Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Prepping For Umrah Fiqh Spirituality Practical Considerations Ribt 03192017.mp4
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So the point of this gathering is to,
just do a little bit of a
visualization,
conceptualization
of the rundown of some of the stuff
that we're gonna do on this trip.
Now the first thing that people should understand
is that your trip starts from the time
that you make your knee out of go.
So don't just be like, oh, I'm gonna
be watching, like, weird
videos on YouTube and, like,
hanging out and whatever, and then I'll be
pious once,
I get to.
Those types of things don't really work out
well.
Much like in life,
if you want to be on time, you
have to be early. Because if you're trying
to be on time, you'll always be late.
This is something that you have to start
and get yourself in the mindset right now.
So for those of us who
may have been heedless of it until now,
now is the time to remind oneself
that like all actions,
this is
a act of piety. This is a great
act of piety,
but it will only be useful to us
if Allah accepts it.
And Allah only accepts from the ones who
fear him.
So
start comporting and conducting yourself as if you
are,
As if you are already on the trip,
that you're already doing your Umrah right now.
The things that you do to go toward
Umrah, whether it be physically toward it
or whether it be in terms of preparations,
mental,
or material,
all of them, you'll be receiving a reward.
You'll be getting reward for them.
So the first thing I wanna say is
that whatever you need to do,
if you need to go shopping, buy your,
buy goods sandals,
buy,
provisions for the journey,
by your whatever cliff bars or whatever other
things that you want for it. All of
these things will count as a.
And so this is not from extravagance. All
of these things will receive the reward of
sadaqa for them. So go out and buy
them, prepare yourself properly. Think of the things
you're going to need. Don't get yourself
stuck. Don't get yourself stuck in the in
the trip,
deficient of something or needing something,
needing to ask somebody for something.
If it happens, it happens inshallah. We're all
we're all there to help, but it's against
the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
that people who are visiting the Haramain Sharifin
should put themselves in such a situation.
So start preparing. Everything you do in terms
of preparation is an act of piety will
count,
with reward for the sake of Allah,
as as if it's an act of piety,
as if it's part of your Umrah,
because your nia is like that.
So the first thing that I wanted to
start with was,
everybody should be at the airport
4 hours before the flight leaves.
This is not a normal trip. When you're
traveling with a group. Things move slower,
and,
you don't want to be late for anything.
You want to ever have everyone checked in
and having met one another
at the airport. Hopefully, we'll see our see
our shot together before we leave. Right? What
time is the departure?
Departure is 10:20.
So,
you know, we'll pray our together,
hopefully, at the airport.
And, you know,
that way if someone forgets something or something
happens,
when you move with the group, you always
move at the speed of the slowest person,
so things take more time. So don't think
of this as if you're going, like, you
know, just yourself or you and your spouse
to,
you know, we're going to the you know,
for the weekend LA or something like that.
It's not gonna be like that. It's not
gonna things are not gonna proceed like that.
So be there be there early. Check-in.
You know, look online for what the baggage
allowances are for
Turkish Airlines.
They give, what, 2 bags
that are £50 each.
And travel light. Don't max out your weight.
The reason I mentioned the the baggage allowances
is that don't expect that you're gonna take
something more or bring something more than that
unless you're gonna pay. And if you pay,
they're gonna make you pay through the nose.
Don't come to the airport to argue.
Don't try to get a freebie out of
them.
Be prepared. Do everything in an orderly fashion.
The visitation of the Haram Sharif is very
different than normal things that that we do.
Right? We have especially some of our,
public, like, you know, that are from certain
backgrounds.
We're very used to maxing out
value out of everything, pinching every every,
opportunity that we have and maxing out our
value for whatever we do.
And this is not appropriate on this trip.
On this trip, you want to be as
orderly as possible.
So,
you know, come with your your baggage proper.
They have the bright green, neon green,
Haram,
baggage tags.
It is not the most fashionable
motif.
It sticks
out, from far away. That's good. That's in
your interest so your bags don't get lost.
They don't get mixed up in the hotels
or at the even at the airport or
whatever. Even the baggage handlers at the airport
know that the similar tags belong with similar,
tag bags. So please have those filled out
everything. Don't, you know, don't wait for them
for the airport.
You know, have passport pouches.
They were given to you also.
If you don't have a better one that
you own, at least bring
those,
and,
don't just walk around with it carelessly with
your passport in your pocket and things like
that. An American passport for those of us
some of us may not have traveled so
frequently.
An American passport is something that you don't
wanna lose. I mean, it becomes a big
problem.
It becomes a big problem if you lose
an American passport. It becomes a huge issue.
Your own embassy is going to treat you
with contempt,
if you come to them and say you
lost your passport. So be very careful, you
know, have have your your passport and all
your papers. You know, you have your passport,
you have copy of your Turkish visa.
You should have a copy of your passport,
a photocopy of your passport,
in another bag. You should have a digital
copy of your passport
on your, on your
phone or in your email
account in case you lose it, in case
you have to prove, you know, your identity
to get back into the country.
It's been suggested in certain quarters that our
people are not extra welcome when they come
back to the airport, so don't give them
an excuse to treat you badly.
And then afterwards, say, oh, I went to
Umrah, and this happened and that happened. We
want to avoid problems. We want to have
no complaints
because this is a trip that,
the sunnah is not to complain about anything.
So make it easy for yourself to follow
the sunnah. Don't make it difficult by making
putting yourself in a in a position where
you're you're in a you know, you have
to ask someone for help or you have
to complain about something or it's easy for
you to complain about something. Again, if something
happens and you need help, we're all there
for each other. But,
you know, to put yourself in a position
where you need help, for something that you
could have avoided, that's not a good thing.
Not a good thing on this trip. So
this is part of your part of your
umrah as well. Show up well prepared and
show up beforehand.
Show up early to everything,
and that brings me to the next point,
that this is a journey also of suburb.
Don't be like, oh, I paid this much
money,
and I want this, and I want that,
and I want no. This is a journey
of suburb.
The reason you're going to this journey is
not to have fun
and to make friends and meet people.
The reason you're going to this journey is
to visit the house of Allah to visit
the prophet
Everything else is like a pyramid of saber
that that that that
this
these two goals lie upon.
All of it is. So show up early
and wait for others, and under no circumstance
should you ever be in a position where
people have to wait for you.
Always be prepared to wait for others. Don't,
you know, don't put other people in a
position to wait
you. If we get to the Jeddah airport
and there's a long
line, this is a journey of suburb. Just
wait.
If we you know, the bags take longer
to get out or someone's bag, you know,
God forbid, gets lost or misdirected,
just wait.
If you are stuck in Jadda and all
you're wearing is your Eharam, you have no
other clothes,
don't worry. You can talk to Mobi Hamza.
He will give you 50 rials. You can
go buy a thobe or like the abay
or something like that or buy whatever.
Don't freak out though. K. Whatever happens, happens
even if the worst thing happens.
Which is what? Which is you lose all
your bags and they don't find them again.
Khalas, all of it counts that it was
lost in the path of Allah
If you lose your money, it counts as
if it counts as lost in the path
of Allah. God forbid someone lose their
life. We're not planning for that. Please abstain
from losing life, if at all possible.
But if even if that happens, imagine that
that Allah will write for you, your khatima,
that you,
that that you perished in the
in the path of Allah
So don't worry about any of that stuff.
Just be just have patience, have sabr with
whatever happens.
Don't complain about anything to anybody.
Don't complain about anything to anybody.
Your goal is what? To visit Allah ta'ala's
house and visit the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
The the reward for it is what? That
the from 1 Umrah to another Umrah is
a kafarah, it's an expiation for your sins.
And the the reward for visiting the prophet
is what? Is that he will give you
his on the day of judgment.
Whoever visits my grave, then it becomes incumbent
on me to intercede for him on the
day of judgment.
So this is what you're going for. This
is worth whatever, like, small amount of money
you and I are paying for this trip.
This is what what it's all about. Don't
destroy that. Don't destroy your deeds are not
like money that you deposit in the bank.
Your deeds are like a crop, like a
seed that you put into the ground, and
it will be harvested on the
You can mess it up. You can put
the seed in the ground, but there's many
opportunities to mess it up and kill the
crop before it's time for harvest. Don't mess
it up by complaining. This this specific this
act,
of of visiting,
the House of Allah Ta'al and visiting Thee,
Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. This specific act is
ruined by what? By complaining.
It's watered and it's it's the fertilizer and
the water of this crop is what? The
patience and the difficulty you go through, the
preparation you go through. If you are
keeps you healthy and strong, you don't get
sick during this trip, and you have all
of everything goes according to plan, then you're
in a position to help other people, then
you're doing really well, Then you go and
help people carry someone else's bag, do some
khidma for the other people so that you
can bag the reward for their armor as
well as yours.
The thing that the poison that will kill
this crap, the way of, like, putting on
a pair of steel toed boots and, like,
smashing the crap into the ground,
is what? Snuffing it out is what? Like,
complaining.
That I oh, Janab, I, you know, expected
this, I expected that, this didn't happen, that
didn't happen. Sometimes your complaints may even be
legitimate.
Doesn't matter.
Right. If your complaint is illegitimate, that's like
really horrible. That's like double horrible. Even if
your complaints are legitimate,
you're going to what? Visit the house of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. You cannot teleport there.
You have to go through some sort of
means. You picked a means. Whatever happened happened,
but the point is between this is between
you and Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala. If you
make it about other than you and Allah
ta'ala,
then it's going to diminish your returns you're
gonna get from this is diminished.
And obviously, alhamdulillah, this is a group that's,
you know, god fearing and upright people are
going together.
Mistakes do happen, but, you know, really, hopefully,
there's nothing nothing wrong is gonna happen, big
or small, inshallah.
But, you know, you should have the intention
sometimes,
you know, the reward, all you need to
do to get a great amount of reward
is just to have an intention. If something
does go wrong, that that I'm ready to
be patient. And Allah
protect us from all of these things.
So you're at the airport. You're on the
plane.
The plane is going to land at 4
something PM in Istanbul.
Okay?
The,
the only prayer we're gonna have to pray
in the plane is
what? Fajr.
Right? The only prayer we're gonna have to
pray on the plane is Fajr.
Your sunnahs,
your 2 sunnah rakaat before Fajr, pray them
sitting, please, in your seat. Don't pray them
don't pray them standing.
