Haifaa Younis – Hajj The Journey of A Lifetime
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The importance of fasting during the first 10 days of the year is discussed, emphasizing the importance of fulfilling goals and standing in the same place for the same experience. The importance of fasting is also emphasized, including avoiding slang words and not trying to be truthful. The shaping of the brain and body is discussed, including cutting hair, slaughtering animals, and casting a shaytan. The importance of dressing up and not being disreaching is also emphasized. The upcoming airplane crisis and the importance of not celebrating anything until the crisis is over is also discussed.AI: Transcript ©
This is gonna be our last class till
probably mid July because
I'll be I'll be going for Hajj and
then coming back and then again I have
to go for another
longer program. So inshallah,
what I'm gonna try to do today, it's
only 60 minutes, less than 60 minutes, and
I want to cover a lot of things
because very few people from this group is
going for Hajj.
So what about all those who are staying?
So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna
cover those for us a reminder and for
all of us. But then
what should we do here?
And then the most important thing, which is
the next week, what is happening. So I'll
come to 1 by 1 just to get
you more excited.
What is Hajj?
What does the word Hajj mean?
Al cost, your aim.
Think of this.
Everything you do in this deen has a
meaning. There is external things we do, but
there is the inner meaning.
So for anyone who goes to Hajjik, because
we have people online and I'm sure many
of them are going
why are you going?
Don't you ever think I am going because
Allah told me it's Hajj and I have
to go. Of course it is,
but
think of this.
There's at least 3 to 4000000. Allah knows
how many people will be there,
Right? Average, let's say, 3,000,000.
The 3,000,000 is one because Allah told them
to go for Hajj. What is the difference
between me and them?
What is the difference between all these people
doing qawaf?
Are they all the same?
Like when you are praying in tarawiyah here
in Ramadan, is everybody the same?
Everybody's doing the same, but are they the
same?
So the cost that's why it is the
cost is your aim.
Why are you going?
And the best answer, I learned it long
time ago,
is what Sayeed Musa
said to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala when Allah
asked him why did you leave your people
behind you?
Why didn't you just wait till your people
come with you?
Why did you run Osh?
The answer was
I
rush to you so you are pleased with
me. That should be the title of Hajj
is what is the point if I went
and I did everything which I'm going to
go very quickly
the main things If you do,
but you're gonna come back with no change
because you didn't feel it,
and you didn't know what it means
I came to you Allah to be pleased
with me and I came to you
rushing,
running.
I didn't come
just because okay, Alhamdulillah.
No. I'm so excited I'm going. And I'm
so worried. There's 2 things you have to
go to Hajj with. I'm so excited I'm
going, and I'm so worried.
It is not going to be a Talbot.
If everyone gonna go and come back and
Allah has pleased with them,
Rasul
would not have said something which is not
easy.
What is Hajjul Mabruur?
The Hajj that is done with excellence
and build. There is no
reward
equal to it but Jannah.
Even fasting Allah didn't say that.
All Ramadan He didn't say that. Right? You
remember? We just finished. What was all Ramadan
about? Mansama Ramadan, imanahuwati
sahib and whomsoever fasted Ramadan
full of faith looking for the reward of
Allah. What was the result?
He didn't say Jannah. What did he say?
All the sins before
has been forgiven,
right? But specifically Jannah is alhadjulmaburoor.
So the third thing I came to Allah
and I'm combining the external and the internal
because of the time, normally we separate them.
I am going to Allah, first I'm going
to Allah
for Allah.
I which means
literally should be You Allah give us all,
I am not gonna see anything but Him.
I am not gonna see the weather is
hot, I'm going to see Allah change the
weather
for a reason
I don't see people very crowded I see
all these people Allah brought them what is
my what is the difference?
I'm gonna see everybody is better than me.
I'm not gonna see I paid money which
is very common in Hajj,
especially for
us. I paid that much money and the
whatever the agent, whatever whatever did not fulfill,
then you didn't see Allah.
You saw the money,
you saw yourself,
and you saw people.
So I came to Allah,
I'm leaving home
for Allah to be, and I'm rushing so
Allah will be pleased with me. That's number
1. And number 2, I want Jannah.
I definitely want Jannah, and I'm saying it
very confident, and I'm I really mean it
because he told me,
which means I have to fulfill number 1.
What is number 1? Hajj al Mabroor.
