Muhammad West – Hajj – A Journey to my Lord
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The conversation covers the holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy. The holy month is emphasized, with the importance of finding a excuse for one's brother and the need for people to be present during it. The importance of toilet roll and being present during long periods of time is also discussed, along with the need for Iran to stop attacks on Iran and the importance of practicing the first few words of the previous leaders. The segment ends with a promise to be a united umbilical cord.AI: Transcript ©
In this holy walk of Jumu'ah, we pray
to Allah
that he grants us success in this world,
Ameen.
That he grants us success when we leave
this world,
Ameen. And that Allah
bestow upon us the ultimate success and that
is.
Beloved brothers and sisters in Islam, JAMA'TUL Muslimin.
We find ourselves in the in the auspicious
season of Hajj,
and it is a it is a an
Ibadah.
It is a form of worshiping Allah,
that Allah
had had reserved
to be revealed to the prophet
at
the end of the prophet's life.
And Allah
says, and perform this Hajj and Umrah solely
for the pleasure of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
ta'ala. Whatever we are going to do in
our lives, whether it is salah, whether it
is fasting, whether it is,
tilawat of Quran, vikrullah,
whatever form of worship it may be,
we do it to please Allah and Allah
alone.
It is not for any other reason.
Why?
Understand
that on the day of yawmul qiyama, I
will be presented in front of Allah,
standing in the court of Allah,
and each and everything that I will be
that I have done in this world will
be presented in front of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
All of my salah that I have given,
all of the sadaqahat, all of the smiles
that I gave to the brothers sitting next
to me in the masjid, every single good
thing will be presented on the day of
Yom Al Qiyamah.
But simultaneously,
at the same time, every bad thing that
I did will also be presented.
May Allah grant that the little bad things
that we do must be even less. Ameen.
So these two things will be in the
balance.
1 one such thing that will be in
that balance will be our Hajj.
And we live our entire lives
saving money towards this Hajj.
We exert
ourselves
50 rand, 20 rand, 100 rand, 200 rand.
We put away. For one day, we will
go for Hajj Amin.
So I was asked to speak about Hajj
because Insha'Allah, I will be leaving for Hajj
on Sunday. Amin, Insha'Allah.
So this is a long legacy
within Islam of the performance of Hajj,
and we perform this Hajj to the best
of our ability,
in accordance with the commandment of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
And from the 17 and the 1800, we
find that people have been leaving our our
our our shores to perform this Hajj.
And with this Hajj in Cape Town, there
comes a certain culture.
A culture that in the back of our
minds, we may think embryonicly that there is
no
for it. There's no origin for what the
Cape Town people do.
Is off the off off the table. Okay?
Alright?
On a Sunday is on a Sunday.
Alright? That is just the practice of of
the people of Cape Town.
However,
there are certain things when it comes to
the Hajj
that there is an asl for.
There are certain things within Cape Town that
are there are certain
traditional and cultural practices that we perform
that we might think,
It is not.
An example of this is the Hajjis that
fetches the girl on the night of her
marital night.
So we had the nikah in the morning
in the masjid, then we had the girl
reception, then we had the boy reception, and
now we have the late reception, and all
of these various receptions.
And then
the the the Hajis within the community
goes to fetch that girl to now take
her to the husband's home.
And we think, what tradition is this?
And then to top it off, they bring
a little dead animal and they hang it
over her shoulders.
The fur. Right?
What if I had to tell you that
this is found in the hadith that comes
in the sahi of Imam al Bukhari? That
at the time in Umul mumineen Aisha
when she had married married Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam, she did did did not go and
live by him. Then when she came of
the age when her menses had now now
now sits it on, and she's now considered
a woman in Islam,
The the senior ladies of Madinah,
the senior ladies at that time goes to
the house of Aisha
They make her body more curvaceous,
exuberating
the curves as how a woman's body would
be curvaceous
because she's a young woman that had now
just entered into womanhood.
And then these ladies would take her to
the house of our Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Is this not exactly what our people have
done all these years?
Yes. The the the addition of the fur
over the shoulders of the girl and salawat
being made at the time when taking out,
that can be discussed, but there is a
practice for our people.
They were
They
were accepted people by Allah
And unfortunately,
at times, we find in the wild, wild
west, we want to shoot everything down.
Diaz bida and Diaz haram and Diaz kufrin.
