Adnan Rajeh – His Final Sermon.
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Imam Bukhari narrates for us that the Prophet
alaihis salatu wa sallam on that day
was standing on Arafah,
and the way we know this is because
Sayyidina Umar ibn al Khattab years later was
told
that had this verse
been revealed
to a different faith, they would have made
that day Eid for themselves.
They would have made that day a day
of celebration for themselves.
So So Sayyidina Nurul Salaam, he looked and
he said,
I know exactly where the Prophet was when
this was revealed. When it was revealed, where
it was revealed, where I was when it
was I know exactly when it was. And
it was revealed on the day of Friday,
on the day of Arafah, while the prophet
alaihis salatu wasallam was standing in Arafah. And
he says, and I myself was standing with
him on Arafah.
The day of Arafah which is going to
be tomorrow.
It is the day that Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala concluded
this faith.
He completed it. The best night of the
year is the night of 'Adir when it
all began,
and the best day of the year is
the day of 'Arafah when it all ended.
And between the night of 'Qadr and the
day of 'Arafah, the story of his life
alayhi salatu wasalam, the legacy of that book
and the legacy of Islam. And the day
of Araf is by far the best day
of the year because it was the day
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala declared for us
that He has completed upon us His bounty.
He has completed and fulfilled for us this
blessing of Islam and he has accepted this
this deen to be our way of life.
Scholars would say that if we knew what
it meant when he said, and
then we will spend the rest of our
lives just trying to explain it to others.
When he says subhanahu wa ta'ala, I have
accepted, I have I have riba, I have
acceptance
for you to live through this way of
life, through this faith, through this deen. Islam
is something that I accept for you as
your faith and nothing else is needed afterwards.
As we enter the 9th months
of this barbaric
attempt,
this, barbaric genocidal attempt of the Israeli government
on the people of Gaza Palestine. As
we count above of 30 north of 30
37th
a 1000 people.
37,000
people.
I don't I don't think we fully understand
what that number means. For for 9 months
straight, we've been slowly counting and we reached
37,000.
It didn't it
didn't happen across the globe, it's happened in
an area smaller than the city of London.
Smaller than the city over 9 months, we've
just been counting day after day.
Deaths, a death toll has been stolen going
up to reach 37,000
people. The majority of them children and women.
And this is what we're stuck with.
This has to be one of the most
disgusting display
of human indifference
in modern history.
When wars occur, war is war. This is
not war. This is not war.
War means there are 2 armies that are
fighting. There are battlefields.
This is just the destruction
of residential areas, the bombing of schools, the
bombings of of of hospitals and university, the
refugee
camps. In an ongoing manner, the only reason
has not stopped is because of the texture
of the skin of the people who are
there.
It's because of their religion and their background
and the language they speak and the faith
that they carry. That's why it hasn't stopped
yet.
I can tell you I can tell you
that it was that the Ukrainian problem was
dealt with very differently.
That the Ukrainian problem was dealt with very
differently.
We don't need to go back to the
history books to know how that was dealt
with. It just happened a couple of months
before.
If you're watching the news, you know how
that was dealt with. You know the stern
language,
the firm language that was used.
The aid and support, and the help, and
the military aid that actually occurred to them.
They continue to aid
the military government. The the the the Israeli
military.
Our countries, our academic institutions Think of that,
your academic institution.
An academic one. Now forget it. I can
understand the politics. I can understand the government
aiding another military. I can get that. I
can get it. I think it's absolutely unethical
and disgusting. But for an academic institution,
why are you investing into a military to
begin with? What academic institution has any has
any
integrity or has any values or principles? What
would invest in a military?
I don't understand that piece.
Apparently, it's very lucrative.
Apparently, it makes a lot of money. Why
wouldn't it? It's killing a lot of people.
So it has to replace all of its
weapons. So yeah, it's a good investment.
This investment that is that that dips the
hands of those who do it in blood.
Our countries in the west,
our hands are in the bucket of blood
like any other country as we continue to
observe and watch what occurs in the holy
land. This is their 2nd aid that the
Palestinian children will will walk out hoping
to to get on a swing or to
run around with a with water guns and,
any any other child on the planet to
enjoy a day of of celebration. They will
do it under the fear of death. They
will do it with family members missing. They
will do it with their amputee friends. That
is how they're going to enjoy tomorrow and
the day after.