How do you know your Hajj al Mabroor
when you come back?
It's a very, very easy sign, very difficult.
A person comes from Hajj.
His focus is akhira,
and he is absolutely
pushed away from dunya.
So So one of the signs, you come
back. You're living
the same, but your interest is not this
anymore. You lose interest.
You still invite people. Still people invite you.
You still go to work. Still you do
this. You you live,
but what makes you upset is not people
anymore.
What makes you happy is not what you
get, how much they will pay me, is
what Allah
is saying to me. I'm gonna say this
because it's really gonna move you, and I
lived that experience.
We were in Hajj.
Think about maybe 20 years or a little
bit less, that this woman was with us,
and it was the most expensive Hajj.
We we were we were staying, for those
of you who know Mecca very well, in
Darut Tawhid, Intercontinental,
the most expensive one.
We arrived to Makkah. I remember very well.
This woman disappeared.
Disappeared. She told her roommate
that I'm gonna be fasting,
and you're gonna see I am okay. You're
not gonna see me. Right? Tell the group.
Tell the leaders I'm in the haram.
You know I'm here because when you order
food and to the luxury, they bring your
food to the room.
Tell them
you come. You'll see the food is already
gone. I ate, and you'll see I washed
my clothes, and you will see my clothes.
4 days, nobody knows where to see.
Right? Turned to be then I came to
know that she was in the Haram full.
She was in this corner of the Haram.
When I saw it, I was like, how
did she sleep?
It's not on the floor. It's like on
the deck from a window.
Then she goes to Medina, same story.
In Mina, everybody is the usual talking, go
eating, she's different.
Last day, she's leaving tomorrow.
You Allah, after Fajr, she told us. She
said, at Fajr time,
I was up in the roof and I
was seeing all these cleaners
and I was crying like a baby
and I told all the cleaners I wish
I was you because she's leaving.
I came to you, you Allah,
to be happy with
me. But she has to go. I mean,
all of us at one point, we have
to come back.
So she went to the hotel back and
she slept and she saw this dream. It's
a vision.
This is a vision. She saw herself
in her workplace,
and there is a flower bouquet of flower
on her desk. And there was a card
in the in there. What was the card?
Had joined my role.
See, I get goosebumps every time I say
this story 20 years ago.
And I was there when she told
the leader,
the imam. He started crying and tell her
pray for me.
When I reflect on this this
what did she do?
Her focus was the absolute thing of the
hamla, not the food, not what it is,
what nothing.
It was all about Allah, so Hajr Qasd
is you are there to please Him.
Once you start seeing you or me or
friends or food or whatever or shopping,
shaytan came.
So this is number 1. To do Hajj
and everybody is so worried about the external
ones, and the external ones are very easy.
I'm I'm saying this to people who are
online with me.
It's only 4 things you have to do,
and the Hajj is that's it. You're finished.
The Hajj is absolutely valid. Nobody can tell
you the Hajj is invalid. If they told
you this, they need to go and learn
their. It's only 4 things. You do your
Niya for the woman just say it which
kind of Hajj you will do. Dress whatever
you wanna dress as long as it's pleasing
to Allah of course,
number 1. Number 2, you have to stand
in Arafah, meaning
5 minutes only in Arafah you did it
and doesn't have to be in the
under the rock or under the nothing.
Anything inside the borders of Harafa.
Then you have to go to do a
tawaf in Farba, one tawaf
only,
and say, and your Hajj is done.
These 2 weeks are going to Medina, well,
this is all extras.
I had friends when I was studying in
Jeddah. They come the day of Harrow, they
come back 3rd day for Eid, 4 days
only.
Everything else is wajib or sunnah, you're beautifying
your hajj.
And everybody worries so much about these details,
very few
worries about
the trip itself,
that journey of their heart.
Are you gonna come back different?
Are you gonna come back than the same
as the day you were born?
Because that's what the other hadith he said
man Hajj Falam Yarfut Walami Afsuk whomsoever
performed Hajj so you did this for
but then these 2
you did not have the intimate relationship.
But the second one is many
many of the hujjah because it's challenging by
the way. The trip of Hajj is very
challenging. That's why. Yafsuq, there's no immorality,
there's no obscenity,
there's no arguments, there's no why me, why
this.
He or she is gonna come back, and
by the way, this is both.
Like the day their mother gave birth to
them.
