Johari Abdul-Malik – Eid AlAdha ALLAH Will Be There for You

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.

Don't forget to donate generously to support

our e

prayer.