But tomorrow is the day of Arafah.
Tomorrow is the best day of the year.
The day where
Prophet alaihis salam told us the best dua
is the dua of the day of Arafah,
and the best thing I've said and all
the prophets before me have ever said is
La ilaha illallah.
So say La ilaha illallah and make dua
tomorrow on the day of Arafah for the
people who are suffering all across the globe
in Gaza and Sudan and other parts of
the world where they are being mistreated, where
they are being
oppressed and transgressed against. What I wanna share
with you today
is what happened 1400 years ago, on a
day very similar to the day. Today is
Yom Terruiyyah, and the day that the Hijjah
go and they fill their water buckets in
preparation
for the beauty of what happens tomorrow.
Tomorrow
is the day that Islam was completed. If
you are going to look at Hajj from
the track of the Prophet Muhammad
alaihis salatu wa salam's life. If you wanna
look at look at it from the track
of Adam and Eve, it's the day that
they were reunited and where they admitted their
sin and their fault and they decided to
live differently. If you wanna look at it
from Ibrahim alaihis salam, it's the time that
he had to tell his son that we
need to do something, and it was not
very pleasant, and they agreed to it. However
you look at Hajj, you're going to find
an angle that is absolutely majestic and extremely
profound. But regardless of all of that, I
want to share with you things he said
alayhis salatu wa sallam when he got on
the mimbar of the day of Alafa or
the day of Nahl or a yamatashikh
or even on the day of taluya where
he knew alaihis salatu wasalam unlike most people
around him at the time, he knew that
his time was running out.
That his time was running out exactly 3
months after he said the words I'm going
to share with you, he passed away alayhis
salatu wa sallam. 3 months later in Rabi'
Al Awal, he passed away alayhis salatu wa
sallam. He knew that his time was running
out. He knew because he heard those verse.
That first on the day of Arafah, right
before his khutbah, he heard, Aliyom al Khmatulakum.
He heard that it's over, it's done, it's
completion. What happens after completion?
When something is completed what happens next?
Anything that is completed, what comes next is
it starts to get lesser
because it's complete. It's reached its its pinnacle.
It reached its epitome. Lost, there's nothing more
to add to it. It's full. It's it's
perfect.
Now whatever comes next is going to be
loss of some sort.
It's going to decrease,
and the decrease would come in the form
of him alaihi salatu wa sallam moving on
to something better.
Alaihi salatu wa sallam knew that when he
heard those verses, he knew
that Mala Qal Mote is is waiting for
him very soon. He knew that, which is
why I think he gave this the most
beautiful sermon that could ever be given. Qutbudalwada
is something you should study in your life
multiple times. It's 9 paragraphs, you have to
study them. You have to study each paragraph
and listen to it or 8 paragraphs if
you want to, combine the last 2. But
you have to study these paragraphs and you
have to listen to him alayhis salatu because
these are the words of someone who knows
that very soon he will not be around
to tell you what to do, or to
explain things to you, or to guide you,
or lead you. And And he was speaking
to a 100000 people. I am talking right
now to less than a 1000 people in
a masihid with all the microphones in the
world, with the perfect sound system, with your
ability to sit in the shade. He was
speaking to a 100000 people at a time
where you needed people on horseback to gallop
into the crowds, to repeat the words. So
every paragraph took half an hour to an
hour because he had to wait for them
to go and repeat things because there was
a question at the end of each paragraph.
At the end of each paragraph they had
to respond to him alaihis salatu wa sallam.
They had to say something, he had a
question at the end of each.
And knowing that alaihi salatu wa sallam, he
chose his topics very carefully.
He chose I'm not gonna tell you all
late to worry. I'll share with you 2
or 3.
But I'll start with the one that is
most important to us. And if we understood
the one, this first if we understood
nothing else but then the then the first
one, then really this a lot of what's
occurring today in the world would not be
occurring
to Muslims or by Muslims, from Muslims, or
as Muslims. If you understood
that first one. One.
So
he
stood
If ever we make it to the other
side, I hope to go back in time
and witness this moment.