And your farthest prayer that you're going to
pray standing,
pray them quickly.
Don't don't be like, oh, look. I'm on,
I'm on,
Umrah.
So, Michelle, Chicago is the city of Hafaz.
I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna shine my
and all this other good stuff. K. Go
pray pray
and
and then you can read in your seat
afterward.
Inshallah.
So
you're going to pray,
standing. The question will arise.
Sit up. Sit comfortably. You you also those
people are gonna sit
If you don't mind, do you mind just
clearing it so if other people come, they
can sit also. There's a room for them.
So
the question arises,
which direction is the Qibla?
The plane is going in the direction of
the Qibla
for the whole route.
So that's that's that's check. 2nd question, what
time do we pray at? Okay. This is
a little bit more complicated of a calculation.
For those of you who have, math and
some,
uncommon level of common sense, you can probably
estimate, you know,
to a to a fair degree.
If it's like all too much for you,
right, there's 2 things you can do. 1
is you look out the window.
Okay?
If you look to the east, right, we're
gonna be traveling probably at that time directly
eastbound, so it'll be difficult to look to
the east. So if you're trying to try
to look as forward as possible, the east
southeast, so from the right side of the
plane, forward right side of the plane, when
when you see
more light than nighttime but the sun hasn't
risen yet,
then it's time you can pray.
If even that's too much for you to
figure out,
then, you know, what we'll do is we'll
all know each other,
and you'll see you'll see, like, we'll just
send a signal around. Not everyone has to
go pray exactly at the same time.
It's not even possible to do that if
you want to, and it's probably gonna annoy
the rest of the people on the plane
and the flight crew.
But, yeah, wherever you find a place,
go ahead and pray your 2 rakat, Insha'Allah
quickly, orderly, and then come back to your
seat. I suggest everybody for this journey,
keep a small prayer prayer rug.
Don't keep the standard ones. Sisters, there's the
one like the blue one that's where you're
sitting. Those are like big thick ones. Don't
keep those. There's always like a small look.
Like, these ones are like paper thin. You
can show the sisters as well. You can
fold it up and stick it in your
pocket real easy.
If you don't have one to bring with
you, you can buy one there for like
10 rials.
Buy one there real easy, real cheap. You
should probably have one like this with you
anyway wherever you go. But, if you have
one, bring it with you in your checked
bags.
That way you can pray. Unfortunately
unfortunately,
until a time comes where people,
have a little bit more common sense regarding
these things, Turkish Airlines and other Muslim country
airlines, most of them, at least, they serve
alcohol. So you don't wanna just prey on
the,
you know, prey on the the surface that
they're that they're that they're on.
I think, an adequate solution,
if
an adequate solution if, just close the behind
you.
If if you're not able to bring 1
or if you forget or whatever, it's usually
they give blankets, right, for these, overnight flights.
By Zul Harnane. Right? They've give a blanket
in the seat. You can use the blanket
also. You may not want to actually use
it as a blanket after you've put it
on the on the galley floor or whatever,
but,
that that that suffices as well.
So 2 rakaz,
not so horrible.
You know, for those of us who are
able to keep your wudu, it may be
better to try to keep your wudu after
the plane,
leaves.
So okay. We're gonna leave at what? 10
o'clock, you said?
So if we leave at 10:20
and we estimate Fudger to be at, like,
what?
Right? Fudger, like, 6:30. Okay? So that's that's
how many hours?
That's 8 hours and plus you're crossing crossing
roughly an hour every time zone. So it's
gonna be this is not exactly true, but
start looking for the signs of fudger out
the window, like, 4 hours into the flight.
So if you can keep your udul for,
like, 4 hours, which some people most people
in should be able to do, it may
be more convenient than trying to stick your
foot up in the sink,
in the plane. By by the way, if
you have to make wudu, you have to
make wudu. Right? Just stick your foot and
do do what you need to do. Wipe
down the the bathroom. Don't let it be
like, you're all Pye Titus all wooed out
and ready to pray standing, you know, because
you're going to Jannah and stuff. And then
the next person who goes into the bathroom
is, like, utterly horrible. You know? Wipe wipe
take the take the tissues not the tissues,
the,
the paper towels,
wipe them down,
wipe down the the area, the the mirror,
the sink, all that stuff. After you're done,
throw it all away. Wash your hands one
more time,
when you're done. And,
you know, don't don't be a pain for
other people that your religiosity makes an annoyance
for other people that people will then curse
the dean after
one they're,
done using the bathroom.
So the point is is that that, you
know, all these things keep them in mind,
do them in an orderly fashion, and be
mindful of
of
of not causing difficulty to others,
in order to facilitate your own piety.
But at the same time,
you know, not,
not neglecting your duties to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala and to other people as well.
Then when we land Insha Allah in Istanbul,
we will,
probably have some time before our bags come
out and before we clear immigration.
So there's usually a airport at airports, there's
usually a bathroom pretty close to the
to the where you exit the plane from.
If you need to, you can make wudu
and pray right there, Insha'Allah.
Yeah. I don't remember. It's the last one,
in December. I'm sorry. Mhmm.
If the I know there's multiple massages inside
the Istanbul airport. Mhmm. I don't know if
there's one right before immigration Yeah. Between the
Yeah. So so, yeah, there are
multiple in the airport.
If there is one, be between,
the the jet bridge and immigration, great. If
not, just move to the side,
you know. And, the the the is southeast
from from Istanbul.
So, you know, the sun will be setting
in the west.
So,
you know, just just pray. If you don't
if you have hard time determining the Qibla,
you can ask ask
Molana Tamim or myself, Sheikh Musa,
Mahaisul Karnain, you know, and it's it's not
a big deal. Don't stress out about these
things as well. You know, just this is
part of trust in Allah
All of it will happen inshallah.
Just, you know, be diligent about things, not
don't stress out. So what we're gonna do
is we're gonna we're gonna pray probably before
pray with Lohar in order to catch Lohar
on time. We'll pray with Lohar before,
clearing customs,
then get your bags.
The the Turkish visa is a
just a sheet of paper that's folded up
and attached to your passport. So make sure
that sheet of paper is there. Don't separate
it out or take it out. Show it
to them at the at the thing, at
the at the with the custom,
immigration, sorry, the immigration stand. And then once
we clear immigration, all of us, should gather
together on the other side. And then we
have a bus that's waiting for us that's
gonna take us to the airport.
Sorry. Not to the airport, to the hotel.
From the airport to the hotel.
Then,
when we get to the hotel, we'll unload
our stuff.
We will have some of the program, Inshallah.
I think
will talk a little bit more about it.
We'll give him a chance to talk about
that as well.
But,
the idea is stay together.
If you go somewhere, if you separate, tell
somebody
that you're going. If it's really far, maybe
it's good to make much more with the
group leaders, you know, before going because sometimes
you may think you'd be you'll be able
to go and come back on time and
you won't, or you'll be absent. And then
people will worry about you. They'll call the
police. They'll contact your family members,
that type of stuff. We don't want anything
like that to happen. So everyone should stay
in communication.
Our WhatsApp group that we have,
it's going to obviously still be live when
we go to Turkey.
You should have Wi Fi in the airport.
If you're really enterprising, you should be able
to pick up a SIM,
you know, from any any one of the
cell phone shops over there.
Although, you really shouldn't need one.
The point is that that that you can
use that for communication as well,
and you should. We don't necessarily need to
post like,
oh, I found this very inspiring video of,
like, Adan from, you know, some Masjid somewhere
in some weird place. We don't need to
really put those things up,
on that on that group. But if you're
going somewhere or if you have a question
or you need to know something, you know,
stay in communication with the group so that,
so that
everyone knows where you are. We can take
care of you, and you also don't,
unwittingly become the source of,
anxiety for someone.
So Turkey, Insha Allah, will spend that night,
Insha Allah, in Istanbul,
really close to the
the best of the Sultan Mohammed Fateh
or
And,
the next day, inshallah, we'll get a chance
to go visit the Topkapi Palace and see
the relics of the prophet
and of
Sahaba,
you know, the a number of things. There's
some hair of the prophet, there's
a cloak of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. There are the swords and armor
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and
his companions
and some
also historical artifacts from the different,
different,
Khalifa and sultans of the Ottoman Empire.
The sanjak Sharif,
the
the the the the the the the standard,
the flag of the prophet
is also housed over there. Go visit it.
All of those things. Inshallah, we'll visit those
things. We'll visit,
different massages and things like that. And, also,
we'll relax. You know, we don't have to
go super enterprising about, you know, about our
time in Istanbul.
We'll relax as well because we have some
tedium ahead of us.
And then the next day so we land
and spend 1 night, and then we spend
an entire day and spend that night. And
then the next morning right after fajr, we
gotta bounce.
Bouncing means what? You have to have your
ihram and your carry on.
You have to have your what?
You have to have your
in your carry on. If you put your
in your checked bag,
you can pay for the,
animal you have to slaughter for having, like,
crossed the mikath without having a ihram on.
That is not something that haram is going
to pay for. That is your bad.
You have to have your Haram where?
In your in your checked bag. So before
you sleep on that night, right, so we're
leaving Thursday night.
Okay. We're we're gonna spend Friday night there.
Yeah. Friday night. And then we're gonna spend
Saturday night. Saturday before you go to sleep,
your Ihram should be separated in in your
in your in your carry on stuff. It
should not be in your checked bag at
all.
Okay? Ihram means what? Alright. Ihram means the
the the
the state of pilgrim sanctity.
Okay? The Haram consists of a number of
parts, but it means a state of pilgrim
sanctity.
For the sisters,
it doesn't mean anything different in their clothing
except for that their hands and their face
has to be exposed.
Now some of our sisters are going to,
you know, wear some, modified eharam nikab, which
usually
involves, like, a baseball cap or a visor
or something like that. That a piece of
cloth hangs over from the front. But you
cannot wear a niqab at at any rate.
You cannot wear a niqab or a burka
or something that
that sticks with your with your face.
And your hands have to be exposed as
well. So your hands can be underneath like
a a chadler, but they cannot you cannot
have the gloves on, something that's that's, like,
wrapped around your hands or something.
And so but, otherwise, they can wear whatever
foot gear they want. They can wear whatever
clothes they want. For the brothers, the
eharam is,
the clothing of the eharam, I should say,
is 2 unstitched pieces of cloth.
One of them, you wrap around your lower,
your lower,
half,
and one of them, you wrap around your
upper half.
