Ahmed Suleman Khatani – Virtues Of Haj
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Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah, human should only Say
Allah ILAHA.
Hamid,
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mahalo elders
and Beloved
others
in Islam, all of us are aware
that our Deena Islam is based on five pillars, shalabha,
rasulallah. Islam is based on five things. One is the Shahadah La
Ilaha, illallah, Muhammad, rasulallah. The other is the
establishment of Salah, zakat, fasting, and the fifth pillar of
Islam is the armor of Hajj, or the obligation of Hajj. We have
entered into what we refer to as the AYA me hajj, the days of Hajj,
which start from the first of shawala.
We find that there are certain unique peculiarities that are
found with this tenet or commandment of Allah that are not
found in any of the other injunctions of Deen. First and
foremost, Hajj enjoys the exclusivity. In this sense. Imam
ghazari Rahmatullahi said that the culmination, perfection,
completion of Deena Islam occurred with Hajj.
It was in the ninth of zin Hijjah, after Asar salah,
that the verses of the Quran were revealed upon janagar, Rasulullah,
sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, which constituted the culmination
and the completion of Deen, wherein Allah said Ali Omar,
Akhal, tulakum, dinakum, WAM tu Ali, kunnamati, para vitula, Kumul
islama Deena.
Allama says that if you look into these verses of the Quran, first
and foremost, Allah makes an announcement. Ali OMA Akmal, Deena
Kum that today I have completed my Deen upon you
with this announcement, Allah Tala gives Basharat and grathiings.
Wa atman to Ali kumyamati, I have completed and perfected my nyamat,
my bounty upon you.
And then
one is announcement with it, Basharat and grathiings. Then a
seal is placed. What a way to lakumal Islam, ADINA, that
from now till Qi Ahmad, the only way that will be acceptable to me,
the only thing that I am happy with, the only thing that will
gain my closeness, My Mercy, my forgiveness, is Deena Islam, the
Mubarak way of life of janavi, Rasulullah sallallahu, alayhi wa
sallam. That is why, on that occasion of hajj, he said, tarakum
all Mahat, jatil, bhaiwa, leiloha, kanahariha, that I have left
behind me a way of life, Deena Islam, the practical day and night
of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, which is absolutely clear.
There is no ambiguity in it whatsoever. Like night is clear
and day is clear. In the same way my Mubarak way of light is clear.
La yazi, the
one will move away from this will be destroyed in dunya will be
destroyed in kabar will be destroyed in the hereafter.
Announcement, Basharat, glad tidings. Then a steel placed upon
this and then Quran gives a very grave warning. Wame, islamid deen
and falaqubalamin Deen has now been completed in Hajj upon
Muhammad Sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam, the.
And from now till qiamat, regardless of how much mankind may
advance technologically or scientifically, whichever age,
whichever era it may be, whether it is a camel age, the Space Age,
the rocket age, whether mankind walks on the moon, also from now
till qamit, unequivocally Quran has sounded out the warning that
the only way of life that will be acceptable in the court of Allah
is the pure and pristine and Mubarak way of life that was
practically shown to us by janai Rasulullah, sallAllahu, alayhi wa
sallam in every era, in every century, right up To Qi Ahmad.
This is the only way that will be accepted by Allah. This
culmination, this perfection, took place in hajj, in the Hajj of
Janabi, Rasulullah, sallAllahu, alayhi, wa sallam, Allah, say in
the entire Quran, if you look at the other pillars of Islam,
whether it is fasting, whether it is zakat,
whatever other pillars of Islam they are there Allah subhanho wa
Taala has not named the surah of the Quran after them. It is only
Hajj. The Allah Tala named the surah Suratul Hajj,
for Hajj. There is entire Surah of the Quran that is dedicated. Why?
Because this is where Deen reaches his culmination, where he reaches
his completion, where he reaches his perfection.
If you look in the Quran, when Allah the other tenets of Deen,
whether it is Salah, whether it is zakat, whatever it may be, the
manner in which it was made further, the manner in which it
was announced was different when he came to hide
after Ibrahim alaihi salam had completed the reconstruction of
the bay to Allah, which is referred to in the Quran while Ali
Ibrahim ama
Allah commands Ibrahim alaihi salam wa al Lin finna civil Hajj,
or Ibrahim,
extend the invitation of Hajj.
