Waleed Basyouni – Important Rules For The Day Of Arafah and Your Udhiyah
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The importance of fasting during the day of title for Islam is discussed, with emphasis on praying with a devotional and attending annual ob crunchs for non-immigrant Muslims. The speaker emphasizes the importance of not overdoing the "has a heart" and not celebrating the holiday without a sense of pride. Personal information and hair and nails are not recommended, and people are encouraged to donate.AI: Transcript ©
All praise due to Allah, and his praise
and blessings and peace be upon our prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
I bear witness that Allah is the only
one worthy of worship and Muhammad salallahu alaihi
wa sallam his last and final messengers.
My brothers and sisters,
as we enjoy the few days left in
the blessed days of the years,
the 10 days of Dhul Hijjah. As Nabi
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
said, the best days in the year are
the days of the Hijjah.
These are the days which is Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala made an oath with them.
Wal Fajri walayalin Ashraf Azib Bin Abbas radiAllahu
anha and others said, these are the 10
days of Dhul Hijjah.
And we are coming to the best of
the best,
which is the day of Arafah and the
day of 'id, 10th,
which is in Nabi said, the best day
of the year, the best day of these
10 days, which is all the best of
the years basically,
The most greatest day in Allah's
sight is the day of An Nahr, the
day of,
Reidul Abha.
And that day,
one of the best thing to do
is to offer the
to offer the Qurban
to Allah
reviving the
the
revivaling the practice of
Ibrahim alaihi salam.
And since that time, and the muhideen, the
people of Tawhid, the people of Islam,
been offering
every year.
And you just one person
among those who continue to carry this legacy
generations after another.
And also,
it is in that day, salatul Eid, which
is one of the greatest things to the
extent one of the Sahaba radiAllahu anhu
said that praying Eid at that day,
in reward,
is like going to Had. Is like going
to Had, which he meant to show the
importance of it. And also just not a
a celebration
culture thing. No. It's a great act of
worship,
which is Allah
order His Muhammad
to do.
Pray which is the Eid prayer, which is
the UHiyyah and the Qurban that you give.
In that salat, salatul Eid, it is highly
recommended for everybody to attend to the extent
that Nabi salallahu alaihi wa sallam ordered women
who don't pray, who have their menses to
come to witness the salah, salah to eat.
So what do you think of men and
women who are able to perform the salah?
They are definitely more highly recommended to do.
And Alhamdulillah
from the great Zid Nema of Allah that
this Eid will be coming on Sunday,
which is a day off for so many
of us. And also there is multiple choice
as this Masjid will be offer 2 prayers,
1 early in the morning at 7 o'clock
AM in the masjid
for those who can't go to the
or to the public place that we have
chosen in Texas City to accommodate Salat Al
Eid at 9:30
So I hope that everybody will be able
to join and come out for Salat Al
Eid, as well as so many of the
masajid around the city offering salat al 'id
as well.
The point is that everybody should try their
best to be there, not to oversleep. I
know in Ramadan, we don't miss salat al
Eid because we're staying all night. We used
to staying late. But in Eid al Adha,
so many times we don't wake up early
to pray, especially in a weekend.
So
with this being said, there are certain things
I wanna share with you in regard to
these 2 days.
1st,
fasting the day of Arafah. It's highly recommended
for you to fast the day of Arafah.
And Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Musilam said,
it will erase the sin of 2 years,
This one and the next one. And that's
out of the because of the amount of
reward that you get from fasting the day
of Arafah. And it's one of the best
thing to do that day is to fast
the day of Arafah. And if you can't
fast for whatever reason, you are
highly recommended to occupy that day with your
dua.
A dua
in the day of Arafah is not only
restricted to the dua of the people in
the mountain of Arafah, but also Allah accept
the dua of those who are on the
mountain of Arafah, and wherever else they might
be.
No doubt that the people standing in Arafa
have way more reward, more acceptance
than anyone else, but everybody else have a
share in the
That's why it's recommended for you as the
asr comes, as that's the practice of the
early generations in Islam.
When the asr comes or duhr even comes,
they will stay in the masjid and they
will pray and they will make dua and
they will read Quran
until Maghrib comes. And they occupied that time
with salah and ibadah and dikrullah
So this is something that I highly recommend
for everybody.
If you're home or you come to the
Masjid or you spend time with your family,
just make sure that you know what, not
all your time
following the Euro
cup, but also you spend your time
in, you know, doing what will benefit you
in your.
This is just one day. This is 1,
you know, a one day that you should
dedicate that time for the and the dua.