It is very important that it is very
important that you also practice
putting these on and wearing them,
from before,
and that you also be mindful for those
of us who are not accustomed
to who to, wearing an iazar.
You be mindful about how you expose yourself
with these things because you'll sit in certain
ways. When you have pants, there's really no
way to see inside,
unless someone's like ultra,
you know, like, whatever. But the point is
is that let's not go there. There's no
there's there's no way they're basically covered from
all different sides. Whereas, if you have if
you have a Izzar on, if you have,
like, a waist *, there may be
a certain way you're sitting that you're accustomed
to sitting. You're exposing yourself. You don't even
know it. So be very, very mindful. Be
very mindful about the way you sit, the
way you comport yourself
because it's still haram to expose yourself,
and it's, in fact, even more haram because
you're in the holy and sacred land. So
be very mindful about that.
It may be awkward that I'm saying this
right now, but it's not as awkward as
it can get if you don't
be mindful of what I'm saying.
So you will put on
you will put on and wear that stuff
to the airport.
Okay?
Don't expect to have a place in the
airport to change,
especially if you're not accustomed to wearing these
are you'll have a small toilet stall,
you know, where the floor will probably have,
like, you know, questionable
moisture moisture
moisturey services surfaces.
And if you're not accustomed to putting it
on, you don't want stuff dragging on the
floor and chain just just put put the
at least the lower part the lower part
of the garment on before you go to
the airport. If you want to, I would
recommend actually, you wear a like a shirt
or
a a a or a thobe or whatever
over it.
Okay.
That but the lower garment, you have to
have it on.
Okay?
Under no circumstances
should you ever should you ever think you're
gonna change it change in the plane.
Okay. The bathroom is so tight in there,
and there's so little space between seats.
You will expose you you will expose yourself.
You will just make it really bad for
everybody. At that point, I will say, you
know what? Just put it on when you
get to the Jeddah airport and pay for
the pay for the dam, pay for the
sacrifice in order to rectify it because you're
gonna do end up doing some haram in
order to. So don't don't even entertain the
idea that you're gonna change in the in
the plane.
I've seen it happen once.
It was very strange.
Maybe, you know, we can talk about that.
It's a funny story we can talk about
on the thing. It was a French Hajj
group, and it involved a very confident,
Hajj group leader who, like, basically, like, helped
himself into the, like, first class section and
changed,
in their big bathroom up there and, like,
then proceeded to grab the intercom and make
announcements on the plane. It was very strange.
We're not gonna do that,
So don't do it. Okay?
Now
when you enter
when you enter now, you're entering a a
an increasingly more and more sacred space.
The first the first
boundary you'll you'll you'll cross is what?
From Darul Kufar into Darul Islam.
When you're in Turkey, say salaam to people,
be nice to people. Obviously, you should be
nice to everyone anyway. Right?
But
those those people say to the people. Be
very careful about how you treat them. Be
nice to them. Be very careful about how
you how you deal with people over there.
The second boundary is in the.
The
is a
a a border around the
that extends in all directions.
Somewhere maybe, like, 20 minutes before the plane
lands, we're gonna cross the Mikat. There will
be a an announcement on the plane. The
pilot will say, we will cross the in
in,
whatever, half an hour or whatever.
Usually, they make the announcements early.
If you have, as a point of just
intellectual curiosity,
the mikat of the people coming from the
north is a city called Jufa.
Jufa is not inhabited anymore. It's not on
most maps. But there's a city that that
where Jufa ends. There's another city called Rabi
which is inhabited to this day and it
usually shows up on on the maps. You
know, like, you know, when you're in a
a airplane, oftentimes they have, like, the,
a screen in every seat. Right? Usually, those
maps that that shows the flight path, they'll
have Robert on there.
So at any rate, Robert is where the
is
for
for,
the people coming from the north, except for
the people who are coming from Medina, which
we're not. We're coming from
Istanbul.
So
when you cross before you cross, what the
is that that border or that area around
the Haram
which
a person who is coming to visit the
house of Allah ta'ala,
a person has to that's gonna be in
a haram, has to be in a state
of a haram before crossing that border. And
this
is
eharam,
gonna go send my eharam to the cleaners.
That's just the clothing you wear for eharam.
Eharam is a state that you're in, the
clothing is a component of it.
Another component of Ihram is what? Is that
you cannot cut your hair or cut your
nails. So there's a sunnah before coming into
Ihram that you cut your, you know, whatever,
shaving you need to do, whatever a person
needs to,
do whatever personal grooming,
Masnun, you know, like, a personal grooming.
They do it from before before that time.
So that Saturday night, that's the time to
do it, basically.
Okay? Cut your nails.
Cut your, you know, whatever underarm hair.
Shave your underarm hair and your other, private
parts and all these Masoon things. You do
all that stuff at that time. It's a
sunnah to do it, especially at that time.
If you know, you're,
whatever other things a person does,
whatever you need to do, you you do
it at that time.
The third thing is you cannot wear any
perfume or any oil.
Okay? No moisturizer,
no,
scented,
stuff that you put on,
soap and things like that.
There are things called unscented soap. My experience
is that really very few of them are
actually unscented.
They have, like, places like, Whole Foods or
whatever. You may be able to get, like,
a bar. It's, like, transparent. It really has
no scent in it.
Even that, you should use it sparingly and
only when necessary.
The idea of Iqram is you should be
in a state of that you should be
in a disturbed and perturbed state.
You should be in a disheveled state when
you come to when you come to the
house of Allah
This is not a,
a a a law that you should look
for loopholes in order to skirt it.
This is a law that has a point.
And the point of this law of not
being able to,
you know, like, put put on, like,
whatever,
scents and oils and things like that, moisturizers,
creams, lotions, things like that, is what you
should be in a disheveled state by the
time you get to the house of Allah.
For us, the time that we put the
eharam, from the time that we put the
eharam to the time that we, are done
with our umrah is actually even shorter time
than it was in the past. So just
don't go there.
Don't use these like, you know, like if
you use the bathroom and things like that,
the the soap dispensers and things like that,
don't use them. They're all scented.
If you accident accidentally do it, immediately
take it take it, take, your hand and
wash rub it off as much as you
can. Wash it off as much as you
can immediately.
But the second thing is what? No sense,
no oils. The one exception to this is
if a person is walking
and they get cracks in their feet that
become painful to walk on or or start
to bleed, then you can use some Vaseline
or something like that. There's an exemption for
that.
But, you know, again,
that's that's an exception, not the rule. And
hopefully, no one will get to that point.
Although it's possible, it does happen from time
to time.
So that's that's the first thing is what?
You don't you're not gonna
wear stitched clothing. The second thing we mentioned
is that you're not going to,
be able to clip your nails, cut your
hair,
pick scabs, remove things from your, you know,
whatever body,
you know, picking a scab or a scar
or something like that. You don't do any
of that. No sense, no oils,
none of these things.
Those of us who are married,
when you're in a Haram,
you're basically like brother and sister.
Okay? Like, really?
No. I love you.
Generally,
It's good to say I love you to
one another.
Just don't say it in front of, like,
other people because then people will be like,
what the *? But, like, you know, you
should be affectionate with one another. That's good.
For the purpose of Haram, you are like
brother and sister.
The same way that you would never, like,
give that kind of affectionate, like, treatment to
your if you wouldn't say it to your
sister, don't say it to your wife. If
you wouldn't say it to your brother, don't
say it to your husband when you're haram.
Don't look at each other, don't touch each
other,
you know, what is it haram? No, it's
still not haram to touch one another, but
it could lead to haram
very easily. So just don't do it.
If you got, like, a double room, then,
like, you know,
be on other sides of the room. Don't
be very careful about this. Okay? This is
a a a very, severe violation of Iran.
If a person if a husband and wife
or any two people have, like, relations in
the state of Iran,
then, like, you will, like, trigger, like, the
whole like, a holy, like,
world war of, like, penalties. Like, there's, like,
so much stuff that you have to sort
through. It just becomes just don't go there.
Don't go there.
Don't joke about stuff.
Okay?
I it's embarrassing to admit, I guess, in
front of the sisters, but, you know, some
of the ulamaikiram have been known to
have a very,
strange sense of humor with regards to different
things.
Don't joke about anything.
Don't innuendo, it's like so much part of
our humor. It's part of, like, the way
we talk about stuff,
whatever.
Don't just
don't. No.
Not not explicitly, not implicitly.
No smirk, no no laugh, no nothing. Don't
point it out. Don't whatever. Just look the
other way and shut up and keep moving.
When you're in Haram, just look the other
way, shut up and keep moving. If you
can do it for the whole trip, good
for you. That's the that's the spirit in
which the script should be. Even certain, you
know, the idea is, Haram is that you
make certain things haram that were halal from
before.
Right? Something may not be something may not
be haram, like, you know, to joke about
certain things as long as you're not joking
about something haram or whatever. There's a lot
of leeway, you know, some people are I
myself am a person who enjoys laughing and
joking about things. This is not the time
and place to do it, especially when you're
in Iqram.
But in general, when you're in
this is not the time to do it.
In in in general, when you're on this
trip to go and come from there. So
don't don't,
you know, don't, you know, don't don't go
there. Don't look, you know, lower your gaze
anyway, but this, like, double, triple lower your
gaze. Don't don't don't be like that. Don't
be the person who's,
Nasib,
from visiting Makamukaram and Medina Munawarra is that
that they just, you know,
look at other people, in a way that's
bad. That don't be the person that that's
all you get out of this trip or
that's something that you carry with you out
of this trip.
You know, people especially people come from,
America to the Muslim world, they expect that
everything is going to be
somehow, like, you know, the entire world is
gonna turn into a masjid or a hanqa
or something like that, and it's not the
case. So just
be mindful of that.
Don't people watch or any of this other
stuff. Just keep your head down and know
what you're there for.
The,
these are the prohibitions of Iran.
Then when you're,
going to enter into the state so the
announcement has been made.
We'll enter into the into the in the
next 15 minutes or something like that. K?
Then if you're wearing a thobe or whatever,
you can take that top off and then
put the put the other sheet, you know,
around your shoulders.
And then what you wanna do is you
wanna get on the plane in the state
of.
If you don't have it at this point,
then go make it. Okay. But you wanna
enter the state plane in the state of.
Then, obviously, you're going toward Makamukarama.