One of my one of my questions, one
of my my duas to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala is I want to be there. I
want to be I want to be on
the day of Arafah or Nahuwah. He said
he gave this khutbah at least 10 times
alaihis salatu wa sama. Never fully he'd give
it in small. Every time he found a
group of people he would repeat it again
all throughout Hajj. From the 8th day to
9th to 10th, 11th, 12th 13th, he kept
on repeating to say that's why this hadith
is narrated to us through so many different
narrators because so many people heard him say
these words alayhi wa sallam. And every time
he gave this hukmah, he removed the paragraph
and inserted another one. But he always said
the first one.
He always used the first one. Even though
he sometimes would drop paragraph number 2, or
number 3, or number 7, or number 5,
but never number 1. He always started off
with number 1 to the point where the
person who heard it knew what was coming
next. But out of respect wouldn't say anything
because he knew what the Prophet alaihis salatu
wa sallam was doing. And on the day
that he actually gave all 8 paragraphs which
is the day of Arafah specifically.
He said,
Oh, people listen to me and understand what
I'm going to say, because who knows? There's
a possibility
that we never meet again in a place
like this, in a similar setup ever again.
He was already explaining to people alayhi salatu
wa sallam, this is probably the last time
I speak to people to you in this
and it was.
He only addressed a small congregation in his
Masjid a few
a month later, a few times. Meaning he
was talking to maybe a 100 people, talks
to 100 people, But not that moment he
spoke to a 100,000. You and I are
the the the descendants of those people. This
is what he was telling your grandfather and
your grandmothers, what he was telling all of
us. He said, Alayhisratu asrama yuhanas
Atadruna
aya yominhada
faqaduhada
yomu arafah. He said, You know, O people
what day it is today. So they say,
It's the day of Arafah.
So he repeated the question.
He
turned towards a different group and they said,
And when some people said, Maybe maybe he
meant that the days are changing.
And they would ask the question again a
third time,
Maybe he wants to change the name of
this day. Maybe Islam is gonna change the
name of this day.
So we stopped answering with Yom Arafah or
Yom An Nahal or whatever or Yom Jumuah.
We stopped answering. We said, Allah and His
Prophet know best.
This is a sacred holy day.
This is a sacred and holy day.
You know what month this is? Well, that's
easy. It's their hija. So the answer so
he repeated the question to another group, and
he repeated it again.
It's a sacred and holy month, it's a
month Ashurul Haram.
And then he asked,
Do you know what country this is? Do
you know what area and space? What city
this is?
He's not answering questions. This is they start
telling him this is the name of the
area that we're in, and he would repeat
the question 3 times,
and then he would answer himself and he
would say,
This is sacred
country, it's a sacred space.
It's a sacred space. You see the sanctity
of that moment that's why this moment is
a the holiness of that moment.
It's a holy day
in a holy month
on holy land with the person who was
speaking, the most holy person that ever lived
alaihis salatu wa sallam, coming from his holy
mouth alaihis salatu wa sallam. You understand that
Hajj with Muhammad alayhis salatu wa sallam on
the day of Arafah in the month of
Dhir Hijjah on the land of Makkah?
But more How many How how much more
can you compound sanctity in one moment?
Then he would say
and then he would repeat it 3 times.
He would say, Alaihisra, indeed
the sanctity of your lives,
the sanctity of your wealth, the sanctity of
your integrity,
of your well-being
is more sacred than the sanctity and the
holiness of this holy day, in this holy
month on this holy land.
Allahalbalaqut
have, I explained Myself well, that He would
wait for the people to go into the
crowds and ask the question. And the answer
would come, Allahum manaram, yes we understand. Yes
we understand. And He would turn to the
sky
and say, Allahum Mafashad. Oh Allah be my
witness. I told them I told them that
their lives are more sacred than Makkah and
Arafa and Dhul Hijjah and Yom An Nahar
and Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa sallam and everything
that comes with it. The sanct the sanctity
of the one life of one life is
more sacred than all of this holiness put
together.
That's what he explained to us alayhis salaam.