What is the baby when when he or
she is born? Pure,
clean.
This is my goal.
When I go to Hajj, this is my
goal.
I am not going for shopping. I keep
reminding people,
you can now shop everything online. Now it's
even much easier. I didn't go there to
to to meet people. You will because it's
a journey, but that's not my goal. I'm
not gonna spend my time in the Haram
asking everybody where do you live, how many
children you have. I didn't go for that.
That's not custom.
I'm not seeing Allah, I'm seeing people.
And this is why very important for people
to know the Hajj is not don't worry
about the external. Can I cut my hair?
La Haraj, La Haraj, La Haraj. This is
a famous statement
of him alaihis salatu wa salam. When he
was in Mina and the sahaba ran to
him, oh you Rasool Allah, I did this
before this. I did this not and he
said La Haraj,
no problem.
No no sequences.
Take it easy
and and and do it quietly
because the most important thing is not where
are you externally is where are you internally
and that's why you see how many people
have done Hajj
and how many have changed.
How many was really the journey of the
life like we all talk about? How many?
Why?
Because I didn't go with this goal,
during there I didn't know that goal and
then I come back and it's the same
I did by the way your Hajj is
Maqbool absolutely it's accepted and you have fulfilled
the requirement
and in front of Allah
He will say that you fasted Ramadan and
you have done Hajj. Well what reward I
will get that's a different story
how many they will be come back exactly
like their mother
So that's for those who are going for
Hajj. What about
those
majority of you? How many of you are
going for Hajj except me?
Right? So 1, 2, 3, 4. I know
there's a 5. The 6 and 7 and
8 and 9. Right? We're more than 60.
So this is less than 20%.
Right? And I'm sure online is gonna be
way way less.
Right? What about the rest?
So what are we gonna do here? We're
not gonna do Hajj?
Of course you will do Hajj,
but your Hajj will be without leaving your
home, without spending an extra penny.
Look at everything in Hajj,
the 4 important things that your Hajj will
be valid if you feel them, fulfill them,
and come and do it here. What is
the first one? We call it Ihram. You
all know this word, everybody?
What is Ihram?
Technically,
it's when you say Labayk Allahum Mahajj or
Labayk Allahum Mahajjafi Umrah. You Allah, here I
am. I'm gonna perform Hajj alone or I'm
gonna perform Hajj with Umrah. That's them. What
about you?
And what happens after I say this? This
is us. What happens after I say this
in Hajj?
Some halal becomes
haram.
I can't cut my nails. I can't cut
my hair. I can't perfume myself. Why?
Why?
Have you ever asked yourself? These are all
halal,
why?
There's only one answer
Allah said so.
There's no explanation,
He said so. Why bow off 7 not
8?
And why bow off anti clockwise?
Not normally everything has to be with clockwise.
Why my left side
is facing the Qibla? I mean, facing the
Kaaba, not my right.
Why do I have to do Makam Ibrahim
after Tawah,
Not before. Why Sayi after Tawaf? There is
no Sayi without Tawaf and there is no
Sayi
after before Tawaf. Why?
Allah said so that's number one
lesson for all of us
not going for Hajj
let's learn
to say Allah said so,
let's move, especially us
living in this day and age,
the more educated we get, the more knowledge
we think we have, start questioning everything. It
doesn't make sense, I am not convinced
And I wonder when I say this what
Allah will answer?
Okay. Don't get convinced. Who's the loser?
Who's the loser?
Absolutely, because Allah said that
if the
I love this, it's
The first one that Allah created
and the last one Allah will create. What
is the numbers?
Beyond us, right?
All the human beings
and all the jinns, what is the number?
They
were all of them
have the quality of taqwa the highest the
highest level everybody
not like few or every now and then
constantly
he said this will not increase
in the domain of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
just like when somebody put their finger
in the ocean, what's he's gonna come back
with?
Nothing.
So me
obeying Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, he doesn't need
my obedience
and he doesn't care
about my disobedience.
Here,
next starting the 10 days of the hijrah
which is next Saturday should be Allah knows
but that's probably
not this coming the one after it's probably
8th June
or 7th June you will know.
Those are the days
that for everyone who is not going for
Hajj that's your opportunity.
Don't feel sad I didn't go.
My if you didn't go for whatever the
reason, I know people
everything is ready and they didn't go.
What is my ibadah at that time?
Submit to him.
