Omar Suleiman – The Hajj of the Heart

			Everyone,
		

			I want to welcome you all, once again to our Friday reflections and also, inshallah Tada. I want to
start off by making your art by praying the last panel, except all of your deeds that are done in
these 10 days that are lost, except the hedge of those that intended to go to hedge fully without
any decrease. They lost pantalla accepted from them for their sincere intention. May Allah subhanaw
taala accept and facilitate for all of those that intend to do Hajj in the future may Allah allow us
all to have a hedge, mock wall abroad and accepted Hajj done in the near future with the night Allah
Allah subhanaw taala accept our deeds in these 10 days and beyond May Allah make us amongst those
		

			that are forgiven on the devout offer that are accepted on the day ratify whose sacrifices are
accepted may last parents Allah allow us to be amongst those that worship him properly now and
always be the night owl and make the best of our deeds, the last of them a llama amine gelatin. And
just a reminder, before we get started with the topic, that hamdulillah bromine we have a lot of
content that's going out for the hedger. We have the previous year series on the virtues of the
hedgehog 10 days on the virtues of the hedgehog. We have articles, papers that were written about
the spiritual significance, the rituals, the meanings behind those rituals. We have infographics on
		

			the hedge and the meanings of hedge. And then of course, we have the hedge my hedge story series,
which is running at hamdulillah on all of your gains pages right now where our fellows are sharing
their own experiences and some personal lessons from their own experiences of hedge. And then we
have a lot about Ibrahim it is handled by me that's very intentional to really allow us to connect
Brahim it has to them in a special way, as he is a special Prophet, especially a special messenger
of Allah. And so some of you have been following the voice in the desert, which goes through the
eyes of Islam, but then connects the eyes of abroad to the eyes of the prophets. I saw them and then
		

			ultimately to our own personal drives as well, and some lessons we can take from those personal
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life of blogging, writing some infographics on the virtues of all humanity. So there are so many
different elements in Charlottetown. And that helped us to really understand how central Islam is to
our faith and didn't die. Tyler were able to honor the call of Ibrahim alayhis salam in these days,
which are of course in honor of him as well as the last panel to Anna has chosen that these are the
		

			days that we engage in these in these acts of worship and these extra acts of worship and in the
entire process of Hajj is an honoring of Ibrahim is that as well. So inshallah tada please do follow
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			And Charles, I'll get into the topic now. So the hedge of the heart or the hedge of the soul is one
that's particularly interesting, and there's a lot to get to that subject from Sharla Tana. So I
want to start off with this heavy from Amazon and also the long tail and who, who says when Allah
subhanaw taala instilled the love of Islam in my heart, I came to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, and he said to me, or I said to him, stretch out your right hand so that I may pledge my
allegiance to you. And so the prophets lie some stretched out his right hand, so he was going to the
Prophet size on to become Muslim, and also to give allegiance to the Messenger of Allah sallallahu
		

			alayhi wasallam. So he said, stretch out your right hand, the prophets I'm stressed out his right
hand and then our last are the longtime and who withdrew his hand momentarily. So the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam asked him what happened or ometer, what is it? And also the low tide?
And he said, I want to lay down a condition I want to put a condition of this bay out of the slump.
And the prophets lie. Some said, what is it that that condition is what condition Do you want to put
forward and he said that I would be forgiven for everything that I have done before this moment. So
how long I'm going to also be a long time. It was a recognition that he spent his life in defiance
		

			of the prophets lysozyme at least the beginning of Islam, the beginning days of Islam, he went to
Abba, Sonia and try to persuade Natasha to send back the Mahajan, the migrants to Abyssinia to Mecca
so they could be persecuted. He was amongst those that
		

			fought against the profits license that led the charge against the profit slice. But he devised
against the profit slice. I mean, there was so much that he did. And he was worried about it. So
he's asking the prophets lie Selim for forgiveness for all of that. And the prophets lie, some could
have simply told him that you are forgiven. And it may have come off, you know, some of the scholars
say the wisdom of how the Prophet slicin was going to answer this question is that if the prophets
lie, some told him Yes, that may have come off as a specific covenant with and it might have come
off as some sort of favoritism, but instead the prophets lie. Some spoke about the concept he spoke
		

