Ibrahim Hindy – Greatest Speech in History – Farewell Sermon
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Allah
commanded
our father Ibrahim
That he is told to proclaim the Hajj,
and there that there will come forth men,
people,
on every animal,
and coming
from every crevice,
from every faraway place.
Ibrahim alaihis salam is told
to tell the people to come
and to perform their Hajj.
And Ibrahim
says to his Lord,
My lord,
and how will my voice reach the people?
Ibrahim
has very few followers, if any.
Allah
says about our father Ibrahim,
Ibrahim That indeed Ibrahim
was himself
a nation unto himself.
He was a nation unto himself. He was
an ummah
himself.
He had very few followers.
So he says to Allah, if I call
out,
who is my voice going to reach?
He's kicked out of his homeland,
wandering the earth,
very few followers.
Who will hear me if I speak
in the middle of the desert
that is empty and barren?
And Allah
tells him,
Allah tells him, upon you is to call,
and upon us
is to make it reach, make it convey.
So Ibrahim alaihis salam stands
on the hills of Mecca
and calls to the people, oh people, come
and perform Hajj. Oh, people come and perform
hajj.
And that voice
would reach
after his lifetime,
generations
upon generations,
millions
upon millions of believers
until we are in the day that we
are in today.
And just as Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala promised
him,
that on every seed
and from every corner of the world,
people go for Hajj,
on every car
and donkey,
on every horse and bicycle,
on every plane,
people go and perform their hajj.
From lands they didn't even know existed,
people go and perform their hajj, as Allah
told
prophet Ibrahim would happen.
And amongst those who performed the Hajj
were the prophets.
Our prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
as he was walking through a valley, he
asked the people,
what valley is this?
And they tell him, this is the valley
of such and such. They give him a
name.
He tells him,
It's as though I see my brother Musa,
and he is walking through this valley.
And then they come to another valley,
and he asks them, What is this valley?
And they say,
This is the blue valley.
He tells them,
It's
as though I see my brother, Eunice,
and he is filling this valley
with the talbayyah. The
prophets came and heeded the call of prophet
Ibrahim alaihis salam.
And our prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam would do
the same.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
will enter as a hajj, as a pilgrim
into Mecca,
and he would cry and cry and cry.
And when Umar
seeing our prophet cry, starts to cry as
well.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam tells
him,
here is where the emotions pour.
Here is where the weeping should happen.
And then the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam would
go to the plains of Arafat,
standing between the people.
A 100000
pilgrims,
rich and poor,
free and slave,
Arab and non Arab.
Black and white.
And the prophet looks towards all of them.
And he has a view
from Arafah to Mecca,
the same city that denied him
and abused him and persecuted him and cursed
him.
And he speaks to these thousands of people
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And this is what is known as his
farewell sermon.
And of the things that he says, salallahu
alayhi wasalam,
He says, oh, people listen to me,
for perhaps I will not meet you after
this year.
Our prophet
had a premonition this was his last year
on earth.
After
all,
the past Ramadan, the Ramadan before this Hajj,
Jibrin had come to the prophet
and revised the Quran with him twice.
And this was one of the indications the
prophet had because every other year Jibreel would
revise the Quran once.
But this year he revised it twice
with the prophet.
The prophet understood this as a premonition,
that this was his last year.
And he begins to give him give the
people his last advice.
He says, Indeed, your blood
and your wealth
and your honor
is sacred like the sacredness of this day,
the sacredness of this month, the sacredness of
this city.
The blood, the property,
the honor of a Muslim is sacred.
It should not be easy
to say something against the honor of another
Muslim.
It should not be easy
to curse or insult or abuse verbally another
Muslim.
It should not be easy
to take the wealth unjustly of another Muslim.
It should not be easy
for the blood of a Muslim to spill.
After all, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
is telling you it is as sacred
as the most sacred day
in the sacred month,
in the most sacred city.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam continued.
And he
said,
He said, indeed the riba,
the usury
of Jahiliyah,
of the days of ignorance, it is invalid.
