Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Visiting Madinah Munawwarah Ribat 03192017.mp4
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The visit to Madina Munawara.
In his
mentions that after the further acts of Islam,
after the obligations,
praying 5 times a day, zakat, Hajusiam,
taking care of your parents, your wife, kids,
etcetera,
paying your debts, all that stuff.
After the farthest acts of Islam,
the act which
has the most reward is what
visiting Sayna Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Just the
of Nabi
that a person will receive
because of visiting. That's not to say that
those who don't visit don't get his, but
this is one of the ways of,
of securing securing it for yourself that you
visit with love and with and with respect.
You come in a good way and you
live in a good way, and you, follow
the sunnah in both,
then,
this is a this is a great this
is a great reward.
The person who visits the prophet
in his death in some respect is like
the one who visits him in his life.
That is because it is the of the
that
the
are alive, that
made their bodies haram for the earth to,
for them to decompose.
Allah
gave them their
every time someone says
to the prophet
he answers in person.
If you say salat and salam, on him
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam from here, there are
angels whose job it is to take the
message to him, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and
he responds in person.
And the one who goes to his,
noble,
place of rest and says salam to him
over there, then he answers directly
that
in person without, without intermediary.
And so a person should know that
it's quite possible that they're,
visiting the prophet
in Medina actually is an act of worship
that will receive more reward than, what, than
even the Umrah itself.
And there's a great in both of them.
And some people, they because we get, like,
all these weird wasawis that people load up
into people's brain and think the sheikh is
not shook. A, it's not shook because you're
not worshiping anyone other than Allah
b, that reverence of the prophet
is an act of worship just like Salat,
Siam Tawaf
is. C,
when you visit the house of Allah Ta'ala
in Makkamu Karama, it's the house of Allah.
It doesn't mean Allah Ta'ala lives there now.
And the mustard of the prophet
is also the house of Allah
Allah. And if the the the the the
most sacred part of the
is the Kaaba itself.
Saidna,
Abdullah Amir, Amar
who he once made
and
he said,
to the Kaaba, he said, how great are
you and how holy are you and how
sacred are you?
And I swear an oath by Allah that
every believer is
more holy and more sacred and more great
in the eyes of Allah than you are.
And this is a teaching based on the
teachings of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
This is something that none of our Aslaf
objected to, rather they narrated it. Why? Because
it is from the teachings of Sayidna Rasool
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, that the blood
of every Muslim is more holy and more
sacred than the Kaaba, as holy and sacred
and as the Kaaba is. I had one
Maktab student. It's the same maybe the same
age as as my right now, and I
said this to him in.
His father, he came home, and his father
asked him, what did you learn today? And
he said the sheikh said this thing. Is
it true? So the sheikh said it is
true. So that kid's father was so happy.
He said, if only this is the one
thing that the kid learned from Maktab,
this is it makes the whole thing worth
it.
Right?
So what do you say about that that
both Masjid al Haram is a Masjid and
Masjid and Nabu y a Sharif is a
Masjid? What do you say about that that
Masjid and the most sacred thing in that
Masjid is saying? It was not any one
of the believers rather he's the the Sayedul
Mursilin, the imamul,
Sultan Alambia, and imamul.
He's the the imam of all the people
of imam imam of all people of belief.
So his visitation is a great act of
worship. One shouldn't underestimate it. And in and
of itself is a journey,
and it has its own.
So if the you know, if we were
to make an analogy,
the Haram is the Haram of the the
the person visiting the, masala haram is what?
That they dress a certain way and they
follow certain adab.
Right? Then a person should dress a certain
way and follow a certain adab, as for
follow a certain adab for visiting the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's masjid, which is what
according to the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
Make sure that your your your pants are
above your ankles.
You know, if you have a lungi and
that's how you roll, then, you know, Akanation.
You know? And if you got if you
got your corta your white corta, put it
on. You got your turban, put on your
turban. If you got your your your your
perfume, don't bring out the cheap stuff.
Okay?
Don't don't bring out the bring out the
the the the the whatever
whatever,
big big roller, like, that's like as as
big as your fist that you pick up
from the hood like Nubian princess or whatever
that you get from there. You know, get
your good oud, the one you say for
the best of occasions.
Get your best your best perfume because it's
a sunnah of the prophet, trim your nails,
trim your mustache, come come in the hay
of a a person who follows the sunnah
of Sayidna Rasool
Allah
wear your best clothes,
present yourself in a good way.