You don't want me to go? I'm still
your servant.
You want me to go? I'm your servant.
I'm gonna go with the plane? I'm going.
I'm gonna go. My plane delayed? Okay.
How difficult is this for us?
How difficult is this for us? I wanna
hear it. It's very hard because we are
argumentative
by nature human beings not woman. Human.
A human being by nature is very argumentative.
I'm a 2 year old now, or 5,
right? Woman with a husband, or husband with
a man, or young with the old.
And imagine I am
going to train myself that's why the Hajj
is the peak
of the worst acts of worship. Hajj has
all of it.
Hajj combine
Ramadan
and Zakah and Salah,
and there is only one thing in Hajj,
nowhere else you do it, and that's Arafa.
So here I am. I didn't go.
Teach
yourself
things that's halal,
and you are in a state of ihram,
but you are not reality,
you're gonna say I'm not gonna do it.
Because the moment you tell people don't do
it immediately, but this is halal, I know
it's halal,
but too much halal
absolutely pulls away from Allah
you know what's too much halal? Do we
have too much halal here?
Yes
What is too much halal?
Food.
Why we are drinking and we are in
a class?
Why?
Are we sick?
Is it I have to drink something every
hour otherwise my body will get hurt? No.
Because I'm used to it. It's too much
halal. It's halal.
Why everybody carry this coffee with them?
We don't think of it this way because
what everyone is doing it what is the
big deal?
And there's no big deal, but the first
10 days of Dhul Hijjah teaches me
that I need to
look at what pleases Allah
before anything else. There is no days, the
good deeds, more valuable
and more beloved in the sight of Allah
than these 10 days that is gonna come,
including going to Hajj or not going to
Hajj. And they asked him walal jihad if
he said billillahi. Not even if I go
now, I go for jihad,
right? Is it this, not even this is
better than me obeying Allah in the first
10 days of the hijrah? And he said
no. Unless someone goes for jihad, comes back
dead. Didn't come back,
dead.
So you everybody in this room and everyone
with me online, you have this opportunity to
go to Hajj and you didn't go anywhere.
Hegji, and we say Hegji bi kalbaki,
do the the hajj with your heart. So
you're gonna say, oh, they arrived now they
said Labayk Allahu Malabayk
Meaning
I have to say Labayk Allahu Malabayk here
meaning
they removed
halal
from their life for the next,
let's say, 6 7 days, I'm gonna do
this here.
Whatever you like so much
I'm not gonna say remove it all because
you're not trained to this yet but make
it less
2nd, indeed those 10 days every good deed
you can do
and we're gonna divide the good deeds to
2 things easier
for you to think and remember number 1
with Allah
everyone in this room who fasted Ramadan
should fast the Easterner. It's actually 9 days
because the Eid you are not supposed to
fast. And I said should, may Allah forgive
me, it is not an obligation.
But if I wanna really to Karambeel Tabba,
I really want Allah to be pleased with
me, and for one reason or the other,
he did not invite me for Hajj. I'm
submitting to the will that you don't want
me to go to Hajj, but I'm doing
Hajj in my home, and I'm doing Hajj
in my city.
Fast.
And don't tell me why should I don't
tell me it's 12 or 16 hours. You
fasted last year and it wasn't June.
The year before it was in July.
How did you do?
So number 1, fasting, and it would be
extremely nice for everybody to invite people for
Iftar.
Do it don't do only Monday Thursday.
And I'm not saying you shouldn't, but I'm
really moving you up because don't feel jealous,
although you can in this one you can
feel just from those who are going to
Hajj.
Because I am gonna people come back and
says Hajjumabru, look at them and says Hajjumabru.
I did it with my heart. So fasting,
your salah,
everybody, young and old, can't be in these
10 days exactly what you did in Ramadan.
In fact, these scholars debated
big huge debate if you go and read
about it. Which one is better?
The last 10 nights of Ramadan, the last
10 days of Ramadan,
or these 10 days? Do you know that?
Right? Which one? Which one? Is it the
last 10 days of Ramadan? All of them?
Or these first 10 days, it's 10.
10 days of the Hijjah.
Many this many said the hija. Imagine. Why?
Oh, just a why? Raise your hand. Why?
These 10 days are the 10 first 10
days.
Now the other group said, yeah, Allah said
that, but Allah also said
and Laylatul Qadr is in the last 10
nights.