And in Nabi
said, the best dua is the dua of
Arafah. And the best thing I ever said
in the day of Arafah is,
And you can pray with whatever you want
from du'a
during that day.
This early generation, as Al Auzai said, they
will wait until the day of Arafah comes
to make the requests.
Or if they have done something special and
unique
in their life or in the year, they
will not ask Allah
by that good deeds until the day of
Arafah comes. So let's say you donated a
great amount of money this year, or you
have helped someone who really was in great
need, or you've done something very unique. You
can ask and say, Bey Allah, if you
know that I did this for your sake,
do this and this for me. That's part
of a tuasl which is one of the
greatest form of tuasl, is to seek
what you want through a good deeds that
you offer to Allah
As salaf as Al Azzai said, the early
generation from the Sahaba and the Tabi'een
used to wait until the day of Harafa
comes, then they will present the best of
their deeds. Then they ask Allah
after that. For instance,
Ibn
Umar
might free a 100 slaves in the day
of Arafa. Wait for the day of Arafa.
And when he free all those 100 slaves,
he said, You Rabb, I just free them
from slavery.
So free me from hellfire,
and free them from hellfire, the people in
the Arabah.
So they will use to make something so
unique
on that day. So maybe you think about
what something unique you can do in that
day. So you ask
Allah with it. As long as you're not
unique, you're a bit you come up with
something not from the religion.
I'm talking about something in the religion of
Islam and the realm of the sunnah of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. But something
that not usually you do, something extra Ibadah
that you do, it is something from the
deen of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. I
can't emphasize enough on the importance of that.
A lot of people ask
me and ask this question,
Sheikh, can I combine between,
you know, my day of Arafah to be
one of the days that I miss in
Ramadan, to make up one of the days
of Ramadan?
First of all,
I would like to talk about it from
2 perspective. From a pure Fiqh perspective,
but from another perspective, which is from a
taqwa under logisticity
perspective.
We became so commercialized.
Yeah. I mean, it's it's not like 2
in 1. You know, buy 1 get 1
free kind of attitude.
You know, I just don't like the attitude
behind it. You know? As if, you know
what? I can't I can't as much as
can maximize your your your your buck. You
know? Get more extra,
large for free or you know, get a
free extra drink. It's that's not how we
deal with the deen and sharia.
It's a great thing to fast 2 days,
To fast the day of Arafa and another
day to make up the days that you
missed. So I just don't want this attitude
to be exist.
I don't want the attitude of laziness,
and the the attitude of aiming low.
We should always be inspired
to aim high, to do more than what
we can. That's why in Nabi
That's why in Islam it is highly disliked
to make nether. What's nether? Nether it say,
You Allah, if you do this to me,
I will do this to you. You know
what? If you heal me, I will fast
1 month.
If you give me this business deal, I
will donate $50,000
Habibi, you should donate $50,000
regardless you got the business deal or not.
You know, it's not like, Hey, do this
for me, I do that for you. That's
not that. That's why it's highly disliked
to do such things in Islam or to
make such things in Islam. But if you
make that another,
you are highly
praised if you fulfill that promise that you
give Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. That
if you made it, you should fulfill it.
In any case, the same spirit, you know,
you're just not I don't want the spirit
to be the spirit of us as Muslims.
But if you ask technically,
can I do that?
Debated over this
in a concept the fuqaha talk about called
when you have a 2 intentions
for one actions. Can I do that or
not? And many of the great scholars of
our time said it's allowed like Sheikh Nasir
Befimir
or Sheikh Bembas said it's allowed for you
to combine between the two intention. And we
might later on tonight, inshaAllah, we have a
fitwa night. We will give more details and
answers to some of these points that we
mentioned.
But
that's number 1. Number 2, a lot of
people also
are asking
if
when it comes
to the Day of Eid, as you know,
alhamdulillah, in our city, we don't have this
problem.
But maybe it exists in a very small
percentage, but in some other communities,
unfortunately, they're celebrating Eid on Monday
and not on Sunday.
And this is based on them sighting the
moon one day later on.
I'm not gonna go into the fiqh debate
over this, but I wish that in the
Muslim country, in a non Muslim country like
where we live in here, as minority,
We should look for any reason to unify
the Muslims as long as this reason is
permissible in Islam.
You know, I understand the debate, the big
debate,
the the reasons behind the differences in in
Ramadan, which is I don't have an excuse
for it to have 2 community pray,
starting fast, or celebrating Eid al Ramadan in
the same community 2 different days. There is
no excuse for that. But I think in
Hajj, we have more reason
to be unified around the hujad, around the
people who are standing in Arafah.