We we find all of these things,
But isn't it best as how Imam
Imam Ibn Al Qayim says,
find an excuse for your brother even if
his beard is completely drenched in wine.
Amen.
Even if his beard is completely soaked and
drenched in wine, still find an excuse for
him.
Is this not the the the the the
manner in which we should conduct ourselves?
Is this not the manner in which we
should approach
certain situations?
So you put your hands here, you put
your hands here, you put your hands here.
Is that a reason for fighting and bickering
now?
Is that the reason for disunity and discontent
with one another?
No.
So there are, at times, maybe not 100%
square in square, maybe circle in square. So
the 4 little triangles at the corner, we
let it be.
And this is an example of that.
In Cape Town, there's the tradition of the
Un Paqareh.
We all know this.
Right? And it is a tradition that has
been coming on for long. What if I
had to tell you that at the time
of Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, the Un Pakiry, maybe not
100%.
The Maafra'i,
maybe not 100%.
They're going to inform people that I'm going
for Hajj, maybe not 100%,
is to be found in the sunnah of
Rasulullah
when Abu Bakr as Siddiq radiAllahu ta'anhu comes
to Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So understand
that Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam performs an
Umrah.
And in that Umra, the Quraysh stops him
at Hudaybiyyah,
and they say, Muhammad Hatra,
come back next year.
Come back next year, and this is called
Umrahatul Qadar.
The Umrah that needed to be made up
because now the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
stopped at Tawhidhaybiyah.
They all are in iharam, and they need
to go back home. They can't perform Umrah
this year.
Stringent,
strict policies was placed upon Rasulullah, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam and the Muslims.
And now this treaty gets signed, the Treaty
of Hudaybiyyah. The prophet accepts it.
And he goes back to Madinah, he performs
the the Umrah the next year. So performed
multiple Umrah's in his life.
That is wrong.
Hajj.
Abu Bakr
goes to the prophet
Hajj had just now been been made compulsory
upon the ummah. Rasulullah
does not perform Hajj that year, but rather
he would perform Hajj the next year. What
does Abu Bakr do? He goes to greet
Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Just as how your brother and your sister
and your mother and your father goes around
greeting the people, inshallah, if Allah allows, we're
going to go for Hajj. Abu Bakr did
the exact same thing.
And it is there that Nabi
makes Abu Bakr as Sadiq Radhiyallayn
Amirul Hajj,
the leader of Hajj on that year.
That year, Rasulullah Sallallahu alaihiallayn makes Abu Bakr
the amir to perform the Hajj to lead
the people in Hajj. The following year, Rasulullah
goes for Hajj. Now understand,
there's context for these things.
The Hajj is not dependent
upon you going to ask Maaf,
or you're going to have an pakare,
but there's baraka in these things.
I can remember as a child, 5, 6
years old, the first person I I recall
going for Hajj was my granny.
She was the 1st Hajj to go for
Hajj in a plane. This was when the
boats came to an end. Thereafter, it was
my aunt.
And we are standing at her home the
night before she leaves or few nights before
she leaves.
And as a child, I'm given this toilet
roll.
But there's something special about this toilet roll.
The inside carton of the toilet roll has
been removed.
And I'm given this toilet roll and and
I'm told to to hold on to it.
So my my grandparents were from the Aches
in in Goodwood, and then they were kicked
out, and then they ended
up in Pointeville and in Alsace River.
And,
they had this very long hang in the
middle of the house.
So all the people are standing down this
on the one side of the wall, and
I'm given this toilet roll and I'm standing
there and I'm thinking, oh, there must be
something special about this toilet roll. Because all
the small ones is given a toilet roll
and it goes up and then it's a
salah top and then it's a dukki and
then so I've
and I stood there and I had absolutely
no idea.
And then my mom comes to me, because
I was somewhat of an inquisitive child, and
she says, Buddha,
you're going to put this in at the
Asa's bag,
and then you're going to say Bismillah.
And as you put it in, you make
dua and you ask Allah
to bless her journey.
That's all. Who
of us do not want a blessed journey
when we go for Hajj?
Is it not? And for a for a
child such as myself standing there, I have
no idea what contribution this toilet roll is
going to make to the blessed journey, but
we do understand what happens when you don't
have toilet roll.
But, nevertheless, in that moment, that toilet roll
was the most important thing in my life
and in my aunt's life, and my mom
telling me, say Bismillah.
And there is no certain there is no
clear a thought for these things, but there
is a thought of Dua.