So which one is better?
They came and reconciled it. Let's say that
days
of the 10 days of the Hijrah Hijrah,
the days are better
and the nights of the Ramadan
are better.
If you missed things in the last
10 nights of Ramadan whatever the reason
that's fine. Allah gives us
opportunities, and your opportunity is next week.
So you do good deeds. You're gonna try
your best to fast, all of them.
Especially,
no way you will miss it. I'm saying
this unless you're sick or you have an
excuse not to do it, and that is
Arafah.
You fast the day of Arafa, the sins
of the year before and the year to
come is forgiven.
You know what is deen? You know what
they call this deen?
And, now he made it so complicated, of
course. They said this deen, the quality of
it or the the the
what makes it
unique
that we do little and Allah give us
a lot,
so
I fast one day, one day
and Allah forgive before and after of course
except major sins.
So here you go, I'm gonna fast. You
tell yourself from now like and remind yourself,
you did it in the Ramadan, then you
can do it.
Your salah,
every extra salah you can do. Don't do
just the fold. Run away.
You missed it. Again, Allah is not gonna
have anything extra, but it is me. I'm
missing it. Charity,
good deeds, any other good deed.
Now you come with people, how the biggest
problem, of course.
With people,
forgive everybody.
And and I always say this to myself,
I don't want to hear what you don't
know what they did. I know. I say
this to myself. Still forgive them
because I want to go to Jannah
and I want my Hajj inside my house
to be Hajjumabroor.
There is no Hajjumabroor
even when you go there and you still
have this garages inside you against somebody
at all.
Forgive people,
pardon people,
control this.
Live these 10 days with the following hadith,
one of the strongest
languages Rasool alaihi salatu wasalam
used in a hadith
Say good or stay quiet.
I I don't wanna say that the the
slang word we use these days, but literally
in the Arabic language meaning stay quiet,
and this is an order.
Qulul Khayyal is an order, order from Rasool
alaihis salatu sam is an obligation.
I'm not going to make fun of people,
I'm not going to be teasing people for
no reason.
I'm not going to say she is this
or he is that. That's not in the
10 days of the hija
because I don't know if I'm gonna be
living to see the 10 days let alone
next year.
If you today leave today
and say you Allah I learned things I
didn't know,
Alhamdulillah you taught me and I'm gonna do
my best to do it and you are
really Sadiq Ama Allah, you're really truthful in
what you are saying and tomorrow you die
or tomorrow I die,
I will be resurrected as if I did
it all
because I am truthful and he knows I
am so make the niyyah,
make the intention
to do
The best thing now in Hajj,
the day of Arafa.
What is the Ibadah of the day of
Arafa if I am in Arafa?
What is it? Duha
Same thing here
Now I wasn't I am in Arafah
and I am in Haram
so now I have more than one reason
for my dua to be granted I am
not supposed to fast
if I fast on the day of Arafa
and I am there I disobeyed Allah
Why?
He said so.
Same answer. Don't try to think.
Once you start to think, you're gonna say,
doesn't make sense. Oh, I think I know.
Don't.
Just say he said so,
and then he he's gonna show you. Of
course there is reasons, but he's gonna show
you.
The in day the day of Arafat, for
us here not going, you're gonna fast.
For us there,
there it's gonna
be dua.
Here you're gonna be fasting in dua, and
there I'm gonna be in Ihram on Arafah
and I'm making dua. We're both equal.
Because states of Ihram is one of the
states Allah loves my dua is granted, but
fasting is even more because he said it.
3 of 3
states or 3 category of people,
their supplication is granted.
That's not my word
or words that's Rasul alaihi sata wa salaam.
One of them Asa'inuhata
yaftur,
the fasting person till he or she break
the fast So day of Arafat, I'm gonna
be in Dikr, I'm gonna be in Duaa,
and I'm gonna be fasting.
There,
I'm I am not gonna be fasting although
I love fasting because he said so.
And I am gonna be always in a
state of dik. The best dik in day
of Arafa and that can apply here also.
What is it?
Khayru Maqult anawan nabiyeena manqabli
The best I have said
he was there in Arafah Rasool alaihi salatu
wa salam. He did only 1 Hajj by
the way
only 1
He was there
100000 people with him he looked at them
and says the best what I have said.
The best. What did he say all his
life?
Gems.
Now he's saying at this moment, this is
at the end of the Medina time, 9th
year of hijra.
