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Okay. So we talked about the the last
time last time we talked. We talked about
the,
when we were discussing
how a person will perform the Hajj of
Ifrad, which is to take the niya of
Hajj
alone from the mikat
and, then proceed to the house of Allah
Ta'ala. How are you supposed to
travel from the to Makkamukarama?
How are you supposed to enter Makkamukarama?
How are you supposed to,
enter the house of Allah, lay eyes on
the Kaaba?
You know, what are you supposed to do
in terms of starting
the And so that's essentially where we left
off, and we'll continue.
So a person,
when they're finished with
8 circuits around the Kaaba and they've made
a stilam of the black stone how many
times? Seven circuits around the Kaaba, and they
made a stilam of the black stone how
many times?
7. 8. Right? It's because you make a
stilam first when when on the 0 circuit,
then 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
So that comes out to 8 total.
Right? You first, you set make a steal
onto the black stone
on the zero circuit, then you do so
again,
every every time you,
cross its threshold.
So that comes up to 8 total.
So it all starts from
green line? It starts from the black stone,
and if you take a make a line
from the central point of the Kaaba to
the black stone, or a ray, I guess,
technically, and project it all the way out,
that's where the tawaf will start from. And
so they put the green light where that
ray intersects
the the the the walls of the Haram
Sharif.
Okay?
So,
yeah, that's where your tawaf starts from.
Laps? No. How many laps? 7. 7. 7.
Yeah. 7 laps. But you make a 8
times.
Touch them.
Either either kiss it or touch it and
put your hands on your lips, or you
look at it and say and keep going.
So that happens 8 times. 1 to 0
time when you first start, and then after
1 lap, and then after 2 laps, after
3 laps, after 4 laps, after 5 laps,
after 6 laps, after 7 laps. So that
comes out to 8,
8 total. Okay?
Now,
like we said again, the
or the that a person makes
when coming from outside of.
That a person will make,
do ramal for the first three laps, meaning
they will move quickly. So just basically
a really fast walk that's slightly less than
a jog or maybe a slow jog,
according to what your standards are for what
a jog is.
In reality, you may not be able to
do it because it may be so crowded.
But if you're able to, it's a also.
But it's a such a that if a
person didn't do it, it doesn't affect the
validity of the Hajj or Umrah.
So any tawaf that you do when you're
coming from outside, whether it's for Hajj or
Umrah, that first tawaf you do when you're
coming from outside
inward, from the mipat inward, what are you
supposed to do? You're supposed to do
ramul or or go quickly, hasten your gait
for the first three,
for the first three circuits.
And then the last four circuits,
you do it properly. You do it normally,
like just a normal walk. Okay?
And so there are a couple of masala
that we didn't mention regarding the end of
tawaf,
and that is what? When a person finishes,
right, and they've made their last
their last
kissing of the black stone or touching the
black stone and putting the hands on the
lips or,
facing the black stone and saying Allahu Akbar.
At that time, it is
sunnah to do a number of things. Okay?
One of those things is to go
between the,
between the
door of the Kaaba and between the black
stone. The area that's between the door of
the Kaaba and the black stone is called
Al Mu'tazam, literally the place that's that is
clung to or hung on to. Comes in
the hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam that the
messenger of Allah, he would lay his body
against it,
that his side would be touching it, and
his face, his cheek would be touching it,
and his forearms would be touching it, and
his palms would be touching it like that,
and he would in that state, he would
make dua.
So it's a it's a place where duas
are answered,
duas are accepted.
Okay?
So there's a Musal sal a Hadith Musal
sal regarding this. Said Abdullah bin Abbas
narrates from the messenger of Allah
that he that that that that he said
that the dua and the Mu'tazim is answered.
And so he said that every dua I
would make over there would be answered as
well. And then that hadith is narrated by
every narrator. They not only narrate the hadith,
but they testify to the fact that every
dua that they made in that was answered.
I got to be there for 15
minutes
or
I
was there.
So don't interrupt. If you have a question,
raise your hand. Otherwise, don't don't interrupt.
So
the
Mu'tazim there's a hadith related
regarding the Mu'tazim,
and it's ray related by Sayid Abdullah bin
Abbas
And
that hadith,
Musal Saleh,
it was
narrated also by one of the Turkish
that we met in Konya,
Konya Sharif. He narrates that he narrated that
hadith, Musal. He used to be a student
of knowledge in Syria and the Mahad al
Fatil Islami,
which is the,
kind of premier
madrasa for Hanafi in Damascus.
And
he,
was kicked out by the Syrian authorities,
and they put a ban on him for
no reason ostensibly. He's not involved in any,
like, organizations or political organizations or other type
of organizations. He was just this student of
knowledge. He was just there to learn, and
he wanted to go back. And they just
felt suspicious of him for whatever reason, and
they banned him.
And so he felt bad, and so someone
said, why don't we go to, you know,
go why don't you go to Umrah?
It'll make you feel better
and, because, you know, because you can't you
know, your studies are interrupted. So he went
for Umrah. He went to
he went to to Umrah, and he remembered
that he narrated the the hadith, the musselsal
of
the Dua being answered
in the Moltazim,
by Saidna Abdullah bin Abbas
and hooma. And it's a hadith we narrate
as well,
Musal Salon.
Right? There's a small rusala,
small,
like, kind of like a booklet
of the Hadith Musal Saleh, 40 Hadith Musal
Saleh narrated
or that was compiled by Shawwaliullah
that we narrated in our Madars as well.
It's part of that also.
1 of the one of the is in
in that book as well, and we also
that was one of the last things that
we read in in Madrasa, and we took
the for
it as well. And so what happened when
we went to Konya 2 years ago, we
had a majlis,
and we read the,
half of the book, and then we continued.
We completed the of the reading of that
book last year,
in in Konya Sharif, and we distributed the
the the the the
for it over there. And so he told
us the story that when he was there,
he made
with the nia that I narrate as Hadith
Musa Sal,
and that,
I want to you know, I I I
have a dua I wanna make also. So
let's, you know
you know, see if we put it to
work for us. So he made dua. Allah,
can I go back to
Syria again?
And so what happened was he made the
that
he narrates the hadith properly.
So let's try it out.
