Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Hajj Workshop II
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So we continue.
I see a lot of people weren't here
last week,
that that are here today. And all I
can say is that, inshallah, you can go
listen to whatever you missed.
You can listen to whatever you missed, on
the SoundCloud account. I haven't uploaded last week's
to SoundCloud yet, but I'll probably do that
later later today or tomorrow.
So
so we talked about what? We talked about
the mikath.
We talked about Ihram.
Right? Does anyone remember what the the the
mikat is of 2 2 2 2 boundaries?
1 is of time and 1 is of
space,
which is a time boundary from Iqat. And
then remember?
As late as possible.
Show
Yeah. So right?
So Allah says in his book,
Right? So what are the what does that
mean?
You're Arab, supposedly, what does that mean? Al
Hajju Ashhurumma'alumat.
Hajj is it's known what months Hajj are.
Okay?
So what months are those? The Shawwal
and
and then the first 9 the or first
10 days of 9 days of.
Okay?
So you can only take the haram of
Hajj in those days.
If you take the haram of if you
if you take the haram of Hajj from
before, it's not valid. From Ramadan, it's not
valid.
So
Al Hajju Ashhurun Ma'alumaalumaalumaalumaalumaalumaalumaalumaalumaalumaalumat. So the mikat, the
the time boundary for Hajj is from what?
From the first of Shawwal until
until the basically, 9th of, right, 9th of
9th of the hija.
Now one thing first by the way, the
5 the 5 6 days of. Right? The
6 days that we'll get to we haven't
started the Hajj talking about it yet, but
the 6, like, prime days of Hajj. Right?
In them, it's an exception to the rule.
Generally, the rule is what? Is that the
day starts from Maghrib, and it ends at
the next Maghrib.
Right? For the days of Hajj, day starts
at what? At Fajr, and it ends at
the next Fajr.
Okay? The day starts
when? At fajr, and it ends at the
next fajr. I say fajr not so bad
because the the fajr is the the true
don when the true don comes in.
So
it's a difference of opinion amongst the ulama.
Malik's opinion is that the the the
in Arafat, that's a ruken.
That's a,
okay. Yeah. If the smoke is bothering you,
then migrate this way. Coming this way. Yeah.
No. I the benefit of those listening at
home, Michelle,
we're burning incense. It's just one of the
many things you miss out on if you
don't come to class. And,
And, like I mentioned to the young young
people, Masha, young people,
that,
Masha, I like burning stuff anyway.
So when I found out that burning there's
something like sunnah to burn it, then I
was like, yeah.
It's not the burn it. Yeah. I'm on
this. I'm on this one.
So, yeah, if the smoke gets you, sit
on this side of the room.
The, so at any rate, the,
the day starts first and the night go
comes after the day for the days of
Hajj. It's an exception.
It's an exception to the rule. And so
the the this standing on Arafat,
that's a rukan according to Malik, it's not
it's not during the day. It's actually during
the night. That at least one instant of
the night, you have to be in Arafat.
So if you leave before
if you leave before the sun sets,
which a lot of people for some reason
or another seem to do, According to Malik,
at at the minimum, there may be some
other that actually have that opinion. Hajj is
not even valid. Hajj is not valid. So
if a person finds that out, they should
come back. And if they can't come back
before Fajr, then, you
know,
you have to, make what they call the
you have to call to make what they
call a rafdulihram.
You just do the umrah and you, give
a dham,
and you have to then make that Hajj
up afterward,
which
will define what all of those things mean
in in shortly. Okay? So the mikat
is is and so as far as time
is concerned,
it's Shawwal, Zukada, and then the first 9
days of Al hija.
According as far as space is concerned, right,
anyone anyone can anyone name the Moa'qid, all
the Moa'qid?
Yeah. 5 of them.
No. You're see, doctor, you're making things up
now. It's like if I started writing
antibiotics to people, you wouldn't be happy, would
you? I don't know. Yeah. Go ahead.
Al Khalifa. Al Khalifa for where?
That's with Medina. For Medina. Right? They call
it now Masjid Bir Ali. Yeah. Bir Ali.
But the the classical name for it is
Al Khalifa. Okay? And it's very close to
Madina. And this Dhul Hulaifa is for where?
Usher and Muslim. Yeah. For the people coming
from the north. Right? Dhul Hulaifa is much
closer to Madina. It's like like like like
27 miles from Medina.
Is like a 120 miles from Medina. Yeah.
From Mecca. Sorry. Good point.
Okay. Go ahead.
For what? Yemen. For Yemen. There's one one
one brother I I talked this to who
may be, like, mildly dyslexic,
and so he kept he couldn't say,
so he always he would say.
So I thought maybe the Yemeni Hijaz could
open a French restaurant south of Mecca and
call it and then 4 people will get
the joke. Anyway, go on.
That one's easy to remember. It's kind of
a cheap shot, but, yeah.
This
is. Yeah. Is
it alright. Right? So which one is it?
Karnal Thala or Karnal Manaza?
Zaza. No. It's Karnal Manazil. Okay. That's fine.
That was bonus. That was it. There's 2
places with the name Karn. And to add
confusion, there's also a place in the Arabian,
Arabian subcontinent called Karan
with 2 fathas. Right? Said that Uweis al
Al Al Karani is actually Uweis al Karani.
He's from Karani. He's not from either of
the 2 Khans.
But, anyhow
go ahead.
That's true.
That's true. That's true. That's true. That's true.
For who? Iraq. Right? Which is easy because
Arabic and Iraq, but can you share the
same,
root in Arabic?
Okay. And this is, again, like we said
last time, a miracle of the prophet, sallallahu
alaihi wasalam, because nobody, no Iraqi accepted Islam
during his lifetime. But within the life of
the Sahaba, Kufa became the most populous city
of the Muslims in the entire world.
Okay? Is if it's getting to you, you
can move your chair there.
Yeah. Go ahead.
And the last was that it? That that
was it. That's it. That's all the moa
piece. Okay? So the distance is not even?
So the distance is not even, and this
is support There is a here. Well,
that's why we got the doctor Morrison, god
bless him. He got me this very
professional dry marker.
Almost like it's like almost like a special
ops dry dry erase marker kit, Marcelo.
So, like, we we we made a kind
of, like, a very, very rough
diagram last time we were here
of the Arabian Peninsula.
Right? So if this is like what the
Arabian Peninsula is like I know it doesn't
look like this. You have to forgive
so if here's if here's Makamukarama,
right, here is
Jerkfa,
Here is Datu Erek. Here is Karan. Here
is
Yalamlam.
And this is a circle of almost about
40,
nearly. It's not completely even, but it's of
nearly
40
40 kilometers
in radius. So we can make a circle
like that. Okay?
The one outlier is
is actually like
it's actually like a 120 miles north. It's
almost 200 kilometers north of Madina. Right? But
for anyone who's not a resident of Madina,
what you do is you either stop at
one of these points on your way in,
and if you have to take if your
house is between the two points or you
have to take a different road that doesn't
pass between any of these points, then you
basically just estimate based on
based on how you know, where that circle
lies. And so for the people who come
on planes like us,
it's before Jeddah. It's before you land. It's
basically maybe about half an hour before you
land.
Generally, the the the captain will announce the
announcement they make is actually much further out.
It's much further out, but just out of
Ihtiyat, out of cautiousness. Because if they overshoot
the mark, it's not good. And the captain
is very rarely a fate either, you know?
So it's best for them to just be
cautious because there's a penalty you incur for
crossing the the spatial without
having taken
ihram in time. So that's okay if you
before you, go to meet the Haram to
Yeah. The destination? So the Ihram is a
state. It's not clothing.
Right?
Ihram is a state. It's not clothing.
And so
you shouldn't make niya for Ihram until the
the captain makes the
announcement.
Right? But you can put the clothes on
before. Right? So this is what we we
talked about before. There are 4 4 sunnahs
before you come into the Haram state.
Right? Four sunnahs that that through which you
come into the Haram state. One is that
a person should take a shower.
Right?
And and that's something you can do from
your hotel room. Obviously, you're not gonna be
able to take a shower on the plane
unless you're in, like, super first class on,
like, the Emirates, like, A380, and you're like
a prince of a country. In which case,
remember, we were always friends. Okay?
We were always really good friends, actually. Yeah?
So so that's that's that's that's one thing.