Okay? Just like the there's a talbiyah for
for visiting the house of Allah Ta'ala.
Say salat and salam on the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam your your entire journey.
When you say
on the prophet
he answers
it personally.
You come closer and you come closer.
He answers, answers. And then when you get
to the when you get to the court
of then
he'll answer in person.
So don't chitchat like, okay. We got we
did our umrah, and now we're just gonna
chill for a couple of days or whatever.
You will chill, inshallah. You enjoy yourself. But
say the and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
You know, bring your test be with you.
Just say, I'm gonna say it at least
many times between each each prayer or whatever.
Just say it with love and with,
Shukr for the blessing of
and for the difficulties he went through for
this deen. And out of awe and reverence
of the sacred masjid that he built
and out of awe and reverence for the
haram that that that that he made,
the city that surrounds the the masjid and
then the the haram that surrounds that city
as well.
Haramun. Nabi
made Hijra alaihis salatu as salam. He said
that
that, yeah, Allah, Ibrahim
made sacred,
Makkamukarama
and the land around it, and I make
this place sacred,
just like he made that place sacred.
I invoke you I invoke you that you
make this place sacred and holy just like
he invoked you and made that place sacred
and holy. So put baraka in its and
its put baraka in its every volume and
in every every measure.
This is one of the reasons if you're
gonna buy gifts, buy them from Medina because
the merchandise of Medina has barakah in it.
You buy stuff from Makabukarama, there's really nice
things over there, They'll be all be, like,
really expensive.
If you're gonna buy things, buy them from
Madina Munawara inshallah.
So you go you go to that place.
We get our hotel rooms, inshallah.
We'll distribute the the the keys quickly, hopefully,
inshallah.
And,
you know,
we will leave after again, I think after
Fajr,
inshallah from Makamu Karama. Right after breakfast, we'll
we're gonna sit in the buses and go
and we'll try to make it straight across.
If we have to stop somewhere, we'll stop
one one time inshallah.
And then the the adab is what? Is
that you go take a shower, put yourself
in your nice in a nice state inshallah,
and ready yourself in a nice way.
And then, we'll come down,
to the lobby and walk to the walk
to the,
message of the prophet
which is not that far away.
And,
then we will,
enter,
and the sunnah is what? At first, you
do the Tahit al Masjid.
You read 2 rakas. If we've already read
Assur by that point,
then, then we will in the case, we
probably will read Assur there. But if we've
already read Assur at that point, then the
Tahit al Masjid is what to say the
four
times.
Out,
out of honor and respect that's due to
Allah to Allah and Adib of entering his
house.
And then after that, we will,
proceed to what's known as Al Muwaja has
Sharifa,
which is the place of salaam,
that you walk through that place, and then
you your back faces the qibla because
is buried facing the Qibla, and you face
with adab,
and you say to
him.
And then
you, step to the side and you say
and
then you step to the side and you
say,
and then you make dua for your Hajjat
of this world and of the hereafter.
You're probably not gonna be able to stand
for that long because the guards are gonna
move you along. And in their defense, they're
not trying to be total haters. There's a
lot of people who have to get through
there. If everyone stops forever, then it becomes
a problem.
You may encounter someone who's acting like a
hater. Just move along. That's that's a very
sacred and holy place.
You don't want a scene to happen.
That place is so sacred. If you know
someone's gonna cause a scene,
and even if it's their fault, just you
being there and allowing them to make that
scene is your fault at that point. You
don't want it to happen. Just move along.
If you wish to say Saat and Saam
to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, you may
do so from the entire Masjid.
If there's jostling and difficulty going to the
Muwaja Has Sharifa, you don't have to go
there after every single Salat.
The other thing is that the the this
is something not known by everybody,
but Rasool Allah, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, the
the the chamber he's buried in,
it's walled from all sides.
There's no door into it.
So there's a pentagonal
room inside behind the the jaw, behind
the the the the metal,
mesh.
There's a a room that has no walls
in it, no window, nothing.
It's just it's sealed. It's closed.
