Omar Suleiman – Umrah and Hajj 101 – What To Bring & Preparing Your Will – Part 2
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The speakers discuss the importance of paying off debts in order to seek forgiveness and prepare for death. They recommend authentic sup thioights for various categories and suggest carrying items in carry-on bags and shoes to avoid embarrassment. The speakers also advise against carrying light-scented scents and not bringing items to the airport, and suggest bringing a carry-on bag and small footwear items to avoid weight loss and embarrassment.
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Number three is to pay all debts.
So seeking forgiveness is paying debts in the
spiritual sense.
You know, number three is to financially pay
those debts, if you can, inshallah ta'ala.
Now, just from a fiqh perspective, a jurisprudence
perspective, someone might ask, can I go to
hajj if I have a debt, a revolving
debt?
So for example, I pay, you know, monthly
on my house, you know, can I still
go to hajj having that debt?
The answer is yes, because your hajj, going
to hajj will not affect your monthly payment,
if you will.
Now, let's say, you know, I owe somebody
money.
But at the same time, you know, I
want to go to hajj.
In that situation, you know, you want to
make sure obviously that, that, you know, that
the person that you owe money to is
aware of that, you know, and you need
to seek their permission in a way.
And what that means is that they have
a greater right to be paid back than
you going to hajj at that point.
So you want to make sure if you
owe somebody money, and you're able to go
to hajj that they understand that you seek
their permission to do so, and that it's
not going to lead to an unnecessary delay
in you paying that person back.
So you still should go to hajj inshallah
if you can, but at the same time,
you know, especially with revolving debt, which is
the nature of most debt that we have
today.
If there's something that's due, then make sure
that this isn't going to lead to a
delay and that you sought permission from the
debtor.
Number four is to prepare your wasiyyah, to
have your will done.
This is something that's obligatory on a Muslim
regardless to have their will done.
But realize that you're literally going to hajj
with this mindset that you're not coming back.
That's how it works.
That's part of the spirituality of it, that
you die before you actually die.
You are mimicking the stages of death.
So you really need to get your will
in place before you leave inshallah to hajj,
and that's an obligation with or without hajj.
If you don't have a smartphone with you
during that time, then just buy the little
book.
It's a little handbook, Fortress of the Muslims.
So it has the duas for hajj and
umrah, and it has just different duas that
you can benefit from in different categories as
you're going through the process.
It really comes in handy, for example, on
the day of Arafah.
You know, if you're looking for, you know,
just different duas to go through, because believe
me on the day of Arafah, people do
run out of duas at some point.
You know, it's a few hours, so especially
if that's your first time, and you're not
accustomed to making dua for six hours straight,
right, you might run out of duas at
some point, but you don't want to stop
making dua.
And so if you want to actually like
take a moment to read some of the
authentic supplications of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam for different things, it's a very good
resource to have inshallah.
Some of your preparation tips from a prescription
medication, and I'm not a doctor here, but
you know, there are two drugs that you're
going to hear about quite a bit in
hajj.
One of them is amoxicillin, and the other
one's zithromycin or zithromax.
So people would be prescribing that like right
and left, obviously because people tend to get
sick before the hajj days actually start, especially
people that are overzealous and try to overexert
themselves before the hajj days actually start.
They go so strong from, you know, the
first of the hijjah until the hajj days
that they're just absolutely exhausted and worn out
and sick by the time the actual hajj
process starts.
But you know, it's good to have over
-the-counter medication just for different things inshallah.
To really try to boost your immune system
as much as possible, so to really be
regular with your vitamin C, you know, and
you could have your Sudafed and your chloroceptic
spray and whatever it may be during that
time inshallah.
Vaseline to apply to the inner thighs for
the men wearing ihram in particular, that's very
very important.
It is going to be your best friend
inshallah, so make sure that you get that,
that you have that before you go or
you get it over there before we, you
know, if you've got a Medina first package
before you head out to Mecca, make sure
that you actually have that.
You know, just be conscious of the type
of clothes that you're going to wear while
you're there.
Having those light material thobes and just having
those cheap plastic slippers that you can buy
even in the street over there in Medina,
you know, in particular, those come in handy
while you're there.
Even if you're not typically, especially to the
brothers now by the way, if you're not
typically a thobe person, you're not typically someone
that would wear one of these, it's very
convenient with the type of weather over there
and the type of environment for you to
just have those light material thobes inshallah to
wear while you're going around.
Of course, you could buy some of those
when you're actually in Medina.
When it comes to your ihram towels, okay,
and they literally are towels, all right, if
you're flying to Jeddah first, because if you're
flying to Jeddah, obviously, you're going to need
to be in ihram on the plane because
you're flying over a Miqat, so you're going
to land in your ihram.
Make sure you pack your ihram in your
carry-on bag because that happens to a
ton of people that their ihram gets lost
in their luggage and they, you know, they
connect somewhere on the way and then they
end up wondering where their ihram is, so
make sure that you pack it in your
carry-on inshallah to Allah.
Otherwise, you can buy it in Medina, so
there's no short, I guarantee you Medina will
not run out of ihram in the hajj
days, so that's just something to keep in
mind over there to, you know, you can
buy, so you can wear as many ihrams
as you want, meaning it's, you know, your
ihram is a state, it's not necessary, it's
not the towels or the clothes that, you
know, the towels that you're going to be
wearing, so you can have two or three
pairs of it so that when it gets
really dirty, you know, and you're not going
to have access to, you know, to get
it washed, then you can easily just put
on a different set and obviously it's good
to have an emergency backup one just in
case, you know, something happens to the one
that you're wearing inshallah to Allah.
