Mohammad Badawy – Reflections on the Farewell Sermon
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My
dear brothers and sisters, in Islam, we have come to another
season of the seasons of Allah, subhanho wa taala, from the Mercy
of Allah, from his blessing upon us is that he made seasons of His
mercy, opportunities for us to come closer, opportunities for us
to do more to earn that forgiveness. And this has season,
as it comes to a close, is full of lessons, and I'm sure you've
already heard many of them.
You can go to the stories of Ibrahim, alaihi salam, the figure
that the Hajj is so focused on a central component of the Hajj, his
story, his sacrifice. You can go to the Hajj actions itself and
what's happening and the acts of worship and the rituals that are
concluding now. But what I like to do personally, every single year
for at least one, if not more, is to go back to the Hajj of
Rasulullah Sallam himself for a few minutes, experience it with
our beloved messengers, Allah sallam, to see what was like. What
did he choose to what did he choose to say?
What did he choose to emphasize in the only Hajj that he ever
performed?
And the hadith of jab and Abdullah tells us that rasulim, he stayed
in Medina. He moved to Medina, and he stayed there for 10 years
without performing Hajj.
The Kaaba was surrounded by idols.
The Kaaba was a place of idol worship and evil and debauchery,
so it was not befitting to perform this ritual until the conquest of
Mecca. Years later, then Mecca was purified and cleansed from these
idols, Rasulullah Sallam becomes the central figure of authority,
and then it announcement is made in the 10th year that rasulallah
So he
says, As far as the eye can see, people began to flock to Medina,
Kullu, temisu and yahud jama Rasulullah sallam, all of them
seeking to copy rasulallah, to perform this great ritual with
him. And I encourage you to go online now, as the Hajj is still
there, get on YouTube and search Mecca. Live.
Search Hajj 2023 live and take a look at this great number of
people
in a ritual that is not mimicked anywhere in the world ever,
basking in the worship of their Creator. This is what it looked
like at that time. So Jaber says, As we exited Medina, as far as the
eye can see in front of him were people in Haram and behind him and
on his right and on his left, Salah Salam.
This was the scenario, all of them in unison, in their different
varieties of wordings, saying, here we are, oh Allah at your
service. Lebe Allah bake
and then he says he came to Mecca and began to perform the hajj. And
he told the people who do anime and Asika, come take from me your
rituals. I will show you what to do. I'll explain everything. You
don't have to bump around in the dark like civilizations have done
for eons, looking for the right path. I'll teach you all of it.
That's his job. Salah Salem, that's his purpose. That's why he
was sent Hajj is no different.
And then he also says, as the Hadith says
inha, that in this hajj, he went around, Salah Salem, wawada, Anas.
He said goodbye to people. He said farewell Faso me at hajatul Wada.
So it was called the farewell Hajj, and he said we called it
that because of his action, that he went around saying goodbye to
people, making a point
to tell them, This is it. But we didn't get it, he said, until
months later,
when he actually passed away salah, Salah.
But in this last gathering, in the greatest fashion that had ever
happened, that he has never gathered Muslims in this fashion
before, nor will he ever again.
He made it a point as he was saying goodbye to them to repeat
this speech three times on the day of Arafa, on the day of reed
itself, the 10th day, and then in the subsequent days, Ahmed tashik
On the 11th, 12th and 13th, to a gathering that he had never seen
before, nor will he will see again, over 100
100,000 Muslims, over 90% of them seeing him for the very first and
last time in their lives.
And he chose to say this three times, three different days, to
emphasize certain things, to not say goodbye, to not end the
conclusion of his mission without telling them, listen to this. And
he said a lot of things,
but of what he said in that speech, he told them adrila Ali La
alqahimbada, abuda. Pay attention. Listen closely, because I am going
to make things clear for you. This is important. Not only is it
important, not only do you need this clarification,
but listen closely, because I think after this year is over,
we'll never get to do this again.
Listen, because this is goodbye. This is the end. Can you imagine
how hard it must have been for the haba to hear that for the last 20
years, they've been standing side by side, sacrificing time, wealth,
blood and sweat
to believe that he is Rasulullah, to stand by him in battle, in
dawah, in sacrifice, in charity, in he in hunger for the sake of
this religion, believing that one day he will be the unequivocal,
undisputed leader, and everyone will enter Islam in droves. And
now it finally happens. And he tells them, by the way, this is
goodbye. This is the end.
