Iqbal Gora – The Significance of the Day of Arafah Maryam Masjid

We mentioned that the greatest part of the

these 10 days of Dhul Hajj is the

day of Arafah, al Hajj u Arafah. Hajj

itself is Arafah and Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala,

he takes an oath by the 10 days

of Dhul Hijjah and he also takes twice

in the Quran. A second oath specifically

by the day of Arafah itself, 9th of

Dhul Hijjah. When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,

washeafarwalwadir

that the even and the odd, some of

the scholars they say the odd is in

reference to the 9th day of the hijrah

which is Yomra'rafah.

And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala also says, washahidimwashood.

A shahid is a person who is witnessing

and mashhood is what is witnessed.

By this Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala takes an

oath and the Mufasiloon they say that shahid

is in reference to Yom Jum'ah, and Mashhood

is in reference to Yom Arafah. The prophet

says, Aful Ayam, the best day is Yom

Arafah. The best of days is the day

of of Arafah, which will be on Tuesday,

this year.

More so to this as well, in reference

to the day of Arafah

and its particular

significance. It's mentioned in a hadith that there

is no day, there is no day without

exception, that more people's necks are saved from

the fire of Jahannam, than the day of

Arafah, and it's mentioned in Allah Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala, he comes down.

Then he comes down, and then he boasts

to his angels

about those specific people that might be making

dua, and he boasts to them, and he

boasts to them about human beings and Muslims

that are worshipping, and He says,

What do these people want? Imagine Allah is

coming,

saying to his angels, and boasting to his

angels, and telling them, what do these people

want? Imagine a person that does not even

raise their hands on this great significant day,

what a last step would be? Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala is literally telling you that He

is telling His angels that, what do these

people want? Do you expect that Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala is not going to give you?

Of course He will give you. And in

another narration it is actually mentioned, the hayruddua

dua wiyom ya'raotha. The best dua a person

can make without exception is the day, the

dua that is made on the day of

Arafah. So try to make yourself or give

yourself some time on Tuesday that you set

aside some time from your busy schedule, perhaps

before salatul Maghrib, to make du'a to Allah

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to forgive your sins and

give you goodness in this life and in

the next. And in this particular narration,

Anadhis salaamu also says,

that the best thing that I have said

and those prophets before me as well, this

is in reference to what a person should

say on the day of 'arutah, is to

say,

Try to say this as much as you

can on the day of Tuesday.

Another great blessing or virtue of the day

of 'arufah, as we know, it is a

day in which a person's past and future

sins can be forgiven. Sui lan Nabi salallahu

alaihi wa sallam ansoomyom

a'utha. The Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam was

asked about fasting the day of a'utha, and

he says, you get firoosun al ma'amdiya wa

baqiyyah. It expiates the sins, the minor sins

of the previous year and the coming year

again. We just passed the summer solstice, June

21st, the longest day of the year, especially

in Calgary, it is extremely long and it

might be hard for a person to fast

all 9 days of Dhruhajah.

As it is mentioned from the wives of

the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, they narrated

that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam had

the practice of fasting all 9 of these

days, but at a very bare minimum. It

will be a single day. It might be

hard, it might be long, but don't miss

out on this opportunity to fast the day

of Arafah

as it will expiate a person's minor sins

of the year previous and of the year

coming as well.

As far as the other virtues of this

blessed day of Yom

Arafah,

it is also mentioned in one hadith

that one time a Jewish man came to

Rama Al Khattab radiAllahu an, and he said

that there is a particular ayah in the

Quran, that if it was revealed to us

as a Jewish people, we would have taken

that day as a day of Eid. And

this day is the ayah in the Quran

wherein Allah Subhana Wa Ta'ala says,

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is saying that on

this day We have completed and perfected your

religion and made pleasing to you Islam as

deen.

We have completed your religion, wa atmantu alaykum

nirmati, and perfected Our favor for you, wa

atlati tullakum islam adina, and make pleasing to

you Islam as a religion. Arun al Khattar

He says, I know the time and the

place that this ayah was revealed. It was

revealed on the day of Friday, on the

day of Yom 'Arufah, on the plains of

Arafah

as well, and that is from the distinctions

given to this great day of Arafah, which

will be on Tuesday 9th of Dhul Hijjah.

The Prophet

also had his famous Khutbatulwada,

major address of the Prophet

at the end of his message given to

the entirety of mankind, as to which his

message actually was, that you will find in

his farewell

sermon, which is known as the Khutbatulwada'a.

I'll mention just one part of the sermon.

Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he says

that,

He says in this particular narration, on the

mount of Arafah,

he says that

indeed

the blood, the honor and the money of

a Muslim towards another Muslim is haram just

as this day and the hulma of this

day or and the hulma of this month,

and the hormah of this place as well.

So here we find something interesting,

that in the Arabic language a person might

hear the the grand mosque, it is called

Masjid Haram. Why is it called Masjid Haram?

A kid might ask that why is it

called Masjid Haram if it is the greatest

masjid? What's haram about it? And the way

that we understand it is that when a

person is in the state of a haram,

then there are certain things be that become

haram for them, like clipping of their nails,

like for example, covering of the head, those

things become haram for them. Likewise, when you

enter the prayer takbirah to ihram, the opening

takbir,

speaking now becomes impermissible for you, as an

example. So when you enter those specific locations,

in which there is a sanctity, if you

are in front of the Kaaba, you would

be embarrassed if you are Muslim to commit

sin there. So there's certain sanctity there,

which again,

in the Arabic language is referenced or translated

as