Munir Ahmed – Hajj Virtues and other issues
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The importance of hesitation and staying away from things is emphasized, along with the need to have a strong opinion and avoid damaging people. The use of opinion and words like "verbal" and "anything that is negative" is also emphasized. The importance of cleanliness and drugs is also emphasized, along with the need to pray with intention and avoid suicide. The importance of cleanliness and drugs is also emphasized, along with the need to avoid harming people. The H bubble is increasing the number of people who clean and the filth is leaking.
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In the name of Allah,
as we
mention the name of Allah,
surely all praise and gratitude belong to Allah
And we praise him. We thank him. We
seek his forgiveness, guidance, and his mercy.
We seek refuge in Allah
from the bad insiders as we seek his
refuge and protection from our bad deeds.
Know then one who is guided by Allah,
they are truly guided.
One who is left to go astray will
not find a guide or a protector or
a helper after that. I bear witness that
there is no god but Allah, glory be
to him. He has no partners.
And I bear witness that Muhammad, peace and
blessings of Allah be upon him, is his
slave and messenger.
Brothers and
sisters, firstly, I wasn't meant to be standing
here today.
Actually, Sheikh Hassan, who was supposed to do
the hookah today
is ill. May Allah give him.
It's a whole number. It's a whole number.
That's that's why I'm going with the roof.
Firstly, we have
a blue box all parts on the road
corner on the double yellow. Right in the
corner, It's creating problems. People nearly had to
crash.
FL 23 NJD.
Next, we have
HX16
GRU.
It's blocking 2 driveways.
Then we've got a blue Peugeot LD 11BLT,
a black Toyota Y070
HDE,
both blocking driveways. I've been in the complaint.
I'm just waiting for the registration to come
through now. Two cars. I've not got the
details yet.
2 cars have been hit by a car
that hasn't stopped. We've got its registration and
a picture of it.
So let me find out which 2 cars
have been hit. It's a gray car and
a blue car I've been told. I've not
been able to look yet because I've had
all the other complaints.
Okay.
Then they say doctor Munir carries on and
makes his Honda buzz long. Well,
most
some of the buzz been taken over, but
we seem to be increasing in number, don't
we, in the number of cars? I don't
know what's wrong with us.
Well, actually, I do know what's wrong with
us.
Sheikh Hassan, may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give
him Shifa. So
sadly for me, I got a call 10:30,
11 o'clock.
My head's spinning that,
luckily, fortunately, the other Hotaba
did not answer their phones.
Very clever and very wise.
Actually, I tried not to answer mine as
well, but I felt guilty and rang back.
So here I am.
So you must think I've taken you back
in time.
Had season already gone? What is he on
about? Well, I came back from that, so
I have to share some things with
you. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says in the
Quran,
the first house place of worship
in the Awalabayti in Wuriya Al Inaz
for the worship of Allah alone for human
beings. Bibaka
at Makkah,
meaning the Kaaba. Masjidul Haram.
Full of blessings and a guidance
for the whole of humanity.
In it are clear
signs including
the station the place where Ibrahim stood alaihis
salam
And whoever enters into this place
should find security.
This is a place of security.
Yeah. That's what it means. Security.
Should find security.
And
it is an obligation
for people meaning for believers here and us
here to do Hajj
to this place
pilgrimage
for those who are able to
make their way and get there
and carry out
the Hajj. Minister.
All that is covered in minister.
Waman kafara, whoever rejects and disbelieves
because Hajj is not for them.
For surely Allah
is above all need from all of His
creatures doesn't need them.
And complete the Hajj and Umrah Allah is
ordaining ordering
for Allah
for the sake of Allah
Whoever is prevented from proceeding, I'm an offsetum,
then
they should sacrifice
whatever is affordable from an animal.
Details behind that, no time to go into
today. These ayaat made the obligation of Hajj.
The most popular and strongest opinion that they
were,
Ayat and obligation Hajj came in the 6th
year of Hejrat.
There's some difference of opinion, and hence there's
other differences.
The Prophet
said, fi Hadith alallirahu
albuhari a Muslim
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi wa sallam Oh people Hajj,
Allah has ordained and made Hajj obligatory for
you so do the Hajj.
