kaaba. I
don't know if that's possible anymore, but but
I remember as a kid being able to
do this because our Sheikh was very interested
in whatever you did say that you you
did you did this. You got to the
Kaaba to a point where you could see
or visualize the Kaaba for a moment if
possible. Obviously, it gets very busy. Sometimes you
can't. But the at
this point, he went up
until until he could see the Kaaba.
And then he turned towards
He got on the on the and he
did his his
There is no god but Allah
Alone, no associates with him. To him, sovereignty
belongs. To him, praise is worthy, and he
is capable of all.
He is the one who came through with
his promise.
See, we say it on the day of
Eid,
but no. No. He he it's different. When
you and I say it, it's just it's
a it's a it's a follow it's an
act of followship. He said it because that's
what it what that moment needed. He came
through with his promise. He promised me that
he came through
Now he stands.
When when are the narrations of this hadith?
It's it's not Imam Muslims, Imam As
he stood at that moment and he was
looking at the cabin saying,
the ansar were just filling the safa under
him, all standing at his feet
listening to him say that because the ansar
didn't perform safa and,
Again, I don't wanna bore you with these
things. Al Mecca, they they perform
it. But,
they didn't they didn't know the issue of
science, so they didn't know what was it.
That's why this is in the Quran for
them so they can go do science.
Anyways,
so he's up there.
He came through with his promise.
And he strengthened and he stood by his
servants, speaking of himself
and
alone, he took out the confederates. And he
points out to the most difficult moment in
the story, and he says whatever happened that
day was not the bravery or the strength
of us. It was the it was the,
the act of Allah alone.
And after that, he would stood there and
make dua stand there and make dua
stand there and make dua and make dua.
He did this three times.
And the Ansar are all right standing right
beside his feet
saying, I mean, to whatever dua he's making
He would do this three times.
And he would go down from the from
the Safa, and then he's walking towards Marwan.
And then, the way today, it's not as
clear,
the,
the loop in the ground. So when he
went down and steep into the valley, he
he jogged a little bit.
And when and once, it was an up
he walked. He slowed down and just walked
up until he arrived at the Marwa. And
he did on Marwa exactly what he did
on Safa. He got on top until he
could see the Kaaba, turned toward the Kaaba,
and did his
and made his
And the reason I love this hadith is
because he stood on that mountain 20 years
prior to that moment. He stood on that
mountain 20 years prior alone.
He stood uncertain. He stood with fear. He
stood without clarity what was going to come
next. He stood with the bravery that came
with him, telling the people publicly that he
was a prophet even though he knew they
were not going to listen to him, and
they didn't. And 20 years later, he would
come again, And he said on the Safa,
but this time, his followers are filling everything
between Safa to Arafa, to the Kaaba, to
Marwa. His followers are filling up everything. There's
a there's no space to stand. So he
turns towards the Qibla and he says
he came through with his promise.
Yeah. And he came through with his promise.
As he promised me, it it it occurred
knowing that this would be the final time
he performed and
I find it just a majestic and beautiful
moment to, to contemplate and comprehend
and and think about in terms of his
of his journey,
a moment in your life where you're able
to reflect on your journey, on how far
you've come. And sometimes going back to the
same spot that it all began and just
reflecting for a moment is meaningful. For him,
that's the that's the that's the dimension of
sufaf and marwah for the prophet, alayhi salatu,
and that's where it all started. And that's
where it all ended as well. And between
the beginning and the end, it's just the
journey of whatever difficulties you had to go
through, whatever
perseverance you had to come you had you
had to muster up. And Allah will always
come through whatever promise he offers. Allah will
always be the one who who grants you
the ability to come back to where you
you began with some degree of success or
some degree of appreciation
of what he granted
you within your life. And I I that
that image
of
him doing and making dua. And the just
under him making saying to whatever he says
and doing exactly what he's doing
is just, the perfect
image that you can share carry within your
life of him
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