Of dua. Dua is the very essence of
Ibad. It is the bedrock upon which Ibad
is built. So when we go and we
give that, please don't give 10 rands, love
it.
Please don't give 10 rands, love it.
A 100 rand,
Say, I mean.
Amen.
That's love that we give
is in it is symbolic of when people
for months prior would contribute because they knew
one person
in the entire community
is going to go for Hajj.
It is a major thing. Now it is
very simple.
I phone an agent. He books my ticket.
I pay his money. I get on the
plane. Off I go.
So simple.
Back then,
this enpakre is the culmination,
the coming together, the conclusion
of what?
Of years of strife, of years of struggle,
of years of saving up. Through what?
1, through colonialism, being able to
phone an agent, he books my ticket, and
off I go. Being able to phone an
agent. He books my ticket and off I
go.
Last year, a friend of mine goes to
Hajj,
and he's originally from
Durban. So his mom comes down,
and his mom was shocked
because he has embraced
His mother was shocked.
So many people coming to visit him.
So many duas that he received,
and that's what we want. Yes, Najee can
do with the salah, but
the dollar to rand is very bad.
But more important than the Slav, it is
the Dua.
More important than
my own notion of things is that I
be present.
Let us leave the Ikhtila for now, and
we can discuss that in a different state
setting. We can discuss whether or not it
is the ideal thing to be done or
not, but what I can tell you is
that mother said this is beautiful.
She told her son, we don't have this
in Durban. What do you have in Durban?
The guy picks up the phone. He says,
bye, sir. I'm going for Ummara.
Done.
Where does he make this call? On the
airport.
This is him phoning his brother.
Look at what we have.
Families coming together.
The prophet says,
connect the ties
with those people that cut ties with you.
You maybe didn't speak to your brother for
10 years.
Remember, brothers, you're only allowed to be angry
with each other for 3 days.
So when the jamaat tabli says who's ready
for 3 days.
But now we find people are angry with
each other for 10 years. They don't speak
for 10 years
for a small insignificant
thing. The Prophet
mentions one day he's walking past a Kabr.
He's walking past a grave,
and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam stops
and he says these two people are being
punished for things that are insignificant.
Small things, things that you and I, we
just shrug it off. And the Sahaba inquired,
what what are these two things?
Says,
This person was negligent when it came to
the najis. What nudges? When he goes to
toilet, he don't care if it splash or
whatever. He don't make his stingray. He don't
clean himself properly.
He was. How many times do we find
people walking into the bathroom and then you
see here's a Buddha standing by urinal?
It does think.
We deem something to be insignificant.
Yet
cleanliness is half of your iman,
and the other,
namima.
So what is namima?
Namima is I go to the brother. Yeah.
I tell the brother, do you know? Abdul
Haman said this about you.
Then I go to Abdul Haman and say,
hey. You know? Mohammed said this and this
about you.
No
clip.
That's Namima.
Things that we take for granted.
Things that we never ever
go and verify. Abdulrahman, did you actually say
this? I also just heard something from someone
somewhere along.
And then at the end of it, we
say,
But the consequence
of that, Namima,
the consequence of that is now brothers are
fighting one another, and they are angry for
10 years.
That anger comes to an end the day
one brother goes to knock at the door
of another and says, Insha'Allah, I'm going for
Hajj.
Indirectly,
a tradition of Cape Town brings an end
to animosity like that. What happens thereafter, whether
the brothers forgive or not, that is in
their the ball is in their court for
them to decide
for them to decide, what do I do
from here? Now the families come together.
The Ummah in today's time is completely split
apart.
As a dream Muslims, this is at 2
Jamaats.
Why is this?
Everyone wants to march for Palestine.
Are we willing to die
for
Palestine? It's easy to update my WhatsApp status.
It's easy to highlight
what is happening in Rafah.
But am I willing to set aside
a small difference on this side for something
much greater on the other?
We we we claim to be a people
that are post apartheid.
We claim to be a people
that
we have been enlightened.
We woke.
We are now we are free thinking. We
are progressive.
We are liberal.
But yet in that liberalism
and every other ism that you find today,
the still remains
disunited.
They the United States of America
needs Iran in the Middle East.
Because as long as Iran exists in the
Middle East, there will always be this friction.
That's why they never attack them.
No, you Sunni. No, you Shia. No, you
Salafi. No, you Sufi. No, you Dubandi. No,
you Bralvi.
