Yahya Ibrahim – Hajj Seminar #01
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The importance of the Hajj process is emphasized, as it is a post-really important journey for individuals to achieve their goals. The dress code and dec achievements of the decking system in Iran are discussed, along with advice on taking advantage of the sun and not leaving too many stone bags. The importance of staying in the area for a few days before returning to work is emphasized, and the T Tower and Kaaba are mentioned as important events for the upcoming month.AI: Transcript ©
Okay.
It's a pleasure, and honor to have all
of you, mashallah, in front of me here
today. Nice and
Hajj comfortable,
masha'Allah. You'll know what I mean after you
come back, insha'Allah.
You will get very comfortable with each other,
insha'Allah, in Hajj. May Allah
grant you and and tawfiq and barakah. May
Allah allow us,
to capture the reward of the amal of
Hajj
as much as the reward of the niyyah
that we have for Hajj.
I want to begin first by letting you
know that you are from the privileged.
And if it was not for the blessing
of Allah upon any of us,
none of us would be in this opportunity,
the cusp of this greatest Ibadah of Islam.
And I pray that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
who has brought your hearts
to the niya of Hajj that Allah brings
your bodies and souls to the plains of
Arafa Allahumami.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless you with
Hajj after aj and Umrah after Umrah, and
bless your children with the desire to spend
their wealth and their health and their energy
to take time away from you as you
will take time away from them,
to perform this great pillar, rukn, of Islam.
This is what holds up our faith.
That in your heart, you are a person
who says, Sami ana
wa'azin finnaasibil Hajj. I heard
the call.
They
will run towards you. Oh, Ibrahim, oh, Umma
of Mohammed
So may Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, keep you
healthy
and well
and content
until our return. I'm speaking to one of
the brothers who's watching us live at the
moment, doctor Fahim. May Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
grant him Khairan Tawfiq.
He's one of 6 members who is in
the executive b package, who is is traveling
with us, insha'Allah.
SubhanAllah,
Doctor Faheem was with me in Umrah. He's
a long time friend of mine.
He is an accomplished,
brother,
surgeon,
and subhanAllah, in his home, he slipped.
And as he was coming down his staircase
in London, he lives lives near Wimbledon,
he slipped, and he fell and fractured his
back.
This was two and a half weeks ago.
And the doctors told him, you are in
retraction
for 6 to 8 weeks.
And his niyyah
to take his father,
to push his father in Hajj, to be
with his mother in Hajj, to be with
his father-in-law in Hajj, with his mother-in-law in
Hajj,
and his niyah is with him, we ask
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to grant him shifa,
and to strengthen him, and to give him
the vigor that he needs to be with
us in there, Insha'Allah.
May Allah allow you to meet doctor Faheem
over in Araf Abi ibn And,
I hope Insha'Allah to hear even better news,
and I will share it with you as
it comes along,
Allahumma Ameen.
Hajj is from Allah.
He opens
and closes doors.
Wallahi, as I stand in front of you,
I still don't have my visa.
Just telling you. It's with Allah Azza Wa
Jal. Right? I'm teaching you about Hajj and,
I don't have my ticket because of people
saying, oh, what about tickets?
Hajj
is Labayk Allahumma Labayk.
You put your tawakkul upon Allah. You put
your trust in Allah. You get yourself ready.
You put your energy. You put your niyyah.
But in the end,
it is with Allah.
The person who assisted me last year in
Hajj was a brother named Zia
from Melbourne.
I had 3, 4 other people. Everyone, SubhanAllah.
One brother,
4 times.
Hajj is right at his doorstep.
Four times in in within 1 week.
Got it back. He booked again. Booked again.
Booked again. And SubhanAllah
was unable to go to Hajj.
Zia, 3 days before Hajj,
has no idea.
I say, what are you gonna do with
work? He goes, don't worry about work.
I will find a reason.
Bismillah. I will come with you Sheikh.
Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala opens
and closes the path. May Allah keep our
path clear
towards Arafah, Allahumma Ameen.
The journey of Hajj is a magnificent journey.
And the journey of Hajj is a journey
that it doesn't matter how often you've done
it,
you anticipate
its arrival again. Even now, Wallahi, I'm tearing.
