Salah Mahmoud – Heres Why YOU Should Go To Hajj
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As usual, when Oosters asked me to come,
you know, to give,
I always say
yes next week, I'll be given the as
well. So
and knowing that, Oosters got the visa at
last minute, subhanallah,
this is this is like right now. We
can make
around this. Why? Because
from my experience and, I'm sure it's from
your experience as well is that whenever you
have or someone has the
to perform Hajj, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make
way way
for them. SubhanAllah.
When you go make the niyya. We always
say make the niyya.
Just say, yeah, Allah,
allow to allow me to perform Hajj,
and you will see miracles
When you go there and you hear the
stories, how did you come? They will tell
you, subhanAllah, I never expected. But I made
the niyyah. Why is it important to make
niyyah to go for Hajj inshallah? May Allah
unite
all of us in jabbalah rafa.
It's important to make niyyah for Hajj
because if you have made the the right
niyyah intention
and you don't get to go there, you
still get the Hajj the ajil for Hajj
Insha Allah. Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
whoever ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for shahada.
Sincerely,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will give him the
manzila, the level of shuhada and shahid even
if he dies on his.
If he dies in his house, he will
get the reward for that. The same thing
using the same analogy, subhanAllah, for Hajj. So
for the brothers and sisters who did not
make the niyyah yet, please do make the
niyyah insha'Allah. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will
open up the doors for you. This is
fun. This is just like performing salah. Right?
And do not fall into the trap
of shaitan
that you will wait until you get old,
you know.
Do whatever you want in dunya in your
young age, and then when you get old,
go for Hajj and have your sins forgiven
in Khalas.
Subhanallah. Now we don't fool Allah
We fool ourselves
because if you wait, first of all, you
never know you're gonna be able to make
it or not. Alright?
Hajj is becoming more expensive nowadays.
Hajj is becoming more difficult nowadays. Right?
It's become more difficult. So make your niyyah
when you're young, Insha'Allah.
So when you go there, at least you
can perform the rituals.
Now,
why Hajj
is important?
And what are the objectives of Hajj? You
know, everything in Islam
has a reason. Nothing is random. And we
say Islam is the way of life. So
it doesn't make sense that you have something
that is random Islam.
Every single Ibadah, every single act of worship
from Islam, it has a reason. Okay. Take
salah for example. We here, we came to
the masjid, hamdulillah. We perform salat alaiha. You
know, it's 10:30.
It's almost midnight. SubhanAllah. May Allah reward you.
But we came here and we put our
forehead, our japa, our faces
on the ground to show humility to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
You're saying to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, you
Allah, I am tired. I've been working the
whole day but out of hubba, out of
muhabbat, out of humility, I'm coming to put
my face in the masjid close to the
middle of the night. SubhanAllah. This is the
objective of salah. To achieve this.
Alright. What about zakah? Solidarity.
There's solidarity. The gani, the wealthy shares with
the poor, the needy ones. And then take
for example Ramadan, discipline.
Ramadan teaches discipline. Your stomach is crying, feed
me, feed me. Yet you're saying, not yet.
Not yet. You discipline yourself. This is Ramadan.
Right?
The Hajj is the that a lot of
people don't understand the purpose of
it. What is the purpose of Hajj? And
you hear a lot of questions from Muslims,
Yani, that that shows you that they don't
understand the the concept of Hajj, the essence
of Hajj. Alright? So quickly,
let's talk about some of the objectives of
Hajj because people don't understand. Sheikh, why do
we have to go around the Kaaba? Well,
when you go around the Kaaba, you go
around the Kaaba, you start from the left.
Why from the left, not from the right?
Why 7 times?
Alright? Why is sign as Safa ul Marla?
What's the concept of iham? Why all of
that? These are questions and peep a lot
of people don't have answer to them. Alright?
But there are answers to everything in Islam.
The answer is
Can we say it?
And that's the difference.
It revolves around this.
We heard and we disobeyed. We're not gonna
do that. If
we're not gonna do this. How does it
look like? What does it look like? Alright.
Tell us a little bit more about Al
Baqarah. We don't wanna do it. But at
the end of the
Surah, Allah
says to you and I, go perform Hajj.
And when you go perform Hajj,
technically speaking, when you go to the masjid
when you go to a masjid, what's the
first thing you do?
What what do you what's the first thing?
Are you asleep? No. Right? What's the first
thing you do? You no no dua. You
pray tahaitel masjid. Correct? Yeah. So when you
go for Omar, what's the first thing you
do? Can you pray tahaitel masjid?
You go for tawaf. Correct? You don't pray
Tahit al Masjid.
Why? This is a Masjid. Epic is a
Masjid and Haram is a Masjid. But over
here, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells me to
pray according to the prophet
pray Torah masjid and over there it says
mix off. You know why?
Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is rebal bait.
And when you own the house, you make
the rules.
Okay? If I come to visit your house
insha'Allah, you make the rules. Come here. Leave
your shoes over here. Okay? Sit in this
couch. Right?
I follow your rules. Yeah? It's time to
eat. It's time to drink and so on
and so forth. Correct? So Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala is He tells us when you come
to Epic, make.
When you go on masjid Haram, make. And
in both scenarios, in both cases, we say
Why do we perform Hajj? Because Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala told us to do so.
That's number 1. Then if there is a
room for questions, Alhamdulillah, it's not blind faith.