So one of the Sahaba and another had
he mentions the way it is, Al Aqra
and the Harbis.
He said every year oh messenger of Allah
Prophet SAW stayed quiet and ignored him.
So he kept on repeating it until he
said it 3 times and the Prophet SAW
said
had I said yes to your question, it
would have become obligatory every year and you
would not been able to bear it and
do it.
So leave me alone. When I leave you
alone
and tell you to do something, just go
and do it
because
the people before you
believers before you were destroyed
for no other reason
except for excessive questioning
and then disagreeing with the prophets
because they didn't like the answers that they
gave them with their excessive questioning in other
words.
So when I tell you and order you
to do something, then do it as much
as you are able to. And when I
tell you to leave and stay away from
something,
then stay away from it
then stay away from it.
So Hajj became obligatory
and ulama differed. Is it and I mentioned
this because it's important as we encourage you
to go to Hajj.
Is it al alfa'l al tarahi? Is it
become obligatory
when you've got the means and
the visa and the health to be able
to go and do it? Does it become
immediately?
Well, most of the scholars went for that
actually. Malikiya, Hanabula,
Abu Hanifa,
Abu Yusuf from the Hanafiah.
They went with this opinion, then it became
obligatory immediately upon you, whatever age you are.
Soon as you can, you should do it.
And majority of, well, all the Hadith that
are used in this regard,
Hadith like do Hajj before you end up
in
trip difficulties or you face some kind of
calamity or illness, or the one who is
able to do Hajj and doesn't do it
dies the death
of being
a a a Jew or a Christian. All
these hadith are weak or very weak, so
they cannot be used as evidence.
But it is the opinion. So if you
follow those schools, that's fine. It's interesting.
Shafi'iha
and from Hanafi'ah,
Muhammad ibn Hasan al Shaybani,
Al Auzai,
and Sufianna Thawri from the Salaf, they had
the opinion that Hajj is to be done
later on.
They said that the prophet
Hajj becomes obligatory in 6th hijra.
Abu Bakr
leads the Hajj in 9th Hijra, and the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam does it in
10th Hijra only a few months before he
passed away.
And that is the evidence for delaying it.
Anyhow, whichever you do, I encourage you to
do it. When we say delay what I
would say
is
don't leave it till we become old and
decrepit
walking with a walking stick needing a wheelchair.
Yeah, almost collapsing
because actually Hajj is not obligatory on you
then
There's no Istuta
even if you have the money and the
means.
We have this wrong concept.
So do
it. I believe the best opinion, do it
later.
That's the strongest opinion in my opinion,
but you can follow the other opinions. But
even if you do delay,
not to that extent
that you're walking and collapsing.
Right or in a wheelchair.
Yeah. And what I saw on the faces
of those in those conditions
is not smile and happiness, but suffering.
And I'll come back to that point later.
So
do it, but not so much. And doing
it young,
well, actually,
do it. That's fine.
If you want to do it young, nobody
can stop you because that's the opinion of
those if you're able to. Yeah. Unable to,
nevertheless,
there is no evidence that we have to
actually save Fahaj.
If the if the money is available, we've
got this. But when I say that, there's
no evidence that it's an obligation for me
to put some money aside every month for
Hajj.
There's no evidence. But if I'm able to
spend
1,000 every year going on holiday,
especially in our communities and in this country,
it's a tradition, isn't it? But I don't
have money
to do the Hajj, then I need to
question myself.
Don't I? That's the other side of it.
Doing it young, I think there's indication
in other hadith as well where the prophet
said,
yeah, manhadjihadif
Muslim
manhadj
doesn't dull any ruffas in it which is
lewd behavior
lewd behavior.
Yeah.
And doesn't sin,
behave badly,
returns,
as though returns as though the day his
mother has his or her mother has given
them birth,
meaning sins are cleansed.
You don't wanna come back too early in
that state in your teenage years, do you?
Because now you start for the rest of
your life building sins again.
And that is an indication
that you've lived a bit of a life
and all of us are committing sins.