If someone owes someone else interest,
usury,
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam invalidated all
of it.
And he began with his own family.
He said, I begin with Al Abbas, his
uncle.
Anything owed to him
has been declared invalid.
The initial loan can be repaid, but any
usury has been made invalid.
And he says,
Do not oppress each other and do not
be
oppressed. And that this type of usury is
an oppression.
And Allah
has decreed that there should be no rida.
And he tells them as well understanding.
That indeed the blood,
meaning the blood feuds of
The blood feuds of ignorance
have been invalid.
It was the custom in
ignorance
that they would hold blood feuds against one
another.
This person killed my father,
so if he sees an opportunity or killed
my uncle, if he sees an opportunity, he'll
go kill him.
And they'll hold these feuds, and tribe will
go to war against tribe because somebody was
killed maybe even generations before.
The prophet comes and says all these feuds
are invalid.
Blood money could be paid, compensation could be
paid, if someone was killed in the past,
but there's no killing over it.
It has ended.
And again, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
began with his own family.
Any
the the ones against his own tribe, Bani
Hashim, anybody had killed someone before, they had
now made us invalid.
And he reminded us to protect our religion.
He said
He said, shaytan has despaired that he would
be worshipped in this land of yours.
But he has become content
that he will be
followed in what is below this.
Meaning,
the shirk of worshiping shaitan would not happen
in the land
of Mecca,
in these
lands. He says, but what is less than
it would happen?
How many innovations
in the religion?
How many injustices
has shaitan inspired Muslims to commit against each
other?
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam says,
So protect and beware and protect your religion.
And he commanded the spouses to uphold the
rights of other spouses.
Your women have rights over you and you
have rights over your women.
And he tells the man in particular to
honor his
wife,
He says, treat the women kindly
for you have only taken them. They have
only been made halal for you.
Not because her father gave her to you.
Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is included in
the oath of marriage.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has made a halal
for you to be married to them.
And this marriage has occurred by the word
of Allah
Meaning you have exchanged words
in the sight of Allah So fear Allah
in your treatment of women,
and treat them kindly.
And he commanded us in relation to the
servants and slaves,
and anyone we have under our employ.
The prophet
said,
Feed them from that which you eat,
and dress them from that which you dress.
Meaning a person should not have
a slave that is in tatters, that is
eating garbage food, and the slave owner is
eating the best food and wearing the best
clothes. No. He should eat the same food
as you, as though he's from your house.
Wear the same clothes as you, as though
he's from your house.
And then the prophet
said,
Let alone, if the slave does a sin
that you cannot forgive,
then sell them.
Sell them
and don't punish them.
Then the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
He said, Oh believers, you are all brothers
of each other,
and to take the wealth of another Muslim
is never permissible unless
from the deep, genuine soul of that person,
he allows you to take it.
And then he says,
do not come
back, disbelievers.
1 of you
accusing or hitting the other because you have
been led astray,
Harming each other.
He says, for indeed what I have left
between you
is something that if you were to hold
on to it,
you will never be misguided again.
The book of Allah and the sunnah of
his prophets.
The phrasing of the prophet
here tells us that if we abandon
the Quran,
and we abandon the sunnah of the prophet
it will lead us to harming each other,
fighting each other, abusing each other, and leaving
the religion.
And so he tells you, do not leave
the religion after this,
and do not harm each other, and fight
each other, and attack each other.
And rather hold on to the book of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and to the sunnah
of the prophet, and if you do so,
you will never be misguided again.
And he says,
oh people.
He said, O people, your Lord is 1,
and your father is 1,
and all of you are from Adam, and
Adam is from dirt.
It's a reminder to all of us,
we are brothers of each other.
We have one father, and more importantly, we
have one creator,
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
How can we say, oh, he's
from this country, and I'm from that country?
Oh, his skin is this color, and his
skin is that color.
When he reminds all of you how are
you finding this pride
in your ancestry
that you will discriminate or treat someone badly?
And he reminds
you, all of you are from Adam.
And Adam was made from dirt.
