Bilal Assad – Hajj & Its Significance
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Brothers and sisters, today we'll take a break.
I wanna talk about
a bit about Hajj,
and
the significance of the different practices
and rituals
that we do in Hajj. And I wanna
bring it to what it means to us,
as a whole community
of believers, what what does it mean? What
does it signify?
With a little bit of history, and then
we're gonna go on to talk about the
significance of these 10 days of Dhul Hijjah
that we are currently in.
And also the day of Arafah,
followed by the
practices surrounding
Eid al Adha,
the uthiya korban or korbani, some people call
it, sacrifice.
All of its conditions.
So we're gonna have fun tonight inshallah.
We'll leave the questions to the end. Of
course, if there are any questions that you
need to
me to clarify, just to clarify,
you can just put your hand up, I'll
clarify it for you. But we're not going
to ask,
we're not gonna sidetrack with with questions while
I'm giving the talk. We'll leave that to
the end, inshallah.
I don't know if some if a brother
here has any connection with our sisters upstairs,
someone can send
questions through their
phone, if you have a mother or a
sister or daughter or someone upstairs,
or even if sisters wanna throw papers.
Please don't put rocks in them or anything.
I assure you your husband's a good man.
No one got it? Okay, I'll move on.
Bismillah Alhamdulillah Wassa Allahu wa Salamu wa Salam.
So Insha'Allah, let's begin with a verse of
the Quran about Hajj, Hajj pilgrimage.
Chapter 22 verse 27, Surat Al Hajj, Allah
says,
and publicly proclaim
pilgrimage
and publicly proclaim pilgrimage for all mankind, so
that they come to you on foot.
And mounted on lean camels from every distant
point
to witness the benefits in store for them,
and pronounce the name of Allah during the
appointed days,
over the cattle that has he has provided
them.
So eat of it and feed the distressed
and the needy.
Thereafter,
let them tidy up and fulfill their vows
and circumambulate
the ancient house.
So my brothers and sisters,
the ancient house
is in Makkah,
the Kaaba
is its center.
And when you hear in the Quran,
the ancient house
or
the sacred house,
all of this means
the territory
of the sacred,
peaceful, tranquil,
sanctified
sanctuary which Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala made, which
we call today Al Haram.
In the center of it
is the Kaaba.
So
Hajj,
as you heard we're going to discuss what
we just read.
What is Makkah?
What is the Kaaba?
And what is Hajj?
As we said, Mecca
is the holy city,
the most holiest city or the most sacred
city
for the Muslims and for the world,
followed by Madinah, the second,
and then Jerusalem, Baytul Maqdis
is the third, or Masjid Al Aqsa.
One single prayer, farduk prayer, in Mecca
is equal to 100,000
prayers anywhere else.
And 1 single farduk prayer in Madinah
is equal to some narration said 500, others
said a 1000.
And one prayer
in Baytul Maqdis is 500.
The Kaaba
is
the cube shape
that you see covered with the black
kiswa, the curtain that's over it.
And underneath there are bricks,
brown
People built with brown bricks, doesn't really matter
what color they are. Originally it was rectangular
built by prophet Ibrahim alaihis salam and his
son Ismael.
This is all in the quran of course.
We all know the story.
But over time,
the rectangular shape was turned into a cube,
squarish shape.
And that's why you see, if you've seen
an image of it, there is a semi
circle
around the side
of the Kaaba, which is called Hejur Ismail.
The little room that prophet Ismail
used to sit and pray in.
That section there is actually part of the
entire kaaba.
So whoever prays inside of it, you can
face in any direction you want.
If you pray on top of the roof
of the Kaaba, you can pray in any
direction you want. This could be a little
quiz that you can play sometimes with your
kids and say, where is the only place
that you can pray in any direction?
And then finally, you tell them inside of
the Kaaba are on the roof.
So why
did it change to a cube?
Since it was rectangular.
I just wanna make a very important point
that we can understand a good lesson from.
The prophet peace be upon him said to
his wife, Aisha radiAllahu anha,
if your people that's how they used to
speak, meaning his people and her people.
If they were not still new to Islam,
if all this whole Quran and this message
wasn't new to them,
I would have demolished
the current Kaaba and its shape because it
was cubed.
1400 years ago in his time. And I
would have restored it and constructed it the
way it was in the time of Ibrahim
alaihis salam, rectangular.
But he left it at that because the
people weren't ready to accept
that fact.
They would have chucked an uproar.
And we learned from here that if there
is something
that can be changed to better,
but by changing it, it'll cause
a bigger harm, such as chaos,
then leave it as it is until the
right time.
So was it changed
to a rectangle at one stage? Yes. Twice
in the history of the Khalifa
later
on, after the 4 Khalifas.
It was changed twice, then returned to a
cube, the next Khalifa would do that, then
changed to rectangle, then changed to a cube,
until I forgot which Khalifa said, that's enough.
We we gotta stop playing around with this.
I guess it's just gonna have to be
a cube. And it stayed like that till
now, but we know that the semi circle
is part of it. It has one door
that enters, the other door and exits from
the out from the other side. And it
used to have 300 and something
idols inside of it and around it until
Rasul salaahu alaihi wa sallam entered
back and they destroyed all the idols
we pray towards the Kaaba as a direction,
just a symbol of direction.
In fact, we used to pray
in which direction before the Kaaba. Does anyone
know
which way? Obviously, direction of the Kaaba in
Arabic is called qiblah.
Did does anyone know where the qiblah was
at the time of the prophet
before we prayed to the Kaaba?
It will be led to Jerusalem, to Al
Aqsa.
Was it always to Jerusalem and how long
was it?
The Muslim in the time of Ibrahim alaihis
salam, Abraham, 4,000 and something years ago,
all the people prayed in the direction of
the Kaaba of Makkah.
But when the Israel Israelites came, Bani Israel,
and we all believe in Bani Israel, who
are the children of Ya'akov alaihis salam, Jacob
and the rest of the prophets, all the
way up until,
all the way up until
Jerusalem is a holy land for a holy
city, as Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala called it.
And then when the
children of Israel's
reign and,
what do you call it, the the authority
and leadership
came to an end,
the qibla was changed from Jerusalem
back to
Makkah, back to the Kaaba.
I wanna talk about this a little bit.
As for Hajj,
Hajj is a pilgrimage.
It is compulsory upon every muslim,
every muslim, male and female,
once they reach puberty,
to go to this Hajj, to pilgrimage which
literally means
Hajj literally means to face in a direction
lifetime,
whoever is able to what?
Able to what?
Able to?
Afford it? Able to?
No, not afford it. Able to?
