Mufti Menk – Makkah at Night with MuftiMenk

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We are on one of the mountains of

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Makkah

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called Jabal Handama.

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You can see the entire Haram

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behind me and you can see the clock

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tower

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to my right. SubhanAllah.

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This is Makkah.

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In a few days,

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many Hujjaj will be arriving here, and Mashallah,

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in a few weeks, we're going to be

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having the Hajj. The silence that we actually

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have here

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is deafening.

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And SubhanAllah,

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you will notice

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millions of people a stone throw away

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in the Haram. What are they doing? They're

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doing tawaf.

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They're doing, they're drinking zamzam, they're doing sahih

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between safa and marwa, they're worshiping Allah

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and they

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are loudly

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saying, Labbeik Allah, Umma Labbeik.

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We cannot hear a thing. Look at the

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greatness of Allah. We are just a few

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100 meters away or a few kilometers away,

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not even kilometers I think. And we can't

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hear a thing. Yet there are millions of

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people

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who are here right now and are going

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to come. Well,

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possibly 1,000,000 in a few days. But right

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now, there are 1,000. SubhanAllah.

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If we and we were in the Mataaf

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not too long ago, it was quite full.

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SubhanAllah.

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The day we made Umrah was not too

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bad. The next day, it became more and

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more full.

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Remember one thing. If you are going

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to come to Makkah to mukarama,

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make sure that you come soon.

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As soon as you're able and capable to

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come, you're supposed to come to Mecca. Don't

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wait

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and think to yourself, I'm still young. When

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am I? You know, I don't want to

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make Hajj right now. I'm not

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actually, you know, ready for it. If you

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can afford it, you're a Muslim. You're supposed

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to come. Inshallah. What a beautiful place. This

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Haram. It's grown so much. When I was

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young, a little, I remember

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that it was very small, the the haram.

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And at the moment, subhanallah, it's grown humongous.

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Subhanallah, look at this. Just just appreciate this,

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the mount.

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And the if you zoom in a little

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bit to see the,

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the minarats of the Haram, there's still a

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few that are under construction,

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and they've got the buildings at the back,

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Mashallah Tabarakallah.

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I believe there's a new law

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that states that the new buildings

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that are going to be built henceforth in

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Makkah will not go beyond

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the

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height of the minarats that are there. So,

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I don't know if that's authenticated, but I

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heard that. And inshallah, I pray that we

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will be able to see this from a

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distance.

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May Allah

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bring us all here again and again. Ameen.