So just like there's a wall there, if
a person wishes to stand and say Sa'at
and Sa'am for a long time,
just a couple of feet behind that there's
another wall, the outer wall of the Mas'id,
you can stand there and do it as
well. Sometimes our more,
God bless them, are more excitable and excited
defenders of Tohid type brothers, they will stand
at that place and cause a problem as
well. But generally, generally speaking, you could stand
there for a much longer time. That's also
as if it's the part of the Muadja
has Sharifa. This is something also for the
sisters as well, by the way. Because the
sisters, they will they will block off part
of the route to the grave of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, once after fajr,
once after?
Once after fajr Zohar and Isha. Once after
Zohar and once after Isha.
And it's really difficult to go through there.
They have, like, protocol. They divide people by
this and that. They have, like, I don't
know. Sisters have explained it to me. It
doesn't make any sense to me, and I've
never been through it. So I don't know.
So,
but the thing is if you want if
you and you should do that from the
inside if you wish to as well.
But if you, want to,
you can also just go to the front,
the Qibla wall of the masjid and just
say slam from there.
Because the wall these are spiritual matters. The
wall doesn't really mean anything once you're in
the Baruzakh. These things don't really mean anything.
You're still standing in front of, say, Narasool
Allahu alayhi wa sallam at that point. This
something I've heard from a number of the
local itself.
And so
a person from any part of the Masjid
can say to the prophet
as if he's saying it in person. And
if a person wants to stand in the
the
the place that they face the prophet
from, then they can do so from over
there.
So after you prayed your tahiyat masjid or
your fard salat, then you go and say
salaam to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And because we're people who are there that
for a very limited amount of time, then
you should take as much time as you
can to do so. Once you said salaam,
inshallah, if, you know, you come back into
the Masjid
and sit,
then read Quran, read your make your dhikr,
do your things, and keep saying Assalat
Keep saying and the prophet
Every
time you do it, your with the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam increases, and your Mahaba, your
love increases with him sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
And his answering means that your rank also
increases, your spirituality also increases.
And his answering is more important than you're
saying.
And from that close place, then there's a
special added light in ruhaniyah and spirituality
to to this, connection with the prophet
that is the unique thing that a person
garners from visiting that place.
So don't ever be,
empty from it or or or or don't
ever be,
deprived deprive yourself of it or don't ever
be,
without it. This is a custom of the
people of the of Madinah Munawara that whenever
because the green dome is a prominent,
structure in
in in Madinah Munawwara. Oftentimes, you can see
it from miles away.
Nowadays, there's all these hotels that obscure it,
but even from between the hotels, you can
see it from miles away. It's the custom
of the people of Madinah Munawarah that they
say and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
just by seeing the green dome whenever they
see the green dome.
But a person should spend as much time
in that masjid as they can, and a
person should be very careful about the way
they walk through Madinah,
The way they look at things,
the way that they talk to people,
everyone over there is a person who you
must show respect to. You should smile at
people. Don't bust the chops and overhaggle with
the shopkeepers.
Don't make a mess when you go eat.
Don't disrupt things. Don't kick things around. If
you see garbage, pick it up and and
and throw it away in the waste bucket
basket yourself.
Anyone who does any service for Madinah, that
person has
done part of the work that the prophet,
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
the ones that the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, loves. And anyone who's harmed or given
taqleef or difficulty to anyone who is a
resident of Madinah or a visitor of Madinah
Munawara,
that person has done caused offense to the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Don't complain about anything that's there.
Don't complain about anything that's there. Complaining is
bad in general.
Our
his chef, the
they say that the the the coco in
in the was not very good at what
he did.
Allah, have mercy on him. He's probably
as well. Said he used to cook the
roti in such a way that it would
be burned from the outside and it would
be raw from the inside.
And and I and and people people people
would
ask, why didn't you say anything? Why didn't
you say they'd say to each other. Why
didn't you say something to the the the
the cook?
Or say something to the chef that get
a cook that's better? At least tell him
to make the roti correctly.
He said we none of us said anything
out of fear that he said that if
you don't like the roti here,
just get it from somewhere else. You're in
the city of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
Even if you see something that is not,
like, you know, up to your, like, hyper
organic double triple whole foods standard,
just shut up and don't worry about it.
Okay?
Why?
Because this is the food. The people who
eat this food go to Jannah, and there's
no no,
you know, no need for organic certification there.
Everything is better.