Right? But, you know, oftentimes people, when they
come from Hajj, they come for Hajj, they
come from Madinah, actually. So if you stop
at the Masjid and Zul'ulaifah,
it's actually,
it's like there's like a a 1000 showers
in it, and
and it's very easy to go in and
take a shower or whatnot. So first is
what? A shower. And during that shower, it's
mess noon that a person
wash up really well
and that they they they shave their, private
areas and they pick the hairs of their
armpits,
and they, trim their nails and do all
the other grooming things that they they need
to do. Right? So the first is a
shower and all those things that go with
it. The second is a person should leave,
any if it's a man, leave any stitched
clothing.
So just take the 2, the izar and
the rida, the 2
unstitched,
sheets. Right? For women, obviously, not only is
it not a requirement, it's not even a
sunnah, it's like
bordering on haram for them to try to
wear that if they try.
And, you know, thank god for totalitarian governments
in the Muslim world. There are certain things
that they do do good for, so this
type of nonsense won't happen,
but, that's the second thing is that you
least stitch clothing if you're a man. If
you're a woman, you can wear whatever clothing
you want. The only the only clothing restriction
for a woman in ihram is she cannot
cover her her hands and she cannot cover
her face.
And for a man, the same the same
restriction applies
except for he cannot cover his hands and
he can't cover any of his head.
For a woman, she obviously has to cover
her hair, but she cannot cover her face.
Now this is something that you'll see you'll
see this when you go on Hajj. You'll
see the pilgrims,
you know, some of the pilgrims, primarily the
pilgrims of the Indian subcontinent.
What they'll do is they'll wear, like, a
visor or the women will wear, like, a
visor or a baseball cap or something like
that, and they'll have a piece of cloth
hanging down from in front of it. Okay?
As long as the cloth is not touching
your face,
it doesn't break the ihram,
and there's a precedent for this as well.
This is not just something Desi people made
up. First of all, there are many other
people from other countries that do it, just
not in not many numbers, But the precedent
is this is that say Sayda Aisha
she used to say this that when I
went for Hajj, if there were men passing
by who would look at me, I would
just open up my,
open up my, cloth of mine and just,
like, keep it keep it like that in
front of my face or turn around
because just because you're in Hajj and you
can't cover your face doesn't mean that, like,
you know,
people have the right to look at you
in weird ways. So if a woman feels
like she needs to do that, that's fine.
I wouldn't say that a woman has to
do that. She's no one should guilt trip
a woman if she doesn't wanna do that.
But if a woman does want to do
that, that's her that's her right as long
as the
the the the the the the cross is
not, you know, it's not touching the face.
It should be fine.
Okay. So at any rate, what's the second
what's the first first thing you do to
get an eharam? Shower. Shower. 2nd?
Cleaning.
No. Well, shower and clean is the same.
Right? What's the second? Leave take off all
the clothing that's stitched for a man and
wear unstitched clothing. And for a man and
woman, at least, you know, uncover the hands
and the face and and uncover the whole
head for the for the men. So some
people there's some people who never have their
head uncovered when they go outside. You gotta
see how
funny they look without a hat at that
time.
Then the third thing is what?
No.
No. That's already done, man.
The third thing is that a person should
read to raka'as salat. Okay? Or more. Right?
And the the the ihram should be state
should be entered into on the heels of
salat.
Does it have to be a separate 2
rakas, or can it be like if you're
reading, farther prayer, can it be the farther
prayer? It can be any of them. And
the sunnah is not that it should be
a separate 2 rakas, although you can do
that if you want to as well. But
the sunnah is it should that you should
enter into a haram on the heels of
a prayer. Right? And it comes in the,
the hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam that the 2 rakas for ihram he
read in in in them, qulyaayuhal
kafirun
and. Right? This is these this combination is
actually a sunnah for a number of prayers.
It's said that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam
used to pray that also in his
prayers. There's also a that he used to
only read the Fatiha as well, but there's
a that he would pray that in the
prayers. There's a that he used to read
that in the 2 rakas for making istikhara.
Actually, there's it's a it's a combination that
comes up many times in the sunnah, the
messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And so at any rate, you read those
2 rakas and then afterward, you should you
should make dua to Allah to Allah that
he accept whatever nia you make, whether it's
for Hajj or for Umrah or for both
them. We talked about that last time,
how that works. Okay? And then afterward, the
4th thing that you do, which is the
last of these things by which you will
enter into ihram,
right, is the talbiyah.
And the way that this Masnun way of
of saying that talbiyah and starting your haram
is not that you just start saying it
while you're sitting there for the prayer, but
that you leave the masjid.
And then if you're walking, you start walking
toward Makkah. If you're riding, you start riding
toward Makkah. But whatever your conveyance is, once
it starts moving in the direction of Makkah
Mukarama, you start saying the talbiyah.
What is the talbiyah?
I'm at your service, oh, Allah. I'm at
your service. I'm at your service, oh, Allah.
I'm at your service.
Verily praise,
to praise and all blessings,
come from you and dominion or power over
all things, ownership over things belongs to you.
There is no partner unto you. And this
talbiyah is the refrain of of of the
pilgrim.
Okay. So you say the tell be at
the beginning of when your conveyance is moving
toward toward Makkumukharma.
How will that probably be nowadays, Mohammed Ghazal?
What? How will you probably go to Makkah
in all probability?
Airport. No. There Makkah has no airport.
Why? For good reason. I don't wanna talk
about it on recording but it's probably a
dumb idea to make an airport in Makkah.
Okay? So I don't even like the fact
that there's one in Madinah to be honest
with you, but alhamdulillah at least you know
there's some benefit coming out of it, I'm
not saying bad about it either, but like
it's a sacred place. The, the, so how,
probably bus, right? Probably by bus. So when
your bus
gets on the road to,
starts on the road toward Makamukarama,
then you start you start Lebaken. Okay? Yeah.
Flying in Jeddah.
Most of us are gonna be flying in
the Jeddah. Jeddah is already in the path.
Yeah. I have to do the hand before
Yeah. I will in the plane at that
time. So if you're doing it in the
plane, this is how you're gonna do it.
You're gonna take the shower before you get
on the plane and do all that good
stuff, cleaning and nails and other stuff. Yeah.
That's
true. Then you're going to
the
say that that is if you can go
to the bathroom and make wudu
the wudu stands in the place of the
hussle,
Allah knows best. That's an opinion. If you
wanna take it, you can take it. That's
also a legitimate opinion. I have no problem
with that. Right? The problem is is that,
like, the
bathrooms
are very dirty and very cramped, and you
may actually end up getting the on your
on your on your on your on your
clothes. Yeah.
Exactly. Right? How many people can whatever?
So if you don't wanna do that, that's
perfectly understandable.
But,
you know, okay so fine,
that you'll do from your hotel room, the
second thing is what? Changing your clothes, changing
out of the the stitched clothing, that you'll
also do in your hotel room, okay?
It's very awkward
to try to take off a pair of
pants and put on an Izaar in an
airplane if you don't know how to do
it. And admittedly, some people are very good
at it. I'm actually relatively good at it
myself, masha'Allah.
If you're not accustomed to wearing these are,
don't try it. You're just gonna end up
fumbling and, like, everyone's gonna be like, oh
my god. You know, like, cover your eyes.
Right? So what I usually will do is
I'll just tie the iazar on, you know,
on my lower garment and I'll have, like,
my other clothes. I'll tie it over my
clothes, and then, like, I'll take off take
off whatever other undergarment I have other than
the iazar on the plane, and I'll take
my shirt off and put put on the,
Eharam just so that it's fresh and it's
clean. You know, it doesn't have another added
6 hours of, like,
whatever, of wear on it.
But I'll put on the Izar from beforehand.
At any rate,
if you're not if you're not sure you
don't you can handle it, it's better just
to be on the safe side, just wear
it before you come. Okay? The third thing
is what? The salat. Right? You You should
obviously be in a state of wudu. You
have to be in a state of wudu
while praying. Right? You can read nafil prayers
sitting in your seat in the plane.
So those 2, I I usually just if
I'm flying in, I usually just read those
2 in the plane. How are you gonna
find the fiblah?
You're flying toward Makkah right now. It's very
easy,
Okay? Actually has it on the screen.
For people who are a little bit slower
than
what he just said. Because if they didn't
have it on the screen or if the
screen pointed somewhere else, they still wouldn't, you
know.
Your your
Jada is like like what? 20 miles from
Makkumukaram or 25 miles? Right? The direction of
Jada is the direction of the tibla. Unless
you're in between the 2 of them, you're
not gonna be able to be off for
enough that it will affect the validity of
your prayer.