Invite humanity to perform Hajj. Give them the invitation to be
Allah.
Ibrahim alaihi salam
is given this command by Allah dala
AUD. Appears to be a simple command give the invitation for
Hajj to
understand his dilemma and
to understand his confusion. We should not look at Makkah
mukarrama In the present day context, but turn the clock back
4004 and a half 1000 years ago, to the maqam of that time which Quran
describes. Wa din vairi. Zhi Zara, a valley which has absolutely no
vegetation, no form of life, also in every direction, no water also.
WA din Zaidi Zara,
Ibrahim, alaihi salam, in the solitude of Islam, you and few
people, is commanded by Allah, invite the people to Hajj.
There's no mud system, no satellite dishes, no internet,
none of the modern means of communication are there. So he
says, Allah, I'm going to shout in a valley where there are no people
who is going to hear this announcement,
Allah said to him, Ibrahim, as in walegal,
your job is to extend the invitation, conveying the
invitation. In my job, Ibrahim,
alaihi salam climbs unto mount the mountain what we refer to as those
who have been to matkamu Kalama. It is a mountain where the king's
palace is situated. From the haram. You can see it. He climbs
onto that mountain
and he extends invitation. Yay, you are not
in Allah.
Oh, people, Allah is commanding you with the Hajj of a dullah. Why
not? Because Allah needs guests, but not
because you are going to benefit Allah in anyway.
Allah is running. Allah is calling you to be Allah. Why you? Tiva
kumbi, Hil, Jannah, WA Yuji Na,
because Allah wants to give you His gentleness,
and Allah A wants to save you from jahannam. This is why Allah is
calling you to be Allah,
Ibrahim, alaihi salam, a solitary individual extends the invitation.
Such is the effect. Miraculously, Allah makes it such that every
human being, man, woman, child, alive on the surface of the earth
at that time hears the invitation of Ibrahim. Alaihi
salam, every child teaches forming in the wombs of the mothers at
that time hears the invitation. And in Alameda, every soul that
will be born right up to Qi Ahmad.
Hears the invitation, Abu Dhabi salah,
and according to tofit and selection from Allah, the response
of these various individuals differed. Some remain silent. Some
said, Lebe, Allah beg, what does the mean? Coming? Yala, I am
coming. Some said, One, some two times, some many times, according
to topic and selection from Allah say according to the number of
times that the big was decided, whether it is the souls of
Alameda, whether it is defeated in the wombs of the mothers, or any
individual in the troubles of the earth, Allah took it upon himself
that that individual, that number of times, when he is born in this
earth, will make the suffer of Hajj for Allah.
So those who have proceeded, those who are proceeding this year
Inshallah, or those who have the intention already just that suffer
a Hajj. It's already an indication that many 1000s of years before
you were even born in this world, Allah selected you for the
suffered was faithful Allah,
this is one of the peculiarities, the special distinction which is
found in this Amal of Hajj wa as vin finnatibil had to carry
jalawalaji. Commands Ibrahim alaihi salam, Alam sudah Hajj.
Call the people towards Hajj. Ya tu Kari, jalawala, Ibrahim, they
will come to you.
Allah say it is doubtful whether even one person in the lifetime of
Ibrahim, alaihi salam accepted his invitation. Yet Allah saying, they
will come to you. It should have been to me. They will come to me.
They will come to my faith. Why does Allah say, Ya or Ibrahim,
they will come to you?
However, I explain that in recognition of the 120 years of
Quran, sacrifice of Satan. I primarily Salaam. Allah made him
the mehwan. Allah made him the host of every Hadith Ahmad, when
Allah said they will come to you. And normally, when you invite
somebody to your house, you have to prepare the house, or you have
to prepare the hall where the invitation is extended towards.
You have to clean it
for the adjuvant of the *, what position and what rank Allah gave
the * Allah. Allah says to Ibrahim, alaihi, Salam and ismail
Islam, such great personalities and fahiva, beiti, Dipa, if the
Quran, particularly primary Salam Sahir beithi wal kahimin Wakka is
to do that those who will come to be Allah for tawaf, for El Tika,
for ruku, for said Allah, for Salah, for ibadah. Allah puts the
broomstick in the hand of Ibrahim alaihi salam and puts the
broomstick in the hand of Ismail Islam, and say, You clean my house
for the huja
that are coming, such Asmaa. What's the law
said the * and the one who proceeds for Umrah, this is the
delegation of Allah. You are king him.
