Mufti Menk – Ramadan 2022 – Boost #4

			Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh my brothers, my sisters, I've just completed the Umrah here
in Makkah Tomoko Rama. I had come in from Madina Munawwara and I'm going back to Madina, Munawwara
but I intended to make ombre in Ramadan. And so I decided let's take the train, masha Allah, what a
beautiful mode of transport We must thank Allah Almighty for giving us so many different modes of
transport. Man was granted the knowledge to come up with all of this and Subhanallah in two and a
half hours I was from Medina, all the way in the Haram in Makkah, Tomoko Rama, So alhamdulillah and
what I did is just before the time of Iftar, the time of the opening of the fast, I decided to enter
		

			the masjid and start the circumambulation or the aleph. And thereafter we completed the tawaf
mashallah Tabata Kala, in fact, we completed Part of it and it was already time to open the fast
mashallah the ambience, amazing, I tell you something I learned. And I've been reminded of everyone
has their own needs, and each one calls out to Allah and Allah hears each one, uniquely, directly,
completely privately, at the same moment, and Allah responds to a billion people all at once. That
is just amazing. It's a gift of Allah Almighty. So Allah Almighty creates a need in the people then
they call out to him and he hears the call of every single person at the same moment, do you imagine
		

			I'm calling out to Allah crying to him, seeking from him my issues, my problems, seeking
forgiveness, seeking ease in my path, protection, seeking protection from harm from evil, and so on
asking Allah goodness of this world and the hereafter seeking for my children, for my family
members, seeking for everyone else, and Allah Almighty is listening not just to my DUA and
responding to it, but every single person out there, and we saw everyone crying with their own needs
each person in tears asking Allah whatever their unique problems were, I ask Allah to grant each one
of us ease in whatever difficulties we may be facing. And to bless us with the response of our Diaz
		

			of our supplications. Remember, if Allah does not give you exactly what you want, the way you want
it, you are still blessed, because you called out to Allah, He will reward you for it, he will grant
you something else in its place, he will elevate your status as a result of your DUA and the
patience you had to bear because of that dua not being given to you the way you wanted. So it's
given to you in an even better way. Now, everyone's calling out. Where are these people from? I
promise you they are from every part of the world, the East in the West, the North and the South.
And subhanAllah. wherever else you think of there are people in Makkah, Tomoko Rama, in the Holy
		

			Land, from all of those places, the tall and the short, the fat and the thin, whatever it is, Allah
loves all and Allah listens to all and Allah responds to all. Don't think for a moment that you will
not be heard by Allah subhanho wa taala. It's amazing. We had thereafter salatu Maghrib everyone was
passing a date to each other. I didn't have a date in my hand, and I looked down and the brother
gave me a date, mashallah, may Allah reward him, I opened my fast and Subhanallah I decided to make
dua up and at the same time, make a little recording in order to inspire the people who cannot make
it here. Those who cannot afford the trip. And those are the majority of the Muslims on Earth cannot
		

			afford the trip to Makkah and Medina, it's the privileged few who can afford this trip. So it's
important for us to reach out to them, to tell them we're thinking of them. We're praying that Allah
makes it easy for them to come, sometime somehow insha Allah by the will of Allah subhanho wa taala.
And then we had solid Maghrib it commenced we I was in the MATA of meaning in the open courtyard
around the Kaaba, where the tawaf or the circumambulation happens, and mashallah I was right at the
door of the cabin. At that moment, I felt so important. But there are so many 10s of 1000s of people
all feeling equally important. Subhanallah each one believing in that miracle of standing in front
		

			of the door of the Kaaba, the Door of Allah in a nutshell, you're standing in front of this door,
it's a middle tasm between the door and the Blackstone is a multi wisdom, a place where people used
to clean to in order to cry to Allah for their needs. And subhanAllah that is an amazing place.
Right outside there is
		

			the footprint of
		

			The Prophet Abraham May peace be upon him. When I was done with my camera later on, I came back to
this section in order to take a video or two. So some people might say, Oh, why were you videoing
while you were in our life? No, we had completed everything and we came back inside in order to do
the videos. May Allah Almighty grant us goodness, I want to show you my brothers, my sisters, the
footprint of the Prophet Ibrahim alayhis. Salaam. Yes, they've preserved it, they've kept it and
there is it's known as Maqam Ibrahim, there is a gold a small gold structure, a dome like structure
that is there. If you look inside, you will be able to see this footprint. It is reported that that
		

			was a stone that was actually going up and down. Up and down. We're helping Ibrahim and his son is
married May peace be upon them. Take the bricks exactly to where they fitted when they were building
the cabin initially and at the end, in the end. What happened is it it softened in order to create a
footprint. So Ibrahim alayhis salam footprints are there right up to the end of time. But my
brothers and sisters, another point. All of us were in white, the men all in two pieces of cloth. It
was just amazing. It's a mini Hajj. It's a minor pilgrimage. It's an ombre. That's what it is.
		

			There is a narration of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him wherein he says that a person who
fulfills ombre or the minor pilgrimage during Ramadan will have a reward equivalent to Hajj, it
doesn't mean they fulfilled their Hajj, but the reward will be equivalent to having fulfilled a Hajj
Insha Allah we hope that Allah grant that reward to all of us. So those of you who have been
fortunate to do that in Ramadan, good news to you. May Allah bless you and accept it from you, those
of you who have not been able to come May Allah bring you here may Allah grant you may Allah grant
you cure and goodness May Allah fulfill your needs. May Allah grant you ease from your difficulties
		

			and may Allah Almighty give you contentment and ultimately May Allah grant us all genital for those
and thereafter we went to the Saudi, the Saudi which is where the Safa and Marwa happens the the
running between the two mounts that harder May peace be upon her ran the mother of Izmail the wife
of Ibrahim May peace be upon them all. And we went seven rounds Subhan Allah and thereafter we came
back into the Mataf. Like I said, and salata, Tara, we commenced and it was amazing. It was
beautiful, the ambience, millions of people seeking the pleasure of Allah. Everyone wants to get
closer to Allah and guess what each one, Allah gets close to them. It's not like Allah can get close
		

			to one and not to the other. He gets close to everyone at the same time. It is not the one person
who can say Allah is mine alone and not the others. Allah will get close to all of us and Allah
subhanho wa Taala if we get close to him, he has promised every single one of us a unique
relationship with us. So build that relationship. That's what Ramadan is all about. That's what this
boost is all about. It to encourage us to build the relationship with Allah month of Ramadan month
of forgiveness month of the Quran month of fasting month of charity, month of cleansing month of
improving month of changing for the better month of coming out closer to Allah Almighty with a
		

			beautiful day of eat at the end. May Allah grant that to us. Aku Kali hada wa sallahu wa Salam wa
Baraka Island Amina Muhammad