And so this is all before the civil
war, just right before very shortly before the
Civil War. And so what happened was he
he went to,
you know, instead of taking the plane ticket
back,
he just took a land,
a conveyance to the Jordanian border,
and then he crossed into Jordan. And from
Jordan, he crossed the Syrian border without any
hassle,
without any problem. And he went there, and
he was very happy.
And he,
you
know, got an apartment. He'd just gotten married,
so he got an apartment. And he,
made arrangements for his wife and kids to
come. And and so he's gonna go back
and get them. So he went back to
Turkey to get his wife and kids. And
when he got to the land border between
Turkey and Syria,
and these borders in these parts of the
world, unfortunately,
the countries, they have very hostile relations with
one another, which is really bad. It's part
of the kind of the
bad legacy left over by,
all the different colonial powers.
And so the border, there's, like, a mile
between, like, the border outpost. They're not, like,
right next to each other.
So he's at the Syrian border outpost. The
guy looked in the computer and says, hey.
We don't have any record of you at
all.
And and he says, no. I was I
was you know, we you know, he says,
I was here. Look. The stamp is in
the in my passport and everything, and there
is no problem. He says, no. You're banned.
You're lying. Blah blah blah. And then he
says, well, whoever let you in, we're gonna
have them fired, and you're not supposed to
be able to come back. And so he
said, well, you know, what am I gonna
do? And he says they kept him for
so many hours in the middle of the
night. There's no one there. He can't come
into Syria, and the guys are kicking him
out of the border post, and he has
all of his stuff with him. And so,
he's just standing outside with his stuff.
And, he says some Turkish businessman was coming
back, and he he graciously gave them a
ride to his house and let them stay
there for a couple of days, and then
then he went back home. And so he
said, I made I I felt bad. I
said, I should have made dua that I
get to complete my studies
in Syria, not just that I get to
enter into Syria.
Right? So, you know, just to con conclude
about that story a little bit that, a,
that was right before the civil war started.
And it's you can see the father of
Allah such a sincere brother,
But Allah took him out and didn't let
his family come in because they would have
been in danger if they were there.
The second thing is that he said that
he then, later on, after several months of
being depressed, he saw a dream
in which,
someone woke him up for Fajr, said it's
time for Fajr,
and he saw that, that that person is
bringing them the water of wudu and doing
the wudu for them, wiping his limbs for
him. So he said he went and asked
what are the, you know, what is the
interpretation of this dream? So the sheikh said
that the interpretation is that you wanted to
go to
Sham, to study with your. Instead, that
your will come to you.
So after the civil war started, by that
time, he became the principal of, and he
ended up hiring many of his teachers
back again. Many of the are in Turkey
now. But coming back to the point of
this,
the Hajj
workshop, that's the. It's a sunnah after you're
done with tawaf to go in the and
to make du'a to
Allah for whatever your
needs are. Yes. What is your question?
Yeah. What is a Musal sal?
That's a good question. What is a hadith
musal sal? A hadith musal sal is a
hadith that's narrated not just with the text
of the hadith, but with something else on
top of it. So if the prophet
shook the hand of the person that he
narrates it to, then every narrator will shake
that person's hand as well. If the prophet
gave water and dates to the person he
narrated the hadith to, then every narrator of
that hadith who narrates to
the students will also give dates and water
to them as well as part of the
narration of the hadith. So the musalsa the
added thing in the musalsa regarded the
acceptance of dua in,
in in the is that everyone who narrates
a hadith testifies to their being accepted
that they ask for in the.
So it's it's a good place to go
and ask duas is basically what the summary
is because your dua will be accepted.
Right?
Right, Abdul Rahman?
Yeah. So where is the Muftazin Abdul Rahman?
I told you where it was.
Who remembers?
It's between the door of the Kaaba
and between the black stone.
So if you look at this picture, here's
the door. Here's the black stone. It's just
this much.
I I thought it included the door, but
according to many of the, it doesn't include
the door.
For several hedges, I was going there and
making dua in the door.
Right? And so this last Hajj,
one of the Muftis told me, no. It
doesn't include the door.
Although it may be a difference of opinion,
I don't know if it is or not.
But they said that, no, it doesn't include
the door.
So I went and waited patiently just to
get into that small space. And when I
was done
making dua,
I just looked over and saw a clear
shot to the black stone. I reached my
arm over, arched it over like several like,
old grandmas,
let them take their turn. And when they're
done, I kind of forced my way in
and actually got a chance to kiss the
black stone,
which was
special favor from Allah At any rate so
at that point, a person will make dua
in the,
and then a person will
go and read 2 rakas.
Right? Every tawaf, 7 circuits around the Kaaba,
is not complete except for if you read
2 rakas.
And the tawaf is like salat in the
sense that you have to be in wudu
the whole time.
Okay?
And so the 2 rakas, obviously, because it
is salat, you have to be in wudu
during that time as well. So you have
to read 2 rakas. Once you read 2
rakas, then your tawaf is in the bank.
You've done it. It's done. Okay?
So
that's
the tawaf al kudum. Remember last time we
said that Hajj has 3 tawafs?
One is the tawaf of kudum, then you're
done with the tawaf of kudum of Hajj.
Okay? You read 2 rakahs. It's a sunnah
to read the 2 rakahs at the Maqam
Ibrahim.
What is the Maqam Ibrahim? You see this
kind of, like, little shiny thing Abdul Rahman?
Stand up a little bit. You see that?
That little shiny shiny thing right there? Yeah.
It's like a little like, it's like this
big. It's like this that's where Satan
Ibrahim used to read salat,
right in front of the door. Okay?
It's like a little distance, but you can
see the whole Kaaba in in front of
you from there. It's kinda like the place
where you get the best view of the
Kaaba. It's not exactly right up close to
it, but it's not very far away either.
So it's a sunnah. The prophet
used to also read his salat over there.
It's not gonna be possible nowadays.
If you do read your salat over there,
what will end up happening is you will
obstruct the path of many people.
Right? The guards are gonna try to, like,
beat the snot out of you. I remember
once in Umrah several years ago, I
tried to read 2 rakas over there.
And, the guards, once they you know, I
thought, okay. I'll do it real quick. You
know? And the guard won't notice. But then,
like, he got up on me once I
started praying. Once you start praying, you can't
break your prayer either. And so he expected
me just to break my prayer and go
away. And, you you know, you can't just
do that. It's kinda haram to do that.