			about the principle he said to him and also the low tide and who first and foremost Are you not
aware of the fact that Islam wipes out all that was done before it. So first and foremost, Islam
wipes out all that was done before it so when a person becomes Muslim, at everything that they have
done before the moment that they become Muslim is forgiven so Islam wipes out everything that came
before it, but then the Prophet slice alum expanded and he said and migration and his law wipes out
everything that has been done before it and then the profits license that and Hajj wipes out
everything that was done before and accepted Hajj wipes out everything that was done before. So the
		

			Prophet slicin gave these three things that wipe out all previous misdeeds and inshallah tada the
the good deeds that were done before those moments only continue and they are beautified and made
acceptable to a loss patterns and uh, through the prism of Islam. And so you don't have to worry
about this right? And he's telling I'm Rasul the law of town and who you don't have to worry about
this anymore. But what's of interest to me in sha Allah Tada, and you know, for the sake of this
cultiva, what I'd like to speak about is this idea of the comparison between Islam and hatch, Islam,
Allah and hatch. And this is a powerful connection that you'll find the prophets lysozyme makes
		

			often between Islam and hedra. Okay, so hingeless the migration, and it's fleeing with your Islam,
right, fleeing with your Islam, and we'll talk about the difference between Hitler in the in the
technical sense in the apparent sense and his,
		

			in some of the meanings that it conceals. First and foremost, there's the hadith of Abdullah Ahmed
and the loss of the Allahu taala and humor. So this is the son of Allah Ross. This is Abdullah, who
narrates the Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and Muslim and setting the Muslim
woman melissani he will end well how'd you manhandled Amanda Hello. And that a Muslim is the one who
avoids harming Muslims with his tongue and hands. And by the way, there's another narration which is
also authentic and study madness. Whoever avoids harming the people with their tongue and hands and
the Mohajer is the one who gives up that which Allah Subhana Allah has forbidden who migrates away
		

			from that which Allah subhanaw taala has forgiven now, I'm going to talk about the first part of the
Hadeeth in a future in a future virtual hultman Sha Latina. And by the way, next week, we won't have
one there will be the day of eat. So after next week, and also two weeks from now, so I'll get to
the first part later because the first part of this had the about men setting men Muslim woman
resigning, here we go the connects actually to last week's Friday reflections. So I actually want to
get to the second part, which is more pertinent to the topic now, which is the digital part of this,
okay? Obviously, the meaning of this hadith is not that if a Muslim, you know, people feel safe from
		

			the hand in the tongue of the Muslim that they don't have to pray five times a day, they don't have
to fast they don't have to carry out the obligations of Islam. This is speaking about the
completeness of Islam, right, and Islam that carries from faith to character because the prophets
lie Selim always made the connection between faith and character. So this is speaking about that,
you know, and there are numerous Hadith where the prophets lie some is talking about the importance
of the Islam that we have encompassing our characters our faith, encompassing our character and
beautifying our character and bringing us closer to Allah subhana wa Tada. But the digital part of
		

			this is very interesting. And inshallah tada we can build on that to really think about what are
some of the meanings of Hajj that we can have in our lives even as we are not there? Even as we're
not able to make the hedge physically and in a technical sense, what are some of the meanings of
hedge that are encompassed in our lives? So, first and foremost, talk about the history here, hedge
law, you know, linguistically, it means Toka sheet, it means to leave something. And so the hedge
lot is of two types. First and foremost, there is the, the apparent digital which is the obvious way
of it that the technical way of it and the the fullest understanding of digital
		