Whatever they ask Allah, Allah will give it to them. Whatever dua
they make, Allah will accept the DUA.
Man. That when
you have a function the special guest, that few special people,
their expenses also are paid
by I want you to attend this function. I'm sending the plane
ticket for you and why you are going to stay in my area. If it is
a hotel for you, you don't have to pay anything also.
This is the asmaadam says. Allah takes it upon himself, whatever
you will spend to proceed to wait Allah for Hajj Umrah. Allah gifted
upon himself ukli For alayhima and faku, whatever you spend, Allah
will give it back to you.
Allah will give it back to you. That is why navisa and said,
Make Hajj upon Umrah. Upon Hajj upon Umrah, if you have the
ability keep going there. Why? Because, like fire cleanses steel
of rust, the one who will proceed again and again to Batu Allah.
Allah will protect that person from poverty. In one way, why it
becomes? In one way, it becomes Allah will protect that person
from NIFA and hypocrisy,
the.
So to complete that, Hadith
says, Allah will give you back whatever you spend. But this is
Allah. So Allah will give, according to Ishan, every Dirham
you will spend, Allah will give you 1 million dirhams in
the tongue is Ibrahim invite the people to Hajj. They will come to
you walking. Quran mentions walking first. Why? Because the
walking * Abu
Asmaa, when
he is on his deathbed, try and appreciate the veracity of this.
This is a Jaleel qadal Sahabi of Nabi Salaam. He was bakhul alone.
He was an ocean of knowledge,
cousin of Nami salari on his death, where he gathers his family
members to give them wasI. At what wasI does he give them? He says
manhajam in matkata, marshy and
Ila mankarajam in makata. The
person who proceeds from Hajj Allah will give him for every
step, 700 rewards. Min hasanam,
700 rewards. Of the rewards of the haram. On his deathbed, he's
saying to his family members, so his family members ask him, haram,
what is the Hasanah of the haram? He says, one hasana is equal to
100,000 Hasanah. If a person proceeds on foot for Hajj, for
every step, Allah will give him 17 million
rewards. They will come on foot. They will come on lean camels. I
mean reflection really.
My respected brothers, every word of Quran is full of wisdom.
Hang on. Juma is very limited to go into this Muslim.
Every word is pregnant, voluminous meaning, salam, they will come to
you. Meaningful. Jinn, Amit. Faj means low ground amid means deep.
Quran is saying, when people come for Hajj, they will come from
deep, low places.
The rest of the dunya is fudges. The rest of the world is low
ground. Bela is alpha oval. Beto lie is the highest ground, the
purest, the highest. So the suffer of Hajj is a suffer from
inferiority to superiority. Is a suffer from the rest of the near
low ground to the high ground
and inwardly, inwardly the Hajj is carried out correctly. It is a
suffer from a low level of spirituality to a level of
perfection. That is why, when with the culmination of the Hajj, when
the * lives, Quran
says for either,
in Arabic, the word to leave is Khala jahut, Quran should have
said for either a kharajitum in Arafat, when you leave from Arafat
to return,
Allah doesn't say correct to Allah says for either a fat Tum. A fat
tum comes from IFA, which means to overflow. What does it mean when
you overflow from Arafat? Allah explains that if the khaji is
carried out correctly, then the love of Allah and the noor of
Allah and the Asmaa of Allah will enter into every vein, every cell,
every atom of the body of the Hadi, till his heart will overflow
with the love
of Allah. When you leave Arafat with your body brimming with the
noon of Allah. Now take the * of Allah and the Muhammad of Allah
and spread it to the entire world. That is why, if you look at the
gathering living Arafat, it looks like a well that is overflowing.
That is when Hadi is done with his haqiqat
sale Kulu Abu Asmaa abdlan, the
journey of the heart. The journey of the heart is more effective
than the journey of the body.
Come in while still in the
bodily healing. How many people they are that physically bodily,
every year they have been
how many people they are physically their bodies never
eaten Allah, but their hearts are cut off
from
the realm of Allah.
In Allah, and how many people they are that are 1000s of miles away
from faith Allah.
They are sitting in their homes, on their beds. They don't have the
means to go, but not for one second is their hearts of Allah.
The object is the journey of the heart.