So, again, the is very easy. It's just
the direction the
point plane is pointed in. Okay? Maybe maybe
slightly to your left because Jadda is east
of Makkumukarama,
but very slightly.
Because it's not a part of the prayer,
it's a sunnah to pray 2 rakas before
entering into e Haram because it is not
a part of the prayer. Just pray it
in your seat.
The sunnah is to what? To to recite
and
and,
in the first rakah
and
and
in the second rakah.
And then after you're done with the with
the prayer,
you make dua.
You make dua that Allah
make easy for you the the
the discharging of your duties as a pilgrim,
and that he accepted from you, and that
he make it easy for you. And that
he pilgrim
and that he accepted from you and that
he make it a a means for your
betterment in this world and the hereafter, and
he make it a means to change for
the better.
The Ihram state, you can't cover your head,
but you're not in Ihram yet. The 2
rakazah from before you enter Ihram.
So you can take some portion of the
you can take some portion of your Iram,
upper garment, you know, and you can just
keep it over your head like this as
well while you're praying while you're praying the
2 rakat. Right? After after once you enter
into eharam, you cannot cover your head.
Just like the sisters, their Ihram isn't not
having clothing on their face or on their
hands. For the brothers, it's not having it
on their head at all or on their
hands.
Those should be exposed. You can put your
hands into the blanket, but you can't have
something like you'd actually wear, like, gloves or
something covering your hands and wrap your hands
up in something. You can't do that.
So what did we do? We,
we've now prayed our 2 rakas
and we've made our dua.
Before we cross the boundary in the mikat,
the act by which we will enter into
Ihram is what to say the
InshaAllah, maybe we'll just make a recording of
it and, like, send it as a separate
file on the WhatsApp group. You listen to
it a couple of times, InshaAllah, you'll remember
it.
Labayk is an interesting word. It's not a
normal usage in the Arabic language.
Labayk is a idiomatic expression,
which is used for when a master calls
a slave.
The slave will answer
When a master calls a slave, the slave
will answer what?
It is the answer that the person who
is in complete humility and submission gives.
It's not like, yeah, I'll be there in
in a minute. Just give me a minute.
Or, yeah, I'm coming.
I'm here. That's it. I'm at your service.
You Allah. I'm at your service.
Labake.
I'm at your service. There is no partner
unto you. I'm at your service.
All praises to you and all blessings,
come from you.
And all ownership of all things belongs to
you. You have no partner.
Labayk means not just what?
It means not just that I'm here right
now, rather the meaning of labayk is
that I'm at your service time and time
again. Every time it does it doesn't mean
that I'm just here at your service right
now. Means I'm at your service every time
you call me.
And when a person says this is labayk,
it means what? If you have a niya
to commit a sin in the future, your
is rejected.
If you have a that you're gonna do
this thing and then you're gonna go back
to your home and whatever, you should have
gone to Disneyland because your is rejected.
If you have a niya that you're going
to,
you know, be the same as you were
when you came from before, then your labayk
will not be accepted. So who are you
to say my labayk is accepted or not?
This is what, this is what comes in
the books of hadith. This is what comes
in the books of the fuqaha. This is
the tajriba,
the experience also of the the
is that whenever someone came with a a
a a a a a a a a
a a a a a a a weak
like this, it wasn't accepted because that's not
even what the word means.
Think about what does it mean that, yeah,
that if your life afterward calls for you
to what?
To sacrifice for the sake of Allah, You'll
lose your job. You'll, you know, this be
your thing will happen. You'll lose money. You'll
go through difficulty. Whatever you go through because
of the commandment of Allah and you're following
it. Labbeik means, Ijabatimbadah
Ijabah. Every time you call me, I'll come
back. I'll I'll be at your service.
This is not a small,
thing to say.
And the truth of the matter is is
that a person
should fear how am I going to fulfill
this? And the answer to that question is
Allah will fulfill it.
So ask Allah
that we did this
as a in conformance with the sunnah of
your Nabi
we went ahead and said this thing, and
we have intention for it, and it's difficult
to fulfill.
In humility, ask Allah
for the ability and the power to fulfill
it then
afterward. But this is what the meaning of
is, and if you're not gonna have that
meaning, you should've gone to Disneyland, you should've
gone to Dubai for the weekend, You should've
done something else because this is not this
trip is, you know, something that that the
meaning of which is something else.
So a person will say
the
After this, as long as a person is
in a Haram, it is a sunnah for
them. It is a sunnah for them to
say the talbia,
frequently.
For the sisters, they say it to themselves
and a voice that they can hear. Maybe
someone sitting next to them can hear it.
For the brothers, it's a a sunnah to
raise your voice when saying it. You don't
shout at the top of your lungs, but
you also don't say it in a, you
know, in a quiet voice like,
like the shahannan of the women is.
And you say it frequently in the beginning
several times, and then afterward you don't have
to be saying it constantly.
But afterward, you should say it every time
some change. You have some change in your
state. So if you're standing, you sit down,
you should say it. If you're sitting and
you stand up, you should say it. If
you, if your vehicle
starts moving, you should say it. If it
stops, you should say it. If you go
up, you should say it. If you go
down, you should say it.
When pee when last thing before you go
to sleep or take a nap, you should
say it. The first thing when you wake
up, you should say it. The when you
pray, the first thing after saying salam, you
should say it before saying any of your
other other car. When 2
meet one another,
they should look at each other and say
the and then say salam.
This is a sunnah many people have neglected.
There are many people who will say it
in the beginning just to get it out
of the way, and then they're too cool
to say it. Or they'll, like, kinda undercover
say it because, you know, someone might see
me. That's not the shotten of the Hajj
and Umrah.
Even if everyone else in the group is
behaving that way, don't behave that way.
The sunnah is what? That the the the
the the valleys of Mecca as you get
closer and closer,
that they should be echoing with the the
sound of the talbia of the the different
people of the different nations of the earth
from every direction they come to.
All of the all of the the the
the the the the blessed and sacred valley
should be echoing with the sound of what?
Of the Talbiyah, of of all the different
pilgrims.
This if it's accepted by Allah,
you're accepted. And it's it's something that you
should repeat again and again.
And and that's that. This is not a
time to make small talk, not a time
to chat. Which
university did you get into? Did you get
your how's your job application going? I heard
YouTube is running a new service. I heard
Twitter is going like this in Facebook and
Snapchat and all this other nonsense. This is
not the time for any of those things.
Right? Who is it? Haram Sheith? This no.
It's just not the time for it. It's
not the time for it. You can talk
about all that stuff when you're when you're
out of a haram. Really, preferably, you can
just talk about the stuff when you get
home, but especially when you're in a haram,
that's not the time that you should. You
should be there. Rather, your whole focus and
your whole attention should be on the,
the the the the the the visitation of
the house of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So you keep saying the Talbia as a
point
of as a point of, knowledge. It is
a sunnah to enter in
from the east, and it's a sunnah to
leave from the west. The eastern road into
Makamukarama
is from a place called Kadah
Kadah Athania,
which is the modern day, neighborhood I'm told
of, of Makama Karama called Kudei. That's where,
like, the car park and all that stuff
is. So we'll probably enter in from there.
Obviously, if you try telling the bus driver
any of this stuff, he's gonna be like,
what?
So don't worry about it. But inshallah,
at least some things you know you have
an intention,
you know, and you know about it, then
your your attention is if I could have,
I would have done this, then at least
you'll receive some reward for it.
When we arrive at the hotel,
it's a sunnah of the prophet
that he used to pitch camp at the
at the edge of Makkamukarama,
and then he would
sleep the night, and then in the morning,
he would make another hussle and enter with
the sunrise into Makamukarama.
That's obviously not gonna be possible.
But when we get to the hotel,
you know, if you wish to, you can
take a quick take a quick shower. Go
drop your stuff in the room. Take a
quick shower. Again, be careful. Don't run your
fingers through your beard or, like, soap it
up and, like, wipe. This is just a
just water shower just to, you know,
get yourself,
whatever sweat or whatever, you know, get that
washed off of you.
And,
you put on your again, dry yourself off
with a towel, not too rigorously to, you
know, remove hair and things like that.
And and and then what? Then we will
have a group of people, Inshallah, our elders
who need to take a break or whatever,
we let them rest and take a break.
Those of you who are able to, Inshallah,
we'll regroup in the lobby
and then walk straight to the Haram Sharif.
The hotel that we have in Makamukarama, it's
a hotel I've stayed in when I went
to Hajj for 2 years. It's a nice
hotel, and it's really not that far away.
The only hotels that are closer than it
are the the the clock tower hotels,
but it's actually quicker to get from our
hotel to the haram because the clock tower,
you have to go through, like, 3 different
elevators and 4 different escalators and through the
mall and all this other nonsense.
And as you can tell, a mall is
a mall, and it's not the most spiritual
place in the world. So we just get
to walk by with all of the, like,
other Muslims that come from the different countries
of the world. We get to walk with
them, bypass all of that stuff, and just
go straight into the Haram. So it really
won't take us that long to get to
the Haram. It will take us just as
long as someone else, maybe even quicker.
So we will walk over
and,
and we will,
make our umrah right away.
All this time, so there's a difference of
opinion in the Maliki school, the the talbiya.
You stop saying the talbiya once,
once you can see the once you see
the master of haram.
In the Hanafi school, I think you keep
doing the talbi until you start making tawaf.
The idea is that that,
the talbiya should be going all the way
until and both of them really, there's not
a whole lot of difference between them, to
be honest with you. But you can follow
whatever, Maslah, that you're you're, you're accustomed to
following.
So that's that's that's,
the there's another boundary that I neglected to
mention that the fur we we said, 1st
we cross from Darul Kufr into Darul Islam,
then we cross the mikat, and then there's
something called the Haram. When we say the
Haram, the word Haram,
it doesn't mean Al Masjid Al Haram.
Al Masjid Al Haram and the Haram are
two different things, although some people use them
interchangeably. Technically speaking, they're not the
same. The Haram is a perimeter, a sacred
boundary that's around the city of Makamukarama.
Okay?
That sacred boundary extends,
in the direction of the west a bit
further,
but it extends around the city of Makamukarama
on all sides. So from Jeddah, we'll actually
enter into it a little bit earlier. There's
like that big like overpass with the like
the the like, the kind of Quran stand
looking overpass
that will cross. And then you'll see these,
like, stone markers
that will will say that this is this
you know, I mean, they'll say it in
Arabic that this is the hada of the
the haram.