Yani Dusu will make Eid on Monday.
Are they gonna fast Saturday
as the day of Arafah? And if they
do, what Sunday will look like?
And if you're gonna be fasting on Sunday,
can you claim that you're fasting Arafa while
nobody in Arafa?
Yes, you can. You can say Arafa is
the 9th, not the day withstanding, but it's
a week. You know, there is something not
comfortable about that.
I understand that a certain country, the whole
entire country, make their Eid in one day.
Like for example, Morocco
and some country in
Central Asia,
you know, they do that,
but the whole entire country unified.
But I'm not talking about that. I'm talking
about us as a community here. Why would
we divide? But
if my family members celebrating or let's say
I'm going to Chicago or going to one
of these cities where there is a big
community going to celebrate it on Monday, what
should they do, Yeshua?
I think you should
not fast on Sunday,
and I think you should declare it to
eat privately on Sunday,
because there is no need for it to
be, you know,
you you you you you you you you
fasting
the day of Eid is haram. But fasting,
Ashura is fasting, Arafa is recommended. So you
don't fast Sunday,
and you celebrate with them on Monday, the
Eid. Because Eid prayer can be prayed in
the 1st or the 2nd day, which is
acceptable. And with this, you will be unified
with your family members and there is no
need to make it a fiqh debate.
Nabi
said those who intend to do UHIA
intended to do UHIA, they should not
cut their hair or their nails.
And in the Bisa saying, those who intended
to do the Uhya, it shows you that
the Uhya is not wajib. It's not an
obligatory.
And that's the vast majority of the Muslim
scholars
agreed to the Ulghia. It is highly recommended
sunnah.
And you know the only one who differ
on this was the Abu Hanifa
who followed or who who said that it
is wajib upon the person who's capable financially
to do the Ushiyyah is to offer the
Ushiyyah.
And
he based his argument on a hadith which
is by the ulama'ul hadith like Ibrahim Ahmad
and others. They said this hadith is munkar,
is rejected, and it's not authentic.
And that's what usually the debate between the
scholars happen be over
somebody recognize the authenticity of thumb narration and
other will not. But in any case, the
vast majority of the scholars said that. And
it is not and I think that argument
came because
those who said it's recommended, they don't just
say it is recommended.
They
say, It's extremely
highly recommended.
In Islam,
the obligations
and the recommended actions are not one
slot. No.
The recommended acts are levels,
hundreds of levels, and the obligations are levels.
If I say,
Assalamu alaikum warahmatullah,
Aren't you obligated to say, Wa Alaikum Assalam?
Yes. By all the scholar,
You're obligated to say, Wa Alaikum Assalam. Can
you imagine
Do you think that in Islam saying,
is the same level as taking care of
your mother?
It's never gonna be the same.
Is way much higher level than just say
So there are levels in Islam. So if
you can imagine that UHushaya will be in
that area, we're between the highest level of
recommended act and maybe the lowest level of
the obligation.
So something highly recommend if you have that
ability, financial ability to do that.
So and you are allowed to do it
outside your country, but it is not the
sunnah. The sunnah is to do it here,
to witness it, to eat from it. But
if you can't offer it, because sometimes it
might be very expensive for some people to
make
while he can pay 20% of the price
outside. But don't go cheap, please. Don't do
this because you want to save money.
You deal with Allah. Allah knows your finance,
you know?
So but if you do it because you
really don't have enough money or financially you
cannot capable of, you are allowed to do
it outside.
Or do you know there is a crisis
in certain place in certain place and you
know that this crisis required the
It is good.
There is also a lot of people ask
me or see this advertising of doing
for the people and Gaza and people in
Palestine and things of that nature,
which is I understand that as well,
which is fine. But I just want you
to know that most likely those organizations, what
we'll do, they will freeze your meat for
several days or weeks until
there is a possibility for them to bring
that meat inside.
And my advice was usually to these organizations
not to offer such things. The people in
Gaza and Palestine, they don't need your as
much as they need your You can give
from your sadaqah, and make the in much
simpler format,
immediately can be distributed and giving no yeah.
Any chance of it to go rotten or
to go bad or, you know, to be
something happened in the process. Because of all
the years Ibadah should be honored. But in
any case, you are allowed to give them
and they are responsible for it, alhamdulillah. And
all the Muslim organization that I know and
we deal with and we recommend, alhamdulillah, we
trust them. We know that they do their
best to make sure that your ohriah reach
the people. But what about cutting the hair?
