Johari Abdul-Malik – Eid AlAdha ALLAH Will Be There for You
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The speaker discusses the importance of Islamist actions in establishing a culture of racism and intolerance, as well as the importance of remembering Allah's command to build a house for his son's father. He describes how he becomes a warantee and becomes a toaf, and takes his child and his family to the crowd at Hajj, where he says he is "verbal person" and restrained. He offers to help someone make a child and gives them a child to bring to them. He describes how he becomes a warantee and becomes a toaf, and describes how he takes his child and his family to the crowd, where he says he is "verbal person" and restrained.
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But congratulations to you alhamdulillah.
Praise be to Allah and thanking Allah, azzurajal,
for having guided us to this blessed way.
Today,
is not just a victory for those who
say we are Muslim.
Today,
is a victory for humanity.
Because today,
we have witnessed
the greatest,
largest
gathering
of human beings in a spiritual migration
on Earth
in history.
In other words,
every year, Muslims will migrate
to make this journey.
It is the largest
human migration for religious purposes
in the history of humankind.
It happens every year.
People from every color, every nation, every language,
saying
that they are responding
to the call
from
Ibrahim, alayhis salatu wasalam.
Responding because
1,
they are remembering
Allah.
2,
that they have heard and are answering
the call of Allah.
And 3,
that they have made the commitment
to be there at the house of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala as Allah commanded.
I want you to think for a moment
about the family of Ibrahim
and to see that this is a family
that is remembering Allah.
And because of their remembrance of Allah,
Allah remembered them.
I want you to think about the call
of Ibrahim, where Allah commands Ibrahim alaihi salaam
to call all of humanity.
All of humanity
to come to the house which he has
established.
And Ibrahim
hearing the call, will hamdulillah
proclaims it
and Allah made us hear it.
Then Allah
called
him
to make this call to humanity.
And now we have Hajj
millions of followers
every year,
journeying,
saying,
They have heard the call from Allah and
they are answering that call.
Our mother, Hagar,
she made the call to Allah when running
between Asafar and Marwa.
And Allah answered her call by giving her
the well of Zamzim,
which will produce water from that desolate valley
from then until the day of judgment.
Ismael.
He answers the call from Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
and Allah made from him that he is
from his line
Rasoolullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
in the lineage of Isma'il.
To be there,
in that place,
remembering Allah,
that Ibrahim was given the command and he
built a house for Allah on the foundation
built from Adam alaihis salaam.
This is what happens when you answer the
call to Allah,
That Ishmael
goes with his father to the mountain,
and
he has full faith that Allah is going
to do something amazing because Allah has always
done something
amazing for the family of Ibrahim.
And Allah gives him
a ram to sacrifice.
And today,
millions of people are sacrificing alhamdulillah
to accept their hajj.
Our mother Hagar, subhanAllah,
she answers the call and she's there for
Allah in the place where Allah has commanded
her husband to leave her.
And in that place,
now we have not the desolate valley,
but a place that is a place of
refuge.
It is a place of security.
It is the house of Allah and in
this precinct,
your prayers are multiplied 100 of 1000 of
times.
It is the reward, alhamdulillah,
of what can happen when you have a
family that remembers Allah,
that answers the call of Allah and is
there for Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. I'm asking Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala to make us like the family of
Ibrahim,
that we would remember Allah,
that Allah would hear us answer Allah's call
and the law would find us there, well,
to establish what would be pleasing to him.
Alhamdulillah.
I want to tell you a very short
story.
And it is a story, well, alhamdulillah,
that exemplifies
these three principles.
Right now, in America,
and maybe in places around the world, we're
seeing,
racism and intolerance.
If you could imagine
that Islam has the antidote
to racism.
Maybe when Muslims are just in their regular
lives,
we we have some biases.
You know what I'm saying.
I'm from one country. I see someone from
another country. I don't feel the same brotherhood,
sisterhood that I should feel
because we say, lai laihil Allahu Muhammad Rasoolallah.
But then when you are making the journey
to Hajj,
you engage in a kind of transformation.
You leave your job. You leave your work.
You leave everything.
Going on a journey because
you remembered Allah. You're answering the call to
Allah and you want to be there.
And so you become,
hujaj.
You're one of the people making Hajj.
But then there comes a place in your
journey where you become a mukrim.
You leave your your clothing now and you
stay in the garment of the Haram,
and you're restrained
from your regular life.
You're at the highest
place
in your
journey.
1 year, I was performing Hajj.
I was a young man then.
And we were
making toaf around the Kaaba.
And, you know, you have to make 7
circuits around the Kaaba.
And and Hajj is very crowded
and very hot.
And as I'm making tawaf,
I see next to me
a family,
mother,
the father,
and they have some small children.
The father is carrying
1 child
on one arm, and he's carrying
another child on the other arm.
And he's in the crowd, and they're making
toaf.
And I look over at them and I
say, wanudu billah, they're not gonna make it.
7 times carrying those children.
But they're not from my background. They don't
speak my language.
But I look at them and I say,
subhanAllah,
I know
on Hajj,
you're afraid if you get separated from your
group, you may never find them.
On Hajde,
there's,
an underground,
so many people you can't keep track of
everything.
But I look at them and say, you
know,
I know I look different from you, I'm
black.
I don't speak your language, you don't know
me.
But maybe while we're on this journey together,
I can help you.
I can help you because
we're all here for the same thing.
And so I gesture to the man,
give me your child.
And he looks at me with that kind
of look like, I don't know you.
I understand what you're offering me, so he
looked at his wife.
And the wife looked at me
and then she looked back at her husband
and she said,
we're not gonna make it without this black
man. Give him give him the child.
And subhanallah,
I gestured and put my arm in his
arm,
and he put his child in my arms,
and we began to make to laugh. And
then we got to the Yemeni corner, we
started saying,
that we had made a victory.
They overcame their fear.
They overcame their bias.
If they had any racism, they got rid
of it
so that they could make the journey.
I'm saying to you today, alhamdulillah,
Hajj is a journey for mankind.
Call your neighbor, call your friend and tell
him, today is the day of Eid. Didn't
you see it in the newspaper?
And it's the antidote
for your racism.
Come and join us, B'idnillah.
That, alhamdulillah,
that man and his wife,
they took their future
child
into the hands of a stranger
because they know
that if they were there
for the journey for Allah to remember him
And if they answered the call,
that Allah would be there for them.
We pray to Allah
that Allah will be there for you and
your families.
That Allah will help you to be there
for Allah, so Allah can be there for
you.
We ask Allah
to increase our remembrance of Allah so that
Allah will remember us with a better remembrance.
And we ask Allah
to gather us as
we are gathered here on the day of
judgment.
That Allah would grant us the reward of
his jannah.
May Allah congratulate
you, Eid Mubarak,
and may Allah
continue to gather us on his salat al
mustakim.
Grant us the best in this life and
the best in the hereafter,
and may you have a great day and
enjoy the fun with your families.
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