We ask questions also. Right?
Now
the second
objective
The first objective is spiritual.
So if someone asks you what's the objective
of Hajj?
That's number 1.
Another point from the spiritual objectives of Hajj
is Al Hajj is a small image from
the day of judgment. Literally, Al Hajj takes
you on a journey to the day of
judgment without even realizing.
Right? From the moment and I'm gonna link
by the way, Hajj is very similar to
the last ihram particularly. It's very similar to
the last day we're gonna leave this dunya.
And I'm gonna tell you what is the
link insha'Allah, blah, mean. And hopefully we'll end
with this insha'Allah. Alright?
So
a kharam. Correct?
You do that yourself voluntarily. No one is
doing that for you. So you're saying, you
Allah, I'm coming on this journey. I'm taking
on this journey, insha Allah, voluntarily.
So when the day comes, when you decide
to take my soul, you Allah,
you forgive my sins. Because guess what? When
we leave this dunya, what is going to
happen?
Someone else is going to take our clothes
off. Someone else is going to give us
the ghusl. Correct?
Someone else. Do we have a do we
have a choice at that time? No. You
don't. But when you go for Hajj, you
absolutely have a choice. You book the package
yourself. You book the tickets yourself. You decide
on the date and so on and so
forth. Correct? Right? But when you leave this
dunya, you're not gonna have the option. So
when you go there, you take your clothes
off, put the haram on. It just reminds
you of the day you're gonna leave this
dunya SubhanAllah.
But the difference is that when you leave
the dunya, you have absolutely no have no
choice.
Right? You have to go. And someone else
had to take your clothes off. And someone
else has to put the kaffa and the
shroud. You see that the shroud is very
similar to haram. SubhanAllah. That's why the Hajj
takes you on that journey.
Alright? For those who went to for Hajj
and you go to the and you put
the, you know, the haram
on. You remember this moments that when you
leave this dunya, SubhanAllah, someone else is gonna
do this for me. So you Allah forgive
my sins. You Allah shower me with your
mercy on that day.
Right? So you learn this from Hajj when
you go there.
And we told the Hajjesh when I give
the workshop. I told them when you take
your clothes off and put the haram, take
the sins and and the dunub and all
of these things off with that. Alright? And
when you go there when you go there,
al Hajj,
remind yourself that the Kaaba, you see the
Kaaba, but on top of it there's
70,000
angels. Right? They go to enter
every single every single day, 70,000.
So it's not just about it's about us
human beings. The angels also are doing the
same thing. There is a new malakut, a
new world. SubhanAllah.
You learn this from.
Another objective, the social objective.
The fact that
everyone
is going there for one purpose.
You know how many people send an Arafat?
May Allah you're not just an Arafat again.
I mean, how many people send the in
the mountain Jabal Arafat? SubhanAllah. Millions of people.
Different languages. Different colors. Different ethnicities. But everyone
is asking for one thing.
You Allah. Forgive my sins. You Allah. Give
me give mafira.
It doesn't matter you are from the US.
You're from Europe, you're from Egypt, you're from
Pakistan, you're from Bangladesh. It does not matter.
Every single person has to stand there.
Every single person. There is no exception. Not
because you're an American.
You're not going to stand on Arafat. I'm
an American. I have an exemption.
No. You have to stand there. You're a
doctor, you stand there. You have whatever job,
you have to stand there. Every single person
wearing the same clothes, asking the one Lord
Allah
This is a social aspect that people meet
together. There is no superiority. As Rasulullah
said, there is no superiority for an Arab
over an Arab or a black over white
or white over black except with Amal As
Salih.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
It doesn't care how how beautiful, how handsome
you look, but Allah looks at your and
your.
Right? On the day of people
are standing there. A lot of them are
going to be accepted, but some of them
will be rejected.
And that is going to happen in the
day of judgment.
It is hot. It's 48. I mean, Celsius.
It's 48
tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. 48. Close
to 50.
May Allah protect them. People are standing under
the hot burning sun.
They're waiting, hoping that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
forgive their sins. On the day of judgment,
you and I will be standing before Allah
Subhanahu wa ta'ala. But unfortunately,
some will be accepted
and many will be rejected.
So we ask Allah
to accept everyone who sends,
and we ask Allah
to accept everyone who sends before
Allah Anyone who ask from.
Hajj is so beautiful. There are a lot
of lessons.
If you did not make Hajj, make the
intent and Dania intention for Hajj, Allah will
make it happen. Allah will make it happen.
Allah will make it happen. If you
Here? Because we do this other masajid. Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
If you if you longed to go for
Hajj,
but you cannot you don't have the means
financial or physically,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala knows your heart. Allah
sees your heart.
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Insha'Allah will give
you the word of Hajj. And there are
a lot of things that you can do
here in epic. You give the word of
Hajj Insha'Allah. One of them is what you
guys do every Sunday.
Correct?
Hajj. You said inshallah
after that,
no destruction. Put your phone away. Pray turaq
after this.
Okay? But there is one condition. Allah will
give you the word of Hajj. But there
is one condition
that does not take the pillar away from
you. You have to go for Hajj if
you can. Don't say like, the sheikh said
you can perform Hajj in epic.
Doesn't work this way. This is just the
extra reward inshallah. Alright?
Ask Allah to bless you.