Next year he died alaihis salatu wasalam He
said the best I have ever said
Memorize it all and
keep saying it. You're working say it, you're
driving say it, you are after salah say
it. Say it because
your spirit is in Arafah, your ruha is
in Arafah, but your body is here
because he did not want you to be
in Arafah, but I'm gonna be an Arafah.
You know why it's called Arafah?
Anybody knows why it's called Arafah? You all
know Arafa. Right? Why it's called Arafa?
Allahu'ala.
Allah knows. How many of you have been
to Hajj before?
Right? Why it's called the arfa?
I have no idea. Right? Do you know?
Yeah?
Because all the souls
met? That's the virtue of but why it
is called the Arafa?
Two meanings
for it. Allah knows of course, but 2
meanings. 1 of them is from the Quran.
If you know if you do Arafah, if
you do Arafah the way Allah wants you
to be and it's by the way very
difficult
because you're gonna be tired,
there's a lot of food,
it's hot, You're gonna sleep.
Please forgive me, but we're gonna be bored
because we're not used to. We're used to
always do things. Let's alone, leave your phone
and stay in du'a. He stayed in du'a
from Buhr to Maghrib.
How many hours?
So if that person
get too close to this, al Allah will
hear Arafa, hear Arafa, or Arafa.
Arafa,
you will know what jannah is.
Beautify it and He made it smell good
for them.
What do I have to do?
Right? Anything here you wanna do
something
really worthy, how much you work for it?
What is the 6 hours?
6 hours. In here the same thing. You're
fasting before you break your fast. It's Araf
a day.
There everybody's making dua, you do the same
and you're actually fasting and you're submitting to
the will of Allah He didn't invite you.
Arafa arafa halaam What is the night after
you leave Arafa you go to Muzdarifa,
why?
That's how again the same
because if you look at Hajj,
Hajj doesn't start in Makkah. This is all
extras.
Hajj literally starts at the furthest place from
Makkah. Arafa is the furthest place from Makkah,
from Makkah, from Kaaba.
Then next to it, closer is
Muzdalifa.
What is the name of Muzdalifa?
Zalafa,
getting closer.
What is the ibada in Muzdalifa?
Nothing
sleep.
That's how it is. This is what he
did He
arrived to Mus Darifa, he prayed
Maghrib and Isha Qasr Jama and he slept.
Even scholars debated he probably did not even
do Qayamulay
they they differ in this.
Done.
That fajr which is aid for us here
there is no aid there
You don't feel aid there. There's a lot
of work you're gonna do that day, but
here I am.
Go to Fajr.
Go to Fajr in the Masjid and feel
like you are there in Mash'a Al Haram
because that's where he prayed Fajr
and what did he do there?
And what did Allah tell told me to
do there? It's in the Quran.
What? What is the Ibaadafil mashaal Haram?
See how much you know.
Istighfar.
Ask Allah for forgiveness.
Astaghfirullah.
I'm not in the Mashal Haram but where
what time he was in Mashal Haram? Fajr.
After Hajar, he stayed there till
there was full day. You go to the
Masjid,
and especially for those of you who live
close by.
I don't go to the woman, doesn't go
to the Masjid, but woman goes to the
mall,
and woman goes to drink coffee, and go
to the coffee shop, and go everywhere but
when it comes to the masjid at shaytan.
These are valuable days, these days
if you are an investor
money
wise, no investor
money wise, dunya wise, they will tell him
all these rewards
and he is gonna not invest.
Invest in your akhir
in these 10 days.
Eid for us, no Eid for us we're
gonna be going
cast the pebbles. Where's cast the pebbles? So
I'm Arafa, now I came close Musdalifa,
now I'm gonna move Masha'al Haram. Mecca is
still here, I'm not there yet.
I did a stifar. Then I'm gonna go.
Here is Mina.
First thing I'm gonna see,
pebbles.
So I am gonna do the pebbles, right,
for whoever the hajj is there. What I'm
gonna do here?
Make a promise to Allah that you're going
to spend your time
fighting
shaytan,
casting him.
Here, this is, it's all symbols. Wasayid al
Ibrahim
when he, when Allah told him go and
slaughter your son,
shaytan came to him 3 times that's why
it's at 3 stations
and to 7 every time. That's exactly what
he did.
I am here
that day.