We find reasons to make ourselves arrogant and
feel like we're better than each other,
and in the end, we all came from
dirt.
In
he continues and he says, the most honored
amongst you are the ones who have the
most taqwa.
And no Arab has virtue over a non
Arab except in their taqwa.
He said, have I conveyed?
And they said, They said, yes, O Messenger
of Allah.
Oh Allah, bear witness.
Oh Allah, bear witness.
And he says, let those who are present
convey this to those who are absent.
I wanted to spend today's hukba speaking about
the sermon of our prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
A short sermon,
and yet from every line you can derive
benefit upon benefit,
wisdom upon wisdom.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam chose to give this sermon
on the day of Arafah,
on one of the most important day in
the calendar of the Muslims.
A man, a Jewish man, once went to
Umar ibn Khabab
and he said to him, I heard a
verse from the Quran.
That verse
says,
That Allah
says, today I have completed your religion
and I have perfected my favor upon you
and I have been pleased with Islam as
your religion.
He said to Umar radiAllahu anhu, if we
had a verse like this, we would take
the day this verse was revealed
as a day of Eid, as a day
of commemoration.
Because if you think about it from their
perspective,
the perspective of
the Jews or even the Christians,
Is there
anything in their scripture that tells them
there is no future prophet?
No.
Is there anything in their scripture that tells
them there's no future revelation or scripture?
No.
And they know this.
So why have they decided there's no prophet
to come after? They decided it on their
own.
So he says, if there was something
that was definitive,
that said, this is your religion,
The revelation is ended. It's complete.
We would have taken it as a 'id.
We don't have anything that clear.
Umar
said to
him, I
know the exact day,
the exact place,
the exact moment
this aya was revealed.
It was revealed to our prophet
on the day of Arafah,
while he was given the chutba, and he
recited it.
And it is indeed a day of Eid
for us.
This day of Arafa, which is tomorrow,
is an incredibly significant day.
This is the day our prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam said,
There is no day more virtuous in the
sight of Allah
than the day of Arafah.
This is a day
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
He said, the day of
and the day of sacrifice, which is the
day of Eid, the day after it, and
the days of tashlik, the 3 days after
Eid, he says, oh people of Islam, these
of our these are our days of
Eid, meaning the days that we commemorate.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was once
asked
to interpret
Surat al Buruj.
And in it, Allah says,
the day that is promised.
The prophet says,
this is
They said, how about
He's in
The verse in Surat Al Guruj says,
the witness
and that which is witnessed.
The prophet said,
the
the witness is the day of jum'ah.
And
the the thing that is witnessed
is the day of
Why does the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
call the day of Arafah, the day that
is witnessed?
And some of the scholars mentioned when you
look at the other ahadith,
Allah is witnessing his hibad.
Allah is witnessing his servants.
And he's telling the angels, look at my
servants.
And Allah is coming closer to his in
a way that befits his majesty.
He's drawn closer to the on the day
of Arafah.
And he is boasting to the angels. Oh,
angels, look at my servants
on the day of Arafah.
This is the day where the good deeds
are being witnessed.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
He says, there is no day
in which Allah forgives his servants more
than the day of Arafah.
And the prophet
tells us,
The best
is the
dua made on the day of Arafah.
Of course, the one who goes for Hajj,
he has 2 honors.
The honor of the day, the virtue of
the day, and the virtue of the place
that he is standing in the plains of
Arafah. So he has 2 virtues.
But we who are not going for Hajj
still have the virtue of the day.
We can't act like it's only for the
people in Hajj, and for us, there's nothing
to do.
No. The day of Arafah and its virtue
matters to us.
The hadith,
some of the scholars commented, and they said
most likely
the prophet said this
when to the people who are not going
to Hajj.
In the many years where the Muslims were
not performing Hajj, that he told the Muslims,
the best dua is the dua of Arafah.
And
so even if you're not going for Hajj,
you need to be making dua
and increasing your dua
and increasing in your Takbir.
Beginning tomorrow after fajr,
after every salah to make Takbir.
And he told those who are not performing
Hajj to fast on the day of Arafah.