Yeah. So it's an opportunity for all those
sin to be wiped away. So if I've
just started out in my teenage years in
my life.
Yeah,
despite
be having the ability to do Hajj, there's
an indication there that it's a bit later
on.
Yeah. Of course not meaning that you know
go out of your way mounting lots of
sins
waiting for Hajj, then I'll remove them away.
You don't play tricks with Allah.
Glory between him, of course.
Yeah. And
the hadith
in regards to the Fadeel and virtue of
Hajj, there are many and the authentic ones.
In Bukhari Muslim, Abu Hurairah says
that,
which is the best and most virtuous of
these? The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam asked
to
believe in Allah and His Messenger.
It was said then which one after that?
And here Jihad means
going out, defend, putting your life and wealth
at risk
in the way of Allah subhanahu wa'ala, fighting
in the way of Allah subhanahu wa'ala.
It was said
then after that what?
Hajj.
The Hajj which is.
Imam Nawi said
means that which doesn't have sin in it.
Yeah. Indicating from the other hadith. Yeah. Not
going misbehaving badly etcetera
similar to what the Quran said when Allah
SWT says
the Hajj time
its months are known
then let there be
no
rafas,
lewd,
talk and behavior.
Or ignorant sinning behaviour or even argumentation
raising the voice
saying bad things getting angry in other words
in the Hajj.
That's
the idea of Hajj al
between umrah and 1 the other umrah is
wiping out the sins that all that is
between
and the
good hajj without sin there is no other
reward for it except paradise.
A beautiful Hadith encouraging us in the virtues
of doing Hajj brothers and sisters. And my
favorite one, which is reported in,
in the Hebban Al Auzayd and Al Bazar.
The prophet said,
The most virtuous of days before Allah is
the day of Arafa.
Is that yanzilullah
sama ad duniya?
Fayubahi
Allah Subha'at descends
on the day of Arafah to the heavens
surrounding the earth. This is the only time
in the year where the descent of Allah
SWADA is during the daytime, and it's the
only day.
We have authentic Hadith about Allah Subhana Wa
Ta'la descent in the last 3rd of the
night, every night. But daytime
there's only one day.
That's
his Fadeel and his virtue.
And he shows off the people of the
earth
to
to those in the heavens, meaning to the
angels
saying to
them,
look at my slaves,
at
Arafa.
They
have come to me disheveled
disheveled
and dusty,
sun baked.
They've come from
every deep ravine, a mountain pass, meaning from
all over the world.
They are seeking my mercy and yet they
have not they have not seen my punishment.
Yet
they've not seen my punishment.
There's no day seen
where more people are saved from the fire
the Prophet
said except the day of Arafah
This part also is reported in the Hadith
by Humbul Mumin Aisha
in Sahih Muslim.
Some people went to the conclusion Yom e
Arafah means for people all over the world
this is the day most people are safe
from fire. It is not true because you
have to take the full Hadith which is
telling you who it's referring to.
It's something special for the people gather their
Arafa
at Arafat
on Yom Yarafa.
That's what it's to do with.
More people are saved there
to the extent
of the land of Mubarak,
asked
Sufyan Sawrief from the Salaf.
He said,
what do you think of people in this
gathering of Arafa?
Yeah.
Anybody
anybody that's
so fiance already mentioned that amongst this gathering,
the most miserable person will be the one
who doesn't believe that Allah can forgive
them.
So misery is not to believe Allah can
forgive you. So having full hope in Allah
for forgiveness
is the day of Arafa and being saved
from the fire. Most people being saved.
This is that day.
Now comes the difficult bit.
So this year, you'll have heard
at least 1,300.
If you believe those figures, it's more than
that. You never get true figures from many
Muslim countries, do you?
Unfortunately, that South state
perished
because of the heat wave
in
Saudi Arabia, which is always hot.
So heat wave means it was in the
fifties.
It was not Hajj that caused the punishment
brothers and sisters.
That's the first thing to remove from our
heads.
Now we come to the state of the
Ummah. Was difficult, more difficult this year
than what I've done before, not just linked
with the fact that I was younger then,
but it was difficult quite clearly from what
happened with people
all around us.