You're not gonna spend it eating or drinking
or checking your internet, or doing all these
and inviting people. Do it in the evening
because during the day, I am gonna feel
I am there.
What are they doing? Oh, they're casting the
pebbles. Okay. I'm gonna spend time
making a plan
in my life
how I am gonna cast that shaytan,
that cursed
creation of Allah.
Then what zahudjaj do if you do it
in that sequence?
Next you cast the bubble, next
you're gonna cut your hair and slaughter the
animal,
Korbani.
Why why it's called Korbani?
Brings it closer. K. Because it is closer
to Allah.
Allah is not gonna get anything from their
blood or their meat, it's in Surah al
Hajj but He will
receive from you your taqwa,
your act of worship, your submission to Him.
Everybody
do your best if you can
to do at least 1.
How many He did alaihis salatu was salam?
100,
63 he slaughtered it with his hand
and then he asked Aydin Ali to do
the rest.
1, he did 100.
Did he need to do 100? Did he
need to get closer
to Allah? Any closer station than Rasulullah
to him? Why?
But why did he do it?
And why I don't do it?
Especially if I can.
Maybe here is very expensive but there's other
places do one here and then the
extras
there's places in the world
literally I have a friend I said this
yesterday
I have a friend she said the Torah
by Allah
we don't eat meat except in those days.
One time per year is in those days
when someone come and slaughter.
And the more you do, especially when it's
difficult and you are thinking, yeah, I wanna
buy this or I wanna buy that, you
know, how shaytan comes in, you just cast
the shaytan.
So you're gonna say, okay. Yeah.
Unless really needed, necessary,
slaughter animals.
Al
Hajju You know what's that mean?
Is
dust
meaning
it is difficult, you may get dirty, it's
very crowded. That's how it is.
Is when the blood is,
flowing.
Slaughter animals.
Don't worry about buying a new car.
Don't worry about you buying the new clothes
for the aid. Slaughter an animal. There's a
lot of people need it. Lot of people
need it all over the world. It's very
expensive,
especially
lamb and sheep and even goat.
So here you go. I didn't get to
Makayat.
I didn't. I'm still in Minna.
Slaughter,
cut my hair.
Now come on in.
Did you see the sequence?
He didn't let me to his house
yet
because I am
not ready.
I'm not clean enough.
And so don't worry about what we do
these days. You go to Makkafar, so you
go to I'm talking about the reality of
Hajj. There's stations I need to take,
clean myself,
purify my heart, then he says
welcome.
What is the name of the Tawaf?
That's why it's called Tawafu Ifabah?
Why?
Why?
It's called Awafu y Farba. Father she when
things are
overflow.
Why?
It's not because overflow people
now it's very crowded
the origin of it is because now Allah
have
brought you,
made you go through all this,
purified you, Arafa you came out and you're
pure,
You told Shaytan you have no way over
me.
I am so close to you, Allah, now
I slaughter the animal.
Now come to my house.
And that's why
father, you're supposed to be crying like a
baby.
What do we do? We take selfies.
It's not funny, it's painful, I see it.
I'm not saying this I'm imagining, I'm seeing
it. People in front of the Haram, in
front of the Kaaba, I am in the
5th shawl and they are doing selfies and
they are doing life's dream,
And what I say, You Allah, You Allah
teach everybody. I'm sure these people if they
know where they are and what does this
mean they will not do that.
Now Allah says come on in.
You are qualified
to enter my house.
Like, you know, when you say to people
you get invited to a dignitary and you
know they say 1, 2, 3, 4, or
if you are invited and then your son
comes in and say, uh-uh, you're not going
this way.
Right? You need to go and take a
shower
and change for human beings.
For Allah, he does it on the contrary.
If you're not clean, He love it because
it's Ajul Wathajj. It's all about dust and
dirt.
But where is your heart?
You finished?
Now you are behind Maqam Ibrahim.
7 rounds around the Kaaba.
Why behind? Here, what do I do here
on day 5 of 8? Don't forget that.
Day of aid is, yes, you're gonna eat
and drink and dicker, but where is your
feelings?
Are your feelings the same way when you
see them there doing Baba fiya Allah, I
wish I was invited.
You know I really wanted.
Right? Is your feelings really I wanna be
close to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, you didn't
invite me by my body but all my
soul is there, is that real?
What are we gonna be doing on Eid?
What do we dress when we go for
Eid salah?