Who
can literally translate that?
Because people, when they think of how do
they think money? Yeah. If you're in Australia,
it costs a man on a leg because
of the flights and accommodation.
But the meaning of the hadith is whoever
is able
to find a way there,
which means that if you can get there
in any way
that is
safe and sound for you, then go there.
So Hajj itself doesn't have a price. You
don't pay for it. But if you live
anywhere close and you're able to get there,
for whoever is able to get there. So
obviously, here in Australia and around the world,
it costs a lot of money to get
there. What is it now? 20
20,000 for
$30,000
almost. Allahu'an.
Oh, it's very hard.
So now we used to do, you know,
Mahar Mahar when people get married, they do
a dowry.
You know what Mahar is?
Bridal
gift. So in the past when they said,
my you know, the sister acts, masha'Allah, very
modest, some of them they say, I just
want Hajj. Now she says Hajj. It's not
very modest at all, isn't
it? 30 grand, man.
Alright.
In my village, in from Lebanon, 100,000 is
the minimum dowry.
So Hajj is still okay.
Hajj is a good mahar.
But $30,000
in it. 60,000 for 2 people.
Make it easy.
So the Hajj,
for a person who's able to get there
If a person cannot make it there and
they died and they haven't done hajj,
then from the mercy of Allah, someone else
can do the Hajj on their behalf.
It doesn't have to be a relative. It
can be anybody.
On one condition, that whoever does the Hajj
on behalf of the person who's passed away,
who couldn't do it,
they would have already done their Hajj first.
So you have to do your Hajj first,
then you can do a second Hajj on
behalf of someone who's passed away, and it'll
be it'll count.
And if you passed away while having the
intention to do Hajj, but you were unable,
it'll be written for you insha'Allah, according to
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's words.
The Hajj, my dear brothers and sisters, is
connected to the great prophet Ibrahim
alaihis salawam and his family.
And
it is the first holy place of worship
on earth.
The first holy place of worship
on earth.
Its foundations
were built or constructed or laid down by
prophet Adam, the first human being
according to the authentic hadith.
And Ibrahim and alayhis salam and Isma'il alayhim
as salam constructed the Kaaba onto this original
foundation. So when they dug deep, the narration
says
that they found
the
foundations of Adam alaihis salam. I'm not sure
if this is authentic, but they dug deep.
The point is, they built the Kaaba
together,
and there's a long story to it. I
just recited the verse from all around the
world. People started going
And the hearts
came attached to this place from all people
of the world. Muslim and non Muslim.
For 1000 of years.
Allah says in the Quran,
In chapter 3 verse 97 96, Allah says,
behold the first house of prayer established for
mankind is the one at Bakr.
So Mecca has several names.
Bakr is the ancient name of Mecca.
It is full of blessing
and a center of guidance for the whole
world.
In it, there are clear signs.
And the station of Abraham,
whoever enters it, becomes secure.
Pilgrimage to the house is a duty
owed to Allah
by all who can make their way
to it.
See why I said now? All those who
can make their way to it. As for
those who refuse to follow his command,
surely Allah does not stand
in need of anything.
Some people say why does god need us
to go to his house and pray towards
Allah doesn't need anything.
When you talk about someone who cares and
loves, they want the best for you.
Allah is the most caring and most merciful.
He wants the best for you. But you
have to do your part as well. You
have to want it. If you don't want
it, Allah says, well he's not in need.
What's he going to benefit if you go
or don't go?
So we learn tremendous lessons from this verse
alone. Let's go through it very quickly then
I want to discuss all the different practices.
What does it mean when Allah says,
this is the first house of prayer established
for mankind?
The reason that
this was revealed
and the reason why Allah says,
the first house of prayer
established for mankind,
is because this verse came down
in response
to refute
the jews who lived around the prophet, peace
be upon him,
and the pagan arabs
and the hypocrites,
when the qiblah,
the direction of prayer,
was changed from Jerusalem
to Mecca,
the qiblah.
The jews
said,
what made you change from Jerusalem
to Mecca? Said look at him,
he can't decide.
He's returning back to the religion of his
own people.
He
seems to have found some affection to his
people, so he keeps changing his religion.
So they made that claim and accusation.
And they also said, look at him, he
claims
that he is a follower of his forefather,
Abraham,
yet he changed from Jerusalem
to Mecca. The Jews were trying to say
that Jerusalem is the place of Abraham.
The people of Mecca,
the pagan Arabs,
they also accused the proper peace of Godin
when the kibla was changed.
They said,
oh,
I think this is a good sign.
Finally, Muhammad, salallahu alaihi wasallam, is coming to
his senses.
He realized that the Jews
weren't above us in knowledge and he was
returning back to his
origins,
his people.
So for both of them, for the Jews
it meant Obviously, they were always trying to
accuse and then put fitna, they're just trying
to cause trouble.
They made it
into a progeny thing, a lineage, an ethnicity.
The pagan Arabs also made it into a
tribal thing.
As for the hypocrites, they said,
he can't decide which religion is right
and which qiblah is right. He's delusional.
So everybody wanted to
make a little issue. Just like today, whoever
wants to, doesn't wanna know the truth. They
just wanna pick on every little thing, just
to create chaos and problems.
So Allah sent this verse down by saying,
what are you guys talking about? Especially you,
Jewish people.
You know in your scriptures
that the first house of God that was
laid on earth was not Jerusalem.
It was Mecca, it was the Kaaba.
And
the
That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala points out in
other verses, he says,
you all know
that the house in Jerusalem
was not established
until
about,
450
years after Moses
by prophet Solomon.
And this is in the bible,
in 1 kings
chapter 6 verse 1,
where it says that it was during this
time worshipers of Allah started praying towards
Jerusalem.
And also in 1 king's,
in the bible,
chapter 8, verse 29 and 30,
Jerusalem was after Moses.
So where do people worship before that? The
original house,
which was built by who?
By Abraham. Ibrahim alaihis salam.
And we know that the Arabs in the
arab peninsula, it's undisputed
that the Kaaba and Matqah was established by
prophet Ibrahim alaihis salam.
800 or 900 years before prophet Moses.
Before prophet Moses.
The prophet
had gone to Medina
and up to this time was praying towards
Jerusalem about,
maybe
maybe
within within a few years, Rasool salallahu alaihi
wasallam, maybe 16 months,
he was looking at the sky
and Allah knew
that prophet Muhammad, salallahu alayhi wasalam,
was after something. He was after a revelation
for something, but he's too embarrassed to ask
Allah. So Allah knew what he wanted.
What did he want?
Allah says in the Quran,
in chapter 2, verse 144.