What about
know you Muslim? No you Muslim?
And, yes, there is a broader discussion regarding
Sunni and Shia.
But a simple practice in Cape Town brought
families
together.
Today, we have all of these isms, and
we are we are even more more apart
from one another than ever before.
Hajj
is a journey to Allah.
And the difference between Hajj
and death,
the one you return.
The one our is going to leave our
shores, and they're going to go to Makkah
for Hajj. And we pray that Allah
and Hajj.
What is a Hajj?
That's a Hajmabun.
Hajmabun is an accepted Hajj. So everyone gonna
say,
This is a Hajj Mubarak.
Nabi
Saleh Selim highlights 3 criteria
for a Hajj
The * needs to have these three things
in order to have that Hajj Ma Brur.
Tibul Kalam,
pure
speech, good speech, kind speech.
The one person is from Pakistan. The one
person is from Pakistan. The other one is
from India. The other one is from China.
The other one is from Japan, but everyone
knows.
No one knows who far. That's just for
us.
Having good speech with one another.
And greeting one another. Increase your greeting. The
person standing in the luff, you get into
the luff, Asalaamu alaykum, wa rhammatullah.
The person that gives you your food that
you bought, Assalamu Alaikum.
Increase your salaams
to one another.
And number 3,
Itaamuqta'am,
to feed the people.
When you feed the people, something happens
there. These three things
grants the Hajji a Hajj Ma Baroor.
But why is Hajj Ma Baroor important?
The prophet
says, the Hajj Mubarak,
there's no reward for it
except paradise.
So, 1, the Hajj is going to leave,
and they're going to perform the of the
Hajj and perform the Hajj and
the Umrah and all of these things that
needs to be done in this final ritual.
And some of them are going to return
back home,
and others are going to die.
And you and I are everyday
on our journey of Hajj.
In what form?
Every
day, just as how the Hajji goes to
Arafa,
to go and return to Allah,
to return to that final obedience of Allah,
that final Ibadah to Allah. He's made salah
his entire life. He has fasted every man,
every Ramadan his entire life. He reads
of Quran, and he makes the and all
of these things. Now he performs that last
action,
his Hajj.
And then he then he lives the the
rest of his life until the day that
he dies.
And the same for us.
Every day that passes, we are going closer
traveling closer and closer to Allah.
And we may never get to perform Hajj,
but look at the life of Nabi's Lawson.
He performs his Hajj.
He then comes back home.
He lives a few more months thereafter,
and then we find the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam on his deathbed.
And he's lying in the lap of Aisha
radiAllahu anha, and the blessed head of Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he he lifts it from her, from her
lap.
And Saidina Ali is standing and he sees
the siwak,
the miss work in the top pocket of
Saidina Ali.
And he looks towards it because
oral hygiene,
your Nabi was concerned about hygiene.
And Rasul salallahu alaihi wa sallam looks towards
it. Saidina Aisha understands it. She gestures for
Saidina Ali to give her the siwak. She
places she places the siwak in her mouth.
She choose it soft, and now she makes
it work for Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
A knock comes at the door of Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam's home. His daughter Fatima Radiallahu
Alaihi wa sallam stands up. She goes to
the door. There's a man at the door
that she does not recognize.
The man asks for an audience, and Sayedina
Fatima replies, and she says, my father is
not well at the moment.
Come back a bit later, and maybe he'll
be able to give you an audience.
The man leaves, Saidina Faltima enters back into
the room where her father is lying, sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
He calls Anir and he says, who's at
the door?
She says, it's a man I've never seen
before.
And he says, come closer.
She bends down in front of Rasulullah
and
Rasulullah whispers something in her ear.
As Rasulullah
whispers this into her ear, she bursts into
tears.
And as she's lifting her head from her
from the blessed mouth of Rasulullah,
Rasulullah
gestures for her to come near again.
And again, he whispers something in her ear.
And this time when she lifts her head,
everyone in the room sees her face is
elated and she's smiling.
Afterwards,
her husband Ali said in Aisha
They would ask her, what did Nabi Israel
Salam say at that time?
She says, the first time when I came
in, my father called me near, and he
told me the man that you do not
recognize
is Malekul Mote.
And I burst into tears because I realized
my father is going to depart from this
dunya.
Makes sense.
But why was she elated?
Why was Selina Aisha so happy?