Okay? So what? You're just praying the direction
of the plane is fine. Okay?
So
yeah. That that's the third thing. And the
4th is just. Once the captain says you
have 10 minutes left, okay, wait until, you
know, 10 minutes passes or 8 minutes passes
or something like that, and you're already sitting.
Your conveyance is already moving in the direction
Qarama anyway. Right? Just
sit.
So this talbiyah
is part of the ihram state. It should
never leave you for very long. It is
not a sunnah to say the talbiyah constantly.
Constantly, like that's all you're saying.
But it is this talbiyah to say it
very frequently.
And and how do you say it frequently?
The way you say it frequently is as
follows,
That every time your state changes from one
state to the other, if the bus goes
up the hill, if the bus goes down
the hill, if it stops, if it starts
again, if you get off the bus, if
you get on the bus, if you meet
someone, right, 2 sets of pilgrims meet each
other. It's not a sunnah to say assalamu
alaykum to each other first. It's sunnah first
when you see them to say the talbiyah,
then afterward you say salam. After that, you
say
from the prayer,
before saying any of the other,
duas or or, a zikr. Right?
Say the talbiyah.
Why? Because it reminds you what your purpose
is at that time.
Now the old pilgrims, imagine if you're walking
or taking a camel from Zul Hulefa all
the way to Makkamukaramah,
a 140 miles. It'll take several days probably
for you to get there. That's a long
time to be in the,
Haram state. And to be saying the Talbiya,
people are, like, in the zone, spiritually.
Now you could enter into a haram and
be, you know, be at the haram maybe,
like, within a matter of couple of hours.
Right?
So don't be lazy about the talbiyah. Alright?
Saying it there's it takes a while to
get into that zone, but saying it there's
a there's a kind of a spiritual,
a spiritual state that you enter into. And
you understand what it means. Labayk labayk is
what a slave says when,
his master calls him.
In fact, this is a a use of
the. Malik used to detest this. Right? Because
Malik out of the 4 imams was probably
the. He was the one who had the
the clearest Arabic out of the 4 imams.
Well, that maybe the have a point if
they wanna,
you know, bring that up as well. But
at any rate, Malik was very. Right? So
they
It says that I'm not a grammarian
that that trips his tongue in his mouth
trying to find out.
I'm not a grammarian who trips his tongue
in his mouth. Rather, I'm a person of
style, and what I say is Arabic.
Well
right? So at any rate, you understand what
it means. Right? That he said that the
the the in in in his day, the
non Arabs would become
Muslim, right, when, like, a teacher would call
them or when an elder would call them,
they'd say. He said this is wrong. This
is not a correct use of Arabic.
Right? The correct use of labbayk is only
for a slave when he's called from his
master. Okay? So when you're saying labbayk, Allah
has called you. Allah called you, said,
Right? Umar, Musta,
ikhana, Muhammad. Right? Daniel. He called you. He
said, you have to do Hajj. He said,
I'm here. Allah Ta'ala ordered you to say
it out loud. Right? Usually when you speak
to Allah Ta'ala, it's only your prayers or
in your heart or in your salat or
in your sadza or in your duas. This
time you're ordered to say it out loud,
that Allah called you and you have to
say Labbeik. Right?
And so every time your situation changes from
one situation to another, it is,
it is a,
a sunnah to say the talbiya, and it
shouldn't be left.
People nowadays are this is a general general
rule. They're generally very lame.
Please don't be lame people. Okay? Generally, they'll
say the 3 times at the beginning, and
then they'll be like, oh my god. I
heard that the new mall in Mecca has,
like, really good shopping, and I'm so tired.
I'm gonna go to sleep now for 4
hours, and I'm not gonna, like, say the
talbia again. And because no one else is
saying it, and it's really awkward, and, like,
I won't fit in. And what will other
people think of me? You're not there for
other people. If you're the only person saying,
that's
good because the only one who needs to
hear you is Allah
and the rest of them, if they don't
wanna say it and they wanna, you know,
do their Hajj in a way that's not
beautiful, that's their problem.
You're saying your is between you and Allah
ta'ala. It's a sunnah for the men to
say it, not super loud, like you don't
have to your head off.
Right? You don't have to, like, la bake
till your brain hurts,
but at the same time, you shouldn't also
do
It's just enough for the women to say
it just enough that they can hear. Just
so enough for the men to say it
out loud that the people around you can
should be able to hear it clearly.
I won't have you all say it together
because we're not in Hajj right now, but
you you know you know how it goes.
You'll you'll you'll learn
it. Another interesting, sunnah, it's a sunnah that
if you see a miracle, if you see
a karama,
something miraculous
happen.
Because that person should say
Right?
At your service, Allah, there is no life
except for the life of the akhirah. People
used to see things like that. Things like
that used to happen. The help of Allah
to Allah would come to people. I mean,
Hajj is, like, nowadays, Hajj is, like, very
cake, and people people get upset. You see
someone or not. If you go on Hajj,
you'll see this. I paid
$10,000 for this package. You ripped me off.
You promised me there is gonna be, like,
you know, Pellegrino mineral water and all the
tents, and this is Perrier, and I didn't
pay for this and, you know, like and
it's like
and the thing is this Hajj, when you're
in a Haram, you're not allowed to fight
with people
even if they're in fact, forget about Haram,
even in the entire Hajj journey from the
time you leave your door until the time
you come back. You're not allowed to fight
with people. You're not allowed to teach people
a lesson, although usually that's something that some
of us relish doing usually, but you're not
allowed to do that. You're supposed to, like,
deescalate. Anything that happens, all you do is
deescalate, stay quiet, and listen. So you'll see
somebody, like, a whole, like, a 100 Hujjaj,
like, standing around him just, like, trying to,
like,
wait for this guy to stop going through
his fit, and they'll be, like, yelling, screaming
about stuff. Don't worry about them. Don't engage
them. Don't become part of that. Your Hajj
is your own. You don't wanna ruin it
with all this other stuff. And if you're
observing, you'll see things like this. You'll see
miraculous things like this. Things will happen in
Hajj. Right?
Strange things will happen in Hajj. You know?
My yeah. Sheikh, I need a provision to
give you after this.
Please, Barkal people.
So,
so yeah.
That's Hajj.
Stronger.
Volume.
We'll take your
this
opportunity to put more incense in in the
burner.
Any questions?
Yeah.
It's it's the one you fly over first.
No. He's what he's saying, what if you're
flying from, like, Dubai. Right? Yeah. Right. If
you're flying from Dubai, then then then then
then then your will be the of the
people of Najd.
So and that that's why that's one of
the, good reasons that the captain
announces the the passing of the earlier rather
than later.
It's
to cover you in case that's and really,
honestly, all the mawakites are so close to
makamukarama.
Like,
he announces, like, 20 minutes before you land.
You actually you actually get to the Mi'kot,
like, 10 minutes before.
And if you go to from the other
side, it'll be 5 minutes before. You know
what I mean? It's you're you're more or
less covered. But, yeah, if you're if you're,
like, for example, overland coming from from that
side,
then
then you would have to enter the Mykhaz
from the first direction you came. The fact
that you overshot the mark and went somewhere
else is
your own problem at that point.
So,
yeah, continuing,
A person then will proceed from the mikat
toward Makkumukarama.
When they're on the outskirts of Makkumukarama
to sunnah, the
prophet he used to stop
and encamp and,
rest
and then wake up at the next morning.
Right? He used to wake up the next
morning at the time of, at the time
of sunrise and then take another bath when
he enters into.
Now part of the Haram state is you
cannot remove anything from the body, whether it's
hair. Right? Like, okay.
Usually, you know, like, if I run my
fingers through my beard, like, a hair will
come out. Okay?
Do you have that problem, Hamza?
No? Anyway okay. So,
no, I think?
No?
Right. So
so you're not allowed to do that. Then
people are like, well, what if I didn't
mean to as well? It's your that's, you
know, it doesn't matter. Just don't run your
fingers through your hair then. Right? So the
the hussul, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam used
to make before entering into Makkamukarama,
it was out to honor the city and
to honor the Haram.
But the was different. He wouldn't rub in
it. He would just pat.
He wouldn't rub. So you're not allowed to,
like, you know, like, if you have a
callus, you know, to pick the callus or
to scrape the callus, you're not allowed to,
like, you know, put, like, a q tip
in your ear. You're not allowed to do
any of those things. Right? So that to
enter
that's one of 3
of Hajj.
Okay. Which one would which which one is
the other ones?