He wanted to make sure that that message
was clear before he died. Why? Because before
he went to his Lord, before he went
to Ar Rafi Al A'la where he was
going to be treated in accordance to his
status alayhis salatu wa salam, he had to
make sure that he left with us the
really important piece of information that we needed
to understand, that the sanctity of human life
is more important than anything else. Or you're
gonna be How upset would the Muslims be
if they bomb the Kaaba? Or if they
took away from us our Hajj? Or if
they took away No. It's not as bad
as what they've been doing for the 9
last 9 months. It doesn't even come close
because one life
one life is worth all of that. Imagine
all of these
lives. Imagine all of these innocent lives being
taken. All this blood being unjustly spilt.
He told us.
He told us. And
he you he told us in a way
that was
it's undisputable.
It's undebatable
because everyone at that moment felt the sanctity,
the holiness of that moment.
You're sitting there. It's towards the end of
his life.
20 years of a struggle
comes to an end. He's tired.
It's been a long time coming.
A 100000 people are at his feet listening
to him.
Not too long ago, he stood alone
with a few people who were being persecuted.
But now,
coming full circle Full circle he's back at
this time he is not weak, this time
he is not being told, he's not being
cursed out by his own family member, he's
not being not trying to kill him. They're
not trying to take away his home. They're
not trying to harm his companions. No. This
time he comes in and he has more
followers than Arabia has ever seen. A Hajj
that has never been anything's no Hajj has
ever been similar.
There had never been up to that moment
a Hajj that was so busy where you
couldn't move, where you couldn't walk with the
prophet, where people were finding it, it was
never like that.
Coming full circle, he would stand there alaihis
salatu wa sama will look at people and
tell them the sanctity of your lives amongst
one another.
The sanctity of the person sitting beside you
right now. The person beside you right now,
the holiness of his wealth, of his integrity,
of his life is more holy than it
because everyone sitting there were like, wow this
is very holy. Look at this, it's the
day of Arafah, it's the day of Jumuah,
it's the month of Dhul Hijjah. This is
Arafah, this is Makkadah Rasulullah
Imagine the beauty, imagine the majesty of that
moment, the significance, the magnificence.
He takes all of that magnificence, all of
that sanctity. He takes it all alahis salatu
wa salam. He says, you see all of
it.
The person beside you is more sacred than
all of it. Tell me that doesn't mean
something.
Tell me that how could how is that
not clear? How could we not oh, I
don't understand. I don't understand how Muslims that
was not he did it in a way
that he repeated this every single chance he
had for the next 5 days.
He will continue alaihi salaam and I'm sorry
we're running out of time, but I'll share
with you 2 more pieces
that he said here. So he stood
and he said, paragraph number 4,
or paragraph number 5. Sorry.
Imagine this God. He never said anything similar
to this in his life, alayhis salaatu wa
sama. He lived it. He lived it, alayhis
salaatu wa sama salatu wa sama for sure.
He lived it. But then at the end,
he had to just bring
it bring it closure. You say, look, just
just in case it's unclear to you. Just
in case you have just in case you
haven't picked it up after all the years
of teaching and reading the Quran and watching
how I live, I'm gonna make it very
clear to you. Oh, people indeed, your Lord
is but 1 and your father is but
1.
You all come from Adam. Adam comes from
the soil of the earth. There's no advantage
for a Arabi over a non Arab, or
a non Arab over a Arab, or a
white man over a black man, or a
black man over a white man. There is
no advantage for anyone over anyone except through
taqwa. And taqwa is something that only Allah
sees and the best of you are the
ones who have more taqwa in their hearts.
Indeed have I
conveyed the message. And then they galloped into
the groups again.
Into the crowds, they would gallop again saying
these words.
And they would say, allahum manam. Yes. And
he would say, allahum, afashadu, allah, be my
witness. I told them. I told them that
there is no that they are 1. They
are 1. They are 1 big family.
They are especially this Ummah. This Ummah is
1 big family that agrees on the fundamental
answers to fundamental questions.
This Ummah specifically is an Ummah that agrees
on the basics, that knows where it's going,
that knows what it's Iblah is, that knows
what legacy, what message it carries. We're one
big family, our father is Adam.
Imagine meeting Adam, You Mirkiyama.