So,
you know,
I was trying to read my prayer as
fast as I could, and he just ran
up and started pushing me. He pushed me
once as hard as he could, and I
moved a couple of feet. Then he pushed
me twice hard as he could, moved a
couple of feet, pushed me 3 times hard
as he could, moved a couple of feet.
And then he's like a little guy. You
know? Like, kinda he's like the Bedouins. They're
kinda they're they're not very big, but they're
feisty. They have a lot of power in
them. So he's like,
And he just walked away, like, let me
let me let me read the rest of
my
because I guess he got winded by pushing
me a couple of feet.
But the point is I felt bad about
it. I shouldn't have done it. I really
shouldn't. You have to be show respect for
the other people that are there as well
and, like, you know, not block them and
things like that. So whatever what happens every
now and then, there'll be, like, some some
kind of potentate, like, big time Sheikh, and
he'll have, like, his disciples, like, form, like,
a ring of arms around him and, like,
you know, like, the let him pray his
2 rakas, you know, over there, and it
just disrupts the entire Kaaba. It's not it's
not right.
It's not right. If you're
you should have concern for the other Muslims
as well because they're gonna get smashed and
smooshed and whatever by
the huge amount of space that you're taking
up. And so what you should do is
if you can't pray right there, then you
should just move out in a line from
there
as far as far as you need to
in order to be at a place where
you're not gonna be interrupting people's tawaf.
And just pray from that side. Okay?
It's also a sunnah after tawaf to
drink tzamzam. Okay? The well of tzamzam,
it's like it's like somewhere right here.
If you, like, if you project out from
somewhere between the line that projects out from
the black stone and the line that projects
out from the makam Ibrahim,
somewhere in that sector, that's where the Zamzam
well is. It's actually under the floor of
the Mataf. They sealed it up now. I'm
told that, and I've always I've never been
at the Kaaba since they sealed the Zamzam
up. I've never been at the Kaaba in
a time that that I can see the
floor because there's enough
clear space.
They say that the spot that Zamzam is,
there's a slightly discolored tile there.
So if you look for it, you can
find it, but
in the Hajj season, the Kaaba is so
the masala haram is so crowded. It's very
difficult to see.
So when I went on when I when
I went on Umrah as a kid,
it used to be open. There's stairs in
the you could go down and drink tsumzum
from down there. You ever saw that?
Yeah. But, like, that's not the case anymore.
Now it's sealed up. There's, like, some side
entrance from somewhere else. Normal people can't go
down there.
And,
you know, it's kind of bogus that people
don't get to have that experience. But on
the positive side, it does allow people to
make
more seamlessly. And given that is a far
part of the
of the Hajj,
one can see how they made the argument
for that. I mean, it's not completely spurious.
Yes? So they have a tunnel going under?
I don't know. I've never been down there
in after they sealed it up. I assume
they have something going on over there. I
I just don't know.
So, anyway, it's a sunnah also to drink
Zamzam. You can't obviously go down into the
well at that time because the well is
sealed off. But what they have is if
you go far enough away, like, if you
look, you see how there's, like, these, like,
kind of walls around there. So there's, like,
fountains that have zamzam over there. So you
just walk out from from from the maqam,
and you go to the wall, and you'll
just get the zamzam from the fountain.
Drinking zamzam is one of 2 times that
it comes in the hadith of
prophet that he
drank standing. Otherwise, it's a sunnah that you
should drink while sitting.
Okay?
One of the times when it's when it's
masnoon, at least according to the to drink
standing, is when a person drinks tamsum.
The other time is when a person finishes
making wudu, the extra water that's left in
their wudu pot, they drink it also
standing, according to the at least. Has some
difference of opinion about it, but that's their
opinion. So those two times is recorded that
the prophet
used to drink standing.
Otherwise, drink or eat while standing.
And so what a person does when when
they when they drink the Zamzam
is that they face the Kaaba,
and they,
say what? They say, a a dua, Muslim
dua.
He said, What is
It's a very comprehensive dua. Oh, Allah, I
ask you for
knowledge that's beneficial
and and provision that is expansive
and, a cure from every disease.
So it's a very comprehensive dua that a
person should read after,
drinking the zamzam. Sunnah is that that you
should drink the zamzam while standing, you should
drink the zamzam while facing the Kaaba, and
you should drink it 3 in 3 sips
or in 3 times, not drink it all
down in one gulp.
Right?
You drink it in 3 times, and you
say Bismillah before each one, and you say
after each one. And then you say this
dua.
Oh, Allah, I ask you for,
beneficial knowledge and expansive provision
and a cure from every sickness.
After that's done, then the person will
exit
the, the place where the is supposed to
happen, and go toward the,
Safa and Marwa. Yes?
There is no hadith that says that it's
haram to drink while standing and nor did
any of the ever say that.
It's it's
it's
to drink while while standing and eat while
standing. It's not haram.
No one ever said it's haram. It's just
my crew is bad at the
So then afterward, he'll go to Safa and
Marwa,
which are 2,
like, small hills
that classically were outside of the masjid al
Haram.
You had to exit the masjid to go
to them. They're right next to the masjid
al Haram.
But now because the Masjid al Haram has
expanded, like, so much, now it's actually part
of the Masjid al Haram. I'm trying to
look for an aerial view. I'm recording with
my phone. Do you think you queue up,
like, a overhead picture of the masala of
haram? So you ever see, like, a overhead
or aerial picture of the Muslim?
It's kinda like in the shape of a
q.
Like, it's a a q. Right? Like, it's
a circle with, like, a long line coming
on one side?
Anyway, he'll queue up the picture right now.
Let me see it.
For those of you at home, you miss
out on the picture, and you also miss
out on the expensive oud that we're burning.
Too bad.
There's a saying, right, in Urdu,
the person who who sleeps, that person loses.
Right? But that saying is even funnier because
Punjabi Punjabi
means a donkey.
So it's even more funny than you. And
if you don't understand Urdu or Punjabi, then
just ignore that last bit. If you actually,
if you just,
it, the map. Yeah.
Yeah. Okay. So you see that? You see
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
There you go.
So if you look at the if you
look at this picture, you see this, like
like, right here,
this long pathway from here to here.
Right? Like, there's a cir there's a circular
part of the Haram Sharif, and then there's,
like, this long line on that side.
That's basically
here. Show show it to Abdul Rahman.
That's basically Abdul Rahman, your mom's calling, buddy.