There is a respected brothers, sign of this year
when Allah commanded you with salah,
Allah said in the Quran, akimu salah, established Salah
in the Salah the Canada, when Allah commanded you with zakat,
Allah commanded you
what fasting Allah said, but when
he came to Hajj, the whole mode of Quran expression changed in Salah
ATI, Salah zakat, zakat, fasting. Allah didn't bring his name, but
when he came to Hajj, Wali, Allah. Wali, lahi, Alan, Nasi, hedjil,
date manista, ahi, sarila, waman, kakala, Faye, nalaha, valiyyun,
Anil Alameen Allah brings his name, Wali Allah.
What does this wali Allah mean? Professor explains one meaning,
walillah. When you proceed for Hajj, you are proceeding on a
journey to meet your Allah.
The khajim is going to be to Allah to meet Allah.
That is why it comes in Hadith Hajar al Aswad Yamin Allah, he
feel Arab. You saw your habiha iba, you saw your ahadu Kumar is
the right hand of Allah on this earth.
Hajale ashwad is the right hand of Allah. On the third Allah will
shake your hand through the hazard like how one of you shakes the
hand of his brother.
It does not mean literally that Allah is shaking your hand. Wali
Allah, this is just for understanding.
Like when a person goes to the court of the king,
he shakes the Hand of the King. He kisses the Hand of the King. What
does it mean? It means he's handling himself over to the king,
pleading allegiance to the king that I am for now till I'm handing
myself over to you
in a gut, in the same way, understand that is a commitment.
He's a renewal of that Earth. And also Allah,
have come to meet you. I've come to finish myself for you, Who is
Allah. On
one occasion, he's in kutama. He says, Allah has blessed me with
such knowledge, it is not because of myself. He says, in this mouth
of mine, this mouth my saliva has been mixed with the saliva of
Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam.
Because of that, Allah has blessed me with knowledge. One year money,
stood up deciding to test the knowledge of Ali adelawan, who his
intention was to try and disgrace Ali.
What is this question? He says, I have a question. Have you seen
Allah? Have you seen Allah?
What does Quran sayful Khabib, the eyeballs cannot encompass Allah.
The mind cannot imagine Allah a lie beyond all this.
Ali, response to this Yemeni, he says, yes, if I had not seen
Allah, I will not have worshiped him.
This Yemeni is stunned. What do you mean? Owali, what do you mean?
He says, lam talayun,
i
He says, the
eyeballs have not seen my Allah, but the heart. My heart has seen
Allah with a happy cut of iman. My heart is one. There is no equal to
him. My RAB is alone. There is no partner with him. My rabbi is
alone. There is no stability with him. No logic can explain his
greatness and no imagination can clothe him in a form that is
justification of his asmaath and his kibayai.
This English language is a cripple. Language cannot explain
what this response of aliadeloan was, but it was sufficient to make
that yemani fall unconscious, and when he recovered, he said that.
Make Tama for trying to make a fool of you that alone you are
going to meet
ordinary functions that's taking place before a person proceeds.
What does he do? Prepares himself, mentally, prepares himself
physically. I'm going to so such an important function. Allah says,
Your journey for Hajj to my house. Wali, Allah, you are coming to
meet your law. So prepare yourself in a manner that you are coming
before Allah. Please with Allah,
prepare yourself so that the presentation is in a manner where
Allah is happy with you.
Hand is not a routine. So just going to your in and year out. Oh,
my God,
belittles this
comes Abu Asmaa said, when the person goes and he makes things
say a he says, The hajale Aswad
has the capacity of sealing the heart of a person on that jajva,
which he comes with, if you are going to wait till Allah, and in
your heart is the love and the jasba of dunya, the Hajar ashwad,
will seal your heart on That and in your heart is that love of
Allah and the love of Rasulullah and the near what was the Amal of
Makkah? What was the what was the day and night of Muhammad? Thou
art infinity himself for the moment. He says, If your heart has
that jasmah, the hajale will seal your heart on the Jasmine.
He says, The question will make gush in the alleys and the galleys
of Makkah will get the Anwar rat of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam, because he went 10 to 10 in Mina. He went Galli to Galilee
Ali Dali of Ma he said, dead Anwar at and that rule, you will not
find it anywhere else in the world besides in Makkah. Yet, what do we
do in Makkah? What is our time spent in try and realize the value
of that place? We hear the Hadith over and over again. One Salah in
beitula, 100,000 salah. Have we thought about that?