It is not hedge that is difficult.
There are other factors at work.
And I always said, if you want to
see the state of the Umma,
go to Hajj and Umra,
and you'll see the state of the Ummah.
Some people actually many only Ummah have this
idea,
that well you know Hajj people die. Well
it's supposed to be difficult isn't it? Hajj
is really difficult.
It's meant to be difficult. No it's not.
Hanje is not no Ibadah.
Nothing in Islam is about suffering brothers and
sisters.
Allah
says
wamajala
alaikum fitdinim in Haraj
and he hasn't put any Haraj and difficulty
in you in this deen. Where's that In
Suratul Hajj
and when it comes to fasting the month
of fasting Allah mentions
after fasting.
Allah wants ease for you He doesn't want
to put you into tribulation and difficulty.
You can't pray standing, you can pray sitting.
If you can't pray sitting, you can pray
lying down. The idea is not to suffer.
Islam didn't come to make you suffer. Hanj
is not about suffering.
Hanj is not there that you go with
the idea
I want to go and die there.
Of course, if you die there naturally,
yes, it's a place of blessing no doubt
but you don't go with the intention of
committing suicide
there in your frenzy,
in the frenzy.
So Hajj is not what is difficult.
It is either the facilities
provided by the Saudis
or the behavior of the Ummah when they
get there.
Yeah. Or the facilities are being provided by
the company that you go with
that causes the issues
That causes the issues.
And I don't want to go into all
the issues. That's for another time. But I
want to mention 1 or 2 things.
1,
the dirtiest toilets,
the filthiest toilets I have ever seen in
my life, and I've traveled in the world.
Are at
you would expect me to say Glastonbury because
that's happening soon, isn't it?
Yeah?
Well, Kufar, get together, drink plenty of alcohol,
take plenty of drugs.
Yeah. Do all sorts of zina and vomit
everywhere, urinate everywhere,
blah blah blah. That's where it should be,
shouldn't it?
But it's not.
The filthiest toilets are in Arafat
and in Muzdalifa.
Arafat
is the most blessed of places
on the day of Arafat
in the whole world,
our most blessed place
most dalifa is next to it
and we
we pride ourselves in being the cleanest of
people over the way Muslims.
Is from our Hadith
that cleanliness is half of faith
cleanliness is half of faith
and we mock others
who
and talk about
a little bit
of going on your clothes and you have
to go and wash and how careful we
are that we can't pray with Najasa on.
Yeah.
There Arafat
you're stepping with your haram on
and the women they've got longer robes
on into pools of filth in every toilet
and the toilet tissue
being used by people is piled in a
corner in the toilet. There is no way
that you cannot get
all over your body.
It is so filthy. And toilet tissue outside
the toilet is flying around with bottles flying
around because they didn't provide enough bins,
And people are just throwing them on the
floor.
And the smell from the water area is
worse than in the toilet.
And Musa Alifah was worse than Arafat
and we are there going with the Ahraman
coming out
And I was looking at the
I had to control myself. I had to
do my dua and turn to Allah and
try and put this behind me.
And the imam outside is doing long dua
loudly
with the toilets behind him. I wouldn't be
able to stand there for 5 minutes with
the long dua with the stink and smell
and dirty toilet tissue and everything floating around.
It would be better I said
that the Hujaz came there and knocked those
toilets down rather than making God spend time
building new toilets.
It isn't rocket science
to change the facilities.
It doesn't
require £1,000,000,000 of money.
We are paying in our 1,000 now. What's
Hajj now? 10,000 to 13,000 if you want
to go for 1 person from here. Yeah.
Where's all the money going?
Isn't it interesting?
I would like them
to provide those toilets
when they hold
the multimillion
pound boxing matches
no other country offers in the world that
kind of money. That's why everybody's running there,
aren't they? America can't afford to offer that
kind of money to the boxers.
Europe can't afford it. The east and west
can't afford it, but Saudi can afford it.
I want them to provide the toilets
that they gave us at Hajj to those
people who come there instead.
West was to be due of a rahman.
The delegates of Allah and that's how we
get treated but the other guests
will provide them those toilets and see how
many come.