The haram, once you cross into it,
it is haram to kill anything. It's haram
to disturb anything. It's haram to uproot any
plants. It's haram
to disturb anything.
And
that place,
that's the place where Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa
sallam talks about your prayers are going to
be worth so much more than your your
regular prayers.
There's a difference of opinion. Some people, they
say it's only for the Masjid al Haram,
the actual building itself,
and the proof that that's not the case
is what?
Is that the Masjid al Haram didn't exist
during the life of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
During the life of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, there's the Kaaba, and people just
built their houses at some distance for the
Kaaba just to leave some room for tawaf.
People to make the lawf and come pray.
And they set up like a gate and
subsequent
rulers have expanded it out further and further.
In fact, for most of the history of
Islam, if you look in the classical books,
Safa and Marwa was not inside the Masjid.
Now it's inside the Masjid, now it's part
of the Masjid.
So the old books, they they say, like,
you know, when you leave to go to
Dusayi, to Safa and Marwah, you should remember
because you have to leave the masjid in
order to go there. It's it's not the
case anymore. So the masjid actually didn't exist
in the time that the hadith was said.
So this haram, the entire haram or whatever
act of piety that you do, if you
give charity, you should bring money by the
way for charity. Bring money, give to the
other people who are visiting the house of
Allah.
You know, give the cleaners, the people who
are cleaning the
the the Masjid al Haram. Many of them
are her father of Quran and they're very
religious people.
They don't get paid almost anything.
They come and they do this as as
a service for Islam.
And they're very pious people, and you'll see
people everywhere. All of these acts of piety
you do, all the that you do, all
of the talbiyah, all of these things, because
you're in the haram and you're also on
top of that, you're in a state of
iharam, all of them will will will will
will garner for you a a a a
greater amount of reward.
But you should also be very concerned and
very careful
that just as you'll have a greater amount
of reward for these things. Also, if you
commit a sin, there's more punishment. It's more,
blameworthy.
So don't sit in the mall. Don't sit
in the Starbucks and, you know, walk look
at people as they walk by.
Don't talk garbage about people. Don't backbite people.
Don't tell your opinion about how someone's hair
is looking or any of this other nonsense.
Just just leave it alone.
And and and really, you know, in in
general, this should be a very low
low conversation type,
time.
But,
if you do speak to people, be very
careful about how you speak to people.
And so, you know, obviously, you know, you'll
see things like, for example, unfortunately, in the
Muslim world, like, littering is a a thing
that's people do it a lot. It's not
good.
You may see other people in a haram
littering or other people in a haram smoking
or doing god knows what. Right?
Look,
gave you guys large amounts of education. You
come from families that are
are well off.
You come from different background than other people
do. There are people the entire Umrah is
coming for Umrah. There are some people, like,
you know, if you were raised in a
family with like 10 kids
and your father worked 7 days a week
and your mother had to raise everybody at
the same time or whatever, maybe there's certain
adab that you weren't taught.
For those people, maybe that person was smoking
a cigarette and throwing his wrapper on the
side of the road. That person's haram
is more accepted by a lot to other
than yours is. So don't just walk around
judging people. But our adab is what? That
we don't do stuff like that. So don't
do it. Even if you see other people,
don't do it. Even if you have to
carry the garbage in your hand for, like,
a mile, carry it in your hand for
a mile, you can go throw it away
later.
But show at that and one of it
is, you know, some people say, oh, you
know, they have street sweepers. That street sweepers
there to sweep up the garbage from the
road because, you know, people don't whatever. So,
you know, they they don't throw things in
the garbage cans and things like that.
It's not just that the garbage gets picked
up. It's about how you treat that place.
So show your love through the way you
behave in those places.
That if something's a thing to you, then,
you know, like, for example, like, you know,
if you point with your this is a
desi thing like this. Your uncle will point
at stuff with their middle finger. It's very
awkward.
Right? Maybe if he does that, it's not
a big deal. Right? Because it's but for
us, don't do it. You know? Just like
that. Just whatever for you, your way of
showing your love to the Haram Sharif,
then then, you know, this these are certain
issues that transcend the law. So you'll cross
the the border of the the the border
into the Haram on the bus,
maybe about 45 minutes before we get to
the, get to the hotel an hour depending
on traffic.
Then when we get to the hotel, go,
take the second shower. Again, this one is,
like, like, not no soap and rubbing and
all that stuff. Just a just a very
basic shower and then get on get into
get, you know, get put your back on
and then head downstairs, then we'll walk over
the Haram Sharif.
It's a very short walk. It's not a
very long walk at all.
The first thing when you enter into the
keep your gaze down.
When you enter into the gates, keep your
gaze down.
Inshallah,
one of the group leaders will tell you
to look up when you see the Kaaba.
It's a narration that the first dua person
says when they
see the Kaaba,
is an accepted du'a. Inshallah, every du'a of
the believers is accepted, but that's a special
du'a.
So many of the say that that's a
good time to say
Allah,
give us in this duniya good and in
the akhira good and
protect us from the torment of the fire.
Imam al Hanifa, it said that his opinion
was that a person should ask Allah to
be musta jab a dua, that you ask
Allah to answer all of your prayers at
that time.
Whatever you want to make, however short or
long it is, think about it from beforehand
so that you're not tongue tied at that
point.
And then you look up and you see
the Kaaba and you make dua at that
time.
We will inshallah at that time descend into
the Mataf.
The Mataf is the lowest
part of the, Mas'udal Haram.
And,
that is the place as the name implies
where Tawaf happens.
Okay?
It is a sunnah that the first three
circuits of Tawaf,
should be you should move quickly.
Now we're gonna describe the rights of Umrah
right now.
Everyone should listen very carefully.
Why?
Because
it's almost impossible that the group is gonna
stay together at this point.
There's a very good chance you'll be separated
from one another.
So you should know what to do
so that if you get separated from the
group, you can complete your rituals
without freaking out.
No one is good to go to Allah
with
at their side.
All of us are going to go with
our own acts individually.
Obviously, we will try our best to stay
with the group. If you get separated, you
get separated. You should be prepared for that.
And not be like, oh my god. I
didn't know what to do. This is horrible.
K. Learn the this is these are anyway.
It's far down everyone to do Hajj. These
are the same rituals you have to do
in Hajj as well, so learn them. It's
far down to learn them anyway.
So learn them and do them. Inshallah, we'll
be there if, you know, inshallah, we won't
get separated, but if we do, you should
be prepared so that you don't, you know,
freak out and things like that.
So the gate that we're going to enter
into
the haram from,
okay, it's called.
Alifjimya
alifdalajjad.
We're going to enter into the haram from
the ajjad gate.
The ajjad gate is this gate that faces
our hotel.
It's called the ajiad gate.
Ajiad.
So after seeing the Kaaba and making your
dua, we will descend down the staircases
into the
Insha Allah.
If the mataf is mega crowded, which is
possible,
then we'll go up the escalators to the
roof.
The roof that tawaf from the roof is
very difficult in the sense that what? It's
a much longer obviously, the further you go
out from the, from the Kaaba, the longer
your your circuits are.
But it's nice in the sense that it's
you're not like jostling people nor are you
getting jostled by people.
If the mathaf is relatively open, we'll descend
into the mathaf, inshallah. It'll be a bit
more crowded, but there's a lot less walking.
If it's super crowded, then moving quickly for
the first three circuits is obviously gonna be
very difficult.
You should the the sunnah is, habab or
ramal, that you should move just slightly slower
than jogging.
That sunnah is for the men. It's not
for the women. The women walk all 7,
circuits
all 7 circuits,
at their own pace.
There's a difference of opinion at this time.
According to Imam Abu Hanifa and according to
the Jamhur,
it is a sunnah for the men to
bear the right arm that you slip your
your ihram underneath your
your your your your,
right armpit and you bury your right shoulder.
This is because the prophet
ordered the these two things, this Bearing your
right arm is called Iftibah,
and, and,
hustling for the first three circuits is called
Ramel or Chabab.
And, the reason for for the Ramel is
that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam because there
are several years that they used to make
umrah
while,
Makkamukarama
was still run by the mushrikeen.
And so the mushrikeen, they said, oh, look.
They became weak after they left because of
the plague of Yathrib and whatever. The prophet
removed the plague from Yathrib through his duas,
and they didn't become weak. So he wanted
to show the that that
that that we're not weak anymore.
So he ordered the habab to show them
that that that the Muslims still have vigor
and strength,
and he ordered the
to bear the right shoulder,
to show basically, to show that their arms
that they're strong, that their that their warriors
as an act of intimidation.
The Fatawah of Malik is what? Is that
the,
the Khabab, the Ramel showing the vigor of
the Muslims is still Masunun,
and the intimidation of it, it it it's
it's
abrogated because there's no one there to intimidate
anymore.
At any rate, it's a difference of opinion.
You can follow whichever opinion you want. In
either case, neither of them is
a a rukan or a condition of the
validity of the umrah, but that's just a
small
illni point.
So you'll hassle for the for for the
first three circuits.
Where does your tawaf start from? Your tawaf
starts from the black stone.
If you're able to kiss the black stone,
you should kiss it. News flash, you're not
going to be able to kiss it, so
just leave it alone.
If you're not able to kiss the black
stone, it's a sunnah to touch it and
then put your your fingers on your lips.
You won't be able to touch it either.
If you can't touch it, it's a sunnahduwat
to face the black stone from far away
and to say the Takabir Allahu Akbar.
This is another difference of opinion.
According to the Hanafi school, a person should
raise their both hands
when they
when they face the black stone and they
make the talbiah,
or they can raise one hand and make
with one hand, make a, like,
wave with one hand.
Malik considered that you do neither. You just
say you don't you don't you don't point
or or wave with your hands. Again, difference
of opinion. Neither of them are are conditions
of of validity at any rate, but it's
just for your own,
knowledge and,
understanding.
So the Tawaf, the circuit starts from where?
From the black stone. It doesn't start from
anywhere else.
So the Ajayad gate enters in. Another good
thing about the Ajayad gate that we're coming
from, it enters in just shy of the
black stone.
So you don't have to, like, do kind
of like a half a lap before get,
you know, starting your tawaf.
So when you start the
when you start
the the the tawaf, you said you're Allahu
Akbar
and you started your tawaf. What is a
sunnah? What do you do while you're in
tawaf?