And he said,
for I hope that Allah will forgive
the sins of 2 years.
By fasting this one day tomorrow,
the sins of 2 years will be forgiven.
The year of the past
and the year that is coming.
Ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for forgiveness.
Do extra
on this day.
There is no day that Allah forgives people
more than the day of Arafah.
So
one of the great scholars
was there in Arafah 1 year,
and there was a tribe that was known
for stealing,
that was also there in Arafah performing Hajj.
And the people came to Sufyan,
and they asked them a question.
They said, Yeah, Sufyan,
They said, also, who are the worst people
today?
They thought you will give
a fiery speech against this tribe
that is known to commit evil and steal
from people.
And instead he stood up and he said
to the people,
He said the worst people today are the
ones who think that Allah will not include
them in his forgiveness.
Meaning the worst people are the ones saying
those are those people are so bad, Allah
is not gonna forgive them. He said, no.
To think this,
to think Allah is not gonna forgive someone,
that's the worst thing.
This is the day to ask Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala for forgiveness.
The day that Allah allows you by fasting,
one day you'll forgive 2 years of sins.
That's how much forgiveness is coming on this
day.
This day is more important,
more virtuous
than the day of Ashura.
More virtuous
than all the days of Ramadan.
This is the most virtuous day in the
calendar.
And
one of the great scholars, when he came
to the crowds of Arafah,
and he saw all the people there begging
Allah
He asked the people a question. He said,
you see all the people here today?
If all those people went to one of
the kings
in this dunya,
and they all begged the king to give
them 1 dirham or half of a dirham,
Just half of a dirham.
They said, would the king give him give
them that money? Would he give each of
them half a dirham?
They said, of course.
Why?
They're asking for so little. Half of the
king can easily give them that money.
And they're begging
so sincerely, they're begging.
Of course, that king would give them.
He said, then know that Allah will not
reject anyone on this day.
Because whatever you ask Allah for,
if you ask him for money, if you
ask him for health, whatever you ask Allah
for, it is less in the sight of
Allah. It's more easy for Allah to give
it to you than for a king to
give you $1.
And Allah is more generous than any other
human being.
So if a human being would give, then
Allah is more generous, and for sure he
would give.
So start asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And just like we tell the hajji,
who's going for Hajj, write down the dua.
Make sure you write a list of dua
so you can ask Allah. You also write
down a list of dua.
Everything you want in the dunya, everything you
want in the akhirah, write it down.
Then write dua for your children,
for your spouse, for your parents, for your
siblings.
Write dua for all the people you know
that you love.
Write dua for them and keep it with
you in your pocket all of tomorrow week
dua over and over and over again.
And make of Allah
like the prophet
said, the best dua is the dua of
Arafah, and the best of what I and
the prophets before me have said.
You should say this as much as you
can tomorrow.
Everyone should be saying this at least a
100 times, more than a 100 times tomorrow,
many, many times.
And as you say it, think about Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala and have pure intention for
Allah
And tomorrow do some good deeds to draw
closer to Allah
Hakim ibn Khizam
on the day of Arafah, it was reported,
he came
with a 100 slaves,
ones that he owned and one that ones
that he purchased,
and he freed all of them for the
sake of Allah.
And then he brought a 100 cows and
a 100 sheep, and he gave them all
in charity for the sake of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. And then he stood up and
he said, oh Allah, I have freed all
of them for your sake, so free me
from the hellfire.
Do good deeds and give charity with the
intention
of drawing closer to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and for attaining his forgiveness on the day
that Allah forgives the most amount of people.
This is the greatest day in our calendar.
So don't be of the people who ignore
it or are negligent,
or acting like it's any other day, while
it is the most important day, the most
generous day, the most giving day, the day
that the prophet
says, there is no day that shaitan
is more angry, more humiliated,
more debased than the day of Arafah.
Why? Because he sees
the maghfirah from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala coming
down. He sees the rahma from Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala coming down.
Don't pretend this is a regular day. Realize
the importance of this day and beg Allah
on the day when he is the most
generous.