One of them we mentioned, one of them
we didn't.
Before you enter. Before you enter. Right? So
had just had just a trip of sevens
and threes.
Sevens, threes, and fours.
Okay? So this is one of the threes,
that there are 3 for
that are for
for for for, for the Hajjaj. Right? One
of them is when before you enter into
Haram. The second is when?
Before you enter into Makkah Mukalama. Okay?
Once you descend into the the valley that
the masala haram is in,
right, then it is a sunnah to go
straight to the Haram Sharif.
Okay?
Now practically people nowadays have, like, some issues.
You know, you can't not everyone can do
that. Why?
Because you will get a bus, right, from
the Jeddah airport that will take you to
your hotel.
Okay?
That bus will drive around
everywhere.
It may even pass by the Haram like
4 times.
Sometimes you have, like, several, like, Hajj groups
on the same bus. What happens is they
have a system in
in place inside in in in Saudi Arabia,
which actually dates back to the Ottoman time,
the system,
where, like, there are families. Most of them
are sadat, they're ahlulbayt of the prophet
say the families that, like,
oversee, like, how how the pilgrims are, like,
you know, taken care of. So you every
every every, like, I think, like, 1,000 pilgrims
has one of overlooking them. So that means
that there's, like, a lot of motoif. It
may actually more than that. Maybe, like, 10,000
or something like that. Right?
So
what will happen is part of your visa
is you got a Maktaba number, which is
like a mutawif number.
And, so in one bus, the buses that
take you from Jeddah to the,
to the to Makkamukarama in order to reduce
traffic, all of them are government buses, and
they won't let them leave until they're completely
full because there's so much traffic in Macau
and Karama in order to keep the roads
open. They won't leave them until they're completely
full. And so people are coming from all
over the world landing at different times and
whatnot, so you're not gonna. Rarely are you
gonna have, like, the what are 50p, 55
people that fill that bus in order for
the bus to go. So what happens is,
like, sometimes you have 4 different people from
4 different groups in there. You have to
go around every single Maktaba number. Right? Like
and they'll they'll do it based on how
many people there are in your group. So
there'll be, like, 3 groups. 1 has 23,
1 has 22, 1 has 21. The people
who have, like, 21 people in their group,
they'll be on that bus for, like, an
hour and a half more than everybody else.
And it's supposedly air conditioned bus,
and a lot of that helped the air
conditioners
because it's really hot over there, and it's
a uphill battle, and there's some very
that
are wish that they were in the hotel.
We were in the, we were in the
thing with some pilgrims from France who happened
to get the short end of the stick.
I don't know what they were saying, but
some of them sounded pretty upset. It was
all in French, so I don't know what
they're saying.
But, you know, if that happens to you,
don't get angry.
Right? You're getting more reward than other people.
You should be honored that you get to
serve the other pilgrims, the other guests of
Allah's house
by letting them go first. You know? If
it was up to me, I'd say, I'll
go first, but my own group probably would
have stabbed me. You know?
And that's not good. You can't do that
in Iran. Air condition after 96 before that.
Yeah.
Before 96. Before 96, the bus wasn't even
air conditioned. Yeah. Yeah. There you go.
You know, you always have something to be
thankful for,
Right?
Yo.
No, Sheikh. I've gone 3 times. In short,
this year is gonna be the 4th time.
In what sense? Where do they go to
distract you? For for the mikat if you
live within the if you live within the
mikat boundary, then the mikat is your house.
So essentially, yes. You take haram from your
house, and then when you crash the threshold,
you say labayk and that's it. And then
you game on.
So yes, continuing.
Okay?
So what
what will happen is that then when you
get your Maktaba number, the will come on.
He'll issue these, like, ID wristbands
that most people should wear because most people
don't know, like, the Arabic, Urdu, English, like,
7 languages you need to to get through,
like, the Hejaz during Hajj season.
And,
if you get sick or you knock out,
they won't know who you are, where it
could take you. They're like, oh, we got
a guy. He has a beard, and he's
wearing white. You know, like
so
yeah. At any rate,
so they'll issue those to you. And,
then after that, then the will,
send you to your hotel,
essentially. Okay?
And,
when you get to your hotel,
you'll have to put your stuff away, obviously.
Otherwise, you'll lose it.
There are a lot of thieves.
There's one student from Balochistan, Quarta in my
madrasa.
So there's a baba who goes who prays
in my masjid back home,
and he goes for Hajj every year. He
boasts he says, I go to Hajj every
year with a different name, a different identity,
and different passport.
Every year, I go to Hajj with a
different identity only to pick pockets, and he,
like, makes a good, like, 20, $3,000
and comes back.
And,
you know,
let's just say the Muslim world is not
in the situation it's in for free, and
it has nothing to do with the fact
that we fast in Ramadan or have to
take a 5 minute break from class for
salat. It's because of this type of stuff.
So Allah Ta'at forgive us.
At any rate,
so, yeah, you don't
don't leave your stuff. Moral of the story,
don't leave your stuff when you're in Hajj.
Don't be fitna to someone else that they
can, you know, make their own their own
because you made it easy for them, you
know.
So,
what happened is well, what what will happen
is then you'll have to take your stuff
to your room. Okay?
Now Allahu Alam, Allah knows best. Okay? The
classical model. Right? The sunnah of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is that he used
to enter Makkamukarama
from Kidah
or from Kadah Afwan, which is the high
road, and he used to leave from Qudan,
which is the low road. Okay?
For the life of me, I can't no
person I've met to this day knows where
either of them is. And to confuse the
matter further, there is a place is that
the the name is not Kada nor is
it Kudan. It's Kuday,
which is, like, halfway in between both of
them. And there's actually a place called nowadays
in in Makamukarama.
I don't know which one it is.
The best the best, explanation I've heard is
that the high road means the eastern road,
and the low road means the western road,
and it's based on some, like, complex, like,
linguistical analysis.
At any rate, if you tell your bus
driver, who's usually also a * himself, what
they do is that there's the Hajj program.
They'll give visas for Hajj to people from
poorer countries,
with the condition that they have to they
have to do work, they have to do
labor, and then they'll, like, let them up
to out of fact, like, at the last
minute. Okay?
So
if you ask the bus driver where Kada
is or what where Kudan is and where
is the high road or the low road,
he'll be like,
and like ask you for a tip. Right?
So don't waste your time. Okay?
Rather, you enter into Macau Mu Kalama
and
perhaps, and Allah knows best, the cities were
much smaller than they are now in those
days.
So in Shaa Allah, maybe if you take
a shower in your hotel room, it will
count for taking a shower before entering Makkah.
Okay?
And then bit from that, also, maybe if
you rest,
you know, before you go, that's okay.
I personally hate to rest because I know
the Kaaba is, like,
right there, and I don't like to rest.
But when I go as a group leader
and not as a pilgrim,
as a regular pilgrim, you can't just drag
everybody like old people and
weak people like that. Right? But I'll just
say this, if you need to rest, rest
as much as you need to. Okay? If
you need to shower or take a shower
or whatever, do that, please.
Obviously, keeping the rules of haram in mind.
Don't use soap. Don't use any of that
stuff. Right?
But once you're able to go, if you
need to eat, eat, but don't go shopping.
Don't go to the mall. Don't hang out.
For God's sakes, if you watch TV during
any part of the Hajj, just keep your
$7,000
and stay home. It's a waste. You're gonna
completely don't turn it on to watch the
news or none of that stuff. Right? Just
do what you need to do to rest
and then proceed directly to the Haram. Okay?
Now
there are 2 tracks that a person can
go on. Okay? Or 3 3 tracks we
mentioned last time. What were they?
A person could do in 1 of 3
different different thick thick pack thick packages. Right?
What was the first one?
Alright.
Okay. And what's the third one?
You said it before? The third one.
Get on.
Okay?
So the first one is
just the the the the the,
ekram of Hajj. Okay?
The second one is
the ihram of Umrah
with the deferred ihram of Hajj that you'll
do later. Right? But you'll enter Makkah with
the ihram of Umrah. You won't enter during
the months of Hajj. The third is you
enter with the with the niyav doing both
in the same ekram. Okay? So what we'll
do, the way we'll teach the rest of
this class is we will
we will describe how efraad works because it's
the simplest mechanically the simplest of all of
them,
and then we'll show how the other ones
are different.
Okay?
So efrat, the way it works is this.
When you enter into makamucarama,
right? The first thing you'll do is something
called tawaful pudum. Okay?
So remember we said the Hajj is a
journey of threes, fours, and sevens. Okay?
