Mufti Menk – Dhul Hijjah – Two Years of Sins Wiped Out
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The speaker discusses the importance of the day of Dia fe in Islam, and how it is the most sacred day of the year for Muslims. The speaker explains that Islam has taught them to fast on the day of Dia fe for those who are not in Hajj, and that they should do what please Allah during these days. They also mention that the day of Dia fe is the most beautiful day of the year for Muslims.
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My brothers, my sisters, I'm going to continue
from where I left off. We were saying
the days are not all the same in
terms of virtue in the eyes of Allah,
nor are the nights.
The months are not the same. So if
you were to be asked, which is the
most sacred of all months? The answer is
Ramadan.
If you were to be asked, which is
the most blessed of all the nights? The
answer is the night of qadr, the night
of power or decree.
If you were to be asked which is
the best day of the year
as Muslims, what do we believe? Well, the
day, the best day is the day of
Arafa without a doubt.
If you were to be asked
which nights are the best in terms of
a set of 10 nights, you would say
the last 10 nights of Ramadan.
If you were to be asked which
days are the best 10 days in the
year? You would have to say the first
10 days of Dhul Hijjah.
Now, where do we get this from? We
get it from the Hadith of Ibn Abbas
where he speaks about what the prophet said.
He says,
There are no days
wherein which
good deeds are more loved by Allah except
or than the first 10 days of Dhul
Hijjah.
There are no days
besides these 10, wherein Allah loves good deeds
more.
So this would mean do as many good
deeds as you can during the day. Which
days? These 10 days of Dhul Hijjah.
Now this is something amazing because the prophet
has
taught us about these 10 days. In fact,
Allah
mentions their virtue in a certain way in
the Quran.
If you look at the oaths that are
taken by Allah Almighty,
he doesn't take an oath
except by that which is extremely important that
he wants to highlight something about it.
And only Allah is allowed to take an
oath with those things.
As for us, we're not allowed to take
an oath except by Allah.
Whoever is going to take an oath should
only take an oath by Allah. It is
prohibited to take an oath by your mother,
your son, your father, whoever else it may
be haram. You should not do that. You
know, some people take an oath on their
father or their son or child etcetera. That's
not allowed. The prophet says
Don't take an oath on your fathers.
If you're going to take an oath, take
it on Allah with the name of Allah.
No one else's name. As for Allah, he
can take an oath on what he wishes
because he is the creator.
So he has taken an oath
on so many things or with so many
things. One of them he says in Surah
Al Fajr,
he swears by daybreak, he swears by the
Fajr.
The oath, he takes an oath and he
says,
he swears by the 10 days. 10 days
of what? Go back to the what the
Sahaba have said, what the mufasirreen
and translators and,
experts of
revelation have said, they've all said they are
the 10 days of Dhul Hijjah. Allah is
taking an oath by them. He hasn't even
taken an oath by Ramadan,
but he's taken an oath here by the
10 days of Dhul Hijjah. So this goes
to show that there are no days
wherein which Allah loves good deeds
more than these 10 days of Dhul Hijjah.
Don't confuse Ramadan. I told you earlier, Ramadan,
the nights
are powerful.
Dhul Hijjah, the days are extremely powerful.
Okay. Allah loves them. Why Allah loves them
is a topic on its own
and at times we know at times we
don't know, but Allah wants you to engage
in worship. It's a season. It is depicting
the life of Ibrahim
who was the most loved unto Allah.
So remember that Allah wants you to do
things that he did in order to understand
the lesson from it and to gain piety
and closeness to Allah as a result.
And this is why
the best
of the days is the day of Arafah
and it is a sunnah to fast on
that day, the day of Arafah for those
who are not in Hajj. And on that
day, if you were to fast, you will
get a reward
or you will get an reward of
the sins, the minor sins of the current
year, as well as the next year
wiped out.
Minor sins wiped out of the current year
and the coming year. So that's 2 years
of sins wiped out. By doing what? By
fasting on the day of Arafa for a
person who's not in Hajj. If you're in
Hajj, it's not a sunnah. You shouldn't fast
on the day of Arafah. But if you're
not in Hajj, you should try that. The
9th of Dhul Hijjah, wherever you are, the
9th of Dhul Hijjah is the day of
Arafah. May Allah grant us the ability to
fast on that day and may Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala accept it from us. Let's make
an intention from now and let's understand
we definitely need to do what would please
Allah during these days. May Allah bless you
all.