What do we do in Eid salah?
Don't ask me, you all know what the
answer. You all know the answer
and it's not other people, it's us.
Us,
Right?
Just what? Speaking what? The imam giving me
the khutba and we are talking,
and I want my feelings all with Allah.
Is that a for me for 8?
Right?
And then
day 2 and 3, it's still Eid, 2
and 3 and 4.
Keep remembering Allah.
Whether you are there or you are here,
it's the same.
The Hajj is the same because he said
it alaihis salaam
when he came back from Tabuk,
he came and he stopped just before he
entered Medina and the Sahaba were around him.
He said there is people in Medina
You did not go up on a valley
or you went down in a valley, but
they were rewarded like you are.
And they said, You Rasoolah, but they are
in Madinah. They didn't even move.
And he said, Have a sahumal ados.
There was a reason why they didn't go.
How many people applied and how many people
were able
how many people really wanted to go but
they couldn't for whatever the reason haba sahu
wa lakar you have the excuse but that
doesn't mean I'm not gonna get the reward
you really wanted
you really want this korba you really want
this to take advantage of this one time
a year,
the 10 days of the hija
which is the same as if I was
there.
Day of the Eid is not this is
a day of celebration.
Every hutwata Eid I attended wherever I am
in the world, they all talk about happiness
because that's appropriate.
The Eid is day of celebration.
Even if there is
the and even I was on Raziel last
Eid,
and I attended the Eid Khutba with all
the disasters, he still said we still have
to celebrate.
We're not celebrating anything except that's what Allah
taught us.
So the same thing here for us, but
I can't celebrate
in a way disobedient to Allah.
I can't. I just told him I'm coming
to you, Jatul Karabile Tawbah,
and the same thing for people in Mina
and the same thing for here.
Especially in MENA, it's usually the to me,
the most challenging. You know why? Because you
do nothing.
You're sitting in that tent,
and the tent is not very comfortable
and there's a lot of people around you
and there's a lot of food. What do
we do? Eat and drink and you start
talking.
That's not Hajj Mubarak.
That's not the best 10 days. That's not
if you do these 10 days, the most
beloved days to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And then when you leave
there,
the last
if
you were able to do it which is
the farewell
And that's what remember what Sayyidna Abdullah ibn
Abbas said. He said long dua, I'm just
gonna give you the gist of it. He
was doing the dua, that's it, he's leaving.
He didn't stay in Makkah by the way,
although he is from Quraish. He's the cousin
of Rasool
He
was so scared.
He was so scared to live in Makkah
because he didn't want to disobey Allah in
his house,
where their hearts were.
So he was doing tawaf and one someone
heard him
saying you Allah
this is my place
and this is the time
I have to leave. Look how he spoke
to Allah,
it's a time I have to leave,
it's not my choice,
you want me to leave. I'm gonna leave,
I'm just giving you the meaning. I'm gonna
leave
but there will not there will be nothing
that replaces you.
And I'm not leaving because I don't wanna
stay,
but because you told me to leave.
And he before he said that, he said
you brought me,
and you facilitated things for me, and you
helped me to do all my monastic,
all what you wanted me to do,
and
this is the time for me to leave.
What is this dialogue?
This dialogue
of love?
Love.
Love.
When you leave someone you
love
for us
some people I heard,
I'm glad I'm going back.
Yeah, when it gets very tough.
This was 1 year when there was this
rain and the whole tent was washed
And that's when Allah test us
and test us here with our luxury, with
our comfort.
So here you say to Allah, when the
Eid finish,
you have to feel this feeling.
Done.
Another 8 months. Allah knows what is going
to happen in this 8 months till Ramadan
comes in.
So remember this, you will be able to
do Hajj whether you went or whether you
are here.
Change
the compass,
change the focus
and take the opportunity, be the smart investor
and you will see it on the day
of judgment, you're gonna say Alhamdulillah,
I was the smart one. May Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
May Allah take us all those who are
going for Hajj. May Allah make it easy,
may Allah accept us, may Allah forgive us,
may Allah
bring us way better than we are and
for everybody else who's staying here, may Allah
give you Hajj of the heart and the
Hajj that you are here, and may Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, when I come back, if
Allah allows us to meet again, that I
see different people.
This is the sign, the sign that you've
changed is when you're different, you're the same,
dress the same, everything. But there's something in
you that changed.
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