You walk around the Kaaba, you make sure
that some part of your
left hand side is always facing the Kaaba.
Don't turn all the way away from it.
While you're walking around the Kaaba, it is
a sunnah to what?
It's a sunnah to,
make dua.
Which dua? Any dua you can think of.
The duas of the Quran and sunnah are
wonderful. The duas that come into your heart,
allata will put those duas in your heart
for the things that you need,
while you're there because that's a place where
the duas are accepted.
You're going to make a lot of du'a
in this journey.
So open up the, like, the water faucet
of du'a inside of your heart. Don't worry
about anything. Just keep making dua again for
different things. Anything you can think of big,
small, for this world, for the hereafter, for
your parents, for your children, for the nations
of the earth, for the oppressed,
for for whoever, for your neighbors, for the
people you know that you wish allata give
them hidayah. All of these things make dua
for all of these things, all of these
people, that's the time to make du'a for.
So
you will,
make sure also the semicircular
wall
that is on the north
the north and west
facing corner because the Kaaba is the corners
of the Kaaba are oriented to the cardinal
directions. So the northwest side, there's a semicircular
wall around it. It's called the
Hatim.
The area inside the Hatim is called the
the Hijra of Ishmael alaihislam.
Don't cross into it or under it.
The Kaaba has a buttress.
It's called the Shaddarwan. You'll notice that at
the base of the Kaaba, it comes out
a little bit and then it comes back
in. Make sure your feet don't come underneath
the the buttress, of
the the buttress,
of the Kaaba because the the outer outer,
border of that buttress of the Shadaluran is
is the, is the outer,
the outer boundary of the Kaaba.
Why did they build it like that? Long
story.
Maybe we can talk about it on the
trip.
So make sure your body is completely outside
of the Kaaba. Don't reach in
while you're making thawaf,
except for to touch the black stone and
make sure you reach out. Don't reach in
while walking, right? If you reach in and
touch, make sure that you pull your hand
out all as well.
That no part of your body is inside
the boundaries of the Kaaba while walking. If
you're stationary, you can reach in and reach
out, but don't put your hand in while
walking because then your hand will not have
been outside of the Kaaba for that full
circuit.
So the Kaaba has 4 corners. The first
corner you cross is the black stone and
next to it is the door.
The second and third corners that you're gonna
cross
are are
attached to this semicircular
wall, the Hatayim.
Don't stick your hands on top of it
and stuff like that. Don't touch it even.
Just stay a little bit away from it.
The hadim, what's inside the hadim is also
considered inside the Kaaba even though it's not
inside the physical building of the Kaaba now.
It's a sunnah also at some point in
your trip, in your visit to pray inside
the Kaaba.
Obviously, they're not gonna open the building of
the Kaaba for you now, but if you
go inside the Hatim and pray, you can
do that. All of these things require patience.
Don't jostle people. Don't push people.
People will push you.
Just calm down.
Some people come from parts of the world
where that's very common to jostle one another
in crowds.
You don't do it to anybody. Be very
careful about old people, weak people.
If you're a man,
be be careful about the women. If you're
a woman, be careful about the men. Don't
get too much into the crowd,
that you have to that you're pressed up
against people
of the opposite gender and things like that.
The,
so you you ground the first corner is
what?
Blackstone.
Right?
And the second and third corners are what?
Hatim. The Hatim. Right?
The 4th corner is what they call the
Rukh and Yamani. Why do they call it
Rukh and Yamani? Because it faces south. What's
south? Yemen. Right?
The Rukh and Yamani, it's a sunnah to
touch it.
You don't kiss it. You'll see, like, everyone
kissing it. Don't kiss it.
You know, they get a martial sportsmanship reward
for, like, loving the Kaaba, but that, like,
it's a completely fake fail. Okay?
What you do, you touch the touch the
ruk and Yamani, and this is possible, especially
for bigger guys, someone like
someone by Waseemee to lurch over all the
small like Pajaj from like different countries and
just like touch it with your hand. And
then you put your fingers on your mouth
without you don't make the kissing noise, you
just put your fingers on your mouth. If
you're not able to do that, then you
just face the Rukh and Yamani and say
Allahu Akbar just like you do with the
Blackstone.
Why is it that the the 2 the
southern and eastern corners are like this in
the northern and the western corners are not?
Is it racism against Seattle in the northwest?
No. The reason is that the the the
the corner the the southern corner and the
eastern corner, right, the Rukman Yamani and the
Blackstone,
their original their original, foundation is the Kaaba.
Whereas the north and the east, they're actually
not. And there's a long story with that.
We'll get into it later, but it's
narrated in the books of Hadith that the
prophet
when the last sector of the Tawaf Tawaf
that's between the Rukun Yamani and the,
Blackstone,
that in that last sector of the Tawaf,
he would
say, Oh oh, our lord, give us this
dunya something beautiful and in the hereafter something
beautiful and protect us from the torment of
the fire.
But you at any rate, you just keep
making dua.
So from
from black stone to black stone, that's 1
circuit.
Okay?
Every time you'll pass the blackstone,
you'll you'll make what they call istilam, which
is what? Face the face the blackstone and
say, allahu akbar.
So you'll do it at the first time
when you come at the zero point. And
then after 1 circuit, after 2 circuits, after
3 circuits, after 4 circuits, after 5 circuits,
after 6 circuits, after 7 circuits. So how
many times does that does that come out
to for?
7. 8. 8.
Look.
01234567.
So that comes out to what? 8.
When you're done with your 8th circuit,
Then if you're able to and if you
wish to, it is a sunnah to go
to the Mu'tazam.
The Mu'tazam is the area between the door
and between the black stone.
It will be mega crowded, but it will
not be like as like,
World War 3 of, like, pious Muslims crowded
as the Blackstone is.
So if it's difficult,
you can skip it. If you wish to,
the benefit of going to the Mu'tazim is
what? Is that that's a place of
Ijabat a Dua. That's a place also where
Dua's are answered.
There our history is replete with a number
of interesting and strange and wonderful stories of
du'as being answered in the Mu'tazim, that a
person makes du'a, all sorts of stuff, that
there's no way it could happen, and then
it happens.
After that,
then a person should retreat from the Kaaba,
fan out. You're not gonna be able to,
like, cut out in a straight line because
everyone else is making the tawaf, but you'll
kind of fan out with the tawaf moving
further and further out.
The the Maqam Ibrahim is a place that's
in front of the door. It's like a
small, like, little shrine that's in front of
the door. It's a sunnah to pray to
it's a sunnah to pray. It's you actually
part of the
part of the Umrah has to pay 2
rakas there.
It the location is a sunnah that it
can be those 2 rakas can be anywhere
in the Muslim Haram. Don't try to pray
there because you will interrupt the flow of
Tawaf and the Saudi guards will completely, like,
harass you and like humiliate you in front
of people. And it's not completely their fault
because they're looking at what's the good of
the rest of the Muslims. They everyone has
to make talaaf.
No one has to pray their 2 rakas
there.
Alright. So don't put yourself in a place
that you're embarrassed and harass them that they
have to harass you and it's just a
bad thing.
I did it one time. I prayed my
2 rakas there.
Saudi guard,
who was probably,
like, 5 feet tall.
He pushed me as hard as he could,
and I, like, moved, like, while praying because
I'm like, oh my goodness. I shouldn't have
prayed here while I'm praying, but I can't
break the prayer either. So, you know, I
just put myself in this bad position. So
he pushed me. He ran up, pushed at
me as hard as he could, and,
I moved like a foot. And then he
did it again 2nd time, moved another foot.
The 3rd time, moved another foot. And he's
now by this point completely winded and out
of breath.
And he just storms off in anger. Right?
That wasn't good. Don't do that. Don't put
yourself in that situation.
I did it because I didn't have a
good Milana Sab to remind me about that
stuff at that point. Okay? Don't don't do
that. There as sometimes those the guards, by
the way, sometimes they're extremely rude.
One of the reasons they're rude, maybe some
of them actually are rude people, but one
of the reasons that they are not all
of them are. One of the reasons they
are is because,
when you have to communicate with, like, a
1000000 people in a different,
like, in a 1000 different languages, and sometimes
villagers, for example, they don't pick up on
subtlety.
So you have to shout stuff at them,
and they don't even think it's they don't
even mind it, you know. It's just normal
for for them.
They're like, okay. Cool. You know, like, they
won't even get it if you try to
ask polite. They don't understand what you're,
you know? So they have to communicate with
everybody. Oftentimes, it's just easiest for them to
communicate at the low lowest common denominator.
So don't be all offended and stuff. They're
they're there. Even if they're telling you something
that's not necessarily make a lot of sense,
they are there. Their intention at least is
there for the the the good of the
everybody who's visiting the thing. Don't jostle and
don't give them a hard time.
Okay?
So the the point is okay. You'll read
in the books that it's a sunnah to
pray at that place.
You won't be able to pray just at
that place because it's gonna interrupt the flow
of of pilgrims.
So retreat out, just pray, keep it in
a line between you and the Kaaba
and just retreat out as far as you
need to in order to not be in
the way people make the tawaf and just
pray from there InshaAllah.
So you'll pray 2 rakahs.
In these 2 rakahs also it's a sunnah
to do what?
To read Qulyaayu al Kafirun in the first
rakah and
in the second one, and it's also a
place that you should make dua afterward because
your duas are answered.
After that,
it's a sunnah to go and drink some
zamzam.
There are coolers, containers,
dispensers, fountains of zamzam all over the Haram
Sharif.
You'll probably be thirsty by that time anyway.
Tawaf, like salaf, has to be done in
Uldu.
If there's any chance at all that you
might have to use the bathroom, please do
it before you leave.
So I was like, well, I made 3
circuits and then I had to leave the
master then what I'm sorry. You gotta start
over again.
There's some difference of opinion about it, but
there's very complicated instructions and whatever. It's just
really the best thing. Just make your wudu
beforehand and don't don't whatever. Like I said,
if there's any you have, like, the fact
that you have to ask yourself, well, should
I make wudu or not? Or should I
use the bathroom or not? Just use it
then. If it even crosses your mind, just
use the bathroom and just,
you know, make wudu from beforehand.
If your wudu breaks, you know, there are
small stations that you can make wudu from
the zamzam water or whatever,
but you have to be on wudu while
you're
while you're in doing tawaf.
So we did tawaf, we did our 2
rakas,
and now what we're gonna do is we're
gonna exit toward the Masa'a.