So tawaf is is
There are 3 types of tawaf. Okay? The
first tawaf is.
Daniel, you know what tawaf is, right?
If you don't, it's okay. Like, I won't
kill you. Tawaf is like walking around the
Kaaba. Like, you see all the pictures, all
the people in circles are walking around the
Kaaba. That's called tawaf. Right? Tawaf yatufu in
Arabic. Tawafan means what? It means to walk
around.
Okay?
So toaf is,
a toaf is basically walking around the Kaaba
7 times. It's a form of worship.
Okay? So the there's 3 types of tawaf.
1 is called tawaf of Qudum.
Meaning the tawaf of arrival. Right? The second
is called tawaf alifada.
Which is the first Tawaf of Hajj. Okay?
And the third one is called tawaf
which is the farewell tawaf.
Are
both the same thing.
The difference is that the
word is something that comes up it's
used by some of the after
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam passes away.
Tawaf al lifada is how Allah refers to
it in the Quran. The Hanafi fiqh books
usually have the word tawaf al ziyarah in
it. Tawaf of ziyarah means the tawaf of
visiting, meaning it's the main tawaf, the point,
the old reason you came to Hajjis to
do that tawaf. Right?
Malik objected to the use of that word
because he says that, a, it's he has
a linguistical argument about why it's not actually
a ziada technically, which, to be honest with
you, I don't I don't I never really
got into it to understand what it was.
I think it's sufficient that
ifada is the word that's used in the
Quran, which is fine. If you wanna say
tawaf of zira, it's no problem. But usually,
I won't say it for that reason. Not
that I have a problem with it.
Tawaf al Ifabah, which is the fard of
the ruk and Tawaf of Hajj. And the
third is what? Tawaf al Wada, which is
the tawaf of farewell.
As the as the as the name
indicates, you do that at the end of
Hajj. Tawaf al Khudum is the tawaf of
arrival as the name indicates.
You will do that
in the beginning of Hajj. Okay?
So
one of the fours remember we said threes,
fours, and sevens? One of the fours is
that Tawaf has 4 arkan.
There are 4 things, the 4 for arcan.
Right? For Hajj. Hajj.
K. So what the first one is?
Iran.
The second is
Okay?
The third is talaf,
And the 4th is Okay?
We'll talk about in a second. Okay? So
which is the The root in
It's a
Okay?
Okay? And is the going between.
Okay?
So
a couple of things. Right?
Firstly,
there's a there's a difference of opinion amongst
the as to which
which of the is the the prime, the
most important one. Okay? The
the the the textualist,
schools
like the Hanabula, they say what is. Why?
Because the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
Al Hajj U'rafah.
I fear that your
electronics might
suffer a bad fate.
So
Al Hajj al Arafa Hajj is Arafa. Right?
And
Imam Malik disagreed with him. A number of
Imams disagreed with him. I'm not, like, picking
sides. I'm just saying there's a discussion. Right?
So the dulil of the shafais is what
the the prophet
said, Hajj is Arafa.
Malik said the reason the prophet
said the Hajj is Arafa is because to
emphasize the fact that it's the one that's
the easiest to miss from the 4 arkam,
from the 4 pillars, the main parts of
Hajj. Okay?
Why? Because it's only there for
for a certain number of hours.
If you miss it, you miss the entire
Hajj.
Whereas all of the other things, if you
miss them from their time, you can make
them up somehow.
Ihram, if you missed them, Iqat, if you
pass them Iqat without putting on the Ihram,
you have to give a sacrifice in order
to rectify that mistake. But you can still
take ihram from wherever you are. Okay?
The tawafali fada, if you did it late,
you can still give a sacrifice and make
it up. Tawafali fada, you can do it
after a 100 years.
If you're still alive, you can be like,
I went to Hajj, but I just remember
we didn't make tawaf alifaba.
You can always go back and and and
give a sacrifice as a penalty for doing
it so late, and then you just do
the tawaf later. Same thing with the sai'id.
Okay? But the the alafa is the only
part that you can't miss. That's what the
that's what Malik said. That's what the prophet
said.
Why he said that Hajj is alafa so
people understand not to miss it. Otherwise, there's
a hadith of the prophet
or an author at any rate. I can't
say it's a hadith because I don't remember
the reference off top of my head, but
it's an author that's narrated from the salafat
any rate that the manzilah of tawaf
to Hajj is like the manzilah of sajdah
to the prayer.
Right? That the tawaf is the most
the most out of all the parts of
the Hajj is the most sacred part, and
this is in the in the most sacred
part of Makkamu Karama.
And, and so the that's the,
the,
that that part's the most important part of
the entire Hajj.
Just the point is that they're all really
important. Now I use this word, rukan. Okay?
There are there are 4 sets of rulings
for things that are in Hajj. We said
this last week. It bears repetition. Okay?
One is the the arkan of Hajj.
Right? The means like a pillar, a foundational
pillar. Okay? The word farther than the word
mean the same thing in the context of
Hajj. Those are those things, if you don't
do it, your Hajj is invalid and there's
nothing you can do to rectify them except
for to do those things. And those are
what for? You have to have a haram
when you're doing Hajj. If you don't do
it, you're Hajj. Like, if you show up
to Arafat and if you do Tawaf alifada,
you have no haram in any of those
things, you do the saiyyih without without a
haram.
If you're not in eharam during those things,
then your Hajj is not valid.
Okay? You have to have
eharam. The second, you have to do the
and if you do everything else, but you
don't go to at the right time, is
not valid. You have to do the
You can do it later, make sacrifice to
rectify
your incorrect performance
and delayed performance of tuafilifada,
but you have to do it. Until you
do it, your Hajj is not complete.
Okay? And then the 4th is
what? Sayi, the sayi of Hajj, which is
the running back before back and forth between
safa and marwa.
Right? And we'll talk about which which of
the sais are the ruk and saif hajj
as well.
These ones, you can't you can't you can't
give a sacrifice and make them up. You
have to do the these acts, otherwise the
Hajj is not valid. I'll get to you.
The second the second category of rulings is
wajib. It's those things that are
obligatory in the sense that you have to
do them. If you do them, you'll receive
reward. If you don't do them, your Hajj
will not be complete.
But
the added caveat is if you miss them
altogether, you can give a sacrifice in their
stead.
Okay?
So the tawaful kudum
is a is a, a a wajib of
Hajj, it's not a fard.
Right? So if you skip the tawaful kudum,
you can give a a a sacrifice for
it. Right? Being in haram for Hajj is
farb. But, like, taking the haram from the
mikat is wajib. If you skip the mikat
and you take the hiram from inside of
Makkah or whatever,
then you can do that. You just have
to give a sacrifice because you did it
in the wrong way. Okay? The third side
of the third set the third level of
rulings is the sunnas. The sunnas. Those are
the things that the prophet, salallahu alaihi wa
sallam, never missed and that are very important.
But if you miss them, your Hajj doesn't
require any penalty to rectify it.
Okay? But if you miss them, you just
missed a lot of good. Okay?
And then the 4th category is the musta
habaat, the recommended acts. Those are the ones
if you miss them, it's not a big
deal but if you do them you'll receive
some reward. Question? So you mentioned about Hajj
is not complete which means that it's not
accepted till you do it?
It's it's not it's not it may not
if you do it it may not be
accepted anyway. Acceptance is whether Allah wants to
accept it or not but it's not complete
you haven't finished
the Hajj. There's still some part you can't
say you did the Hajj because there's some
component of it that's not done yet. If
somebody forgets and goes and
Hajjat
No. Then then then the the recommend that
that
from his inheritance, if there's enough money, that
the money be taken out and someone be
sent to make Hajin instead.
Or that some
some relative take up the duty to do
that as well on their behalf.
So you guys can do that take
you to the Haram and Sharifain again and
again. You do it on the behalf of
your relatives that were or your friends or
your loved ones that weren't able to do
it.
To do the whole Hajj, not that part.
Not just that part. No. You have to
do the whole Hajj again then.
Yes. I heard there's a hadith that whoever
comes to learn some knowledge at the question,
he'll get their word of doing
it. It's possible. It's possible. The the thing
is this, when you have a hadith like
that where, like, for example, the hadith of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, whoever
whoever reads the slot to congregation
and then sits in his place,
until the sun it makes zikr until the
sun rises and then, reads 2 rakaz. They
received the reward of Hajj and Umrah, complete
Hajj and Umrah.