Because Allah says, either Jay and also Allah, what a Tennessee
behemoth because of federal and now Canada, surat al Fatih was the
eulogy of Rasulullah sasam. This is the end. Your mission is over.
The people enter Islam in droves. The conquest of Mecca and the
Arabian Peninsula is yours. Your deen is supreme. Your mission is
fulfilled.
The ball is in their court. Now. The job is theirs, as we'll see.
And then he told them, Ayu yomin, hadah, Ayu Shahar, Ayu Balad, it
today? What month are we in? What land? They could have said Friday.
They could have said the day of Arafat. They could have said the
day of Eid. They could have said, I am tashrip lu hija, obvious
questions with obvious answers. But because they are so obvious,
they knew that's not what he wanted. They said, qadiosa, me
Bela, maybe he will change the name. So they stayed quiet,
waiting to see what he would say.
And their level of servitude, their level of submission, of
devotion to Rasulullah so strong that if he said, this month is no
longer called the hija, this day is no longer called yamu Arafat,
these lands are no longer called Mecca. They would have said, done.
That's all you need to say.
So when he asked them, what land are we in? What day is it today?
They stayed quiet, expecting that and ready to accept it. But that's
not what he did. He didn't change the name. It's still Arafa. We're
still in the hija.
He didn't change the names of the land either. So what was the point
of that question?
He told them in nadima akum, first, he asked them all, Arafa,
is it not the day of Arafat? Is it not the month of Are these not the
sacred lands that you recognize that we just finished performing
rituals in? And they said, Yes, it is. So he told them in the demo,
come, what ammo ala come, wam haramun, Alaikum, Ka Hurmati, Yomi
Kum, hada, fishhadi, kumaha, fibaladikum, hada, the point was
not to change the name.
The point was to tell them a greater lesson. You recognize
sacred places and times we all do because when people curse in
Ramadan, you tell them, relax. It's Ramadan. You tell them, take
it easier. In the midst, you just pray Juma, we recognize the
sanctity of times and places and how certain violations are
disrespecting not just the rule, but the time and the place. So
it's added. He is telling them, you see that. You see how there
could be levels of sanctity you could, you see how there is red
line on top of red line on top of red line in certain times and
places. That is the Muslim. He said, your blood and your wealth
and your honor is inviolable, sacred between you to each other,
the same way that this day is sacred in this month in this land.
Picture, someone in the midst of these sanctities, disobeying
Allah, they're in a haram, they're standing at Arafat, they're in a
holy land, at a holy place, in a holy state, and they don't care.
Everyone would say this person's
he's headed straight towards destruction, right? He's diving
straight in Rasul as telling us that is.
Muslim, and the biggest calamities for me knew to hear this and say,
I'm good. I don't harm any Muslims. I don't kill anyone. I
watch my I don't, you know, take from their wealth, but how often
do we violate Muslim honor backed by our fellow Muslim and Hadith,
he told us. So I said, I'm like cursing the Muslim is like
physically attacking him.
You're right there. It's no different.
The Muslim sentiments inside of them that they don't even express,
that they feel is sacred to Allah. Subhanaw taala.
It's time that this ummah starts recognizing that. What if he was
here today? Salah Salaam. What if you could show him the Muslim
ummah.
It was only when these sanctities were violated on the inside that
they become worthless on the outside. What
if he could spend the day with me,
not the community, not my family, not the Muslim ummah. Would he see
these sanctities upheld? What
would How would I explain it to him? What would I have to say? He
said, Allah kuljahiliyah maudua, what Ibn jahiliyyam al dua Wada,
mujahilia. Of that of the things he spoke to them on that day. He
said, every single way of life from pre Islam that clashes with
our divine way of life is underneath my two feet today I'm
stepping on it. Things like Riba, things like blood feuds, they are
no longer befitting for us to live in this way of life. He said,
Anyone who owes a la best money from Riba, you're free to go. He
said that in front of 100,000 people about a man whose entire
life, business was built on a river,
who's his uncle. He just collapsed his business in front of the
entire Raven Peninsula. There are no more blood feuds, and the first
blood feud that I cancel is the blood feud of Rabbi Abdul Hadith
Ibn Abu mu, his cousin, who's a young infant that another tribe
had murdered and his tribe had not taken vengeance. He said, No more.
Free to go. I'm so serious about changing this society, the core
rules that are incorrect. I'm so serious and passionate about it
that it first applies to my own family. That's what he was saying.