Yeah. I mean, even now I can see
you in Hajj with me. You will be,
waiting for your dua. Everybody's gonna see you.
Make dua for me. Make dua for me.
Take me with you, with your dua. May
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
allow us to reach Hajj that it becomes
Hajj Mabruur Allahumma Ameen.
We're going to move with our,
presentation insha'Allah.
We pray that Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, grants
you and I tawfiq in it.
That Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, assists us in
that regard.
Sorry.
Just so we
can follow along with the brothers,
and they can see what we are doing
as well.
As you and I,
intend
our relationship with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
grow,
I'd like to begin by asking,
what do you see when you see this
image on the side?
What do you see
in this
little box?
Most of us, we kinda see that little
dot in the middle. We don't see all
the white. Right?
In Hajj, there's going to be moments
where the shaitan makes you focus on 1
dot.
Where is the bus?
And I smile at you and I say,
We've been waiting 45 minutes.
Sheikh, you told us the bus is coming
after Fajr. It's 9 o'clock.
You told us to be downstairs
after Fajr.
It's 9 o'clock.
Hajj.
3,000,000 people moving.
You can look at the dot
or you can see everything else around it.
You can look at yourself in the sea
of 3, 4,000,000
saying or you could say I've been waiting
for the bus.
Hajj is about choices
that you made
in how you view your circumstances.
And it's no surprise
that when Allah chooses
3 things
that he says, of the most special things,
I don't want you to do Hajj.
No sexual activity.
Don't get angry
verbally with others.
Don't even argue.
Of all the things Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
could say, 2 of them are what?
This?
Because
you're
in front of me are people I know.
There's pharmacists and doctors and lawyers. I know
some of you. Some of you are my
students as well. It makes me happy to
see you going to Hajj.
Some of you are principals,
have have held positions of power,
but you will be with me.
You have no power.
There is no democracy.
Whoever your guide is,
I want you to remember those words.
In fact, that's one of the first things
that I teach. Right? As we get together
in Madinah, I say anytime you see somebody
is getting
it's getting the better of him, they're looking
at the dot
more than the
blessing of Hajj.
You are one of 0.0001
percent of the who will be in Hajj.
Not even not even a fraction of 1
percent. Not even a fraction of 1 of
1 of 1 percent of the ummah of
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So you can see
the dot, or you can see
the Hajj. The beauty
of the Hajj. May Allah allow us to
see its beauty, Allahumma Ameen.
Why do Muslims perform Hajj? What does the
word Hajj mean?
Anybody?
What do you
what does the word Hajj mean?
Yeah. I mean, we're going to Hajj Insha'Allah.
What does the word Hajj mean?
It means a purpose.
Right?
And an aim that you have.
So the very word of Hajj, it's like
I've set a precise
target.
And that place can only be where where
can you aim your sights to make Hajj?
Only one place.
Only one time.
Only with one talbiyah. Only with one purpose.
Only with one sunnah of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasall.
One of
the problems with seminars like this
is that people want to learn about Hajj
before Hajj.
And I know in life, everybody tells you
have to learn before you do. Right? Except
in Hajj.
There was no Yani, the prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam didn't sit with the sahab and
said
listen, in one month time we're going to
Hajj.
Let me teach you about Hajj.
What the prophet
did was, he said okay, see where we
are now? Put on your ihram. So everybody
puts on the ihram. And then he says,
Take the Hajj process from following me.
Hajj is a followed
process.
It's not I know
because I know you know,
or I know you think you know,
or I know you know what it says
in the book,
but now you are in
Muzdalifa. And you look at Muzdalifa and say,
yes. In Muzdalifa, we are supposed to say,
masha'Allah,
follow me.
No arguing.
No arguing. Masha'Allah. For those of you who
will,
have followed the process,
with Al Bayt. I know there will be
some presenters from last year's Hajj. I've asked
some of those who were with me in
Hajj to come and talk to you so
that you get it raw from them, masha'Allah.
And I've asked some of those who have
went with al bayt, because we were the
only 2 last year, to come and present
to you. If there were others, I would
have invited them as well. So I want
you to hear from the hujjad. Both men
and
sisters, what did you wear? Was it comfortable?
Is this too much? Is this good? Right?
Take it not just from me, but take
it from those who
who
did the manasik.