			Which is one one flees with their religion from fitna from trials. And so, you know, when you're
talking about the mohajir on the people of Mecca, they fled with their faith from Mecca to Medina.
And they had an opportunity they could have relinquished their faith in Mecca and stayed in Mecca
and lived in peace, right? If these people would have left Islam, they would have been able to stay
in Mecca and avoid the persecution, avoid the migration. After all, all of the tactics that were
being employed by the people of Mecca, by flourish on the Muslims was meant to deter them from Islam
and to protect as they saw it protect the environment from the effect of Islam, right, so they could
		

			have left Islam, and lived in peace in Mecca, but they chose to remain firm on their Islam. And so
the only way that they could maintain their Islam going forward was with his luck with the migration
to Medina, to flee from persecution so that they could practice their faith properly. And so you
have the people that made his own to Abyssinia, then you have the people that made his way up to
Medina, then you have this special group of people that made both hingeless. And and that's a topic
in and of itself, that those that actually have migrated to avicennia and then migrated once again,
to Medina, and would have the reward of both of those, those hingeless. So that's the that is the
		

			his law, right? That is the his law. And within that concept of his law, literally fleeing with your
faith, persecution, and there are elements of that hyjal Today, there are people that fleed that
move that migrate because of their Islam because of the the need to practice their faith and the
intention to maintain their Islam to maintain their practice of faith. And they don't feel like they
can properly do that, where they are or they're being forced out, bid the night out. They'd have the
reward of that. But of course, there's the ultimate hits, which is the hinge of the prophets lie
some of the companions to Medina. And and so there's the narration about there's no Israel after the
		

			fact after the conquest of Mecca. But that's the the ultimate heads of the heads Well, okay. So this
is the apparent Hitler, fleeing with your religion from a place where you're not able to practice
your religion, either because of a persecutor or someone who is oppressing you, or because you, you
find that you're no longer able to practice in that place. And so it's a voluntary hedge a voluntary
means of fleeing with your faith. Now, the second part of that is what the prophets I send them
spoke about here,
		

			which is the the inner meaning of the hizballah. And that is the abandonment of that which misleads
the soul. And that which the shape on calls to, to the acceptance of the command of Allah subhanho
wa Taala, and the pursuit of Allah's pleasure. So it's to leave off, to leave off that which is
displeasing to Allah subhanaw taala Adam, and that Allah one, and of course, that is, you know, made
		

			or beautified for us through this the call of the shape on and through, Enough said amata, the
misleading self. And so a person abandons that which the shape on calls to abandons that which the
lower self calls to and instead accepts embraces, commits themselves to the obedience of Allah
subhanaw taala. And to that higher calling to that higher purpose, and this type of his law is
connected to the other type of hitter as well, right. So it is the sacrifice the commitment that
you're willing to make, to move away from that which is held on to that which is praiseworthy, and
the connection to Islam, of course, and you see, people when they first embrace Islam, they have a
		

			hard time making hits away from their old habits. And so you've moved from creed to creed. You've
moved to the creed of Islam, but the practices are difficult. You've got old habits that that you
have a hard time with. And this is true even with Toba, right, especially Toba for major sin, that
it's hard to leave behind some of those old habits, some of those old practices. And so there was a
curve, even for the companions of the Prophet sly salon. Some of them had a curve, right, it took
them time to abandon some of those things. And there was, of course, some of that calculated in the
nature of the industry or the nature of the legislation, and the graduality of how things came down
		

			to the profit slice and to account for that curve. So there's the individual curve, and then there's
the community curve. But you see this even when people when they first become Muslim, that they
struggle sometimes, right. And, in fact, most of the time and we struggle as well if we have to
leave off an old habit that we're so accustomed to. And so there's Islam and then there's Hitler, in
that sense, right abandoning that, which is displeasing to Allah subhanaw taala
		