That's reward, but it doesn't waive the obligation
to do the actual Hajj. But there is
reward. Right? It is reward, though. Yeah.
And that's something interesting because real Hajj costs,
like, you know, 7, 8, $10,000,
and it's, like, so difficult and, like, you're
in buses for 10 hours without air conditioning,
and people are yelling at you from different
countries and different continents and, like, in different
languages, and you're hungry and you can't say
or do anything back.
And, like, yeah, like, okay. If you come
to Fudger and you stay all the way
until the sun rises, you'll get the same
reward,
but, like, still nobody does it.
So when we're here sitting learning from you,
we're getting a word from you. I don't
know about that. You said that hadith. I'm
not saying it's not a hadith, but I'm
not saying it is one either. So I
don't I don't
remember.
Inshallah. Inshallah it is. We'll see.
I'd be happy if it was. Yes. Hisham?
I I can send it to you. So
wait. Is it if you come for budget,
like, when you're doing the gas for me,
it just stayed until the does that count?
Yeah.
So, yes, it's a cow.
Okay.
So when you enter into Makkamu Karama, when
you descend down into the valley, right, because
the master of haram is in the baton
al wad, it's it's in the navel of
a valley. It's like at the bottom of
a valley. Okay?
When you descend down into the valley and
and and at the bottom of it is
al Mas'il Haram, you keep saying Labbeik, Allahumma
Labbeik. You keep saying the Talbiyah.
And we're describing now what? Efrad.
Okay?
We're deciding the efrad way of making Hajj.
Right? So once you see the the the
master of haram,
then you no longer make the talbih anymore
because you're saying, yalla, I'm at your service,
meaning, like, a slave answers his master when
when called. Right? And so you're there now.
Okay? So the first thing you do, you
enter into the master of haram.
It's it's a sunnah to enter from Babu
Bani Sheba.
Okay?
I don't know which Babu is the Babu
Bani Sheba anymore.
What
increases the confusion is that there is a
gate named the Bab of Bani Sheba. I
don't think that's actually the Bab of Bani
Sheba from his like, historically.
Allah knows best because the books describe Baba
Bani Sheba as when you enter, you start
a little bit you come in a little
bit before the black stone. But the Bab
Bani Sheba is like the side opposite of
the black stone. It's actually after the black
stone. The one that they labeled like that.
It's a very small door. Say say it
like Yeah.
Yeah. So I don't I don't I don't
know if that's the Bab al al Sheba
historical one or not. I'm inclined to believe
that what the Bab al Salam or the
Bab al Sheba is what they call the
Bab al Aziz now. I think that's most
of all of that. Yeah. So Allah Allah
knows best, but the prophet used to enter
from that gate
And then what you do is you enter.
Right? There's a there's a a narration that
when you see the Kaaba for the first
time, the first dua you make upon seeing
the Kaaba
is accepted.
So, he
said that, you know, some people say it's
recommended to say
Or our lord give us in this world
good and in in the next world good
and save us from the torment of the
* fire, which is a good du'a to
make because it's very comprehensive. Right? Imam al
Hanifa, he said that the du'a person should
make when they first see the Kaaba is
that Allah accepts all of their all of
his other duas,
which is like a very thing
to say,
you smart guy, you know. So,
that's
anyway, so you whatever du'a you wanna make,
it's good to think about it beforehand because
oftentimes when people see the Kaaba the first
time, they're,
and they waste the moment. You know? So
it's a good thing about it from beforehand.
Right? You enter and it's the Kaaba, the
first thing that strikes you is much bigger
than a person would think it is because
we're used to seeing these, like, aerial shots.
And look at this picture.
Right? It does you know, look how small
the people are, and look how huge the
Kaaba is,
It's just because the other building around it
is, like, bigger that one might think it's
it's really actually very big. It was very
big,
and,
it's it's much neater to see in 3
d up close in real life than it
is to see on a on a,
on a picture.
Allah ta'ala, take all of us there, Insha'Allah.
And so what happens is that you enter
into the masjid, and then there's a flow
of people making tawaf. There's a flow of
people
there's a flow of people,
walking around the the the Kaaba. And the
way that you're supposed to walk around the
Kaaba is that your right side faces outward
and your left side faces the Kaaba. Anti
clockwise. Uh-huh. And you walk counterclockwise
or anticlockwise
depending on
your
your style. Right? So
one of the reasons one of the reasons,
right, it might be that a person gives
their left side to the Kaaba instead of
the right. It's not it's not a hadith
or anything, but they write is that because
the heart this is one interesting thing. Right?
The Muslim
Muslim scientist, doctors knew this, like, centuries before
the
the,
Europeans did. They said Leonardo da Vinci claimed
that he had, like, dissected, like,
dozens of cadavers.
Right? And one of the reasons they think
he's lying
is because he always in all of his
diagrams, he puts the heart in the dead
center of the chest,
And we know that the heart is a
little bit on the left. Right?
And,
and so that's what one of the things
that said that maybe it's because the heart
sits a little bit to the left hand
side that that's why Allah knows best. At
any rate, this is the way that we
inherited
we inherited the tradition of these, monastic, of
these acts of worship and these rituals. So
you have the give the left side to
the Kaaba, and you just enter into the
flow.
Right? So the Kaaba, if you look at
it from an aerial view,
So this is an an aerial view.
Okay?
Okay. This is east.
This is north.
Obviously, for those of us listening at home,
this is maybe why we might wanna come
to class instead of listening on Sound Cloud,
if possible.
Okay.
So
because I'm not gonna get a cameraman here.
I'm more of a radio guy. I'm less
of a YouTube, more of a SoundCloud.
Anyhow.
But,
right? So the eastern corner so the Kaaba
is is celestially aligned. It's aligned with the
stars, and it faces the 4 cardinal directions
exactly.
It doesn't face the magnetic directions. Right? Your
magnetic direction on
compass, there's a difference in magnetic north pole
and the true north pole on which the
earth rotates. There's a variance between them. It
actually constantly moves. About every 10000 years, it
actually inverts.
Right? So it's aligned by the stars to
true north, not to magnetic
north. Okay?
There's a star in the sky called,
I believe Suheil. Right? And Suheil is is
not like the North Star. The North Star
Polaris,
I think Suhail is serious. I'm not a
100% sure. No. It's not serious. But Suhail,
I forgot what the what the what the
name of it is in in in,
in English. But,
Suheil is such a star that Polaris is
the North Star on the ground, but if
you take a space shuttle in the space,
it actually misaligns.
Right? Whereas Suhail, if you take up a
a a
a a shuttle into space, it's still it's
still it keeps its position.
Right?
So
it's aligned it's actually aligned
astronomically aligned to the 4 cardinal directions exactly.
Okay? So in the eastern in the eastern
corner of the of the Kaaba is the
black stone, Hajj al Aswad. Okay?
This is where Tawah starts from.
So you enter from the from the the
Baba Salam right here, Baba Nusayba. You'll enter
somewhere here a little bit before where this
Tawaf starts from. But your your circuit, you
know, 7 laps, your lap will start from
here.
And then you'll go around
1, 2, etcetera. Right?
So
here's the the the eastern corner is what?
Is the is where the black stone is.
What is the black stone? Right? The black
stone
is a part of the original Kaaba that
Allah Ta'ala sent down to Sayna Adam alaihis
salatu al salam, and it was a gift
Allah Ta'ala sent from Jannah
for the building of this house that stayed
in that place. Okay?
And the hadith of the athaar of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is that when
it was sent down from the heavens, it
was white, pure white.
And then the people touched in the sins
of the people turned it black.
Knows
best. If you read in any, like,
social studies book, right, nowadays,
they'll say, oh, you know, it must have
been a meteorite that fell out from the
sky. Okay. Well, great. Maybe Allah sent it
as a meteorite. Maybe he didn't. Maybe whatever.
Right? And, like, you know, for a people
who,
claim that their god was born of a
virgin, like, if you're gonna start behaving that
way when you talk to other people, you
know, don't expect anything good.
And we don't, obviously, we don't say anything
bad about that. I'm just saying that, like,
you know, there's a there you know, I
said that in in high school. I remember,
like, our arrogant, like, football coach, history teacher
from amongst the number of arrogance
things that he said about Nadine. And I'm
sure, like, now he's probably that was, like,
before 911. He probably, now
has, like, a whole,
you know, what you call, has a whole
Glenn Beck show going on in there now.
But, at any rate, I told him I
I see. He goes, well, he goes, well,
we're just dealing with science. I was like,
well, okay. Well, how are you gonna teach
the life of Jesus Christ when you do
and he he shut up and backed up.