Sahih is the Arabic word for
going between Safa and Marwa.
The Mas'a is the name for the place
that Sahih happens, meaning the area between Safa
and Marwa.
The Sahih happens on a number of different
levels.
I'm not talking about, like, spiritual levels. That's
probably true. That's true as well. But I'm
talking about physically,
there is a basement, there's a 1st floor,
2nd floor, 3rd floor. Okay?
If the 1st floor is really packed, then
don't do it on the 1st floor. Go
into the basement, go into the 2nd floor.
Fair enough. There are markers on the ground.
Most of the mountain of Safa and Marwa
is like consumed within the building of the
Kaaba.
So there are markers on the floor that
mark where the mountains start.
It is a sunnah. The way to do
sa'ih properly is that you stand on safa,
face the qibla, and make du'a for a
long time,
then start walking.
There is in the in
the bottom of the valley. It's a
run.
For the men, it's not a sunnah for
the women. It's a sunnah for the men
to run.
This is very interesting
because the original Sahih was inaugurated by who?
By Hajar alayhi salaam, the wife of Saidin
Ibrahim, the mother of Saidin Ishmael alayhi salam.
But she was a a a woman that's
there alone. There's no other people there with
her.
If the sisters all ran over there, it
would become inappropriate.
So it's a sunnah for the men to
run between the in the in the the
the dip of the valley that's it's a
bit closer to Safa than it is to
Marwa.
Now you're gonna be in, like, a completely
marbled out floor. Right? So how are you
supposed to know where it is? They're vertical
green vertical lights
in the walls that indicate and on the
roof as well that indicate that you're in
the bottom of my cell. So from the
green light to the green light, that means
run.
Please don't plow into people.
Be very careful.
Maneuver around people.
Be very careful. Don't just, like, plow into
people, knock into people. Is Sean, if you
do it, it's bad enough. Someone like me
does it, we'll probably both end up in
Masha'Allah,
shaheed peace of be to Allah.
Because a very hard floor and things like
this. So be careful. If they're like mopping
and things like that, right, safety is unfortunately
not like as big of a deal in
other parts of the world as it is
over here. If the floor is like wet,
be careful, like look for like moisture on
the floor because you could slip and slide,
and it's not gonna be fun like in
the commercials.
Okay? So just, you know, be careful. A
little jog is fine. You don't have to
like all that 100 meter dash, the Hussain
Bolt sprint
And so you will walk from Safa to
Marwa. When you get to Marwa, you stop.
Face the Qibla and make dua for a
long time.
Okay?
People will be blocking by you, stand on
the side.
So you stop to make dua once, and
then you went from Safa to Marwa. You
have to stop start at Safa,
And then you'll stop a second time at
Marwa. This is you have to go back
back and forth between Safa and Marwa 7
times. Right? So, look,
Safa, you sisters, you can count on your
fingers with me. Okay? Safa, Marwa, Safa, Marwa,
Safa, Marwa.
So sorry. From Safa so you're going sorry.
Safa to Marwa.
Marwa to Safa. Safa to Marwa. Marwa to
Safa. Safa to Marwa. Marwa de Safaa, Safaa
de Marwa. So you end at Marwa. Your
7 will start. Some people do this, they'll
do 7 round trips.
Michelle, the first seven times you went the
first like three and a half round trips
was Umrah. The other three and a half
round trips was good for cardiovascular health. You're
not getting swabbed for it except for the
duas you make and things. Right?
So
each one way trip, it counts as 1
and you're gonna do a 7 back and
forth. You'll make dua how many times?
8.
Safa, Marwa, Safa, Marwa, Safa, Marwa, Safa, Marwa,
Safa, Marwa.
Right? Because the zero time you make dua,
then when you get to Marwa, that's 1,
then you make dua there.
You'll make dua a total of 8 times.
Four times at Safa and 4 times at
Marwa.
Okay?
You if your wudu breaks in Sahi,
it's recommended to have wudu so you can
stop there like these, Zamzam
dispensary areas. You can make a quick wudu
over there, inshallah,
especially where the drains are. So don't like
to spill the water on the marble, but
like in the drains. You can make wudu.
It's recommended. I wudu during that time, but
it's not it won't break your site in
that sense.
So these are the rights of Umrah. Okay.
The four highlights are what?
Gotta be in a Haram, gotta do your
tawaf,
gotta do your 2 rakaz after tawaf, gotta
do your sayy.
Okay. But you're not you're still in e
Haram even though you finished the rights of
Umrah, you're still in e Haram until what?
Until tahalul.
Tahaalul means what? That you're you're released from
Haram?
So how are you gonna do your Tahaalul?
For the for the brothers, it's by and
and and for the sisters.
Means what? There are barbers. There's a barber
near our hotel.
They're very jovial people. For some reason, most
of the barbers that I run across are
all Punjabis.
They're very jovial and happy people.
If you tell them to cut your beard,
they will not.
So don't cut your beard anyway.
But,
basically, they'll they'll offer you to cut your
hair.
If your hair is less than the minimum
amount of hair that you have cut
is,
meaning a finger section. Like, so you're like
the fingertip section,
you have to cut that much. If your
hair is shorter than that, you have to
shave your head.
Like, mine mine is shorter than that. I
have to shave my head. If you have,
like, long hair, right, it's musta habits recommended
for a man to shave his head anyway.
You know,
come on. You're an Umrah, man. Just just
do it, man. Just just shave your head.
Okay? Don't be a hater. Don't be like,
oh, I have to shoot a Pantene commercial
when I get back.
Coming back from Hajj with the shaving head,
this is the this is the hairstyle. This
is the hairdo of the, man. Masha'Allah.
Right? Just shave your head.
But,
at any rate, if your hair is shorter
than that, you have to shave your head.
If it's longer than that, the minimum of
the halal is by cutting a finger
section of each hair off
from your head.
Sisters,
it's haram for you to shave your heads.
Please don't shave your head.
Obviously, none of the sisters were planning on
doing that anyway.
For the sisters, the they
cut just cut a,
finger section of hair off
from every
hair. The sisters are obviously not going to
go to the barbershop.
Saudi Arabia is,
an arch conservative
society.
If sister walks into the barbershop and ask
Amanda to cut her hair, people probably, like,
start running or something like that. I mean,
it's
7 different types of problems will occur.
And really,
good, you know, good for them in that
aspect.
So,
sisters, pack you pack like a small pair
of scissors with you.
And, you know, pack a small pair of
scissors with you. Don't be like, oh, someone
else will bring it. Someone else will bring
it. They'll get the reward. But like we
talked about in the beginning, you should be
prepared.
You know, if you're with your husband, brother,
whatever,
or with another sis you know, you can
ask your family member to cut it for
you, or you can ask one of the
other sisters to do for you. Just cut
your each other's hairs in the hair in
the, in the hotel room.
Brothers, I guess you could do that as
well, but, like, shaving your head, like, requires
a straight edge razor. If you tried shaving
your head with a safety razor, it's not
gonna really work out.
So,
you can, you know, the barber is probably
a better a better solution for it. They're
good at what they do, They have these
sanitary razors. They'll open them up
right there in front of you, and they'll
it's a pretty good deal,
at any rate,
once you have the haircut,
that either you had a shaved or a
finger section of hair is removed from every,
from every finger, The special the special,
restrictions of echaram are done. You can go
home,
go to your hotel room, put on your
regular clothes, regular clothes, you can put on
your perfume, you can put on, you know,
whatever, moisturizing, exfoliating, alpha beta hydroxy,
apricot scrub cream thing that you put on.
I'm not really into all that stuff, but
whatever you're into,
you can put all those things, you can
use them again.
You know,
I with the husband and wife thing, you
can be husband and wife again. You know,
don't do too much PDA. It's a very
conservative society. They're not gonna appreciate it. But,
you know,
if you're, mashaAllah, if you're married and you're,
mashaAllah, have a double room, then whatever else
happens to your own business. The point is,
is what? The things that were not haram
before haram, they're again allowed for you.
Except the caveat that I would caution everybody,
please still out of respect for that place,
Be careful. And if there's a doubt in
your mind about saying something or doing something
that whether it's
respectful or not, that's not the place to
mess with that. So, you know, because those
are places that your taqwa will be rewarded
more than it is in other places and
your sins will be punished worse.
So just be be just be careful about
it. You know, try to be cautious about
it.
Now the rest of your time in Makkumukarrama,
you know, pray your prayers,
in the Haram.
Make as much tawaf as you can. You
know how it's Tahiyatul Masjid when you walk
into a Masjid, you should read 2 rakas
first and then sit down. The tahiyyah of
the Haram Shari for the people of the
Afaq, for the people who come from the
different
nations of the earth is tawaf.
So walk in and start making tawaf. If
you're making tawaf and, it's time for the
fard prayer,
you keep tawafing until the word is
said.
And then at that time, you turn face
the Kaaba and pray with the people. Then
once
has said, get up and start making tawaf
again. Don't stop for janazah, dua, dhikr, all
that stuff, you do it later.
That's even during the tawaf of your Umrah,
if that happens, if the prayer is called,
the adham, salah is called, at that point
then you stop and then you get up
after the salaham is done and get up
and start the laughing again.
But the point is is that that,
you know, there is such a thing,
as a what they call a.
This is something like, for example, in the
salat,
the,
the best part of the salat and the
most avdul and virtuous part of the salat
is the sajdul.
In Hajj and Umrah,
tawaf is to Hajj and Umrah like sajdul
is to salat. The only difference is that
Sajdah is not a separate act of worship.
It's an act of worship within the salat.
Whereas, Tawaf is a separate act of worship.
So it's a sunnah to make Umrah once
in your year.
After that,
after that, the best use of your time
is to what?
Is make, nafal tawaf. So nafal tawaf is
what? Again, black stone to black stone, 7
circuits.
Each time you make a stilam of the
black stone,
and then afterward you read 2 rakaz, and
that's a separate act of worship.
Don't just be like, yeah. I'm gonna do
3 3 rounds or 3 rounds or what.
That's not an act of worship. 7 times
and then 2 rakaz.
That's one unit.
And so if you want maximum reward,
you'll get it by what? By making as
many as possible. Now some folks, they roll
into like,
yeah. I promised my poopy and, you know,
my poopy's,
cousin's best friend's cat and,
you know, my neighbor and, you know,
June bug down you know, my cousin in
Mississippi and all these other people. I promised
them that I'm gonna make umrah for
them. Okay. Good for you.