We see you
often turning your face towards the sky.
Now
we are turning you to the direction that
will satisfy you.
Turn your face towards the holy mosque and
wherever you are,
turn your faces
towards it in prayer.
Those who have been granted the scripture,
certainly know that this injunction to change direction
of prayer
is right
and is from their lord
and is not heedless of what they do.
Allah is telling the prophet
we see you often
turning your face towards the heavens
and now we shall turn your face towards
a direction that satisfies you.
Is telling us that Rasool salaam was expecting
this to come soon. That soon the qiblah
should be changed from Jerusalem to Mecca. Why?
Because as I said before,
the era of the Israelite leadership
at that point had come to a termination.
And this verse is saying that Allah knows
the prophet's feeling,
that since the termination of israelite leadership,
era had now come, the central position of
jerusalem had also seized.
And the need to return
to the original center
of the Abrahamic mission
have to commence.
So
why are we praying towards gaba? It's the
original place of
the original dawhid, the monotheistic,
abrahamic faith.
Right from the beginning.
Now of course brothers and sisters, Allah says
in other verses,
anywhere you
face,
you are facing Allah.
What does it mean? It means Allah doesn't
really need us to pray or face towards
a particular direction in order to
prove that we're praying to him. Yes, he
commanded us towards the Makkah. But let's say
you're in the desert,
or you're in a place where you don't
know which direction
Makkah is or Kaaba. You don't. It's cloudy.
You don't have your phone. You don't have
a compass. You got nothing.
Allah says in the Quran, wherever you face,
that is correct. So at the end of
the day, it's not the Kaaba that makes
your prayer right or wrong.
It's worshiping Allah, obeying Allah, following what he
told us. We don't worship a brick house.
The other purpose of facing towards the qiblah
is to unify
the Muslim Ummah, to unify
our identity,
brotherhood,
sisterhood,
community,
The togetherness.
When when when someone becomes a Muslim,
or you weren't religious and you repent,
not only do you feel a fraternity, a
brotherhood, a sisterhood around you in your community,
also, even if you're at home and by
yourself,
even if you don't know anybody among the
muslims,
the fact that you face in a specific
direction,
with the rest of the nearly 2
1,000,000,000 muslims, if they all prayed. Let's say
1,000,000,000.
At least with the entire muslim world,
you are together with them 5 times a
day.
There is nothing like this in the entire
world.
No religion in the world has this
in the same way.
So the brotherhood and sisterhood bond that we
have
is not only physical
but it is spiritually together.
Mentally together.
Emotionally together.
It's the strongest bond of brotherhood and sisterhood
to exist
in the history of humankind.
And it is Allah who called us,
the believers, as brothers and sisters.
Before
Muhammad salallahu alaihi wasalam, anyone who followed prophets,
they were brothers and sisters, but there were
tribes,
separate.
But when Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa sallam came,
and the tibla was changed to Makkah, and
the Hajj was reestablished properly,
of course it was always being practiced, but
now it was practiced with monotheism. Before it
was practiced with polytheism, with worshiping different idols.
And they worshiped and they did things terrible.
It got to a point where the pagan
harabs of Mecca used to charge money
in the name of the gods and say
you've gotta
use,
pure
clothing,
you know, to circumvent that around the Kaaba.
So the poor people who couldn't afford
the clothing that the Meccans provided, they said
our clothing is the pure one, we are
custodians of Mecca. And they couldn't afford the
clothing, the shroud that we wear when we
do some circumambulation,
the ihram.
They started circumambulating
naked.
There came a time they were circumambulating around
the Kaaba.
Some people without any clothes.
Until islam came and said what's this business?
People were commercializing
Hajj and making money off it in the
name of the gods
and so on. So Islam came and made
everybody equal. The poor, the rich, the big,
the small,
the high, the low, the successful, the non
successful, the one who had a status, then
everybody.
The one who didn't, the king and the
peasant, everybody was the same.
There were no peasants anymore. We were all
equal.
So Hajj, my dear brothers and sisters, is
the strongest
symbol today
of our identity
and our unity
as equal brothers
and sisters.
In this verse
it says
in there
are clear signs
with the station of Abraham and proof it
is chosen by Allah as a sanctuary. How
do we prove that? What do you mean
that in there, there are clear signs? Clear
signs of what?
Clear signs that it is a safe, peaceful
sanctuary,
and that it is sacred.
Allah tells us there are signs. What are
these signs?
Well you have to know a bit of
its history and when you go there, you'll
understand.
Even if you see it on
social media, you can tell.
1,000,000 people will be going around together. Men,
women and children.
And they come out all in one piece.
Beautiful in harmony.
The way you
make tawaf and circumambulate.
The way Allah has designed. The way we
walk together. The way we enter. The way
we exit.
You enter and exit peacefully.
Tranquil.
There's nothing like this in the world.
Number 1,
despite being in the heart
of a wide expanse of dry desert,
Mecca,
its inhabitants
have always lived
and enjoyed
a satisfactory life of peace
and quality of life
throughout the 1000 of years since the time
of Abraham at Asena. Number 2,
how is it a clear sign of sanctuary?
Although the rest of Arabia
were plunged
in chaos
and fighting
and disorder all around Makkah, the whole Arabian
Peninsula,
for 2 and a half
1000 years
they were in
chaos up until prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam came along.
Peace and tranquility
always remained
in and around
the city of Makkah.
That was never disturbed.
Can you imagine that? The third sign,
the entire Arabian peninsula
enjoyed 4 months,
4 months
of peace and order every year,
which was called al ashrulhurum.
In english, the 4 sacred months,
when people went to pilgrimage.
They are Rajab,
Dhul Qadah,
Dhul Hijjah and Muharrah. They're called the sacred
months. Even till today, they exist.
So
whenever
these sacred months came along,
the Arabs respected
it. No one was allowed to fight anyone
else. They laid down arms and said, let's
just wait until the 4 months are over.
Ashurul Khurrul. So it's a place of sanctuary
that governed a lot of the peace.
Number 4,
50 years before the Quran was revealed,
the incident of Abraha. Remember the
ethiopian king, Abraha, who brought the elephant, wanting
to destroy the Kaaba, and we have a
whole surah about it and the birds came
and dropped
those rocks, those burning rocks and Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala protected the Kaaba. You might be
saying, why wouldn't it happen now anymore? Because
in those days there was no one to
protect the Kaaba. There were no monotheists, there
were no
worshipers of Allah that protected it. So Allah
took it upon himself. But now after Muhammad
salallahu alaihi wasallam,
Allah guaranteed the ummah, the nation or the
community of Muhammad salallahu alaihi wasallam will never
die. To
the toward the end of time.