Salawat, but then there's Muslims today
wrenching these things from underneath the feet of Rasulullah
to raise them up high, over their heads, to take them as ways of
life. Riba feuds between people, racism, he said, Salah Salam on
that day, kulakumli, Adamu, Adam and torad. Lafala, Arabia, wala,
la all of you are from Adam, and Adam was from dust. There is no
preference for an Arab over a non Arab, or a non Arab over an Arab,
black, white, red and everything in between.
Oh mankind, you were created from a single man and a single woman.
And the most honorable of you are those who are closest to Allah. He
recited upon them. That verse, he had these heartfelt messages that
he wanted to give out. He told them so I said them in an ALA Kum
Alaikum, the your woman folk, your wives, have rights upon you, and
you have rights upon them. The family only functions when these
mutual rights are being distributed properly.
The calamities that we hear all this and demand our own rights
while being completely oblivious to the rights that we owe others,
forgetting that our own rights, we have the option to forgive. We
have the options to take them here. We have the options to be
recompensated on their judgment, but for the rights of others,
there are no options we owe them in full or nothing of
the things that he told them on that day. So I said, Let me said,
in the shaytaan khadiya is and Yoruba fibaldikum, Hadi ya shaytan
has despaired. He's hopeless of the goal that you he will be
worshiped in these lands ever again. The scholar said that means
he has despaired in the goal that he strives for the most with other
nations, which is to turn them, in their totality, upon KUF. That
will never happen to this nation. Allah will always protect it. The
truth will always linger. It will always be apparent. There will
always be people who take it seriously. So he has despaired
over that goal, but he said, Beware, that's not it's not the
end.
He is satisfied with everything less than that. Mimmata, run am in
Ameli Kum, things that you consider no big deal. Watch out.
Kaitan will get to work on those.
The quality is not enough, so he's going to work on the quantity, he
said, Salawat, Salam and another Hadith, like travelers who stop in
the desert and such and such. A person gathers twigs, and so does
he, and so does she, and so does the third and the fourth, and
together, they create a giant flame with which they roast their
animal. He said, so I said, I'm that's the minor sins and shaitans
zeroed in a.
There when he can't get you to do bigger things. Why shaitan
satisfied with that? Because it's enough to destroy you.
It's the secondary goal, but it's enough. So he's telling you, you
beware, you be extra cautious, because he's getting to work. Of
the things that he told them on that day, salah I Salam, of the
many messages that he wanted to share with them,
he told them,
Waka Tara, tufikum, ma in atombi. Lent a dilbadi, abada, I have left
you with that which, if you hold on to, you will never be misguided
after me. He began this speech by saying, I won't be here much
longer. This is the end. This is goodbye.
And then he ended the speech by telling them, You will be
perfectly okay, as much as we would have loved to be there to
witness this, to hear it firsthand with Rasulullah Sallam in his only
Hajj.
Here we are hearing it over 1400 years later, because in that same
speech, he said, Let those who are present relay it to those who are
absent.
Let them know that you have that which, if you were to hold on to,
you'd be perfectly okay, the book of Allah and the teachings of His
messenger.
And he want us to know one more thing, this is not for free.
This is not a freebie. Well, Anton to Aluna and niomanda alone, and
you will be asked about me. You will be questioned regarding all
of this on the Day of Judgment, as you stand for account in front of
Allah. So what will you say? They said, nashad and naked a date of a
loved wana sahat, we bear witness that you have relayed the message.
You have advised us sincerely, and you have fulfilled your role. So
he pointed at the heavens and then back at them three times. They
said, Allah Fash, Allahumma. Fahed, Oh Allah, Oh Allah, Be my
witness. Oh Allah, Be my witness. Oh Allah, Be my witness. Over what
that he did his part, and the ball is now in our court. You don't
have the luxury of saying, I'm not interested. You don't have the
luxury of saying I can't relay the message. The baton is already in
your hands, you have two options,
to drop it
and Islam Ends with You. All of this falls on deaf ears, or to
keep going to hand it on, bloodied and bruised, dripping barely any
energy in that hand, but it's in your hand still, you held on, and
it reached the next generation. It followed through. He was so
serious about this that in his last moments with the community at
large, he wanted to repeat the same words over and over, the
sanctity of a Muslim, the rights of your family members,
equality amongst Muslims, being wary of shaitan every minute of
your life, whether it's summer, whether schools out, whether
you're with friends, none of it matters. Always be wary, because
shaitan is always on the clock. You need to be as well.