So I want you in your mind as
much documentation,
as much paper as you have,
as much interest as you have. I want
to know everything before it happens. I want
you to know that that was not
the Hajj of Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
The Hajj of Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
was a
mentored
hajj.
A hajj of fulfilling process.
Why do we perform hajj? To learn the
importance of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
I want this to be in the back
of your mind.
Because when you're in Hajj and you say
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, SubhanAllah.
We have to sleep here? Yes. Why? Because
Rasulullah slept here.
Sheikh, do I have to stay in Mina?
No. I mean, it's your choice. Rasulullah stepped
in Mina sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. You want
to do what Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
did? Or you
no. No. No. I will do what Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. You're gonna come and
ask what would be normally silly questions.
Sheikh,
I
I have a problem of eating my meal.
Sheikh, Asafarullah,
I ate my meal in haram.
Is all my Haram all my Hajj finished?
Why do you worry like that? Because
It's not in the Quran.
There's nothing in the Quran about cutting nails
or this is who?
Muhammad
Why do we join Duhur and Asr on
the day of Arafah
and not join Duhur and Asr in Mina
the day before?
That's what Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam did. He
shortened there but didn't join. And then he
came to Arafah and he shortened and joined.
Khalas.
Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam did it. It's
good enough for me.
That is what is meant for you to
take back home. Why do we make Hajj?
To appreciate Muhammad
Always in the back of your mind,
make it about
following in the footsteps of the ones who
came before you. Because who did the prophet
follow?
Ibrahim alaihi sallam.
When you come in Mina, who are you
follow? Ibrahim. Because Mohammed followed Ibrahim.
Hajj
has particular conditions.
Sorry. We'll just share this with our brothers
and sisters again.
Hajj has these particular conditions.
All of us, Alhamdulillah,
have submitted ourselves to Allah Azza Wa Jal.
By the way, there's no particular question that
you were asked on Musuk, are you Muslim
or not?
Right? Anybody who has access to a computer
and Internet are able to go in and
and book. We pray that Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala guides the hearts of the believers inshallah.
Right? The condition for the Hajj to be
accepted is that it's a Muslim. Did non
Muslims join the Hajj previously? Yes. Many.
Many.
There were people who came and took photos.
Some of the earliest photos that you see
of the Hujaj weren't taken by Muslims. They
were taken by non Muslims. Right? Sometimes you
look and say, wow. That's what the Kaaba
looked like 18.
Right?
Usually, people are interested in these kind of
things. It's rare that you will find it,
but the condition for the Hajj to be
accepted is Islam.
Number 2 is that you're accountable in mind
in mind that your mind has a cognitive
appreciation of why you're doing what you're doing
and in your physical
preparedness to fulfill the Hajj. The ulama are
in dispute. Can a child who is not
yet of the age of puberty, can it
be a hajj that is their imam hajj,
Their imam hajj that they have fulfilled the
hajj? The correct answer is no.
That
they do need to do it as an
adult. Even if they were on the cusp,
even if they understood,
they do need to become fully grown in
that sense. Physically able.
And physically able is relative.
There are many people with visual impairments who
you'll find in Hajj. They don't see it
as a disability.
It's, and it is a greater ability in
other senses for them. Right? So physical ability
is relative to the individual in how well
they are able to perform the task of
Hajj and what support that they have in
it. Financial capability. And I know, subhanAllah,
there's always a lot of discussion about
the cost of Hajj and the ever increasing
cost. I want you to know
that at the time of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam, it was also the same conversation.
At the time of the Sahaba, it was
the same conversation.
In the time of my father, it was
the same conversation. Why is Hajj, subhanAllah?
How were the Muslims able to go to
Hajj? And that's why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
made it a means test
by one's financial capability. It's one of the
rules of fiqh.
It's one of the governing principles of well
of of whether one is
responsible to go to Hajj or not. Is
it,
right for a person to go to more
than one Hajj even if they're not as
a guide like myself?
Is it necessary? Yes. The prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, it was in his niyah. If
he had not passed away, he would have
gone to Hajj again the next year. And
we know that the Sahab of the prophet
did multiple multiple Hajj. Abdullah ibn Umar, who
a lot of the fiqh of Hajj comes
from did 60 Hajj.