There will always be standing. Therefore Allah put
that responsibility upon us. We protect it. It's
on our shoulders.
And if we are not united, and if
we disperse and we start fighting each other,
that's when
even Mecca itself
could be at risk.
So now
but so long as its sanctuary is there,
there is a good sign that there is
hope in this Muslim ummah.
This is what it means.
Number 6,
pre Islamic era, which we call the age
of ignorance, Asur jahiliyah.
Those who thirsted for each other's blood saw
their enemies in the sacred territory,
but would not dare to attack them.
So as you can see, this is what
it means when Allah says, fihi ayaatun
bayinat.
Inat there are clear signs. Clear signs that
it is a sanctuary.
And you know, there is the famous proverb,
all roads lead to Mecca. Have you heard
that one before?
Never heard of all roads lead to Mecca?
What about,
what about,
many roads lead to Mecca?
No?
No? You guys gotta read hot.
So the the proverb, all roads lead to
Mecca, because Mecca was known for you can
enter it from all directions.
South,
North, South, East and West. They had many
doors. The proverb means
that,
there are many pathways
to your goals.
So Allah made this central place.
Let's now move into the story
of how this whole story began. You all
know it, but I wanna emphasize on a
few things. The place that I wanna start
with the history of this beautiful place
starts with 2 people.
Very simple, 2
people.
They were just
they were weak
compared to the rest. They had no army.
They had no
power.
It was one
woman and her baby child.
Have you ever thought about that?
Yeah. Every day
there are at least
300,000
people
in this place Mecca everyday.
Everyday.
And right now in Hajj,
a minimum of 2,000,000 people to 3,000,000
Never
or I don't know of any history when
people never circumambulate around the Kaaba, night or
day, 247.
Except when there was a flood one time
and even one Sahabi,
he swam around it.
Which shows you can make bawaf swimming,
or riding on your camel, or even in
your car.
They have it now. They've got buses on
the top. Have you seen it? They circle
over there with buses now. The point is,
this
humongous
this place in the middle of the desert
started off
with 2
physically weak people.
A mother
who had just given birth
to an infant baby. Her name was Hajar
alaihassalam
and the little baby's name was Ismaeel alaihassalam.
What happened?
Prophet Ibrahim
is her husband and prophet Ishmael
is his son. He had another child named
Ishaq
and another wife named
Sarah.
All of them did Hajj. In our Islamic
books, all of them did Hajj. All of
them respected it. Not just Isma'in, but Ishaug
and Sarah and all of them, alaymus salam.
Ibrahim alayhis salam was ordered by Allah
to take his wife, who was previously
a slave of a king in Egypt, a
tyrant king.
And,
he freed her,
and Prabhu Abraham alayhi salam married her as
a second wife. She was gifted by Sarah,
who was who Hajar was originally her slave.
She freed her and gifted her to prophet
Ibrahim alaihi sallam to marry her because she
was felt sorry for Ibrahim alaihi sallam. They
had grown old in age and couldn't have
children yet. So he married her and had
Ishmael. And afterwards, he had Ishaa.
So Allah found that I told him, you
have to go and take Hajar and Ishmael,
your first newborn son. Ibrahim al Salam was
over 80, 90 years old.
In the middle of the desert. You got
to leave him there and walk back. Don't
even say a word.
Nothing.
So we took his wife and son, they
didn't know where we were going. He placed
them in the middle of this desert.
Not a single
soul other than them. Nothing. Not even water.
Just vultures and beasts.
They sat down, he got up and started
walking away.
Hananja saw him. She understood what that meant
by her husband.
So she hurried
up to him and said
Ibrahim,
in her own language of course, it was
in Arabic.
Who are you leaving us to?
And he wouldn't reply.
He just kept walking not looking at it
because he doesn't wanna feel compassion
which will make him disobey Allah. He obviously
he won't
but he has to obey Allah with no
hesitation.
Yeah Ibrahim ila man tatrukana,
who are you leaving us to? To? Who
are you leaving us to? Just answer me.
He wouldn't reply. He just kept walking. Not
a single sound.
It's very terrifying.
And then,
because she's pious and she's knowledgeable,
she stopped and asked him one question.
Was it Allah who commanded you to do
this?
And he only said one word,
ajal, yes.
She stood back,
went sat back down and she said one
word.
Therefore,
Allah
will not leave us.
Allah
will not lose us.
The reliance on Allah.
Yeah, and she's like a single mother,
modern day single mother,
left alone,
with no child support,
with no
housing,
with a husband who just Yeah. Of course,
I'm giving a modern day example. Ibrahim alaihis
salam would never leave him. This is the
command of Allah.
But it's like modern day, a single mother
with no child support, no housing,
the father of her child has just abandoned
them with no whereabouts, don't know where he's
gone.
And she's alone with no support whatsoever.
Not even a refuge.
In the middle of the desert.
But Allah doesn't leave
her because she relied on it.
Of course, she kept doing things.
After the food ran out and her milk
ran out, they got hungry,
she started to run
between
2 little hills called Safa
and Marwa.
There's about 500 meters between them.
Maybe, maybe I exaggerated, maybe 250 meters between
them.
And she would go up, suffer,
and she would walk back, looking at her
baby, and there was a ditch, like a
little
ditch in the ground which she went
underneath and then she would run that ditch.
Why she would run? Because she couldn't see
her baby, so she would run it.
To get back up, see if her baby's
alright on the floor. She'd go to the
next one, Marwa, look around.
Back and forth, back and forth, doing exactly
that.
On the 7th time,
she was at Marwa and she heard a
noise
where Ismael was. So she said to herself,
Sa
Sa. Shh. Shh. When a person's spent time
alone, they talk to themselves. She goes, shh.
She went back and what did she see
according to Islamic traditions?
She saw
water.
Water gushing.
A very big water gushing from underneath the
ground,
near the feet of the baby Ishmael alaihi
wa sallam.
Our traditions from the prophet says
that Jibreel alaihis salam
descended
in a form of a of a man
and he stamped his foot near
Ishmael's
feet
and out of it came gushing water.
Now because he was so huge, he was
about to create a river.
Hajar started to gather the soil and the
rocks to make it smaller.
And she would say the words,
Maybe it was their language,
but from here the name, Zamzam
came out. That's why we call it zamzamwara.
Which means shrink shrink.
So it was bigger and it shrunk.
And the prophet feisty of an im does
make a remark. He says, may Allah have
mercy on our mother. Hajar, had she not
sit to the water, shrink,
it would be far and wide feeding
and giving water far and beyond. I don't
know what that means, but what happened that
day, the water shrunk.
