Roaming Ramadan #22 Makkah – The Personal Victory – Makkah Saudi Arabia

In Islam, welcome back to roaming Ramadan lessons

on the road. We just left

the city of Madinah,

heading to

Mecca inshallah for our Umrah.

And there's

there are a lot of mixed feelings and

emotions surrounding this journey,

salah,

was the last salah before

departing

Saudi Arabia after our ombre. So the emotion

of sadness was surrounding

the the air, the atmosphere around us,

knowing that we will not be next to

the prophet

again, and Allah alone knows when we'll be

able

and when will he be granting

us another opportunity like this. But at the

same time, there was a lot of excitement

and happiness knowing that we're going to the

house of Allah

in Mecca

and perform one of the,

sunnahs

of the prophet

by visiting the Kaaba, by doing the,

by running between Safa and Marwan,

fulfilling all these shaha'ir, all these rituals that

were introduced to us by our beloved prophet,

Muhammadu SAW. And, subhanAllah, that reminded me of

the Hijra or the journey back from

Medina to Mecca victorious.

When the prophet

entered from every direction, he and his companions

victorious,

regaining

Makkah, his beloved city, and how the prophet

was so happy

to get back home, subhanallah,

in Mecca.

And this is the feeling that everyone has

or should develop

by going visiting Mecca,

that personal victory.

Allah

enabled you

to visit his house.

So may Allah

accept from 1 and all. Remember, my brothers

and sisters, there are many rituals during, you

know, your visitation

to the house of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

that maybe

we don't understand. We don't

understand its wisdom.

For example, like kissing the Kaaba.

Sorry, kissing the black stone.

Many

people would question, even non Muslims, would question

us, like, are you guys worshiping idols? Why

are you kissing a stone and so

on?

The very meaning of Islam is to submit

and to surrender to the will

of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

And one of the things that we have

observed during the life of prophet Muhammad SAWS

was that he did what he did to

guide us through

in life, and so that we can come

after him and imitate his

footsteps.

And that's why Umar ibn Khattab, radiAllahu anhu,

one of the most intelligent

human beings ever

produced in history,

he looked at the black stone and he

talked to it and he said that Thank

you. I know that you're a stone. It

cannot harm it cannot benefit. And this this

what we should know as believers that this

stone is just part of the creation of

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. It cannot harm you.

It cannot benefit you. We don't pray to

it

whatsoever.

All what we do is we follow the

foot steps of the prophet

because we trust him, because we believe that

he was sent from high. So whatever the

reason is, if it is hidden from us,

doesn't matter. So Omar Khattab

said that had I not seen the prophet

kissing you, I would have never kissed you.

Look at the the reasoning

behind kissing the black stone simply because we

have seen the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,

doing such an act, and we trust him

so much. So may Allah accept

from all of us, and may Allah

enable all of you

to visit the house of Allah, the Kaaba,

to fulfill your obligations

with a hajj or auvrah Amin al Brahmi.

Stick around. Inshallah, we'll be sharing with you

few sites, few image images from

the holy sites.

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