So just be patient with it. Inshallah, you'll
see everything there is beautiful. There's really nothing
to complain about. But if there's something that,
like, you have the urge to say something
about, just keep it to yourself and just
ignore
it. So that's that's that's about the visitation
of the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sama, sit
there and say salat and salam in the
prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sama, while you're doing
all of your other things. If nothing else,
you know, even if because some people they
find, like, it's overwhelming. They don't have the
capacity to make all this zikr and reading
and things like that. Although you should build
it,
but even if it's overwhelming, just go with
your friends and sit in the mess of
the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. You can
chat with each other. Don't chat about haram
things or questionable things. Just chat with each
other. It's a really nice it's a really
nice and pleasant place.
And every other minute, you know, when there's
a pause, just say salat and salam on
the prophet, sallallahu alayhi, sallam. Even that there's
a lot of khair in it, masha'Allah. You'll
see it's a very beautiful place.
Make sure you get all of your salawat,
all of your prayers over there.
And there are other places to visit. We'll
visit some of the other places. One of
the other places, the Masjid Al Quba.
The Masjid Al Quba is the first masjid
that was built in Islam.
Sayna established that masjid.
We will visit it. It's a very beautiful
place. Allah refers to it in his book.
That this is the masjid that that was
built on on the on Taqwa, on on
God, and the fear of Allah Ta'ala.
So a person who goes there,
praise Fajr in the congregation, then goes there
making wudu from home and then goes there
and visits that place,
that person will, receive the reward of having
performed Umrah.
Another interesting thing, by the way, if anyone's
interested, you know, cupping,
you know, the the as soon as the
cupping, like, you have bloodletting, things like that
from pressure points or whatnot.
The the cupping
place kitty corner from from the
is pretty good, and it's, like, cheaper than
the ones that are close to the Haram.
So I usually go there because, you know,
brokenness has its own fit. But, but they're
nice guys. They're all they're all very, religious
and pleasant people.
So that's another thing that you can go
and visit if you want to do something.
You know? Go a little bit out. It's
like a a 2030 real ride.
You know? You can just a couple of
people pile together in a in a cab.
You can go there and
pray your ishrak after salat al fajr,
over there, inshallah, and then come back. Nabi
salallahu alaihi wa sallam used to go weekly
to go and visit that place.
Another place that we will visit Insha'Allah is
the,
Mount Uhud where the battle of Uhud happened,
and we will pay our respects and say
and make dua for the, the the martyrs
of the battle of of of Uhud.
The the
the neighborhood in which Uhud is is called
the saint of Shuhada,
the neighborhood.
This is the neighborhood of the master of
the Shuhada, which is saying the Hamza radiAllahu
ta'ala Anhu, the Amr Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
the uncle of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
In the Ottoman times, the Ottoman governor of
Medina used to there used to be a
procession that went on Thursdays
on foot from the city to there,
and back, just to pay respects to those
people who sacrifices,
Islam was possible because of
so go and get the barakat in the
field from that place as well. Again, every
place you go, go with great adab.
Treat people nicely.
You know, buy buy another * like a
bottle of water. You
know, stuff like that. That's the spirit. You
know, smile at people, say salaam to people.
You know, if you need someone, someone needs
some sort of help, help them. That's the
spirit that you should go with. Unwire of
Medina Munawara. You know,
that you go and treat everyone with respect
and with with with with adab and whatnot.
And you know, these are the beloved ones
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. It's because
of his tears and his duas that all
of these people have come here from the
different nations of the earth and, you should
recognize
and respect that. That's a beautiful thing and
you should
make service for those people and and and
do good by those people and and and
do good by that place as well.
And, keep saying and the prophet
One thing that we we we neglected to
mention in the previous,
in the previous,
session
that's also relevant to this one is that
it's a sunnah that the last thing that
you do before leaving Makkamukarama
is what? Talaf.
Okay?
So this means what? That this talaf may
be perhaps something that you do, like, before
the fajr comes in?
Both of the haram sharifs, they're they're they're
the best one of the best times to
go is in the middle of the night.
And go go in the middle of the
night, read make your tawaf, read your tahajjud
or go read tahajjud and the message of
the prophet
read Quran, make dhikr, things like that. Wait
for the fajr to come in and,
pray in congregation.
At any rate, so that before you leave,
you know, we're gonna leave in the morning
after breakfast.
So before your before before you pray fajr,
go do in the night, and then pray
fajr, and then come back to the hotel,
get yourself ready, eat your breakfast, and bounce.