She says, the second time he whispered in
my ear, he said I would be the
first of his family to join him after
his death, and this made me happy.
She was sad to be
detached from her father, salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
How detached are you and I from him,
salallahu alaihi.
Today,
we ridicule the sunnah of Rasoolullah
by saying these words, and I warn you.
We ridicule the life of
Rasulullah by saying this.
Be warned brothers.
Say to them, Mohammed.
If they claim to love Allah,
which we all do.
Then follow me. Who's the me?
Him And what happens?
Allah will love you for that.
And he will forgive you your sins.
It's not just
a sunnah.
Her heart was broken
just at the idea
of being separated from Rasulullah SAW. Yes.
Separated from a father.
Yes,
separated from a loved one, but yes, separated
from her nabi.
And he's our Nabi.
What happens then?
What happens then is that Rasulullah salallahu alaihi
wa sallam is lying there. Jibril Alaihi Salaam
appears before us or Malik al Mote appears
before Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and Malik al
Mote asked the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam or
Mohammed,
do you wish to continue living or do
you wish to die? And said in Aisha
Radi Alaihi would respond, and she would say
in the hadith that at that time, she
knew that Rasulullah salaam was being asked by
Malik al Maude if he wish to continue
living or die, and his response was
To the highest companion, to the highest companion,
to the highest companion, and that is Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And in that moment, I
shrieked, I shouted
because I realized Muhammad is now busy dying.
And you and Malik El Maut is now
taking the soul of Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa
sallam, and as that soul is taken, Rasulullah
alaihi wa sallam says,
sakarat.
Indeed in death, there's agony in pain in
death.
And Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam now starts
and sisters in Islam,
my seniors, my elders, Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam says 2 important things.
If you never go for Hajj,
remember these two things. Practice upon these two
things, and you will attain Jannah Ami.
Firstly,
The
first thing that Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
reminds the Ummah in this moment when he
dies,
perform the salah.
Perform the salah. Look after the salah. Establish
the salah. Maintain the salah. It is the
first thing that the Ummah has left.
We are all here for Jum'ah.
What's gonna happen at Asr time?
A salah.
It has come unto salah.
Let us hold firm on salah. You have
money problems? Salah.
You have wife problems? Salah. You have wives
problems?
Salah.
Mo Salah.
Any problem you have, place it in front
of Allah in salah, and Allah will will
solve those problems for you.
He just needs a tear from you. In
your sujood, in the middle of the night,
the wife is sleeping, no problem. Yahweh, help
me with her.
Cry, and he will solve those problems.
Children,
umma, money,
any job, unemployment,
anything, our country, salah.
Just make salah.
And what was his last concern?
Rasool salawaslam's last concern was this,
You Allah.
You Allah.
Oh Allah, my people.
O Allah,
my people.
I ask you, who is that Ummah?
Is it not us?
Is it not you?
Are you not his Ummah?
If the Ummah stays together
as how the people of Bukhab, and Clermont,
and Constancy,
and everywhere else in the Cape, as how
they had stayed together
350 years, 400 years from now, we will
still say,
But if this Ummah is going to split
up and fragment into small pieces on account
of small differences
in tradition or in culture, the result of
this is going to be that 400 years
from now, there will be no Kalima Red
Deer.
Forget 400 years, brothers. What about 40 years
from now?
Our children are LGBTQ
ing out there.
Our children are losing themselves.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's last words
in this world. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam's first words on the day of yomul
qiyamah. When every nabi is his his ummah
is coming to him. The people of Nabi
Adam and the people of Nabi Nu and
the people of Nabi Ibrahim, all of their
people coming to them, asking them intercede for
us by Allah. Ask Allah to give us
mask. Ask Allah to forgive us.
This is our Hajj.
On that day, Nabi
Musa
will say, nafsi nafsi. Adam will say nafsi
nafsi. Ibrahim will say nafsi nafsi. Muhammad
is going to be in sujood in front
of Allah, and he's going to say,
His last words in this world, his first
words on the day of Qiyamah,
the only other words on the day of
Qiyamah
will be us. May Allah
grant us to feek and understanding.
Forgive us for our shortcomings. May Allah
grant us to be a united Ummah, an
Ummah that sets aside all of our differences.
Those things that we can agree upon, that
we stick to those things, those things that
we disagree upon, it is be amical about
it, respectful about it.
May
Allah grant our community to remain steadfast upon
this.
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