He's like, okay. They believe it came from
heaven. You know? So,
all these give him that much
as well. I mean
so
so the Rukh and Yamani, it's in the
Rukh and Yamani. Okay? It was there from
the time of Jahiliyyah.
The sunnah is that you start your tawaf
by what? By touching it. Or But sorry.
By kissing it. You're not gonna be able
to kiss it, so don't try.
Okay?
And the there's a number of problems. I'll
talk about it, but, like, for now, don't
try it. I'll tell you how to do
it. You do it later. Don't do it
in a Tawafuqdum. Okay?
But if you can't touch it, or so
if you can't kiss it then it's a
sunnah to touch it, and then put your
your your fingers onto your lips without kissing.
Okay? If you can't do it with your
hand it's a sunnah do it with with
your stick. They're not gonna let you in
there with a stick anyway. So don't worry
about it. Okay? And then if you can't
do it, it's a sunnah to face the
face the face the black stone and do
what they call You just say you just
say
According to some of the schools, you're supposed
to also gesture with your hands, either 2
hands or with your right hand. And according
to some of the schools, you say,
but the thing that's
narrated by Tifaq and it's it's valid by
by the consensus
of At least you, you face it and
you say Okay?
When just like when you're praying,
you your
your body faces the tabla. Alright? If you
turn your body away from the tabla, the
prayer is invalid. Okay?
Just like that with tawaf, your left hands
your left side always has to be facing
the tabla. So you can move around a
little bit, but if you ever get to
a point where your left side is not
facing the Kaaba, then your is also invalid.
So you have to be very careful about
that. Okay? When you turn and make a
just do it without turning your body completely.
Yes? But But when you're rounding and sometimes
there's a rush, make you spin over. Don't
well down. Don't don't spin over and don't
fall down. Rush make before they'll come from
the right and then before you realize Yeah.
You will be
kind of a lot of fluid happen. Because
some kind of they get in the groups
and they come, like, kinda before you realize
they're floating,
they surely So if if that happens, then
as much as you can, walk back to
that place and and just make up the
part that your left side wasn't facing.
So if you look, the east is the
the the eastern part is the black stone.
Okay?
And then the northern the northern half there's
a semi circular wall.
Okay?
The wall is called a haklim.
Okay? And what's inside of it is called
hijarismaig.
God.
Okay.
So one of the interesting opinions about Malik,
Malik considered it permissible to have a grave
inside of the masjid.
And people say, well, what about the hadith
of the prophet that
God cursed Christians and Jews because they tricked
they made the graves of their
their,
their pious as places of worship. Right?
Malik said, no. The meaning of the hadith
is that they actually worship the grave itself.
And the daleel, the the proof that Malik
has that it's permissible to have a grave
inside the masjid,
and that he's not a grave worshiper? Is
this is something that this is as some
people allege is that the the the the
the hijra smile is actually where Seda Ismail
and Seda Hajjar are buried.
Right? Seda Ismail and Seda Hajjar are all
actually buried inside of the Hijra Ismail. Right?
So if you have a problem like facing
a grave and praying,
good luck. Because the Kaaba has great not
just that. Those graves are inside the Kaaba.
Okay? So the Kaaba, technically, the Hatim is
actually in Jahiliya before before the built the
Kaaba. The actual original,
Kaaba that said,
that Allah sent down onto the earth at
the time of said, Adam alayhi salam, and
that said, Ibrahim alayhi salam rebuild. It actually
included the hadim.
So this is the boundary this is the
boundary of the entire Kaaba. That's why when
you're making tawaf, if you cut through the
middle, tawaf's invalid because you're you have to
make tawaf around the Kaaba. You can't cut
through the middle. Right? And also, during the
life of the Sayyid ibrahim alaihis salat Rasam.
Right? The Kaaba was like this. Right?
And there was actually 2 doors. There's one
door here and then one door here. Everyone
could come in and go out. It was
blow down to the ground.
If you look at this picture, you'll see
you'll see that the
the the the door of the Kaaba is
actually quite high off the ground. You see
people are here and they're reaching up with
their hands and they're not even getting into
the ledge of the door. Right? This is
something Quraysh did on purpose.
So that that that only the people they
like, they they'll bring the stairs out and
let them into the Kaaba. And people they
don't like, you know, they'll be like, yeah.
I'm sorry. You can't go inside. The prophet
actually said there's a hadith of Bukhari that
he said to say to Aisha
that if it wasn't that your people are
new to Islam and it would be very
difficult for them for me to do this,
I would have
leveled the Kaaba, demolished it, rebuilt it on
its original Ibrahim foundations that he saw when
he was a child. Quraysh rebuilt Kaaba into
this form when he was a child. Right?
So he said I would have rebuilt it
the way it should be.
And, at any rate,
so the Hijra Ismail is actually part of
the Kaaba as well. Okay?
And so if you pray inside of it,
you'll receive the reward of praying inside the
Kaaba. Even if the Saudis don't give you
the key and let you up the stairs
and whatnot, you can always pray in this
this part of it, the same reward. And
there's no kibla there. Right? And there's no
kibla. So if you're inside, you can face
whatever way you want. Although usually people will
face the the building of the Kaaba if
you don't
a whole lot of aunties from, like, different
countries in Asia and Africa will be confused
and probably beat you and try to tell
you the whole time you're praying the wrong
way and not, like, leave you alone.
So, anyhow.
So this these are the the this is
the the Hajar Aswad.
This is the northern this is the northern,
side. This is the western side. They call
these 2 they call these 2 sides the
capital, the Shamalieen.
The Rukn Ruknane is Shamalieen, the 2 northern
sides.
Why? Because north is, I guess, more worthy
of mention than west in the Arabic language.
And then this right here, this is the
Rookhan Yemeni.
The southern side is Rukh and Yamani. Why?
Because it points towards Yemen.
Okay? The the the Rukh and Yamani is
on the southern side. So the way the
waf works is you enter into the into
the into the haram, masal haram,
enter the flow.
When you get parallel to the black stone,
Okay.
You make a kiss it if you can.
If you can't touch it, then put your
hand over your lips. If you can't, then
just face it and say Allahu Akbar while
waving or not waving. You want to. Okay?
Ma'at consider that you don't wave, but the
other Imams consider that you wave either with
2 hands or with one hand. Right? And
you say allahu akbar and that's when your
your your tawaf starts. Okay?
You go lap around the lap around the
hatim, lap around. Right?
And lap around
the the the ruk and yamani. So if
you look at a side view of the
kebab,
the kebab is like this.
And then when it comes to about here,
there's a buttress that comes out,
right? It's called the shadarwan
in in in in English. Or sorry, in
Arabic. Right?
So the Kaaba is like that. It has
like this buttress that goes all the way
out.
Again, when the Quraysh rebuilt the Kaaba, they
didn't have enough material to build it all
the way out. So what they did is
they built this they built it a little
smaller, and then they put this buttress out
on the bottom for you to see
where the actual marker mark markers and boundary
of the Kaaba should go to. So when
you're making tawaf for one of your one
of your, like,
tawafs of Hajj.
Right? Make sure you don't walk too close
to the Kaaba because if your foot sweeps
underneath it, your your ta'waaf might not be
valid because you have to make the tawaf
around the kaba. You can't make it from
inside. You can't cut a corner.
Okay? So if your foot sweeps around it,
then you have to back up and
go, you know, back up and then go
out and then make up that part that
you missed. Okay? This is called in Arabic.
It's just a buttress at the bottom of
the at the bottom of the Kaaba. So
at any rate, you go around.
Right? What is the sunnah of what to
do during tawaf? The sunnah of what to
do during the tawaf is not to read
Quran. It's not to make dhikr. It's not
to yell and scream political slogans like people
from certain countries do when they go to
Hajj. Okay?
Or sectarian slogans. The the sunnah is what?
Is just to make dua.
What dua? The ones you know, the ones
you can think about, whatever you want, whatever,
whatever, whatever language, whatever anything. Obviously, it's superior
to make it in Arabic or whatever language
you want to. The sunnah has to make
dua for the entire for the entire Tawah.
Okay? The books.
That's lame.
It's valid, but it's lame.
If you come to you came to visit
Allah from so far away, you don't know
what to ask him. That's kinda lame.
The thing is that the capacity,
the ability to ask dua, this is also
a part of your part of your spiritual,
training.
Right?