You know, they also have those ihram belts
which are very, very helpful to hold your
ihram in place, those are totally permissible, they
have safety pins that you can actually buy
here as well, but just keeping safety pins
inshallah to Allah, especially to hold your ihram
in place, that's something that can definitely be
used.
One thing I would avoid and the vast
majority of scholars don't permit this are the
ihrams that have the buttons in place, so
they seem very convenient but it actually defeats
the purpose of ihram in some way to
have ihrams that are like shirts that have
buttons and things of that sort, so it's
better to leave it all together and at
the most you could use some safety pins
inshallah to hold it in place, you know,
when you need to move it around and
things of that sort.
One thing as well, so, you know, don't
bring a lot of money, don't bring a
lot of credit cards, you don't need to
have all of those things, just have one
card and have a little bit of cash
inshallah to add to get yourself through, it
becomes very inconvenient.
I tell people this and I know that
it sounds crazy but if you can go
to hajj with a carry-on and make
it out with a carry-on, you've succeeded.
I never do a suitcase to hajj, the
sisters are looking at me like that's that's
you, but no, but I'm serious, the less
you can, the lighter you can go to
hajj, the better, the lighter you can go
to hajj, the better, because it's going to
be such a hassle with your luggage throughout
the process, luggage often gets lost at some
point during the hajj, going to hajj or
whatever it may be, the lighter you can
go, the better.
If you can figure it out in a
carry-on, alhamdulillah, and you can buy, you
know, some, you know, especially for the brothers,
some cheap thobes over there, whatever it may
be to get yourself by, but try to
go light inshallah.
There's a hajj guide that's going to be
given to you at the airport, it might,
you know, there might be some different opinions
to some of the things that you've heard
in this lecture, it'll be very minor, but
again, you need to stick to one, but
to have something with you inshallah, so whether
it's this hajj step by step, or something
with you for the different steps is something
that's good for you inshallah, I definitely recommend
having hand sanitizer, unscented obviously for the time
of your ihram, even if it's slightly scented,
it's not a big deal if you use
it in your ihram, all right, so because
nothing is absolutely unscented, but you know, some,
even if it's a very, very slight scent,
it's not like perfume, it's like a very
slight scent, inshallah, it's fine, but I definitely
recommend a person having that inshallah, you don't
have to go loaded with it, you can
buy some in Medina inshallah, you know, having
bags, and you're not going to find toilet
paper over there in many places, so just
having that in place inshallah, you can get
that from Medina, if you're starting off in
Medina as well, one thing that you're also
going to see are those different tablets, or
Gatorade packets, or whatever it may be, those
different rehydration tablets, you know, those really do
come in handy, and usually what ends up
happening is you have three or four people
that brought, you know, some rehydration tablets, or
things of that sort that are sort of
sharing with the rest of the group, but
obviously if everybody's counting on someone else to
do that, then they're not going to do
that, but you know, it's very important to
avoid dehydration, obviously with the long walks, it
is extremely hot, extremely, extremely, extremely hot, last
year was ridiculous, every single day was well
over 100 degrees, and obviously a lot of
walking, and crowds, and things of that sort,
so it's important for you to keep that
in mind, inshallah, for Muzdalifah, there are no
beds in Muzdalifah, there are no accommodations there,
so to have what's called a yoga mat,
now over there, there's a store called Bin
Dawood, that you're going to see in different
places, so if you're going to Medina first,
or whatever it may be, even Mecca first,
to have a little mat, you know, a
little yoga mat for yourself, inshallah, to add
something to spread out on the day of
Muzdalifah, to sleep on, you know, it's also
something to keep in mind, and one of
the most helpful things you can have is
a shoe bag, those really tiny bags that
you can put on your back, inshallah, and
carry your shoes, because you're not going to
be able to put your shoes, you know,
in different places, and come back to them
often, especially in Mecca, so to have a
shoe bag is really important, ask your group
if they're providing you one, okay, if your
group is not providing you one, buy one,
it's worth the investment, it does not violate
your ihram, because just those strings, you just
kind of put them on your back, and
you keep your shoes with you at all
time, inshallah, at all times, inshallah ta'ala,
very thick socks for tawaf outside of ihram,
now sisters can wear socks even inside, you
know, in their ihram, brothers, for the time
that you're going to be doing tawaf, and
you're going to be doing sa'i, and
so on, so forth, outside of ihram, it
will come in handy to have some really
thick socks, inshallah ta'ala, or something that
can protect your feet, because you're going to
get blisters, and you're going to get, you
know, you're going to have a lot of
those issues, especially with the way that the
the surface is over there, with all the
construction and stuff like that, I know they've
cleaned up most of it, but you're walking,
you're walking on stones, then you're walking on
this, then you're walking on that, so make
sure you have that inshallah ta'ala, to
keep yourself, you know, to keep yourself protected,
saudi sim cards, how does that work, earthman,
no, all right, so saudi sim cards have
gotten very complicated recently, because they like require,
you know, you to have your passport, they
require you to go, okay, so have a
copy of your passport, and a copy of
your visa on hand, inshallah ta'ala, because
obviously they take your passport when you get
to the airport, so to get a saudi
sim card, you actually have to show that,
to get that, inshallah ta'ala, but that's
just one thing there, number 17, is don't
be a tourist or a photographer, that's really
important, I'll sort of talk about that, inshallah
ta'ala, but seriously, chill with the pictures
while you're there, you're there for hajj, don't
take too many pictures, inshallah, make two copies
of your passport, keep one at home, you
know, over here, and with someone in the
U.S., and then keep one with you,
because your passports go through all sorts of
processing, so it does come in handy to
really have a copy of your passport with
you, inshallah ta'ala.