The prophet said don't cut your hair or
nails. This is the majority of the Fuqaa
said it is highly recommended for you to
avoid such things. The Hanabula said, No. The
hadith said, Don't. It means don't. So it's
haram. And they said, It's not allowed.
Regardless, you should
avoid cutting the hairs and cutting the nails,
you know. And I think there is a
significance in this,
which is it I know it creates a
a sense of inconvenient. I I believe me.
I I forgot to, you know, trim my
mustache before the 10 days started and then,
like, every time I see it, I wish
it, you know, but don't look at my
mustache. Okay?
Now everybody gonna pass by me and talk
about it.
So, you know, yes, I I feel inconvenient
about it, but you know what? That inconvenient
make me feel that this is very different
days than the rest of the year.
I think sometimes the Sharia puts certain rules
to make you feel that there is difference
between these days and the other days. And
that intent for itself,
that intent to make these are very unique
and special. And it's not a hardship that
is gonna cause any problem. That's why, Islamically,
even if you're an ihram, and let's say
you break a nail or there is a
hair coming into your in front
of your eyes and causing like you not
to be see clearly or anything of that
nature, you're allowed to cut it. Even if
you are in haram, even if it's haram,
that's fine, you know. Causing harm for you,
that broken nails, you can cut it. But
I'm talking about in general, it's not a
very there's a little bit of inconvenient, but
it make me always remember that this of
the 10 days. So you know what? Say,
There is so much to be said, you
know, but I hope
that, you know,
if you do that,
it is not a condition to the
to
the Let's say you cut your nails and
can I still, Sheikh, today
have the intention to do the other? Yes,
you can.
And I start from today? Yes, you can.
Can I do more than other? Yes, you
can.
Yes, Sheikhna. What about, you know, what about
cutting *? Is it like it's connected to
each other? No, it's not connected. It's highly
recommended or obligated according to some. But if
this will stop you from doing the because
I have seen someone think, thought that he
cannot do without that. I said, No, it's
it's not a condition.
Is accepted by all the ulama
agreeing to that.
Also it's interesting, somebody asked me, Sheikh, can
I initiate the intention of Uhjhir today or
it has to be from
Dhul Hijjah first? No, you can't.
Can I do my own oath here even
though my father doing it on my behalf,
my mom do it on my behalf, my
father doing it on my behalf? Can I
do it on behalf myself? Even my husband
will do it. Yes, you can.
You can make as many of the 'ubhir
as you want.
With 2
rams. And in Heb
he killed with his he made Ubhay
on his behalf,
with camels.
A whole entire camp.
63 camels he slaughtered with his hand. Then
after that he passed the knife to Ali
and he finished the 100.
63 camels
equal to the years he lived
To us his senior Umar
Every camel stretch his neck to the Prophet
so he will get the honor to be
killed by the prophet Something made the sahab
a surprise, never seen anything like this before.
And he made Ulhihyah with Al Baqar on
behalf of his wife
and was shot on behalf of him and
his family and his Ummah
And you're allowed to to join, and you're
over here multiple people
multiple people.
And one of the thing that I learned
from some of my teachers and some of
my,
people
who I respect,
that every year when I American,
I always make sure that I make on
behalf of myself and another one on behalf
of my teachers, those who have done good
to me. And also on behalf of anyone
in my community members who could not offer
odd here this year.
Make sure to do this every year.
Qayin Nabi did this on behalf of his
also, Umma, on behalf of the people who
lived with him
We should look after each others. May Allah
accept from all of us our more our
good deeds. And there is more rules and
things that we'll talk about it, inshaAllah ta'ala.
Tonight, I encourage you to come and attend
after salatul Maghrib, Insha'Allah,
our Fattwa night tonight, Insha'Allah.
May Allah
make this a blessed Eid for all of
us and blessed days for all of us
and accept our good deeds and make it
easy for our brothers and sisters around the
world, especially our brothers and sisters in Palestine,
and to bring peace and justice to them.
And may Allah
turn things around against those who oppress them.
And now may
Allah
And I would like to say
something before I I the karma is made
for each and every one of you.
I would like us to make sure that
when we leave, please
mind the the sound, not don't make too
much noise
because people pray. That's 1. 2, I would
like to encourage each and every one of
you, especially those Allah bless them
with,
to donate generously to the Masjid. I think
yesterday,
we we've been told that we have to
change the whole entire roof for the Maastricht,
and you talk about over $100,000 to
$150,000 just expenses for that. So I'm not
going to make an official appeal for fundraising,
but I really would like you to donate
generously to the Mas'id, Insha'Allah,
today on your way out. Thank you very
much. Or you can go to the office
and tell the administrator about your donation. Thank
you.
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