Which of us has has more claim
on the
on our relationship with him. Does anyone Does
any of us When we see Adam and
we see Eve, Alayhi Salaam. Do any of
us Can anyone's gonna say I'm more related
to you than this person here?
No. We are equally related to them. We're
all just
think about that. That's what Arafah is. Arafah
is we go and we stand where they
stood.
We go and we stand where Adam and
Ahawah were reunited again, where where the story
of humanity began. So you can remember the
basics,
The basics of this being one human race,
we have to do what's in its best
interest. Even though amongst us are zalama,
even though amongst us there are oppressors, there
are transgressors, there are people who have very
little ethics, or have no moral compass at
all but they're still a part of this
big family. It's a miserable family but it's
a family all the same.
It's still a family. We're still brothers and
sisters whether you like it or you don't
like it. It makes no difference. We are
connected through blood. We are connected through Adam
and Hawa alayhi wasalam. And we are forced.
We have to as Muslims, we have to
carry the baton of the end of time.
We have to carry that with or you
unite people. We have to do what's in
the best interest of this human race.
That's what Islam is. Islam is the solution
to the struggles of this group of people.
And that's what he explained to us that
his thoughts was him. A final reminder that
you're all related.
Whether you are Arabic or something different, whether
your color is this or some other color,
regardless of where you come from, we're all
the same. We're all related, and we're all
equal. The concept of equality. Why is it
that some blood is is is valuable in
this world and others is not?
Why is it, it seems like the darker
the shade of your skin, the less value
your value where your blood is. Why is
that? That sounds horrible? It is horrible.
It is horrible. But it it is it
not the reality
of the world that we live in? Is
it not the reality that we're that we
live in that the leaders look at people
that way?
That people look at people. You remember what
happened when they first entered Ukraine? I remember
this. This will I will die and never
forget what I heard on TV that day.
I remember someone going around in this subway
area of the in in Ukraine and they
were going around and people are are are
absolutely
terrified from what's going on. And then they
of course they are swore. They lost their
homes. And someone's going around taking interviews from
the individuals in there. And one of the
people in there you know what they said?
They said, well, you know, this is not
acceptable. We're not the Middle East.
This is not acceptable. You know, for for
there to be war in our area and
for people to die like this. We're not
the Middle East. Really? You're not.
Yeah. So you know, indeed you're not. Indeed.
Indeed. And of course, that was proven later
on that they're not they're not the Middle
East. That's not gonna be allowed.
And we haven't even started to talk about
what happens in the African continent where the
majority of people there are also Muslims. We
didn't even start talking about that and how
that doesn't even make the news. At least,
Hassan makes the news. At least, we have
a media outlet that will cover what's occurring
there. But elsewhere, there's no there's no news
there. No one's even covering it. People are
dying into 100 of 1,000 and no one
even looks there.
That's not what he taught Alaihis salat wa
sif.
That's not what he taught. That's all I'm
here to say today. That's not what he
taught us.
I'll end with this.
Paragraph number 6 alayhi salatu wa sama will
say the
following,
Said indeed I am waiting for you upon
my base
and I want your numbers to be the
highest numbers. I want my followers to be
the most followers amongst all the other prophets.
So do not
It's a word that is said within Arabic
I mean within the Arabic language that means
don't make me look bad.
Don't make me look don't make me don't
embarrass me in front of all those I
am telling them is going to work out.
My followers will get it done. They will
carry this. They will take the legacy of
what I and they will carry it, and
they will fix the problems. And they will
bring to Allah all of his lost sheep.
All of the lost flock will be be
brought back by my by my followers. They
will go find their brothers and sisters who
are lost and they'll bring them back to
Allah. That's the idea here.
He said indeed on that day I will
save people from the hellfire. May Allah make
us amongst those.
May Allah make us amongst those who the
prophet
looks at us and calls us and he
saves us. But then he will try and
save some, but they'll be taken away from
him. He will try and pull them, but,
the Malaika will come and take them away.
So the prophet
will get upset. He will say, oh, You're
up, oh, my lord, Usay Habi, these are,
Well, they're not my actual companions, but they're
people who followed my companions.
They came a little bit later, but they're
they're still close enough. I know who they
were. I I I I know what they
did. They're a part of my ummah. Why
are they be being taken away? So the
malaika turned to him and they say, you
don't know what they did after you.