That's basically that's basically the track between Safa
Safa and Marwa. Okay?
And so there's a whole bunch of fiqh
rulings, old fiqh rulings,
that are, predicated on the assumption that
Safa and Merwar are outside of the Masjid
al Haram,
and that's not the case anymore. The Majma'afirti,
it's a large body of fokaha from
across the entire Muslim world and across different
sectarian
and
and,
I guess, Jewish prudential boundaries.
They kind of got together and they they
made
a a a a a decision
that the Safa and Marwa are now part
of the Mas'id al Haram.
So now the
the,
the rulings that have to do with being
inside the masjid
also apply to that place. So,
for example, it's not good now to shave
your head at now.
For those who are doing umrah, at the
end of umrah, a person would shave their
head, shouldn't do it you shouldn't do it
inside the masjid and, like, leave your hair
there because that's, like,
doing garbage in the masjid. Or, for example,
the classically, the manhar of Makkah Mukarama, although
you can sacrifice your animals at the end
of Hajj,
that didn't stand with you in Arafa, you
can sacrifice those animals anywhere.
But classically, they used to sacrifice them in
Maruah. If you take an animal into the
masjid and start sacrificing it now, it's not
only gonna be impractical, unhygienic, dangerous,
but it's also haram because it's not part
of the masjid. You can't just, like, spill
the blood of an animal inside of the
masjid.
So it's it's all it's all very problematic
now. The fiftah of that has changed a
little bit because of the need to incorporate
and into the masjid. Here's another, like, tip
for those of us who
are slightly less inclined toward putting ourselves through
hardship.
Both the the the so the has several
levels. The, you can do it on the
ground floor. There's a second floor, and there's
a third floor, and there's that halo thing
which itself has two levels.
Right? Just like that, the the between Safa
and Marwa. Is what the going between Safa
and Marwa is called. You can do that
at the ground level. You can do it
on the 1st level. You can do it
on the 2nd level. You can also do
it on the roof of the 2nd level,
and you can also do it in the
basement. There's a that's in the basement as
well, which is below the ground floor, and
it has an AC, and it's awesome.
Right? The AC is, like, in most of
the Maasai is now air conditioned. The one
in the in the in the ground floor,
not a lot of people seem to know
about it. And, like, it's, like, the cool
goes down. Right? The heat rises, the cool
goes down. It's really nice and cool down
there. And, like, the last 2 years I
mean, last
year, I guess, it was closed for refurbishing,
but the year before when we went for
Hajj, person goes for Jamaha, you have to
go really early. You know? So if you're
in a hot spot or a place, the
sun's beating down on you, you might pass
out because you have to sit there for
3 hours in the direct sunlight. Right? If
you go into the basement of the Mas'a,
life is good,
right? And classically, that part's not part of
the masjid, so you couldn't, in the old
days,
you know, read
over there. But now it's part of the
masjid, so you can
you're you're basically clear if you read your
your your
over there. So that's just a little
little tip for for the people who are
into that kind of thing. Anyhow,
so a person will proceed after after drinking
their zamzam and reading their 2 rakas,
of the law. They'll proceed to
the Safa.
Right?
And then it's a sunnah to stop on
top of Safa. Now, Safa, the mountain is
completely covered. You can't touch any part of
it right now. They have, like, this huge
glass cage that they've erected around, like, some
part of it, but the mountain is much
deeper. It actually there's a line in the
in the floor. There's, like, marble tile over
most of it. There's a line in the
floor. The point is is that you have
to cross that line, not that necessarily you
have to touch
the mountain itself. Okay?
So what happens is that you stop on
top of Safa
and you face the Kaaba.
You may not be able to see it,
but you face the Kaaba
and then you you make dua for some
time. Okay?
And then once you're done making dua, you
start walking toward Marwa. Okay? There are 7
times you go back between Safa and Marwa.
Okay? Once between from Safa to Marwa, that
counts as one.
It's a one way trip, not a round
trip. There are some people who do round
trip, and they walk, like, 3 miles extra,
and they're like, woah. My Umrah took a
really long time, or my whatever took a
really long time. That's like you just
you're just you're not getting any reward for
the extra that you did. Your your your
is done after
and then, like, the extra 7 you did,
you're just getting a cardio workout at a
time when you really probably should be resting.
Okay?
So you stop on Safa,
face the tabla, and make dua. Okay? And
then you start walking toward Marwa. Okay?
There's a place called the Basil al Masil,
right, in the in the in the the
the dip the dip the lowest part of
the valley between the two, hillocks.
And
it's gonna be, like, almost a straight walk,
you know, depending on what level you're on
nowadays.
So
there are green there are green neon tube
lights, vertically placed neon tube lights that mark
that area.
Once you get to the neon tube lights,
it's a a sunnah to, like, jog
from one to the other. It's really not
that that that far. It's like probably a
quarter of the distance. Okay? It's a sunnah
to jog. It's closer the that but the
Nasir is closer to Safa than it is
to Marwa.
Okay? It's closer to Safa than it is
to Marwa. It's a sunnah to jog for
that for that amount of, for that amount
of it. By the way, the ramal,
both for the tawaf and for the,
for the sa'id, the places where it's sunnah
to jog and run, it's actually only sunnah
to do it for the men, not for
the women.
Okay? For women, it's sunnah to just walk
the whole time. And so it's very interesting
actually that the sunnah sa'ih was inaugurated by
a man or by a woman,
by a woman, by Saydah Hajar
Right?
But it's inaugurated by her, but it's not
a sunnah to,
jog like that for women,
but it's it is for for men.
Because Seyda Hajar was there alone, and she
had a necessity in running.
Whereas the women that are there, obviously, nowadays,
you're not there alone. It's quite crowded.
And,
the necessity or the the is now metaphorical
rather than
than than literal. So it's it's,
it's a sunnah for the men to
jog
that that that that amount, and it's sunnah
for the women to walk. At any rate,
one way or the other, I mean, if
you're so tired or you're, like, afraid of,
like, injuring yourself or bumping into someone or
whatever, right, like, when a person like me,
you know,
jogs that amount of space, you know, it's,
like, kind of scary for the other and
things like that. The cups of are like,
you know, they're they're shaking and whatnot. So
just make sure that you, like, avoid people
because, like, you big guy, you know, bump
into, like, little, you know, small,
wonderful and beloved Muslim in from different countries.