Just like that, the last thing you should
do before leaving Madinah Munawar, inshallah. We'll be
there for a couple of of days,
inshallah.
And we'll try to get some other olema
from different places in the world, try to
bring them in through the group and, you
know, visit. And we'll have classes the whole
time as well.
The last thing you do is that you
say salat and salam into the prophet, so
go say salaam to him. If you can't
go through the mawajah sharifa cause it's not
the hours for the sisters or the brothers
really crowded or whatever, you can say the
salaam like I said from outside.
Don't
don't take pictures in that place.
It's bad enough, Adab, to take pictures in
the front of the Kaaba.
You obstruct people and whatnot.
The place of
the Muadja has Sharifa where the Islam is
being said to the prophet sallallahu alaihi
that's a place that a person those
that's a place a person should fear.
Any any sign of disrespect or lack of
adab in that place, large or small,
can become a
a a a reason for a person's
good deeds being nullified, all of them, by
the text of the Quran.
Do not take pictures there. Don't take pictures
there. Don't make a video there. Don't just
keep your phone in your pocket. Leave your
phone in your hotel better yet. Just leave
to make sure your phone doesn't ring there.
Keep your ringer off. Keep it on silent.
It's bad enough in sacred places that you
bother other people with it. Your phone should
not ring there. You should just your phone
should not be doing anything at that. That
has no place over
there. Don't take pictures in that place. Don't
pose.
Other people are taking pictures. Let the guards
deal with them. You don't have to jostle
them or whatever. Again, not not everybody, like,
has the access to or access to education
or their parents taught them other than the
same way that that that ours did. But
we know we know better for them. Maybe
Allah Ta'ala will not, you know, take it
badly from them, or maybe Rasool Allah, sallam,
will not take it badly from them. But
for us, we know better. Don't do it.
Please, for God's sake of all that, I
do not do it. You take pictures on
other parts of the masjid if you want
to. I'm not super hyper excited about it,
but if you want to, that's more appropriate.
In that place, don't don't just leave your
phone out of
it. Don't don't chitchat with other people. If
you're going with somebody, you're going to meet
the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
This is Muhammad
is not the father of any of your
men, rather he is the messenger of Allah
and the seal of the prophets.
Don't chat with your friends over there. Don't
look around at other stuff. With with great
add up, present yourself, say your salaam, make
your duas, ask, for for Shafa'a
and and move along
and move along. Afterward, if the guards, like,
hustle you out of that place, just right
outside of the door you can stop and
you can make du'a there as well. That's
a Mubarak place. Ask for the good of
this world and the hereafter. Ask for the
Hidaya. Allah ta'al guide all of our friends
and relatives and our children and our parents
and all of these things, Allah ta'ala, whatever
duas we need to ask inshallah for this
world and the hereafter, that's a place to
ask. Another thing to do is the visitation
of
the the which
is the graveyard in which a great number
of are
buried. Many of the are there, imam Malik,
imam
Imam
Al
Nafir, Brother Islam. Many of the just different
from every age of the history of Islam,
pious people, righteous people are buried there. The
prophet
said the the wet nurse mother of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Number of people are are buried in that
place and the gates open after,
Fajr and after Asr. Right? Yeah. For for
a limited amount of time. So you can
go there and and and and and,
say salaam to those people as well and
read some Quran and make dua for them
out of respect,
for them as well over there.
They they don't let sisters in, do they?
So the sisters, inshallah, still go and say
salaam, say it from the from the gates.
Say it from the gates, the, from the
outside.
You know, it's kinda bogus that, you know,
whatever. I don't make up the rules, so
they don't let you in. They don't let
you in. But, you know, to be fair,
the the souls of the dead are in
the barzakh,
so gates and walls don't mean anything. You
can go and visit them anyway from outside
the gates. The the the the the spirit
the spiritual benefit of visiting them is still
there.
It's still there. It's a sunnah to visit,
by the way. It's a sunnah to visit
those righteous,
both in their life and in their death,
and it's a sunnah to visit the dead
as well,
for not for any other reason than it
reminds you of death at the bare minimum,
if not other,
benefits.
And your ruh meets their ruh as well.
You physically will not have a chitchat with
them,
but your spirit meets their spirit. And imagine
if you're in your grave, the and the
blessings of someone reading Quran or making dua
for you.