Until today brothers and sisters,
nearly 4,500
years later,
this zen zen fountain and the well
has not decreased
even
an inch.
It is exactly flowing as it always
flowed. And they don't know where the water
is coming from. A lot of research has
been done these days.
I don't know if you read about it.
There's a lot of research on the internet.
You can look how much they're doing of
Zamzam water, its content, its ingredients, where it's
coming from, why is it continuing.
What they found was that it has many
streams. It comes from the different mountains all
around. 360.
They don't know exactly where it comes from,
but it comes from the mountains 360.
And no matter how much you take out
of it, it rises and it stops at
a certain level. It will not overflow.
It will never overflow. It stops. So there's
some kind of a balance in the earth
there that makes it stop there. Truly, and
it's it's a kind of miracle, if you
like. I mean, everything, every blessing is a
miracle. It's a blessing from
Allah and a sign.
And the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him,
said about Zamzamwara,
The best water on earth is Zamzam
and he said, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, having a
food benefit and a natural healer
for ailments.
Now I'm not sure about the first part.
It's the best water on earth, but certainly
the second part is authentic
and
graded
authentic in Sahih
by albani and others.
And there is also research at the moment.
I told you last time that I like
researching this place called PubMed.
It's, National Center For Biotechnology Information.
And I've got an article there, dated December
2020
22. It says, in response to a BBC
claim that Zamzam water was cancerous
of high serum
arsenic and nitrate contents, which made the UK
ban its import in in 2020. I'm sorry,
I said 22.
And this article refutes it, researched by 20
scientists.
And it's entitled Zamzam Water is Pathogen Free.
And then have all these big words,
and exerts tissue protective effects, relieving BBC
concerns. The conclusion is confirmed safety and beneficial
effects of Zamzam water for human health.
There is nothing
cleaner or,
yani. Zamzam water is one of the cleanest
waters on earth, naturally.
Rasool, salaam, called it, it carries food.
When you drink it hands up when you
drink Zamzam water, Like, the real stuff over
there, not the one imported from there.
And the hands go down there. Over there.
And when you when you get here, it
still has a bit of the taste. Right?
But the biggest benefit is when you drink
it straight from the fountain there or from
the Madinah or Mecca there. And if you
remember, it's quite heavy, isn't it?
It's not easy to swallow.
So
the proper peace be upon me and this
article actually
tested it to say it has a nutritious
value.
It's not just water.
There is we have a tradition about sahabin
and Abu Zar al Ghifari. Ever heard of
him? Abu Zar al Ghifari
When he first became a Muslim, he's got
a long story, I'll just summarize it. He
came to Makkah hearing about the messenger shalallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
and in that time, Islam was made secret.
No one was allowed to If they found
out you're a Muslim, they'll imprison you or
they'll kill you. So he comes in and
he was allowed now for Abu Zar. And
he was a leader of his tribe.
And,
he he said to the people, where is
Mohammed? Where is this man who's calling to
the religion? They said, why do you want
him? He said, I wanna learn about his
religion. So they beat him until he was
on the floor, unconscious.
So he stayed
neither Kaaba, and he used to hide there,
waiting to see if anybody
could guide him to Muhammad
and he said:
I had no food,
no water, and I couldn't escape.
And the only
source
of any water or food I had was
zam zam.
He said, so I just drank from zam
zam. He said, I was stuck there for
nearly I forgot the period of time, I
think he said 20 days.
He said, wallahi,
I found that I put on fat. I
put on weight.
Just from Zamzam water. How thick is authentic
about Abu Ghadar al Thari waddalullah.
So, Zamzam water has nutritious benefit and quenching
of the thirst.
SubhanAllah. Something special about that water.
Now,
Zamzam water.
And the and the Sai, the the walking
between Salfa and Marah is called Sai,
Was because of who?
2 little
simple people.
You can say a single mother.
A mother alone in the desert
and her baby
Ishmael.
Now,
for nearly
4000 years,
give or take,
men and women from all around the world,
millions of people,
every single day. We could say 100 of
thousands of people every single day, and in
Hajj time millions,
they walk between these two little hills
because of 1 woman,
Because of 1
woman.
And this is
one of the
greatest signs of islam telling us that islam
came
to honor women,
when they were degraded.
It's the living example.
And the men are the only ones who
must
run
where that ditch used to be. I told
you about the ditch, she used to now
it's covered, there's 2 green lights.
Only the men run it. The women don't
have to.
Because Hajar,
she used to run it, so we run
it. Just take it easy on the women
in case she's pregnant or whatever. Allah says
men you run it. So do you see
how we're copying this woman? No one ever
said, why would I copy a woman? Who's
this woman? She's nothing. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
doesn't look at your gender.
Allah looks at your value
in your actions,
your piety,
your righteousness,
your god fearing, your obedience to Allah. If
Allah tells the women you do that, men
do that,
a pious woman doesn't say why can only
men do it and not women. A man
doesn't say why is this for women, not
men. Everyone has their rights and obligations and
their boundaries.
A pious person says I hear and I
obey. I'm a woman, alhamdulillah,
and this is how a woman should be.
I'm a man, alhamdulillah, and this is how
a man should be. These are my obligations,
alhamdulillah. Allah said them, I'll do them. This
is the mark of Hajar alaihi wasalam.
And we drink water because of Hajar.
Hajar alaihis salam
was there and then the people of Yemen,
Bani Jurhum,
original arabs,
they they were looking for a home because
they had a drought and they couldn't have
anything in their land and they saw vultures.
So they came up and they saw the
water and they didn't harm Hajar. The arabs,
although they fight and there were chaos and
disorder, they never harmed a woman alone.
If they did that, their tribe would carry
the dishonor for the rest of the year
forever.
So they never harmed a woman
or a child alone.
So they offered her to pay her a
wage to share the water
and she agreed.
And they built a city
and it became
the city of Mecca.
And Ishmael
grew and married from them,
and he had children that were mixed,
arab,
and wherever
Ibrahim and Ishmael came from,
near Babylonia, somewhere there near Ur.
And there from him came Al Arab al
Mustaraba. Arabs that became Arabs, so or not
original Arabs. So these are most of the
middle easterners are like that.
Saudi's as well in the Arabian Peninsula were
called the Arab mustarab.
We're not very dark
from Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And our great forefather is Ibrahim Abraham alaihi
salallam.
My brothers and sisters,
the Kaaba.
The Kaaba
was built by Ibrahim, my son is Samayel
as I said.