It could become very serious as a marble
floor. You could really hurt somebody. So be
careful. Don't be so excited that you, like,
plow someone over because that's not that's not
cool.
But, then you make it to Marwa. Marwa,
strangely enough, some parts of it are exposed.
You can actually touch them.
You touch them and, like, you know, the
local Saudi police or whatever see you, they're
probably gonna get on your back, but you
can touch it, actually. Not that it makes
a difference to your Hajj. You just have
to cross that line. But Marwa, some parts
of it are exposed. You can actually touch
it.
It's like glazed over with some weird glaze
that we can't touch the rock itself. There's
like a glaze over it, but you can
actually see part of the rock. When I
went when I went to do Umrah as
a kid, both of the mountains were completely
exposed. You could walk up onto them. The
tips of them were exposed.
So, well, you know, that's that's just something
that's something that that is what it is.
Right? So then the sunnah is that when
you get to Maruwa, you stop and face
the and also make dua for a long
time. What are you supposed to do when
you're walking between Safa and Marwa?
Also, it's a sunnah to make dua at
that time as well.
Okay? Just like, say, the Hajar alaihi wasalam
was asking for
water for her child, just like that, you're
supposed to ask for whatever needs you have
in this world and in the hereafter. So
you stop at Marwa, face the Kaaba, and
make Dua for as long as you,
are able to, and then you will start
going toward Safa again. So Safa to Marwa
1. Right? Marwa to Safa 2,
Safa to Marwa 3, Safa to Safa 4,
Safa to Marwa 5, Marwa to Safa 6,
and then Safa to Marwa 7. So you
should start this the the the 7 where
In Safa, and you should end where?
Marwa. How many times do you stop and
make dua?
8. 8. Right? You do once on 0,
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. So
that comes up to 8. Right?
So when you're done with that,
then at that time, if a person is
making ifrad after doing the, now you've done
2 of the 4
arkan of Hajj.
Right? You've taken the haram,
and you've done the Sahid. Remember, is
not a is not a tawaf of the.
The is lifada, which will happen later. Okay?
Right? But the sai that you did after
tawaf al kudum, that counts as the tawaf
of Hajj. So you're out of those 4,
you're already halfway home.
Okay?
So after that, what will happen is you'll,
the you'll still be in a crime if
you're doing efraad. You'll keep doing the talbiyah
then. You'll start doing the talbiyah again. You
remember we stopped doing the talbiyah when we
when we saw the masjid Haram at arrive
in the Hajj?
Now you'll do the talbiyah again and start
doing it like you were doing it before,
all the way until you get to Arafa
on in in the the high noon on
in Arafa. Right? Because now you're,
expected in a different place. You were first
expected in Mecca,
and, and you arrived there. And once you
arrived there, you stopped doing the talbiyah because
you arrived. Now that you've done this tawaf,
al kudum, and sa'id, now you're expected somewhere
else, so you do the talbiyah again.
Now
the like we said from before, the
the the first 10 days of Dhul Hijjah,
and the 3 days afterward,
those days for the people who are on
Hajj, the schedule shifts a little bit in
the sense that the the
the
the dates the calendar dates will start with
the the breaking of the dawn with Fajr,
and they end with the next breaking of
the dawn. They don't they don't go from
Maghrib to Maghrib like in in in in
the normal calendar,
but they go from dawn to dawn. Okay?
So
the the 7th day of Dhul Hijjah,
okay, the 7th day of Dhul Hijjah is
called Yomuzina.
Okay?
Yomuzina,
the day of beauty. The reason it's called
Yomuzina
is that
the people who are there in Tamatur, which
we haven't described yet, but those people will
come and they won't be in ihram. It'll
be like the last day that they're still
not in ihram,
and all of them gather together in the,
in the Masloon Haram, and that's a day
of instruction. Right? It's one of the Masloon
Khotobatav
of Hajjis that they gather together in the
master of the haram at that time to
receive instruction on how the next couple of
days will work.
Okay?
So is not technically a day of Hajj,
but it's like a preparation that everyone comes
together in order to, like, go over like
we're going over right now, the the all
the of Hajj, all of the fiqi instructions
regarding a Hajj. So they get together to
do that on the 7th of Dhul Hijjah,
which is called what?
Yomuzina.
Okay?
8th of Dhul Hijjah is called yomut Taruya.
Okay? Taruya means what? Taruya means to draw
water.
Right? It's meaning it means the day that
the pilgrims, they prepare for going to Arafat.
Okay? The yomut Taruya, everybody is in ihram
by that time or should be at least.
Okay?
Everyone should be in ihram. If a person
is in ifrat, they're they're in ihram already.
The person did the matah, they've taken ihram
again. Okay? Everyone should be in ihram on
that at that at that time. So the
sunnah for the is as follows, that a
person
will
leave for Mina.
Okay? Will leave for Mina in such a
time that they arrive in Mina in order
to pray on
time.
Okay? This is a sunnah of Hajj.
It's just you get together and there's instruction.
You prepare you should be in a Haram
by this day, and all of all of
you should set out to,
set out to Mina and be in Mina
by that time in order to
read
on time.
And so what is this the the sunnah
is for the is that a person should
be in Mina
and pray 5 prayers in each of them
in their time. Dhuhr,
Asr, Maghrib, Isha,
and then Fajr from the next day. Okay?
Then Fajr from the next day. This is
the sunnah. All the rest of it, it's
a time
of contemplation and a time of worship.
It's a time to read dhikr, make dhikr,
read Quran, make dua, and to spend in
contemplation, preparation, spiritual preparation for your Hajj. Otherwise,
other than being there, being in a Haram
and reading your 5 prayers,
there's no there's no other,
sunnah,
for that day,
for the person.
The person will keep saying the at that
time as well. Okay? Practically speaking, if a
person goes on Hajj, this is, like, probably
the most crowded
part of the entire Hajj because Mina is
not very large, and all of the pilgrims
have to cram in there,
or at least a very great number of
them have to cram into a very small
amount of space. So you will be you
know, if you go on a normal Hajj
package
from North America, you'll be given, like, a
pad that's about, you know, maybe, like, 3
inches wider
than you are on each side. And,
you know, you basically if you turn one
side, you'll hit somebody, and if you turn
the other side, you'll hit somebody. And they'll
also return the favor relatively
regularly, and people will be snoring, and it
will be really hot.