What does it mean? It means you go to your local masjid and read
Salah for 55 years, six months and 20 days. It is equal to one Salah
in recollah
Five Salah in retola is equivalent to 277
years, seven months and 10 days of Salah.
Can we imagine the value of every second of the supper to
complete that. Hadith says only person makes this Tila muhajari
Aswad Allah empowered him. Then he sought his tawaf, not anyhow,
Allah saying that your tawaf around ventula is not in physical
tawaf. It is a tawaf of your heart around the ash of Allah. You are
imitating the Malaika which Allah SWT you serve behold of the hamdul
of the hymn Allah says on the Day of Judgment, you will see the
Malay of Allah, making Tawaf around the ash of Allah. That way
around is the tawaf of your heart around the ash of Allah, making
Kashi of Allah. It's a tawaf is carried out correctly. Every step,
70,000 rewards. Every step 70,000 sins. Right away, every step
70,000 zaraja is ranked and rank in Jannah raised up. And every
step, Allah will accept your sifari for 70 family members. And
the visa says, When you complete the tawaf and make Allah will give
you the reward as if you freed a slave from the progeny of Ismaili
Salam. And Allah will place a seal upon you that you are sinless
when these hours are carried out correctly. One
Allah. Allah says, one in law, Allah upon humanity, upon those
who are liability. Allah has made Hajj, purged upon you to proceed
to faith Allah, woman Kafala, Faye. Allah mean,
literally, Quran should have said those who do not make Hajj. Allah
is honey. Allah doesn't say those do not make Hajj. Allah says.
Woman kafara, the word Kuka is used Allama, saying that that
person who has the means and ability to go for Hajj
and dinezi for whatever reason and does not carry out this. Amal has
committed an act of
said that person who had the means and ability and does not make Hajj
avaitullah, then he does not matter to me whether he dies as a
Yahudi or he dies as an Aswani.
So this attitude of ours, my respected brothers, of delaying
this great Amal. Those who have the ability we should make Toba,
there are no guarantee. As quickly as possible we should try to
undertake this journey.
And one is Hajj, anyhow. Another is the reality of Hajj. Time has
passed until on some other occasion we were discussing detail
and terminate on one incident from the lines of the Philippine which
makes us understand what is Hajj.
Mali bin dinar Ahmadu Ali says,
On one occasion, I was proceeding for Hajj. It was late at night, I
saw one youngster. He had his hands raised in Goa.
He was making dua mana.
TauR
was
making Goa, oh, my Allah,
Ibadah pleases you. Guna does not harm you. Grant me what pleases
you and forgive me What does not harm you.
Then he was putting on his harm. People were reciting Lape. This
youngster was silent. Mani vidina said to him, why don't you recite
the Lebe? He says, I am afraid. What are you afraid of? He says, O
Malik, don't you also fear that you are going to shout LaVey,
allahuman, that Allah can see your sins of the past. May Allah can
see the love of dunya that is densed in your heart, with the
love, with the Ghandi, with the first of the attachment of dunya,
you are going to his pure house, and you are shouting, Allahu, AK.
How do you know he is accepting your lovebey, he
says, I was very affected by the response of this youngster. I
didn't see him after that. I only saw him on the 10th of zin Hijjah,
after the qurbani, I came across this youngster. He was crying, and
he was saying, Allahu was a hollow the other people have made
qurbani. They have made Ibadan. Me.
I have nothing to present
to you today. Gives me beside my own body,
all life, set my life for you, for Shahid, for me. He let out a
scream and passed away on the spot,
like the court says, The * one in Amari Wafi will have you just
me all Ali yukni, Anil jadari, he says, oh my Allah, not the Kawa,
not sahi, not Safa, not narma, not arapath. Is my goal. Ya Allah, you
are only my goal. And the kurdani, anyone is my own body which does
not need the knife of the Bucha. Ya Allah, I am prepared to pass
the knife over my love for your sake. That is the haqiq and
reality of Hajj, those who are proceeding humble achieve is made
sit in the company of Allah. I cannot spend some time in the path
of Allah. Prepare ourselves. Don't go empty handed. Try and
understand the Asmaa of that place. Inshallah, program also
will be taking place Hapa six on Thursday, Hilal, from upper six
onwards. We should try and attend and encourage