And the Kaaba, if you like, it has
the same coordinates
as another Kaaba
in the heavens.
I'm not talking science, see, I'm talking religion
now, the the traditions.
Our prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him, the
hadith is inside Bukhari and Muslim,
he said, in the 7th
sky, there is Baytin Ma'amur,
the holy house, or the sacred house,
which is always lively.
Meaning, what does it say he says?
70,000
angels enter al bayt al ma'mur in the
7th heaven.
70,000
angels enter at a time and never return.
Never return. They enter, do their tawaf and
never return.
And it's never
empty of 70,000
angels at a time.
If an angel prostrated on earth,
in Beit El Ma around Beit El Ma'mur,
and he his he would he would be
prostrating on the Kaaba on earth.
It's directly above. And you're probably thinking, but
what about the universe and how it rotates
and all that? Look, we don't know this
phenomena.
We don't know what the universe is like.
We don't know if the universe is rotating
or stable.
They say it's fixed, but everything else is
rotating.
This knowledge is only known to Allah. How
is Baytin Lamur in the heavens,
the Kaaba of the angels, directly above the
Kaaba on earth while we rotate and so
on.
That the knowledge is only known to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So this Kaaba
is shared not only with all the people
of earth, Muslims, believers, but also with the
angels of the heavens, of the skies.
The Tawas.
When you go to Hajj, you circumambulate
around
the Kaaba,
7 times
in an anticlockwise
direction.
You begin
at Hajar al Aswad,
the black
rock.
Whether it came from paradise or not is
known to Allah.
The hadith is actually weak.
And if it was authentic,
it would mean it came from the sky,
not necessarily
Jannah, the garden. Because the Arabic word sana
means
sky. The real word for paradise
or jannah is jannah, and it has other
names, but it's not called sky.
So Allahu'ala,
it could have been a meteor,
it could have been something else, Allahu'ala, God
knows. The point is, Ibrahim alaihis salam needed
a rock and Ismailib went and he grabbed
this rock that was there and put
it on the corner.
Rasool, salallahu alaihi wasallam, used to kiss this
rock.
And
we also do the same, as the prophet
salallahu alaihi wasallam did.
But we don't do more than that. And
if we can't kiss it, we point to
it.
Out of love for the prophet, Muhammad salallahu
alaihi wasallam, not out of love for the
rock.
I need to emphasize that because unfortunately a
lot of Muslims,
the way they deal with the rock,
it's as if they're worshiping it. As if
I'm not saying they are. I'm saying as
if the amount of zeal and energy and
fight to get to the rock, they think
by doing so,
something, some miracle is gonna happen to them.
This is not true.
Anyway,
we circumambulate around the Kaaba
7 repeated times.
Why 7?
Allah only knows why 7. But the number
7,
some scholars said, it's always repeated in the
Quran.
7 skies,
7 semit commambulations,
we've got 7 sahi,
7 verses in mathani, sort of fatiha.
But the word 7 in the Arabic language
means many and abundance.
So sometimes it means literally number, 1, 2,
3, 4, 7. Or it means uncountable, many
and abundance. So the the word 7 depends
on the context. It means many and abundance.
So 7 means a lot,
and that is a meaning of blessing as
well.
Why circumambulate?
Why do tawaf?
Allah knows, it is a symbol, an action.
And perhaps,
the way that we do
it ensures safety,
peace and harmony as we go around. Because
everybody's going at the same time. Hands up
if you've done doof before.
It's safe, isn't it? Just lean on each
other.
Just be careful if they're sisters.
Right? You don't lean on sisters.
And you circumambulate
around, but we support each other, and you
just come back out. It's the it's it's
the best system.
Right? Can you imagine everybody doing their own
thing? It'd be chaos.
So it is a system of organization.
If anything that I can get out of
it personally, it would be
a sign and a call for us
to be organized in our life,
in our community
and to work together.
Otherwise,
it'll be chaos.
Disorganization,
disorder, everyone doing their own thing is chaos.
And this is an example that Muslim Ummah
should be at the forefront of being the
most organized and working together for the same
goal.
If anything, this is what it says.
Why anticlockwise?
I've seen a lot of people write different
things, and they're all guesses and opinions, and
they use science, and they get the science
wrong.
They get the astronomy wrong. For example, some
people say,
oh, it's because if you look into the
galaxies,
everything goes anticlockwise.
The earth rotates anticlockwise,
the moon anticlockwise, the sun anticlockwise,
all the planets anticlockwise, our Milky Way anticlockwise.
The truth is they don't.
As much as there is anticlockwise,
there is also anticlockwise. There is kind of
a balance, really.
Not everything goes anticlockwise. So that goes out
the window.
But what we do see, definitely,
is that moving around in a rotating,
orbiting motion,
truly is in unisons, in unison
and harmony
with the rest of everything else
in the universe.
Everything is rotating around a mass.
Everything is moving in the same direction. Even
the angels are moving. Not in the same
direction, but they are moving in a motion.
So what does this tell us? It tells
us that Allah is 1.
There is no other god but Allah. There's
no other creator but Allah. What is it
telling us? As Allah says in the Quran,
If in the heavens and the earth,
there was a creator other than Allah,
there will be disorder and chaos in earth
and the universe.
But the fact that there's only one god,
one Eli, the fact that it is in
harmony, in unison, and there's an order, and
there's a design, and something happening, and this
does that, and there's a purpose, there's emotion,
there's physics happening, there's maths happening,
Shows us
that there is only one creator behind this.
It cannot be 2.
Like 2 kings fighting over
their territory or over a land. There cannot
be 2 gods.
And truly, the fact that there is a
design
and a purpose
shows there is an intelligent creator
behind it who purposefully
did it.
So my brothers and sisters, it teaches us
again unity,
community,
brotherhood and sisterhood.
No superiority
of an ethnicity above another.
No color or race is better than another.
No status
or power
makes you better than another. And the only
thing
that makes anyone more favored to Allah than
another one,
is by their
piety in here
and their righteous actions.
Work and earn it.
Not by privileged being privileged with money or
family or whatever.
Rasool alaihi wasallam stood on his last sermon
when he did his Hajj and he said
There is no
favoritism
of an Arab above a non Arab except
in piety and righteousness.
Nothing. And he described all the children of
Adam like teeth of a
comb.
You wanna rise?
Be pious, be humble, worship Allah and show
in your actions.
And on the day of judgment, Allah
will rise,
promote and demote.
That's when the hisaab, when the judgment happens,
not now.
Ihram.
When you go to Hajj,
we wear,
for about 3 and a half days,
we wear simple white cloths. Only the men.
Only
the men. Can they be other than white?