All of this is not for free. It is a blessing for which you will be
questioned about in the Day of Judgment. Did he hand it to you,
and what did you do with it? We ask Allah to instill in our hearts
the blessing and the sincerity and the Taufiq to take the words of
His Messenger seriously and to allow them to allow us to
implement them seeking his face upon Allah. Wali had Ali olakum,
first of all,
my dear brothers and sisters in Islam,
the Prophet Muhammad SAW a lot more in what was famously called
khutbah, the Farewell Sermon.
He emphasized, as the scholars have said, the most fundamental
concept of Islam. This speech was a summary of the deepest, most
important principles of our deen. In addition to that, he told us
that it is something will be taken into account for that we have to
answer in front of Allah subhanahu for. And this mindset changes
everything. If you have this mindset that I have to answer in
front of Allah subhanahu for it, Thou will be asked about this man,
who was he to you?
What of his teachings reached you? What of it did you seek out that
will change my mentality and how I approach it? If I ask myself
similarly, what if he was here today, not to observe the ummah?
Not to observe the catastrophes in our locale, but just with me to be
my personal Companion of the day, and observing how much of this
will add up, how much of my life and my personal choices will I
have to explain it well, it's only temporary. It's only because I got
stuck. Well, I'm working on that is that what my life would be, my
day would be,
and I don't have to think about fields here physically, because
here's his speech, here are his teachings. Here's what he wanted
me to know. And that should be enough.
And lastly,
he spoke about the sanctity of Muslim blood, and that cannot be
passed over in these times without mentioning the atrocities in
Palestine that are continuing against our Muslim brothers and
sisters. There may Allah grant them victory over the oppressors.
Allah Ameen, we just passed by July 4, a very important holiday,
a very, very important day for us Muslims. It is the anniversary of
the Battle of Hattin in the year 1187,
that was the year that, that was the battle in which Salahuddin
ayubi stood up against the Crusaders and was able to defeat
them in such an epic fashion that it paved the way for the
reconquest of Jerusalem. Three months later, that was on July 4,
1187, we passed by that day. We should commemorate it. We should
be expecting and building and working towards the next Saladin
ayubi, the next Battle of Hattin, whether if it's a physical one or
that's not the point. The point is the mentality of the Muslim ummah
suffers the mentality the communities need Salah dinayubis,
even if they are not physical generals of an army. They have the
mentality that Saladin had when he was asked in many of the victories
leading up to the final reconquest of Jerusalem.
He was asked why you do not celebrate them? Why you not
rejoice with your officers? And he said, Kei fab tasimu o mister Al
Aqsa Asir. How can I smile? And the message of aksha is a prisoner
of war. So even leading up to it, this was his mentality. So we need
more of that. More than anything, we need more of that mentality
that is, this is not an option. This isn't something that I'm okay
with. It is something that I strive towards and work towards
constantly. What can I do then? What can I strive towards? What
can I do? Number one, you can call, you can email, you can
tweet, your local and federal representative that's easily
accessible online, whoever it is in your locale and whoever it is
on the federal level, and then you copy paste. There's so many
messages online that you can simply copy and paste. I am not
okay with this. I stand against it, and as my representative, I
call for you to do the same so you can request suspension of all
material and political aid to the Zionist entity of Israel. They're
not going to listen. They may not say, Okay, thank you, Mohammed.
We'll do that right away. But you did your part. These people
represent you legally, so it's your job to tell them, This is not
what I represent. This is the least that we can do. At least, we
spoke out and made our voices heard sanctions against the
Zionist entity, as well requesting that so long as they continue to
commit these war crimes and crimes against humanity, as requesting
from them to condemn the massacres in Jenin specifically that are
renewed and ongoing now, as well as the ongoing settler programs
and settler expansion in Palestine at large, as well as general
awareness amongst your community, amongst your own family, letting
them know. Why do we care that this is happening? Why is this
land special, that these people are fellow Muslims that mean
something to us, that we hear all these words about our deen and
this camaraderie extends past ethnicity, past blood, past local
This is the least that we can do, amongst other things, do not
forget them in your DUA. Do not forget to pledge as much support
as you can, whether it be financial, it would be emotional.
The least we can do is not leave them to stand alone. The least we
can do is plead to Allah subhanahu on their behalf to grant the
victory. I ask Allah subhanahu to make it so.