So you should have the capacity to ask
Allah for things. Right? You should be able
to if you can't sit, close your eyes
for an hour, and just keep making dua
for an hour, you have to that's something
you should do in preparation for Hajj. It's
not really that difficult.
Right? Once you get into that stream
and you open the faucet of your heart
and it just starts flowing, you won't even
know where the time goes. Right? The sunnah
of the prophet is that you make dua
for tawat. You make dua for sa'id. You
make dua for when you stone jamarat. We'll
get to that. We haven't talked about that
yet. Right? But when he stoned the Jamarat,
right, the prophet
it's a sunnah that he used to, stop
at after stoning the first Jamarat and make
dua for as long as it takes to
read Surat Al Baqarah.
Then he would stone the second jamrah and
make dua for as long as it takes
to read Surat Al Imran.
You understand what I'm saying? This is not
just fancy stuff people say in the book
or that, oh, he's nabi. He's the only
one who could do it. Right? If you
wanted to, he could be there for days.
Right?
But this is something that he was teaching
the ummah, this a sunnah for us to
do. It's not for him to do and
then we say it's a sunnah and then
abandon it. Right? You have to build this
capacity inside of your heart. Now that's why
it's important to be physically fit. That's why
it's important to learn the rules of Hajj
before going so you're not fumbling through books.
What do I do now? What do I
do now? That's why if you're getting jostled
in the crowd because you're too close, then
go out a little bit further. Right? But
be in a place where you don't have
any other distractions and you're all you're thinking
about is you and Allah to Allah, and
you're making the tawaf around the main tawaf
around the house. If you're not gonna if
you're not if you don't have any external
distractions, trust me how it's very possible.
There's so many things in the world People
have complaints about in America, outside of America,
in Rockford, in the eastern part of Rockford,
in the western part of Rockford. You have
complaints at Taco Bell and at grocery store
and at the ICRA school and at the
public school and at the Sunday school, the
Muqtab school, and the imam is too this
and the board is too that and this.
Yeah. A hundred things that you could complain
about all the time. Every time there's a
complaint, there's at least 10 duas that you
can make behind it. Right? And no one's
on is, like, short of complaints.
So no one's saying everybody, the the the
bigger, whiner a person is, even the more
duas that they should be able to have.
If you complain that I That's too much.
I can't make Go make dua that you
can make more dua inshallah. You have something
to make dua all the time. You have
something to make dua for. Right? So just
don't worry about anybody else. Make dua for
what you want.
It's a sunnah. You start,
walk around.
When you get to the ruk on Yamani,
the southern pillar, it's a to touch it.
You don't kiss it. You'll see people all
up in there. It's not to kiss it.
Okay? So touch it. Remember
don't let your foot cut cut across cut
through the corner under the buttress. Under Okay?
Under the chatelleruan.
Rather lurch over like this. Martial Americans are
usually bigger than, like, a lot of people
from the world. Just lurch over and touch
it with your right hand. Don't touch it
with your left hand. Touch it left hand.
Touch it either with both hands or with
your right hand. Right? Touch it and then
put it over your your lips. If you
can't do that, then say Allahu Akbar, but
you don't kiss it. Okay? You make a
salam with the rukun rukun yamani. And then
from from here to here in the last
quarter of your of your tawaf.
Right? It's a sunnah to read the dua.
Oh, Allah, give us good in this world
and good in the hereafter
and save us from the fire. But even
when you read that, don't just read it
brainlessly.
Make an intention. What part of the good
of this world are you asking for? What
part of the good of the hereafter are
you asking for? Why are you asking for,
protection from the torment of the fire. Right?
Use you know, do make the dua actively.
Question.
So,
why it was never
corrected
when afterwards, like So what happened was Said
Abdullah bin Zubair who
during his caliphate, he actually,
erected large scaffolds with with with sheets covering
it around the Kaaba. And then from the
inside, he demolished it and rebuilt it again.
Okay?
So what happened was then when Hajjaz bin
Yusuf kills him and then takes over Mecca
again, he had it demolished another time and
built in the in the way the Quraysh
built it. Why? Because the the Kaaba being
rebuilt in the,
in the Ibrahimi,
sense was a monument to the caliphate of
their the enemies of Banu Umayyah. So as
a political ploy, they they demolished and rebuilt
it. Right? Before we be so judgmental about
Hajjaj, we do stupid things like that to
this day all in our own stupid ways.
So anyway, so what happens is that they
did that, and then when Banu Abbas deposes
Banu Maya,
the the,
Khalifa
Abu Jafar al Mansur. He comes and asks
Imam Malik, I'm gonna do it. You know,
the prophet said he wanted to do it
and Abdul bin Zubair is his righteous companion,
and I'm gonna demolish it again and rebuild
it. Imam Malik said,
no. Don't touch the Kaaba anymore. Don't make
it you guys are only doing for politics.
None of you care about care about what's
righteous and whatnot. He said, if you do
it again, then the guy who deposes you
will do it again. Everyone will just turn
into a political game that everyone it's a
sign of their their reign that they rebuild
the Kaaba Huah however they want to. And
so since that time, they've the the people
adhere to
and they just left it alone.
So second question, you said testing it and
with the how about the perfume?
Yeah. If there's perfume on it, don't touch
it then.
Usually, I can, like, reach over, like, all
of that stuff, but oftentimes people perfume it.
It's usually more sweat than perfume. But Mhmm.
Yeah. If you're in Iqram and there's perfume
on it, don't touch it.
Okay. When you took to the right hand,
you're actually moving and Yeah. You're not facing
it. My hand is not there. Well, some
part of the left side should be facing
the Kaaba. As long as the left side
is not facing the other way, you should
be fine. Yep. Yeah. You're facing the problem.
But, yeah, if it's a problem, then it's
not a fard to touch it. It's just
a sunnah. If you can lurch over and
touch it, that's usually what I can do
is, like, there's, like, a, like, 3 or
4 people from,
select and wonderful, beloved countries of the world,
and you just kinda
lurch over them and touch it and then
come back. And you that's fine. So you
touch it and put your hand on your
lips. If you can't do that, then just
face it and say,
and then you keep walking. And that's one
lap. How many you have to do?
7. So how many times are you gonna
how many times are you gonna make a
of the of the, black stone? 7. 8.
8. You do 1 on the 0, 0
time, and then 1 after 1 lap, 2
laps, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Okay?
Now when you're making tawaf al kudum
or when you're making umrah
coming from outside of Mecca, from the mikat.
Okay?
Only in that condition this is like the
last hookahum we'll read because we're out of
time.
In that condition, it's a to do what?
It's a to make rumble for the first
three laps and walk for the the the
last four. What is rumble? Rumble is basically
like walking fast, but, like, barely less than
a jog.
So you're not supposed to be jogging, but
basically slightly less than a jog. Okay?
So there are 2 sunas that that the
talk about with regards to the first three
laps when coming from out outside, when coming
from the outside.
Right? The other there's none of this. You
just walk for all of them. Okay? One
is Ramel, that you go quickly,
through the first for through the first three
laps. And the second is what they call,
which is that the top sheet that you
have on top of you, you put you
pull it underneath your your right arm and
expose your right bicep.
Okay?
Shoulder. Yeah. Shoulder and bicep as well. Right?
Shoulder and whatever is down. Okay? Malik considered
the itliba not to be a sunnah anymore.
The reason is that the prophet when
they used to come to Makkamukaramah
and make Umrah after Hudaybia when there's still
enemies with the Quresh, the prophet
ordered the sahaba because the the Quresh would
retreat to a distance and they would just
leave the Masjid Haram open for the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and his companions so
no one would fight. They would get into
a fight, but they would watch from a
distance. The prophet
said to them, the first three laps want
you to move with speed so that you
could show the vigor of your body that
you're in good health. Right? And I want
you to expose your arm, your right arm,
so they can see that, like, you're you've
not become weak in Madina, that you've been
actually, like, working and fighting and you're tough
guys. It's an act of intimidation.
Malik considered the act of intimidation to be
abrogated because there's no one left to intimidate.
It's only Muslims left in Makkumukarama.
But the vigor, it's good that the Muslims
should see that the other Muslims are strong.
You know? That's good.
The other imam said no. The ittiba is
a sunnah. Don't try to reason it. Just
do it. Whatever. But these are the for
the first three laps for the person coming
from the outside, and then the last 4
laps at any rate are done
just walking. Are there any questions? Yeah. It
was just a 13. When is the Ramal,
when is the second is the It's Diva.
Uh-huh. That's why it was 50. I didn't,
there's no