Right? This is part of our.
The the dua and the sadaqa you give
on behalf of the dead is accepted. This
is Ijma'a. This is all the Ummah accepts
this. So imagine you're reading Quran in that
place. What spiritual benefit is it is it
in there? Imagine you're making dua for them.
How would how would they benefit from that?
And how that will make a a connection
between your and their.
The the the that meet like this in
a good way in this world. Inshallah, we'll
meet like that in a good way in
the hereafter as well.
So don't
be, deprived of those benefits.
There's a lot of other stuff to do
over there. We'll talk about it too. But,
I just wanted to say these few words.
Are there any questions about the visitation of
Medina Manawara Inshallah?
Bring a shoe bag.
They have those, like, disposable ones. I'm I'm
gonna distribute it. It. You're gonna
distribute distribute some? Yeah. Istanbul. Yeah. In Istanbul.
Okay.
Use the one he gives. Don't make more
and more garbage.
Oh, but the Rolda?
Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Well, any specific question?
No. I was just mhmm. Yeah, Nabi
said that that area between my grave and
my my my member and my grave, my
pulpit and my grave is
is a a garden from the gardens of
Jannah. It's called the roba through sharifa.
Very crowded, very difficult to get in. You
can see it how because it's a green
carpet
versus
the rest of the carpet is red
in the Masjid.
There's a number of markers actually that show
where the old and the original masjid of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is.
The Roda and for the sisters, those three
times when they block stuff off, that's also
your chance to get to the
For the brothers, the best thing that that
that I've my experiences
is that if you pray,
if you pray,
Isha,
you get in at Maghrib time, you just
sit there and you pray Maghrib and Isha
right behind the grave of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. You can and right after
Islam from Isha, you bolt into the into
the road that you can usually get in.
Sometimes you get repulsed, but we'll have 5
days, so you'll have a number of times
to to try. Again, don't jostle people.
That's a very sacred place.
It's a part of part of Jannah. Our
aqabr, their du'a was when they entered into
that, you Allah, your Jannah is the one
that once a person enters it, they're never
kicked out.
So don't ever deprive us of the the
nirma of this Jannah after this day.
Don't jostle people there.
Don't push people, wait patiently. If the guards
send you away, they send you away. You
can try again next time.
Do not jostle people there.
One time that that it's easy to get
in or relatively easier to get in is
after Assur. What's the problem with that?
You can't pray after Asr.
If that's all you can do, just go
in that place and make some vikr and
make some dua and stuff. Right? But inshallah,
try to pray there. You'll get in. It's
not imp it's not like black stone impossible.
Right? No. 45 minutes is what you said.
You'll wait there 30, 40 minutes. Yeah. You'll
wait there for a while. Just subber, smile,
say your salat and sama, the prophet, pat
pat pat then another * on the back.
Yeah. For, so it's 1,
the area that's the platform that's raised.
Is there any So the the question about
the platform that's raised, there are 2 platformed
area raised platform areas behind directly behind the
grave of the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
The one that's connected to the grave, that's
the sufa.
That's where the that's where the they used
to call them the guests of Islam. There
are certain people who accepted Islam and their
full time, what they would do is just
sit and listen to everything the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam used to say. Said Abu
Huraira was one of them.
Abu Shurei Al Qadi was one
of them. A number of people, they lived
in extreme poverty.
So that was their place. They were the
original students of knowledge.
So that's a Mubarak place. You can go
pray 2 rakas over there as well. The
raised platform behind it is the Ottoman,
in the Ottoman times, that was like the
police station. That's where the guards the the
the the marcas for the guards that the
garrison that guarded the the,
the hit Asaf for the prophet's masjid used
to be stationed there. So I don't think
it has any significance from the time of
Salaf, but it's also, you know, it's also
a nice place.
Saying salaam to, Hazrat Abu Bakr and Khadat
Dumat.
You're saying salaam to them.
With the way you say, you
say,
And
Omar.
That you say to them, they respond to
your as well.
And we're gonna go over the others of
asking intercession later on. Right? Yeah. We can
talk about that later. So Okay.
And again, so the the the the last
the last thing that you do inshallah before
before leaving
is that you say to the prophet
also if even if you need to do
so from the outside, that's fine. But you
say
and then and then it's time to leave.
Heisel, would you like to say some administrative
points?