			In pursuit of that, which is pleasing to Allah subhana wa Tada. So the hits of La builds on the
Islam, the connection between the two as well. The two types of Islam that are spoken about here is
what the prophet slicin. I mentioned, for example, I don't you bother to fill heritage kids out in
LA, that to worship a loss of parents in difficult times is like making his way up to the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasallam. And so there is the higit, or the discontinuation of the physical hits
at all, once Mecca was open to Islam, and to comfort the hearts of those that didn't take part in
the physical Islam, right. But the reality of the law, the spirit of the hidrive is encompassed in
		

			abandoning that which Allah subhanaw taala has prohibited even when it becomes extremely difficult
to abandon those things. And so sometimes, a person just has a hard time making his law away from
the things that are displeasing to Allah subhanaw taala because of the desire the strong pole and
the desire towards those things, but then you add on to that persecution and fitna and the hardship
of of practicing Islam, right, just practicing Islam, then that becomes all the more rewardable in
the sight of Allah subhanho wa Taala. And so, you know, you find this beautiful construction here of
Islam and then Hitler. Okay, so where does Hajj fall into all of this? How do we then start to talk
		

			about the hedge hedge is to flee away from something right so hinted at is to abandon that which is
displeasing to Allah subhanaw taala. Hajj is too long for Allah subhanaw taala to direct that
longing to Allah subhanaw taala. And so, you know, a few weeks ago, we talked about the various
doors and paths of shape on and then that one path of Allah subhanho wa Taala. Right. So if you're
fleeing from all of those doors, you have that one direction, that one longing that one pursuits,
that one path back to a loss of Hannah Montana, right. And so what you know what you're fleeing
from, but have you really encompassed what you are fleeing to, okay, so the taking refuge in a loss
		

			of Hannah Montana, and then directing your longing to Allah subhanho wa Taala. And so some of the
scholars when they talk about this in Tesco, they talk about, you know, the detachment from sin in
the physical sense, by the way, that sometimes you have detached yourself from a sin and that you've
repented from that sin and so you've made Hitler from that sin, but the heart still yearns for those
sins. Now, what you want to do is not just physically detach from those sins, but then physically
connect yourself to the obedience of Allah subhanaw taala. And in the process of physically
connecting yourself to the obedience of Allah subhanaw taala your heart starts to yearn for a loss
		

			of how to how to in a way that it yearns less for those things that it has left behind for the sake
of a loss of time. And so there's a physical turning, and then a spiritual turning that takes place.
And so with Hendra, you don't for example, decide that you're only going to quit How long? Once your
heart feels at ease with quitting how long right once you know something is forbidden and
displeasing to a loss of parents aren't even if it's going to hurt, it's going to be bitter. It's
gonna it's gonna be tough. you disconnect from that right away, right? So you make kids away from
that which is displeasing to Allah Subhana, WA, Tada. And then Hajj, right, the cost, the objective,
		

			the yearning for Allah subhanaw taala, turning yourself physically towards the Qibla physically
towards that direction, and physically towards that which is pleasing to Allah subhanaw taala. And
then the heart finding its pleasure finding its pursuit, finding its meaning, finding its sense of
purpose in Allah. Right. So heads up, away from all of those paths back to Allah subhanaw taala and
Hajj is acculist. Hajj is that objective? Hajj is that you are dedicated now that you're making a
turn in life, it's probably even the physical action of Hajj By the way, a lot of people will
struggle with sins for their entire lives, and they don't know how to quit those sins, but then they
		

			kind of set Hajj up like it's had, I'm gonna go to Hajj and once I go to Hajj, I'm gonna quit this.
Okay. And I want to actually say here, by the way, that if you had intentions to quit things, once
you go to Hajj, you should know very well by now that hedge is not a guarantee for you, in the sense
of they're a body of hedge the actual act of hedge. It's not a guarantee for you and never was a
guarantee for you. But it's only being solidified this year that things can happen where hedge will
not happen, or might not be able to happen for you. And so you can't put off Toba to that moment.
But sometimes you find people right that that is the only time that they're able to come back to a
		

			loss patterns and to transform themselves had is as an
		

			Act, you know, an act of worship, that can cleanse a person of all of the spiritual ills that kept
them away from Allah subhanho wa Taala. But there's something else that connects Hajj to this, this
construction of Islam, which is the initial submission, and then what that translates into of Hilah,
which is abandoning that which is pleasing to us, which is displeasing to a loss of hundreds and
favor for that for that, which is pleasing to a loss. And then that direction. And that longing for
a loss of Hannah Hannah, right? And imagining the call of Ibrahim alayhis salaam, when Rahim
Instagram calls to the house of Allah subhanaw taala. And people come from all over the world with
		