Yes, they can be other than white. They
don't have to be white. But everyone does
white anyway. What about women? Women wear their
normal hijab, from head to toe. But they're
not allowed to cover the face.
They can cover it like this, like with
the, with their shawl,
but not
on, not not fixed on.
And
we men are not allowed to wear anything
on our heads.
Those two pieces of cloth must not be
knitted or sewn,
so like towels,
and nothing underneath,
just like that.
And shoes must not be
closed
on both ends, has to be open from
the front and the back.
And as we're doing circumambulation,
for
7 times we uncover the right shoulder.
Some people say 3 or whatever, difference of
opinion. But the point is we are so
humbled.
The king,
if he does tawah,
he dresses the same.
If Elon Musk became a Muslim, he'd do
the same. Doesn't matter how much money he's
got.
If the poorest person in the world was
there, he'd be the same as the king.
Allah humbles us all. Why do we wear
these 2 little white cloths? It's a reminder
of death.
Not in a bad way, but
to remind us this world is material.
This world is nothing. It's temporary deception.
Don't cling your heart to it.
It will destroy you.
Always remember,
you will all pass through and you're all
going to Allah. So reminding ourselves that we
will one day end, humbles us and returns
us back.
Humbling,
not boasting.
Arrogance is the worst thing that anyone can
go through.
Fasting, the day of Arafa.
Arafa is the real Hajj.
There is a place in Hajj, it's a
big plain, a land, where the prophet, peace
be upon him, went and sat there from
Dhuhr until Maghrib.
And there he cried.
He made dua'at prayers.
All the muslims were crying.
They sat down. It's where the muslims and
the hajjs go. They sit down. And when
you go there in Arafa, you'll see people
crying. Some Some of them wailing. Some of
them,
asking Allah, everyone making dua.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, saih hadith, he
says to his angels,
look at these people.
My servants.
They have come.
Dust on their heads. Tired
and humbled and simple.
Why are they coming here? For me.
Oh my angels.
Allah takes pride in that, in the way
that befits Allah. Says, bear witness, I have
forgiven all of them.
Whatever they ask, I will give them.
The people of Arafa. The prophet, peace be
upon him, described it like the day of
judgment.
People crying and begging and asking Allah
and saying my Lord forgive me, my Lord,
my Lord, my Lord.
It is one of the
I don't think there is a place in
the world
you will see more sincere and humbled amounts
of people. I'm not saying every one of
them.
That nothing else is causing them to be
like that, except that they're in Hajj.
Like, you see people who are destitute,
tragedies, and they'll call upon a lawyer. Yes.
They're very passionate and very strong. But people
who have no reason, accept the fact that
you're on Hajj. And you are there believing
that Allah is closer to you right now
than any other time.
And you're weeping like a baby. This is
it. So harafah
is Hajj.
We
here in
not doing Hajj, what do we do? We
share with the people of Arafa
on the 9th day,
9th day.
And we
it's a sunnah,
not
must. It's just a recommended act if you
wanna do it.
That if you're going to slaughter a Korban
or a Korbanian, Uthaya,
just don't clip your nails and don't cut
your hair.
I'm gonna get to that in a minute.
Another thing we do
is these 10 days of Dhul Hijjah.
Dhul Hijjah started 6 days ago. We're on
a 6th day now.
Tomorrow is the 7th.
Friday is the 8th. Saturday is the 9th.
9th is the day of Arafa. That's when
the Hajj people will be in Arafa.
The sunnah act for us to do, recommended,
is to fast
on that same day,
while the Hajj people are in Arafa.
That's how we connect with them.
That fasting on the day of Arafa, which
is coming up on the 9th day, which
is Saturday, the prophet peace be upon him
said, in a hadith which is in muslim
and others,
he said:
I hope
that fasting this day
will cause the expiation
of your sins
1 year past
and 1 year forward.
All the minor sins that are left over.
So it's a great day. Today that Allah
loves.
Of course I wanna make a note here.
Brothers and sisters, fasting the day of arafa
is not obligatory.
It's recommended.
So don't
look at anyone else, who is not fasting
that day,
as if they are doing a crime.
Don't say anything.
Don't put him down. Don't look at him
funny. Don't say, oh, you're not fasting. Don't
do that.
It's forbidden to do that.
Put your brother down on something that is
just a sunnah.
What you can do is advise them brotherly,
say, subhanAllah, I just wanna remind everyone that
insha'allah, alarfa is coming and fasting, it will
expiate sins like this. So remind them. But
don't come up to every person, fast, bro.
Why aren't you fasting? Are you not fasting?
Like as if, it's almost the shaitan can
get to you and make you feel like
you're above them. And that's when arrogance comes
on.
Some scholars even said,
recommended acts, it's good every once in a
while not to do them.
So that you don't do it as if
it's an obligation.
Alright? So don't make a big deal out
of it. But if you do, make a
law reward you.
The 10th day is what?
Eid. Eid. Eid al Atha, we call it.
The second big Eid. Does anyone know how
long Aid Al Adha goes for?
One day?
2 days?
4 days?
When does it start and when does it
end?
When does it start?
Does it start at Fajr?
At Dhuhr?
The night before on Maghrib?
When?
Fajr itself.
Fajr?
Not madrib the night before?
Now the Hajj is, they start at zhoor.
The Hajj, they start at When do we
start?
As brother said, the majority
scholars say start at fajr.
Fajr. But you can also start Maghrib the
night before.
When does it end?
So
on the 4th day
at Tahasr.
4th day at Tahasr, this is agreed upon.
So it's a longer
Eid.
Longer Eid.
Let's talk about that a minute.
What is the main thing that muslims around
the world do on Eid al Adha, different
to Eid al Futturi?
Slaughter,
the utheyya,
called korban or korbani.
Alright.
In Lebanese, dahi.
So utheyya korban korbani.
Making an
is a recommended act
for the person who is able to do
it. It is mentioned in the Quran and
in the sunnah.
The hadith of the prophet salallahu alaihi wa
sallam,
which some of you may have heard,
which says,
whoever does not do a kurban and uthaya,
do not come near our prayer or nayd,
is
an unauthentic hadith.
It's not
authentic.
And
it it goes against
the fact that it is recommended, it's a
sunnah.
So if it was a sunnah, it's not
a sin
not to do
Qurban. Even if you are rich
with money.
Some people use another hadith, they say, whoever
can afford it
but doesn't do it, don't pray daweed.
It's not accepted.
This is wrong. Again, this is false.
So please don't use this.
It is a recommended act
and
the majority of the madhabs schools of thought,
the
they say
that it is,
sunnah, and some say it's wazib, obligatory.