You're gonna,
be in great cardiovascular shape after doing all
those size and all this other stuff. But,
the as far as getting the maximum amount
of reward, it's in doing the most number
of talaqhs. It's only a sunnah to make
Umrah once in a year.
If you made the promises, then by all
means fulfill them. The way you'll do that
is you have to exit the Haram. Remember
we said the Haram is a boundary around
the city?
The closest boundary marker
is in a place called,
Taneem.
The the modern name of Taneem is Masjid
Aisha.
There's a Masjid over there. It has showers.
You can shower, change your clothes, read your
2 rakaz, and then come back, labaking all
the way back to Mecca.
You know, and the cab drivers will also
make the risk as well,
ferrying you back and forth.
And you, you know, you can do all
that stuff. But you have to leave the
Haram in order to take a haram again
in order to do Umrah again.
So for those people who are gonna do
that, that's how you do it.
I probably won't be accompanying you, so have
a good time.
The the other thing I wanted to say
with regards to that was
yeah. Then you have to run the razor
over your already shaved head again and all
that stuff. If you promise somebody already, then,
you know, go ahead and fulfill your promise.
But if you want the maximum reward, yes.
That's what I wanna say. If you want
the maximum reward, then after your first after
your umrad, then just do as many salafs
as you can.
A good time to go is like 2
at night.
Or,
midmorning.
2 at night's better than midmorning because the
sun's not beating down on you. But those
are the times when the the Haram Shalif
seems
a little bit less crowded.
If you go in the prayer times, it'll
be mega crowded.
The the the other thing I wanted to
say is that there's no such thing as
nafil sa'ih.
You wanna do sa'ih back and forth. Sa'ih
is only an act of worship within Umrah
or within Hajj.
So you don't just do, like, Sa'i's
on their own. But nafil Tawaf is a
thing that there's a Tawaf, 7 circuits,
blackstone to blackstone,
8 is silaam 7 circuits, then 2 rakahs
of of, of 2 rakahs of,
with the Tawaf and that's one unit of
worship.
Again, when you're not doing tawaf, that's a
good time to go and explore the Kaaba.
Go try to get into the moltazam, go
stand in the door, go try to kiss
the black stone. Kissing the black stone is
almost near impossible without hurting another person.
And so if that's the case, just don't
kiss it. You made your niyah, Allah will
reward you for it. At the end of
the day, it's just a stone. It's a
sunnah too. Kiss it.
If you can do so without harming people,
harming people's haram, if you push someone's grandma,
it's like a pretty, like,
horrible thing to do, a camina thing to
do anyway.
Right? If you push someone's grandma in front
of the Kaaba, then you're not a good
person.
Okay? And there are people who do it.
They get all like, Masha, Gung ho, Alahu
Akbar, Jihad, Fisabila, mowed up in front of
the Blackstone,
and they're all like, you know, whatever, they
get all hyped up and things like that.
You know, good for you. We're not gonna
we're not gonna do that.
If you're patient,
there it is possible to do it, but
it's gonna take a really long time. And
even then, you may be there for 2
hours and not get to it.
You know, I mean, it's
possible if someone kisses it, right? But I'm
just saying if you're not gonna be able
to have that amount of patience to stand
there for 2 hours and then accept defeat
at the end of it,
this this is this is like our state
in Makkumu Karamah. Obviously, we're gonna have like
darsas like after Assar time and things like
that. Maisel Karnine will talk a little bit
about that. But are there any questions right
now about Umrah or about about,
our time in Makama Karama?
Yeah,
I have have a question about, perfuming yourself.
Are you allowed to do it before you
enter the state of Iran? You are allowed
yeah. You are allowed to perfume yourself before
you enter into the state of Iran.
It comes in the that
that used to perfume as a haram as
well.
I wouldn't do it just because then people
would be like, oh my god, this guy
put on perfume or it's just gonna cause
like a ruckus and things like that. But,
yeah, if you did if you had perfume
on you before you said labake the first
time, then you're not in violation.
Can we pray inside the Kaaba in the
middle of the waq?
While you're doing the waq, you cannot enter
into the Kaaba. In fact, be very careful
not to enter into the Kaaba,
even in your with your foot or with
any of that stuff. And the 2 rakazah
of tawaf and the farthest prayers, you cannot
pray it inside the Kaaba. But when you're
not when you're done with tawaf or you're
not making tawaf actively, that's a good time
to try to get into the haklim and,
and pray inside there. And that counts as
praying inside the Kaaba. Where is the kiblah
when you're inside the Kaaba? You can pray
any direction. Although everyone will probably pray toward
the direction of the building. If you pray
the other way, people will think you're weird
and like probably yell at you, so don't
do it. But it is technically valid.
Fun fact,
Mufti Musli Hadeen, the sheikhul Hadith of the
Darul Mun Dewsbury.
He's from Baroda in Gujarat.
One of his students told me that he
two times,
prayed inside the Hatim. It's inside the Kaaba
and read the entire Quran and 2 rakas.
So in case anyone thought they were pious,
Alhamdulillah.
Questions?
Yes,
question. Sure. If someone is in the process
of making their prayers up,
what do you do as far as the?
No. You yeah. You you read the as
as as.
Okay. And then spend the rest of your
time making your prayers up in Hadam Shali.
How nice. So you can't pray the Nawafah
in that case. Yeah. Yeah.
In general, you can pray Nawafah. This isn't
Makru to do so unnecessarily.
Also,
so you wouldn't recommend changing into the home
in the hotel and making intention there?
It's would I recommend making the intention of
a ham from the hotel? It's Makru to
make a a ham from before the mifat.
Oh. Because the problem is if you're you're
in
you're in,
Turkey, then
imagine every time you use the bathroom, you
can't use the soap,
you know, and, you you have to lower
your gaze in the airport, which Michelle is
not a problem for you, but for another
person maybe a problem. And you have to
do all this like stuff. You don't want
to run afoul of all these things, right?
So it's actually my crew to enter Iran
before you absolutely have to.
Yeah. I mean, like, you should give a
little reasonable buffer or whatever, but like, you
know, it should be like 10, 15 minutes
versus like 5 hours or like 5 days
or something.
Any other questions, sisters, brothers?
And then the last question after the magic
was,
are we allowed to make the love of
the kava? Because I Yes.
Okay. In the in the classical books, it's
written that it's Makru to make the law
from the rooftops. Yeah.
Unless unless it's because of crowding.
Nowadays, it's almost perpetually crowded to the point
that that it's not Makuru to do that.
Right? Crowding doesn't just mean like like chest
to chest, like being packed up in there.
Crowding is anything that will distract you from
your from your EBA that which there's a
lot of people there. There are sisters there.
There are brothers there. There are weird, like,
heterodox groups shouting stuff that there there are,
like,
clueless people there. There are people chatting on
their cell phone.
You're in front of the Kaaba, and someone's
phone will, like, ring
And then we saw some came to break
the asnam in this place, and you're like,
what the * is going on? Someone's phone
will ring with jingle bells. All this it
you know,
visiting the Haramain Sharifayn is beautiful because it
tells you both at the same time why
Islam is so amazing and at the same
time also illustrates to you why the ummah
is in the condition it's in. It's not
because we're like backwards people in our teachings
or what. It's because of real, like, very
simple things that you know, like stuff is
going wrong.
So, you know, when you see stuff like
that, ask Allah to forgive that person stuff
that we're doing that we don't know about
and that he give all of us Hidayah,
so don't judge people. But there is like
stuff going on, right? So most of the
time, unless
the the mathaf is open, it's it's it's
game to be, tawafing up on the roof.
And the tawaf from the roof, by the
way, it comes out to about 3 and
a half miles.
So, you know, if you're not able to
walk that much, then you may not wanna
do that. And in the heat in the
heat of the day is a good way
of getting sunstroke as well. So don't if
you're, like, sensitive to that type of stuff,
don't be making tawaf in the roof in
the middle of the day. If you're,
Mujahid's visa be the law mode, you know,
beast mode,
type dude, then by all means, you know,
earn a high rank with Allah, ta'ala.
There are in some of the Hajj books
you'll find certain duas. In general, it's the
the the sunnah is just to make duas.
Certain duas are mustasan. They're they're not really
sunnah, but they're they're certain duas that are
mentioned through rewire, not necessarily because those are
duas for that that occasion, but those are
duas. The prophet must have made some du'a
at that point. So they're the duas that
are narrated from him. So you'll find them
in the books. But in general, during tawaf,
during sai,
it's just a sunnah to make dua.
Any tongue, any, any, any form, however you
want. Just make good duas inshallah. You'll see
people walking around with the Quran open or
making zikr and things like that. The sunnah
there is not not to do any of
those things is to make dua. You'll see
like big groups of people like shouting stuff.
So you'll have someone from like, you know,
whatever country, countries of the world mispronouncing and
misreading DUAs,
making grammatical mistakes and whatnot,
reading books that they don't know, and then
like the alpha Movi Saab from their country
will read it wrong and then everyone else
behind them will shout it wrong and that's
none of that stuff is a sunnah. Actually
some groups they become like, how come we
don't we're not doing that. It's because that's
not something to do. It's because that's not
something to do. That's not something to do.
Just keep meaning
for whatever comes to your heart. So
I think what we'll do, mate, right now,
unless there is there any other questions?
Last question. I just thought Go ahead. If
you're going with the spouse and in the
case of Ramal and running between Mhmm. The
points of running between stuff and Marwa, Is
it okay to just, like, show vigor in
those points and just go slow with them?
Yeah. It's okay. Yeah. I mean, going the
if you in the between
the,
Safa and Marwa Yeah. The other thing you
can do is just run and just wait
for your wife to catch up with you.
So they're not gonna take about, like, a
minute, you know.
The Ramel and Chabab is very difficult in
the in the Mataf just because it's always
crowded. Right.
And if you're gonna do it from the
roof,
then I hope you're like marathon trainer because
it's gonna be, like, 2 miles of running.
So alright. All right.
Barkalafikum, I think what we'll do, we'll break
for 10 minutes. Anyone needs to make wudu,
make wudu, and then we will pray Asar,
inshallah. And then we will talk a little
bit about the visitation of Madina Munawara, and
then we will also,
then
has some very important,
announcements.
We'll give you 5 minutes at the end,
Insha Allah.