			all different ways, some on the backs of camels, some in the, in the seats of an airplane, you know,
everyone comes in a different way, calling or responding to the call of a loss of Hannah hota Anna,
out of that longing for a loss of Hannah Montana, right? answering the call of a loss of hearts and
longing for the pleasure of Allah subhanaw taala the way that Ibrahim and Islam himself did and the
way that he intended for those who answer that call, that they come longing for a loss of kinda hope
to add, wanting a loss penalty, desiring a loss of nanotyrannus pleasure, so much so that in the
pursuit of the desire in the pursuit of the pleasure of a loss of how not to have the desires for
		

			other things dissipate because they're no longer significant, because you're overwhelmed by that
sense of purpose, which is found in the pursuit of a loss of Hannah Montana. And so that's where the
loss of the heart starts to come. Right? That that it's not just a person physically, making pull
off around the camera, but awful clothes off of the hearts as one of the as one of the pious said
that how many bodies make heads without hearts and how many hearts make heads without bodies? Right?
How many people are there physically, that would make the laugh, but their hearts are not really
there. And how many people whose hearts are there, but their bodies are not there? Right? They see
		

			Hajj every year and they say yeah, Allah, Allah, right, because their hearts are connected to a loss
of hands on their hearts are connected to acts of obedience to Allah subhanaw taala. And so their
hearts yearn and burn for the moment that they could have the opportunity to physically make Hutch
to have their bodies follow what their hearts have already decided upon. right to have their bodies
follow with their hearts have already decided upon. And by the way, you find this in even the diary
of unhedged medical Chavez, Malcolm X Rahim Allah to Allah, we spoke about how he thought about
himself as he was making Hajj. And he thought about this man in India, that would have a picture of
		

			the Kaaba on the wall, and that would look at the wall and look at the picture of the Kaaba and cry
and Allah subhanaw taala wash away that person sins and accept their heads, even SubhanAllah. He
made that realization, or he came to that realization and he was there seeing some people that were
privileged to be able to do Hajj but might not have had the the sincere pursuit whereas there are
people that don't have the privilege to make Hajj but they have the sincere pursuit. And so the
Hajj, the physical Hajj is the culmination of what they've already sincerely spiritually decided
upon and have connected themselves to Allah subhana wa Tada. And that's the part here that's
		

			important. That taqwa by the way, is the abandonment of sin. Right taqwa is the abandonment of sin.
And the sun and excellence is the pursuit of a loss of antis pleasure and excellent ways which
translates into doing more and more and more and added quality in your in your obligations and an
added quantity of your voluntary good deeds that to worship Allah subhanaw taala as if you can see
him and if you can't see him, then you know that he sees you and so there's, there's this this zeal
in worshipping Allah subhanho wa Taala that is too great to be encompassed by the sight of others
and, and and it's it's translated most in the yearning of the heart and then the performance of
		

			those good deeds in accordance with that yearning of the heart for a loss of Hannah Montana's
pleasure. It's kind of like I'll I'll just talk about this inshallah Tada. In conclusion as well,
when you think about an act that the prophets I seldom mentioned gives us the reward of hedge even
as we are away from the the practice of hedge the profit slice on talked about praying a lot of
budget and then remaining in the masjid going to the masjid first a lot of budget. The last fantana
opened the doors of the Mazda to us once again, and staying insalata staying after so lots of
fudges, remembering the last pattern tada reading your remembrances reading his book and reading his
		

			words until the time of they'll have comes until the time of the sunrise comes
		

			And then you would pray to cars or or more in remembrance of a loss of hands on the Prophet sighs I
mentioned that whoever does this has the full reward of Hajj. Now, obviously that doesn't take into
consideration, the the struggle, right that the finances that are spent to get to hedge the physical
toll of doing hedge and so many other things. But this is the reward of hedge as in the act of hedge
itself similar to some of the scars mentioned. You know, when you find when the prophet SAW some
talks about a person who says about the Holloway the whole luxury color 100 times that it's like
freeing 10 slaves, the, the the reward, the actual reward or the struggle and all that goes into the
		