But the majority is sunnah.
The Hanafis say it's mubair.
Or is it maybe I made a mistake.
But the point is the majority
have agreed that it is sunnah. Anyway, it
is a sunnah,
and it's not worship, it's not obligatory.
Even if you're rich or poor.
And normal, come to the aid prayer, don't
miss out. Don't let the shaytan play with
you and make you miss out on the
Eid salah with the Muslims.
Now, let's talk about the Qurban.
How do you do a Qurban? Who does
it? What are its conditions?
The conditions of a korban. Number 1,
3 things you have to remember.
The type,
type of animal,
the age of the animal, and the health
of the animal.
As for the type of the animal, there
are only 4 types of animals
that we do Korban in 4. Only 4.
They are the camel,
the cattle,
cows and buffalo, cow, cattle,
goats and sheep.
You can't do a chicken
or a kangaroo.
We've got a bit of koala that endangered
species don't touch a koala,
or a possum or anything like that, or
a rabbit. Just these 4. Behim atul anaam,
in the in the Quran, they're called. These
are the 4
animals.
The age.
The camel has to be minimum 5 years
old.
The
cattle,
buffalo or cow, can be has to be
2 years old, minimum.
The goat has to be 1 year old,
minimum. And the sheep, 6 months old minimum.
As for the health, there are 4 health
conditions.
4 only. Number 1: It must not be
one eyed or blind.
Number 2:
Not limping disability. So it limps because of
a disability, including bone breakages.
Oh, actually, not limping because of a disability.
Number 3: Is no major injuries, including bone
breakages.
And number 4, it must not be skinny.
And the better
the animal is, and the healthier,
and the more beautiful it is, the better
the reward is for the korban.
Who do you give it to?
Well,
it's recommended
for you to eat from it. You and
your family, give some to your neighbors
and relatives, even the ones who are not
poor. And the rest of it, give it
to the poor and the needy
around the world. You can do you don't
have to eat from it. It's a recommendation.
But you give it to the poor and
the needy, insha'Allah. The rest of it.
You can send it through a charity organization.
You can send the money to someone and
do it for you.
All good. Another question. The other day someone
said to me, do I have to do
the qurban
before Eid prayer?
The answer is no. The qurbani is done
after Eid prayer.
You're mixing it between Eid al Fitr, where
you have to pay zakat. This is after
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So if you send the money and someone
slaughters it next day or the 3rd day,
that's okay.
What else?
You have to be a muslim.
You have to be aware enough.
Some people thought you have to reach puberty.
It's not true.
In Arabic, we say mumayaz,
which means you can even be a child.
In the olden days mumayaz, a child that
can differentiate was aware enough was about 7
or 8 years old. In our days, maybe
11, 12,
we're going backwards.
So if you've got money and you wanna
do it, here, go for it. But doing
1 korban on behalf of your house family
household is enough. The head of the family
does it, and it's done. The prophet, peace
be upon him, is to do a kurban
every single year, 3 of them. 1 on
behalf of himself, 1 on behalf of his
family, household and 1 on behalf of the
rest of the ummah.
So prophet says, hey, then on the qurban
on behalf of each one.
And the animal can be slaughtered by a
man or a woman,
And it can be slaughtered by a muslim,
or a christian,
or a jew. And it'll still be an
utahya. I'm not saying the christian and jew
slaughters and Allah accepts it from them as
an utiyah. I meant you can hire a
christian or a jew to slaughter
that utiyah for you.
And it'll be an hut here. So you
go to the butcher, they send money to
the abattoir and some Christian does it. That's
fine.
Of course, there has to be a Christian,
or a jew or a muslim.
As for Eid al Adha,
takbir, and I'll finish it with this now.
The famous thing in Eid Lat Haiz will
make takbir. Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar
Allahu
Akbar
Allahu Akbar Waleelaha Ilham. There are different versions.
And you begin,
guess when?
When do you begin takbir?
Fajr prayer, any other answers?
When do you begin your Takbir on Haydla
Abha?
4 Higgs. Any other answers?
Maori.
Maori, any other answers? On the way.
On the way. Any other answers? Aisha. Aisha.
Other answers?
Alright. I'll tell
you. All
all 10 days of Dhul Hijjah,
right up to the 13th day.
So right now, we should be saying Takbir,
but I'll tell you the difference.
There is Takbir general
and takbir that is,
in a particular time.
So the general takbir right now, in these
10 days,
is everywhere else. In your car, when you
go to the shops.
Don't don't scare people. Takapita in the shops,
man.
Or you're walking the street or at home,
taking the kids to school, bringing them back
if you're a parent, whatever. You and your
mates, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar.
But when it comes to Eid, you start
at fajr,
after each salah.
So that's the difference.
After your salah,
the proper way is to
say, you make your zikr,
those ones and then
lahina hate allahu akbar allahu akbar allahu akbar
lahinahit allahu akbar allahu akbar allahu akbar lahal
ham. You say it a few times with
the congregation,
all by yourselves, and then you go into
your subhanAllah, alhamdulillah, rest. You do that, obviously,
for 4 days.
And so, brothers and sisters,
final thing I wanna say
is is a time of remembering that we
slaughter
our past
bad habits,
and we begin
new good habits.
Uyid Al Adha is about humbling ourselves
and thinking of the poor and the needy,
thinking about those who are less privileged than
us. The world is full of about 700,000,000
people
below the poverty line, which live on less
than $1.50
a day, Australian.
There are people who haven't eaten meat all
year and they wait for this Eid al
Adha.
Of course, slaughtering the meat in Islam must
be done in a humane, most kindest way.
Sharpen the sharpen the knife very well. Don't
slaughter an animal in front of another animal.
Rest it. Cover its eyes if you can,
and swiftly slaughter from jugular vein to jugular
vein or from carotid artery from carotid
artery. Making sure that you reach halfway until
it reaches close to the spinal area to
let the blood flow quick as possible so
the animal can lose consciousness within seconds
and make it as humane as possible.
And so the blood can gush out very
quickly. Adrenaline rush, the heartbeat
cleans out the system very well.
Releases all the toxins and makes it halal.
So this is the utaiyah and korban. This
is how we slaughter
the food and we don't waste.
I ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, to accept
our worship
and to make this ahiid, a beautiful aid
for you all and for all our brothers
and sisters around the world. Our destitute brothers
and sisters in Gaza,
in Palestine,
in China,
in
everywhere where they are suffering. When I say
China, some of the lawduses were in concentration
camps. May
Allah change their state
from bad to good. May Allah forgive our
sins.