We use this always to talk about bidah,
and I think I I agree. But let's
zoom out for a second. Just zoom out
for a second in terms of understanding this
phrase. You don't know what they did after
you. You don't know how little they cared
about your teachings. You don't know how little
they spent how little time they spent learning
what it is that you stood for. You
have no idea how little time they spent
or how little energy they spent trying to
bring back
the the values and the principles and the
strength and unity of your ummah. You have
no idea how little they cared. No, they're
not. They're not a part of your legacy.
They're not a part of your ummah. They
acted like it. They they were in it
for the perks. They were hoping for you
to take care of them now but they
lived nothing like that. They didn't live like
you.
They didn't live like you, You Rasool Allah.
No one like the people who were with
you. They didn't live like you so they
don't get this here today. So he says,
Suhaka, take them away.
Take them away.
And if they if they try to fool
me, take them away.
If I after everything I left them, they
still didn't live the way I explained that
for them to look. They still didn't live
the way I explained to them. The way
I showed them. The way I lived myself.
The way I walked into this world and
walked out with nothing.
We don't understand that piece very often. We
don't think about it. Didn't
he didn't capitalize on anything. You know? Think
about that. Take that with you today when
you go home. He didn't leave he he
entered he lived poor
financially. He didn't have a lot of money.
He gave it all away. Right? He lived
like that. He never he never built capital.
When he passed away alaihis salatu wa sallam
he had pawned his own dirah.
His own shield. He had pawned it to
pay off someone else's debt because he didn't
have enough money to spend it for he
didn't have a the person who had the
debt was had more money than the prophet
alaihi sallahu alaihi wa sallam did. But he
came to him asking him, I want help
with my debt. So he pawned his dirra
and he took the money and gave it
to him. When he passed away his shield
was pawned, they had to go buy it
out.
Ali had to go buy had to go
buy it out so that they wouldn't lose
his shield.
And that's what we have to think about
really. We have to think about these are
the days where you take some time and
you make some decisions about what you're going
to do with your life moving forward.
Whether you're gonna live like him
and on that day you come to him,
he's waiting for you on his basin and
and you
and you're not pulled away from by someone
else and you're not someone who made him
look bad, alayhis salatu wa sallam. You did
you did you did well.
You did well. Good for you. You tried
hard and you you did well.
1 of 1 of 2 things will happen
on that day. 1 of 2 things will
happen.
And we have to understand the importance
of the sanctity
of one another.
If we just took that first piece and
thought about it, things would change internally within
our own within our own community would change.
If I start to see your integrity to
be that sacred,
then I would treat you differently. I would
think about you differently. I would take more
time to to assess your
your your inner feelings and and how you're
doing and I I actually care about it.
It would something important to me. I'll treat
you better. I'll be kinder. I'll be more
compassionate. I'll be more open hearted.
And then people overseas wouldn't wouldn't they wouldn't
this wouldn't happen.
This wouldn't have happened.
So may we learn his final sermon alayhis
salatu wa salam and may we take from
him the lessons that he left us. Tomorrow
is the day of Arafah so make sure
that you fast and make sure that you
spend that day in du'a and in dhikr.
In a recitation of the Quran, in all
good deeds you can think about. And if
you're capable of sending your Ubhayah overseas, this
is the time to do it. Ubhayah, you
can do it here and that's fine as
well and Allah subhanahu wa'ala will accept from
you whether you do it here. But if
you want to do it overseas, you wanna
send it to people who are suffering and
starving, then you're you're absolutely within your rights
with Islamically to do that as well to
support people who are in difficulty. We will
have, inshallah, a journey of Hajj lesson in
Arabic tonight after Salat al Maghrib, and then
tomorrow before before Maghrib, I'll have a journey
of Hajj lesson in English for those who
would
like to come and listen, to the journey
of Hajj and maybe the different tracks that
you can understand this beautiful this beautiful ritual
through. I hope that was a benefit
The aid fairs will be in different centers
and will be in the BMO. We won't
be having an aid obviously here. We'll be
I'll be going
and attending one of the aids, inshallah ta'ala,
at BMO, probably the early one. Hope to
see you inshallah there and and, and everyone.