And the fact that everyone's, you know, crammed
in together will make it even hotter.
So just you have to, like, be very
saber. You have to have a lot of
patience at that time.
And so at any rate,
and the sunnah is just to be there
in Mina
and to,
what you call,
to read those 5 prayers, keep saying, and
then all the rest of your time, do
something spiritually useful.
Now
I didn't bring my pens with me, but
you guys can It's not that complicated of
a schematic. A person
should make in their mind like a map.
K? So there's a continuum. On one side,
there's Mecca, Muqarama,
then, like, 3 kilometers over is, like, Mina.
Okay? And then in that same direction where
Mina ends, that's where Muzdalifa starts.
And then if you go another, like like,
10 kilometers, like 6, 7 miles, after Muzdalifa
ends, that's where Arafat starts. Okay?
So Mecca,
Mina, and Muzdalif are contiguous.
Right? From the Haram, it's maybe 3 kilometers,
4 kilometers from,
from the from the Kaaba to Mina. Okay?
And then where Mina ends
where where Mecca ends, Mina starts.
Where Mina ends,
that's where Muzdalifah starts. And then after Muzdalifah
ends, like 7 miles down,
that's where where,
what you call Arafat starts. So the walk
from to
the Kaaba is around 13 miles or so.
It's a good amount of it may be
a little bit off, but it's something
approximately like that. It's a good distance. It's
not like
a really easy leisurely walk but it is
walkable. Okay? In the old days, mostly people
used to do their hedge walking. To this
day, many people still do their hedge walking.
And people should. You know, if they did
their hedge walking, it would logistically make everything
much easier.
Obviously, you know, like, very few people will
do that nowadays.
So what happens is that on the
which is which date of the Hajjah?
The 8th. 8th.
Okay? What's the sunnah? Just stay in Mina
for that whole time. Don't leave it and
just say
5 prayers. And then the the fajr of
the next day in in its time. Okay?
That's the sunnah of Taruya. Obviously, technically, the
fajr is not Taruya. Technically, the fajr is
the 9th of Dhul Hijjah, which is called
Yom al Arafa.
Okay?
After having read Fajr in Mina,
then the sunnah is to leave to leave
Mina,
cross through Muzdalifa,
cross the road all the way to where?
To Arafat, to go to Arafat. As the
name suggests, Yomu Arafat is the day that
you're gonna stand on Arafat. Right? And so
out of the 4 arkan of Hajj, right,
that's the third one you're gonna do. It's
on 9th of the.
Right? What will you do? What will you
do?
Leave
leave
Mina and go to Arafat. Right? You leave
Mina and you go to Arafat. Okay?
Now
if you wanna walk, you can walk.
If you're not in good shape and you're
not a per you're a person who doesn't,
like, speak Arabic slash Urdu slash English because
without all three of those languages, you're not
gonna get anywhere
you're not gonna get directions anywhere in the
Arabian Peninsula. Sadly, it seems that Urdu comes
in more handy than Arabic does in the
Arabian Peninsula.
For whatever reasons, that's true or isn't true,
but it is true. Whatever reasons it is,
we can discuss them later. But, basically, all
three languages are very necessary.
So I wouldn't suggest it unless you're in
good shape and you're able communicate with people
because you can really easily get lost.
But,
you know, there are pilgrim routes for for
pilgrims who are walking. There are walking roads
that are separate than the ones that the
buses go on, and the the bus roads,
there's, like, I think, 4 or 5 of
them, 7 of them, something like that, from
from Arafat to
to
Mina, and
they're very heavily controlled. And then on top
of that, now they have a light rail
that also takes people back and forth, which
is a very
like, it makes a lot of sense for
that to happen. And they should actually probably
have several light rail lines, but at any
rate,
for right now, the light rail lines are
only reserved for the pilgrims who have the
most expensive packages.
Good for them,
the point of your Hajj is not, like,
more accepted or less expected if
you take the train or if you walk
or if you take a bus or whatever.
But if you wanna walk, I suggest that
you read Fudger in the absolute
first time, and you leave quickly, and you
walk quickly. Why?
Because the time from
from from Fajr coming in until,
until,
the sun rises is very pleasant.
Okay? Once the sun rises, things become very
difficult very quickly.
Okay? So, like, I would even suggest if
you really wanna do it, and I'm not
suggesting doing it, but if you really wanna
do it, like, you should probably walk all
the way to the edge of Mina
and, like, read fajr in the first time
when it comes in at the edge of
Mina before Muzdalifah starts. And then from there,
just take off.
Don't take any rest or any breaks or
anything because as the day,
as the day,
starts to rise over you, it will become
much hotter and much more, like, punishing
very quickly. Okay?
So
from there, what do you do? Okay? If
you arrive in Arafat, most of us are
just gonna take buses.
To be honest with you, the sunan of
the the day of Arafat are taxing enough.
So unless you're in good shape, right, which
I don't consider myself to be in good
shape, I don't consider myself to be ill
or
sick. Maybe if I worked out for, like,
2 months from beforehand, I would probably be
in good shape, but I'm not in good
shape right now. Unless you consider yourself to
be in good shape. Right? Like, you run
a couple of miles without
without it, like, you know, ruining your day
or whatever, I wouldn't suggest doing it. Why?
Because, okay, you arrive in Arafat. Right? Hopefully,
you'll arrive there before the sun rises. Okay?
Or, sorry, before
the
Zawal, before high noon. Most people arrive there
much before that,
actually. Okay?
The other part the other problem, by the
way, with walking from Mina to Arafat is
that Arafat is huge, and there's a whole
bunch of tents in it. And finding the
tent where your group is is not easy.
It's actually very daunting. Even for a very
seasoned person, it's very daunting. It's not easy.
It's very difficult. And I know people who
have spent a whole bunch of time,
getting to Arafat and they get there, okay,
but just the
the tedium of having to find the tent,
that's what kills them. You know?
But at any rate, once you're there, you'll
you know, they have a a space allotted
for every group, and you'll have your own
tent over there. So you can just, you
know, kind of rest in that tent, and
you should be focused on what's about to
happen,
which is the standing
Arafat.
But, you know, you should rest, conserve your
energy a little bit as much as you're
able to, sit in the shade, things like
that, drink water.
It is a sunnah for those not on
Hajj to fast on that day.
