Mufti Menk – Dhul Hijjah – The Great Sacrifice
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The segment discusses the history and significance of the Islam-led peace movement, including the sacrification of the prophetship for his son's death and the announcement of the busier time for prayer. The segment also emphasizes the importance of removing negative emotions and drinking alcohol to achieve peace. The segment ends with a call to action for listeners to take action and learn more about the movement.AI: Transcript ©
My beloved brothers and sisters,
you look at the sacrifice of the prophet
Ibrahim, alaihis salam.
He left his family, as we mentioned in
an earlier episode in Makkah,
barren land, nothing to eat or drink, Allah
provided for them. But they made an effort
Hajar alaihassalatu
wasalam, she actually,
ran from Safa to Marwa and so on.
And mashallah, the water gushed out by the
will of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Later on,
they built the Kaaba. Allah said, you announce
the pilgrimage
and people will come. Don't worry, we will
granted acceptance. From this we learn when you
do something for the pleasure of Allah,
when you know this is correct, it's upright,
it's calling towards the oneness of Allah. It's
calling towards following the practice of the prophet
Muhammad, peace be upon him, doing what's right.
You don't need to worry about what people
think of you or how they react to
you. You need to worry about whether it
was right or wrong in the eyes of
Allah. The rest will be done by Allah.
At that particular time, there was no one
to announce that pilgrimage to. And who what
did he do? He still announced it. Guess
what? We heard it today. It was relayed
to us through the generations and the prophet
Muhammad peace be upon him related to us.
And it's become compulsory and obligatory for those
who are able and capable to go for
the Hajj at least once in their lifetimes
as Muslims
so that they can reenact
what prophet Ibrahim alaihis salam did and learn
the lessons and change their lives.
He sacrificed for the sake of Allah.
Beyond that, my brothers, my sisters, he saw
a
dream and that dream
he saw that he was sacrificing
his own son. According to the Islamic
revelation,
according to what we believe,
it was the son Ishmael. May peace be
on him.
So he told his son, I saw a
dream that I was sacrificing you. The son
says, well then do as you're told. Because
for a prophet, a dream is actually an
instruction.
So SubhanAllah,
he
went forth and Shaytan came to him on
more than one occasion
and tried to distract him. You can't follow
Allah's instruction. It's going to be dangerous for
you. It's going to be harmful. You're going
to cause harm. You're going to do this.
You're going to do that. Now, this was
a prophet.
We cannot just see a dream and start
doing as we've dreamt. No. For us, a
dream cannot be an instruction that was not
already ordained by Allah,
nor can it be a prohibition that was
already prohibited by Allah. We cannot bring about
religion through a dream you and I are
going to see now,
But for a prophet of Allah, may peace
be upon them all, dreams had different meanings.
And this is why they relayed them to
their people.
The prophet Ibrahim Alaihi Salam related to his
son. The son was ready.
He pelted Shaytan on 3 occasions. Notice when
people go for Hajj, they pelt shaitaan also
on 3 occasions, and they repeat it for
a few days. The idea is to become
conscious of the plot of the devil in
your life.
And when a stone is being thrown towards
where the jamra is, shaitan is not physically
there. But what is within you in terms
of weakness should be taken out. So when
it comes to the days of Hajj, remove
jealousy.
Number 1. 1,
pebble pelting
the jealousy out.
Remove your hatred.
Remove your envy.
Remove your love of material items.
Remove your
competing with everyone in materialistic
things.
Remove your greed and so on. Remove your
anger.
Remove your
bad habit of * or gambling, whatever it
may be. So that is a sacrifice.
That is what you're supposed to be doing.
Be conscious of it even if you you
have not been for the Hajj. But try
and become conscious of this plot of shaitan.
Read about Hajj. Read about what's supposed to
be happening in the Hajj, like some of
what I've told you
now. But because of all of that, Allah
loved it
so much. When he ultimately
got to his son
and they took the son ready to fulfill
the instruction of Allah,
Allah replaced
that son with a ram
from Jannah.
How? Allah knows.
It was Allah says,
Allah says
a massive, major, huge sacrifice.
Allah
has replaced
this
person, meaning the child with a ram. Subhanallah,
Subhanallah.
And Allah says,
Indeed, we called him. We said, Oh Ibrahim,
you have indeed fulfilled what you've seen in
your dream.
You are a friend of ours. Allah says,
watakhadallahuibarrahimakhaleena
Allah has taken Ibrahim as a khalil,
as a close friend. So when you sacrifice
for the sake of Allah, you will always
become closer to Allah.
What are you ready to sacrifice, my brothers
and sisters?
You're ready to cut off your bad habits?
Your jealousy, your envy, your greed, your malice,
your
addiction to * or drugs
or belittling others. You know, whatever else it
may be being a big show off. That's
also sinful. May Allah protect us. Are you
ready to sacrifice? If you are,
Allah will provide for you. Allah will grant
you great acceptance.
Let's continue with more lessons in the next
episode. Until then,
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