			freeing of the slaves and the obligation of freeing the slaves and or freeing the enslaved as an
expiation as a CAFOD. All of these things cannot be replaced by that, but there's a beautiful
connection, right? There's a beautiful connection. And so there's a connection right to this idea of
sitting in the masjid after Salatin faj yearning for Allah subhanho wa Taala. Remembering the loss
of habitat and not moving from your place until the sun rises, and then after the sun rises, after
some time a person gets up and prays as well and the prophets lie Some said they have the reward of
Hajj, complete, complete, complete complete. One of the names of Salaam aloha is a lot of our being.
		

			And a web is the one who's turned back to a loss of habitat a yearning for a loss of habitat,
nevermind, no web, your body is yearning for a loss of Hannah Montana. And this is taken from the
honeycomb Sahih Muslim, where the Prophet slicin went out to the people of Oba and he found them in
Salah. And he says a lot of our being is when the young camels lift up their feet in meaning from
the heat of the surface. So it's sometime after the sun has risen and that's when these people still
they've been waiting for the time. They've been remembering the last pants out for this time and
then they pray to Allah subhanaw taala in a voluntary deed, yearning for a loss of habitat and some
		

			of the scholars By the way, you know, particularly from the from the Hanafi school say that salata
wellbeing refers to the voluntary prayers aftermath of the sixth occurs between Muslim and arratia
based on some narrations, and some of the scholars say salata, there's nothing wrong with actually
referring to both salata and the voluntary prayer between buffalo Venetia. Salatin a well being the
point is, is that it it shows a person who is connected to a loss of hundreds and a yearning for
Allah subhanaw taala. At times when others sleep at times when others become distracted a time when
others are doing things that that are worldly, they find ways to connect to a loss of data in those
		

			times and there's a sincere yearning for Allah subhana wa tada for his pleasure that's found in
those times. And so all of this is to say dear brothers and sisters that while Hajj has been taken
away from us physically this year, the cost, the objective, the determination, the purpose of Hajj
has not been taken away from us, that pleasure and that yearning, that yearning for the pleasure of
Allah subhana wa tada and the pleasure found in yearning for the pleasure of Allah subhanaw taala.
All of that is still there is still our Qibla and we still have the opportunity to do to off with
our hearts and to remain in that direction. longing for our last panels I were still called to do
		

			hinge away from that which Allah subhanaw taala has prohibited to complete the construction, right
of Islam in our hearts of true submission in our hearts as we celebrate an honored Ibrahim alayhis
salaam, who of course was if Allah Allah horrible Islam, kada Islam to the man who was Lord told him
to submit, he submitted himself he said, I submit myself to the Lord of the worlds. And so we submit
ourselves to the Lord of the Kaaba, by remaining in that longing remaining in that yearning for
Allah subhana wa Tada. We pray that Allah subhanaw taala accept once again, the sincere intention of
those who want to go to Hajj but have been unable to go for Hajj this year or in other years may
		

			last can't accept that as a full Hajj. May Allah subhanaw taala allow us to be amongst those that
fully submit ourselves to Him that fully abandon that which is displeasing to him, and that are
fully in pursuit of that which is pleasing to Him. May Allah subhanaw taala allow our hearts to
yearn for him always in our deeds to follow and May Allah subhanaw taala make the best of our deeds
and the last of our days. May Allah subhanho wa Taala allow us to be amongst those that are shaded
under his throne on the Day of Judgment May Allah subhanho wa Taala as we have been prohibited from
being able to be in the shade of the cabin may have lost contact makers amongst those that are in
		

			the shade of the throne on the day of judgment as we have been prohibited
		

			from being in the city of the prophet SAW Selim this year May Allah Subhana Allah Allah make us
amongst those that are in the companionship of the Prophet slice Allah on the Day of Judgment around
his health in general for the dose alone, I mean, does that allow hate unto you all once again
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