If you're in Hajj, it's not a sunnah
to fast. You'll receive more reward for not
fasting, so don't try fast. So I said,
well, I can do it. Just don't do
it. Okay? Just don't don't do it.
It's it's very difficult, and it's just one
of those things like it's
you do it with the the nia. If
you don't fast with the nia fang, so
not fasting, you'll receive more reward by not
fasting even if you if you're able to.
So that's fine. You know? Just if you
have a fetish for not eating and drinking,
then just don't make the niyaf fasting. Don't
eat and drink. But don't don't make the
fast on that day if you're in Hajj.
When you're there, right,
in some ways, it's kind of circus like
because there's a whole lot of people there.
People from many countries will bring huge loud
speakers and, like, be making a lot of
blaring noise during the day, which I'm
not a huge fan of, but what can
you do?
At any rate, rest until when? Until high
noon. Until the time of high noon. At
the time of high noon, it is.
It is a sunnah that there's
a. Okay?
The
what they call the of Hajj. Okay? The
Khutbah of Hajj is where it's in the
masjid of the masjid of Arafat. Okay? The
masjid of Arafat is called masjid Masjid Namira.
Masjid of Namira. Okay? The masjid of Mina
is called Masjid Ukhayf.
K? The name of the Masjid in Mina
is Khayf. The name of the Masjid Al
Farfath is Namira. When I say the Masjid,
there are actually several masjid in in in
in in Mina. There may be more than
one in Arafat as well, but these masjid
are the the the masages that are there
from the time of the prophet
in the salaf
If you try to pray in the Masjid
Al Hayf, you if you can even get
into the Masjid Al Hayf and Mina,
God bless you. Make dua for all of
us. It's completely packed. Okay?
If you can even get into the Masjid
and Namira
on the day of Hajj,
God bless you. It's completely packed. Most of
the people are outside. It is a it
is a sunnah of Hajj that you should
go to the masjid and listen to the
Khutba of Hajj from the amir of Hajj,
whoever is there, whoever the the king
deputes,
or, you know, whoever rules that. Right? Before
that, it was the Ottoman Sultan. Before that,
it was the Mamalik. Before that, it was
Banu Abbas. Before that, Banu Umayyah. Before that,
the Khalafar Rashidun.
Whoever is deputed to by the the temporal
ruler who rules over hijaz
as the amir of hajj, that person will
give the khutba of Hajj over there. It's
a sunnah to go listen to the khutba
of Hajj. And then after he the the
khutba of Hajj is done,
that you read there,
2 rak'ahs. And then immediately afterward, you read
you
read there. Okay?
There is a difference of opinion amongst the
fuqaha as to whether there should be 1
adhan or 2 adhan.
Malik's opinion is that there should be an
adhan for for duhr and then an
and then a separate for and a separate
for
There's a difference of opinion. We did that
last time. A couple of guys in the
group freaked out. I told them, don't freak
out.
If you had to hear the adhan again
one time, it's not gonna kill you. It
is one of the opinions of the salaf
after all. Don't freak out. Right? People freak
out over, like, small things. Right? They don't
care about the fact that people, like, you
know, the ummah go to sleep because they
can't you know, they're starving starving, and they
can't sleep because of hunger. They don't freak
out because what? Because, like,
you know,
the children don't know, like, basic.
They graduate from school, and they don't know
who's Imam Mahdi and who is Saidna Isa
alayhi salam. They don't know any of these
things. But they freak out. Oh, how come
the imam has a stick? I never saw
that before. It's just so no. Well, I
have 30 years of being Muslim. I never
knew that. Okay. That's kinda your problem. It's
not somebody else's problem. Okay? The same thing.
Don't freak out over these small things. They're
like, you you may read something in this
or hear something in this class, and someone
does something different than that in Hajj. You
know? As long as it's not like, you
know, like someone's eating ham sandwich or something
like that, you're you'll still be okay. Even
if it's a mistake, most of the mistakes,
you'll still be okay. Just don't don't trip.
But this is difference of opinion. Some of
the say that you should just make the
Adan once and make 2.
Some of them say
the and then and then and then. Okay?
This is the only time
Jamar Utaqdim
reading reading,
2
prayers combined together
in the time of the first of the
2. It's the only time it happens in
the entire Sharia and all of the agree
about it.
Right? Imam al Hanifa will not allow Jannah
Atakdim
in any other place in the Sharia,
and and Malik will will will allow it
in very few conditions, exceedingly few conditions.
But this is something because the prophet did
it, and there are so many people who
witnessed him do it. So it's something that's
not a matter of it's not a matter
of debate
in the sharia.
The Hanafis will say if you're not participating
in the jama'ah, the the that's in the
Masjid al Namira with the amir of Hajj,
then you can't combine the prayers. But if
you're there, they agree that it's a sunnah
to combine. Right? And that's that's the Hanafi
Madhub. The Maliki say no. Everybody who is
on Arafat should read. Dur and Nasr combined
in the time in the time of Dur
and the beginning of the of the time.
It's Qasr or full? It's Qasr for everybody
except for the people who are residents of
Arafat
itself.
If you're a resident of Mina or Muzdalifa
or Makka, all those people make tazar.
Yeah. But if you only for the residents
of Arafat, they have to read 4 raka'as
for both of them. But even them, they'll
do, yeah, on that day. I'm sorry. Did
you just say that the campaign
is that you can only do it if
you're at the
You can only do it if you're reading
behind the the the amir of Hajj.
Yeah.
It's an opinion of the madhab. There's another
opinion that says you can do it in
the tents as well. The reason for the,
one of the reasons that the gift for
it is that in the time of Banu
Meyih, there were all these different political parties,
and each of them would have their own
separate and their own separate,
you know, jama'ah.
And, Imam Hanifa said that this is ridiculous
that you can't
divide the ummah like this.
So
to deter people deter people from doing that,
he said, just read just read with whoever
has enough authority that they're the ones who
whose jama'a is there in the in the
Mas'id of Namira, those are the ones that
join. If you're not there, as if as
if you're like you're not, like, privy to
that privilege. But,
at any rate, this is something that's gonna
be almost impossible for most people to do.