They get away with it because
brother Hafsabr, you're a Hajj. Hajj is supposed
to be difficult.
Yeah? So get filth all over you. No
problem, brother. Sister, no problem. It's because there's
so many people. So many people. It's nothing
to do with that. Just increase the number
of toilets because you've got plenty of space
on Arafat. It's a big big place.
Increase the number of people who are cleaning.
The cleaners themselves are saying, oh brothers,
the Saudi's they don't care
because
because it's sore the toilets are broken before
we arrive there the cement's falling off the
tiles falling off The hose is already broken
before you arrive there. And after we leave,
I tell you, it's worse than what
will look like after they leave it. And
Muzdalifa,
you took an aerial shot. They only show
you the aerial shot,
yeah,
When the Hujjajah gathered
and from the aerial, they're saying, umashallah,
the gathering of Hujjah here. Right. They should
take the aerial shot when we leave the
place
and then show you the filth that's lying
there.
The whole place is covered with filth and
rubbish.
And they should show you the toilets because
I thought Arafat was bad when I arrived
in Muzdalifa.
They were much worse.
They were much worse. And I'll tell you
something. What I found, really,
we were in a group and I'm not
gonna blame anybody. I have great respect for
all scholars.
Our group, our scholar decided to announce
and we'd been given a hatchback.
In it was some scented soap and scented
shampoo.
It was provided by a hedge company. Obviously,
they knew.
But our scholar decided to announce that we're
all following Hanafi opinion. He didn't even mention
the fact that there is a difference of
opinion. He said,
throw these away.
You can't use them. Oh, that's great, isn't
it?
We're gathered in 2,000,000
for COVID.
Never mind for a cold. We were told
to wash our hands with soap regularly to
protect ourselves. Is that right?
Diary of vomiting had already spread in the
camp.
I already knew about it.
Now the scholar in his wisdom decided to
apply Hanafi opinion and say throw them a
soap and shampoo away
not realizing the consequences
of
not even mentioning that the
and the
have a different opinion
that you can use the shampoo and soap
with scent in it because it is not
like you are trying to put
perfume on yourself. You're just washing your hands
to keep clean and having a shower to
keep clean. He didn't mention that.
So the people threw. And I saw people
coming out of those kind of filthy toilets
I've described to you with the jars everywhere.
And they came out and they just washed
their hands with a bit of water.
No soap.
What was the consequence gonna be of that?
Have we got no sense?
Where sense gone?
Yeah.
Where did sense go?
This is not Islam.
This is not Islam
that everybody falls ill and we say inshallah
brother.
It was meant to happen. That's how fire
breaks out.
Insha Allah, it was meant to happen.
And
when it all goes wrong, here's another one.
The whole thing you make a shambles of,
then you say,
saber brothers and sisters you are who judge
this is inappropriate
abuse of the word saber
because you're not gonna change
what you're
doing of your failures
but you put the guilt on the people
who you're making suffer
and making them feel as this is Hajj
It is not Hajj.
It is your incompetence
that's caused this.
I could go on,
but time.
May Allah
I I haven't even mentioned how the Ummah
behaves who arrived there.
Yeah. We're told not to even what the
prophet say if you're late for salah?
Don't run.
Walk with dignity. Right?
You go to the Haram, the greatest mosque
in the world where every salah is given
100,000
times a reward.
And people are running to it like herds
of cattle,
crushing anybody and anything in the way, including
the guards, fighting with the guards,
running like
it's a Black Friday sale.
But it doesn't fit there.
It doesn't fit with dignity.
It doesn't fit with dignity.
May Allah guide this Ummah.
May Allah
forgive us
and keep us on straight to mustakeem.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept our Hajj
and Umrah for those who went. May
Allah forgive us of our sins, cleanses of
our sins. May Allah give tawfiq to all
of you who've not been to Hajj, to
go to
Hajj, and may Allah
make it easy for you. We pray that
this Ummah and the authorities there realize,
yeah, realize
and change. Because if we don't change, we
will carry on in the state that we're
in in the world, brothers and sisters. That
is true. May Allah forgive us.