And, like, if you're not really, like, in
good shape and in good health and, like,
know a lot of languages and, like, really,
like, can like, find because the thing is
like, oh, I'm just gonna go to the
Masjid,
Namira, and I'll just walk back. Getting there
is easy because there's only 1 Masjid. Getting
back is difficult because all the tents in
every direction look exactly the same. So there's
every year, some people who think it's, like,
not a big deal, and they just end
up getting lost.
I wouldn't recommend it I wouldn't recommend it
unless you, like,
are phenomenally
confident in your in your abilities.
And most people who are,
I definitely wouldn't recommend it for them. Right?
Very few people were able to pull it
off properly.
It's something I haven't done yet,
and it's very difficult. And I'm not saying
you can't do it or don't do it,
but there are a lot of people there.
The the the the problem is that, like,
all of these things, there's a soon enough
time to leave from one place to go
to the other. There's always people who leave
early. So if you leave after Fajr,
then you'll get to the masjid of Namilah.
It'll be already be packed with people who
left early, who didn't read Fajr in in
in Mina like it was the sunnah. You
know? So you either sit outside under the
direct sunlight in the hottest part of the
day or just pray in your tent. Okay?
So at any rate,
most people will just end up praying in
their tents. Right?
They'll they'll they'll they'll with their own, like,
whatever imam of their group, they'll read zuhr,
Asr. Right?
And for some reason or another, it's become
a custom of the people to have a
talk
in the tense
at that time, and they call it a,
but it's not really the of Hajj. The
of Hajj is just the one that's in
Namira. I don't know why this is. People
insist that it's a Khutbah. It's not a
Khutbah. It's you can say it's a talk.
It's permissible to have. It's not like haram
or anything.
And, inshallah, maybe there's some benefit in it
also because the sacredness of the time and
the place. But people will have a talk
oftentimes there, but that's not the of Hajj.
Okay? After your after you give they give
the talk and then they read the the
adhan and iqama
for for and then for Asr, after that
is the time of the wukuf. Okay?
It's a
it's a wajib. It's wajib, not not farther.
It's wajib
to make wukuf from the time of the
time you're done with Asr
until the time of Maghrib,
according to Malik. K?
That's wajib,
that you should make wukuf. How do you
make wukuf?
You stand rather than sitting and that you
be uncovered under the sun rather than shaded.
Okay? So the proper the masnun wupoof is
it can happen anywhere in Arafa. There's no
one place to make wupoof that's better than
the other place. There's a small mountain in
the middle of Arafa that the prophet, sallallahu,
they call it Jabal Rahmah, that the prophet
made wukuf on,
and,
he climbed up the mountain. Okay?
The only reason he did it is so
that people could see what he's doing.
And so people, pilgrims,
will will will gravitate toward that area. It's
very crowded,
and people wanna go do that as well.
Again, it's easy to see. It's easy to
go there. When you're coming back, all the
tents look the same. Right? So do so
at your own peril. I don't recommend people
doing so.
All of Arafah is a mawtif. Your woopoof
is the same at all of Arafa. The
only reason the prophet
went up the the mountain was what? Was
that,
that that people should
see him. Take take the way that you
perform Hajj from me. Right?
He said. Now, obviously, if someone says, well,
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam didn't, I wanna
do it as well, there's some benefit in
that as well. Just make sure you don't
ruin the rest of your Hajj because of
that. Because the benefit of that is not
that big,
in the sense that legally, it's not like
you're doing something superior.
Maybe in your heart, there's a lot of
love in it. But the thing is, if
you go for that small, like,
heart issue
and you end up, like, losing your group
and don't know how to get back to
Mina and you end up, you know, like,
you know, not you end up causing problem
for everybody else, you know, looking for you.
You're looking for them.
You can't find them then at Muzdalifa because
it's more chaotic even than Arafa is, and
you just you know, some people get sick
ambulances and take them away. I mean, if
you're gonna end up doing that, then it's
just better just to stay with your group.
Right?
So you it's, like I said, it's a
sunnah to stand rather than sit during that
time, and it's a sunnah to be under
the direct sunlight rather than,
than to be shaded. And that's what the
messenger
did for his.
And he just stood you just faced the
and you make dua the whole time.
If you need to take a break to
drink some water, if you need to sit
sit to, like, relax a little bit, if
you need to use the bathroom, use the
bathroom. But try not to eat and drink
a whole lot before that. Try to use
the bathroom before that.
Try to,
you know, just be in the zone for
that time because it's a very important time
in Hajj.
Imagine the prayer is the most important part
of the deen.
And for the people who are in Arafat,
even Asir has moved up from its time
so you can just focus on that
that that that time of, of of making
dua. That's how important that dua is. There's
another matter that I neglected to mention, and
that's at the 3rd hussle of Hajj. There
are 3
of Hajj. 1 is before
entering the Haram. The second is before entering
Makamu Karama,
and the third is
before the in Arafa.
So before the the high noon hits, it's
Masnun, in Rusl.
There's no facility for that,
in Arafa. What you can do if you
want to is you can take, like, a
bottle and, like, fill it with water from
the bathroom and just wash yourself in the
bathroom if so inclined.
I don't I mean, I could see why
a person wouldn't wanna do that because the
bathroom is not, like, a great place to
be a whistle. But that's, like, the way
you can do it if you wanna do
that sunnah.
But at any rate, the person will stand
and face the face the qiblah and just
keep making, making dua until the sun sets.
Okay? The according to Malik, the rukun the
rukun,
the the farthest,
is to stay there just for an instant
after the sun has set.
So if a person's group is leaving early,
like I said, everyone wants to leave early
from everything so they can be the 1st
person to get somewhere else. Don't leave early.
Don't leave early from from Arafat. Wait for
the sun to have
set, then go. You'll see people who already
start leaving before the sun sets.
Don't do that. Wait till the sun sets
in Mamalek according to him. If you don't
get one,
at least one second,
or at least one small amount of time
after the sun sets in Arafa, then you
haven't you haven't made
the the the huqifa Arafa. You should then
return back
and then, return back in order to catch
that. Otherwise, you have to wait till the
next year,
in order to in order to do that,
and then you have to make that hajj
up.
But, yeah, once the sun has set and
you've waited that instant,
then you will go back toward
toward,
toward Musdalifa.
The last thing I wanna say because the
salat is in, like, 4 minutes is that
you don't read once the sun has set
there, don't read Maghrib. You're supposed to read
Maghrib and Musdalifa, and we'll talk about that
next
time.