The first was Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
His student, Sufyan ibn Arianah, did 60 hajj.
And on the day of Arafah, of the
60th Hajj, Sufyan,
Rahmatullah alaihi, did not make his usual dua.
Oh Allah bring me back to Arafa next
year.
And everybody asked him, you always make this
dua. We've been Hajj with you. He goes,
I cannot exceed the one who I learned
it from, Abdullah ibn Umar.
And some say that the greatest number of
hajj was 60 hajj, which was the hajj
of Abdullah ibn Umar Radiallahu
Anhu Wa'aruba.
Hajj and Umrah.
Umrah
is not obligatory.
Hajj is obligatory
which has Umrah built into it. So Umrah
on its own, no one will say to
you, brother, why haven't you gone to Umrah
yet?
But somebody can say to you, Aqi, alhamdulillah,
Allah gave you wealth and health and mind
and body and choice.
You haven't been to Hajj. It is required
for you to go to Hajj.
Hajj has umrah built within it. Umrah can
be separate from Hajj or built within it,
and we'll talk about that shortly insha'Allah.
Hajj, at the very least, is intended.
It's the niyyah of at least once in
a lifetime.
Mashallah. My brother Mufti Mink,
he asks,
the question I'll send this out to all
of you, Insha'Allah, who have registered on the
email list so you'll get all of these
slides, right, with the videos embedded.
He asks, is it is Hajj obligatory?
And,
the answer, of course, is it is obligatory
on the one who those conditions that we
spoke of,
became
valid
and answerable to. Age, maturity,
intellect,
financial freedom, and physical impairments are not of
difficulty.
The place of pilgrimage is Mecca. Mecca and
Mukarwama
was a place that was difficult to find,
and it was not a place that people
could come to and invade. And one of
the blessings of Mecca and Muqarrwama, even the
Arab, we have a saying, we say,
that the people of Mecca know its mountain
passes.
You wanna get to Mecca? You can't just
you had to navigate your way. Somebody from
Mecca had to lead you and guide you
to get there.
Mecca today, with its accessibility, was not the
same even at the time of Rasulullah SAWAYSALAM
and up to 50, 60 years ago. It
was a arduous journey to get to Mecca
and Muqawama.
And I know for most of us who
have some of the stresses,
you know, with sitting in our lounge with
our laptop,
trying to navigate nusuk
as being,
such a great stress in going to Hajj.
I want you to think of Ibn Battuta
who left 6 months before Hajj,
robbed of his clothing, of his food,
fighting off wolves and lions
to get to the house of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. Right?
There's,
things that we have to kind of,
recalibrate
how we find our place towards Mecca and
Mukherumah. The word Mecca comes as a second
name to Becca
and the valley of Bukka,
the valley of tears,
where people would come to cry for their
sins before Allah.
The first house
consecrated for the worship of Allah
is the one that is in Becca,
in that valley of tears.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
he caused therefore, when you arrive to Mecca,
as you leave it, it's mukkah.
It's a place of healing. And it's a
place where your tears are left, but you
return to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala from visiting
with Allah
in a state of completeness
and wholeness.
May Allah make it so for all of
us, Allahumma Ameen.
You cannot visit with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
without preparation.
Even as you came here, you were thinking
to yourself, what should I wear?
I wonder who else is there?
Who's coming?
Where am I gonna be?
Do I need to take this with me
or that? Even for a small
kind of journey such as the one you
made to be with me in this audience
today.
You had so many thoughts of what to
prepare.
One of the greatest preparations is Allah, subhanahu
wa ta'ala, demands you attire yourself and you
align yourself
before you enter upon him, subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And therefore there's the mikaat.
Now with Allah, it's different than with humanity.
With humanity, you expect people to dress
up
and to put on some cologne. Don't you
know who you're coming? You need to
wash yourself,
fragrance yourself,
dress yourself in the best of what you
have because you're coming to stand in front
of the king.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells you no.
No. No. You're coming to stand in front
of the king of kings
who does not look as the prophet salallahu
alaihi wa sallam said.
Allah doesn't take note of your physicality
or the specimen of your body.
Allah's concern is your heart and what deeds
will follow.
Take off
what you think
is what represents you,
and put
on what levels you with others.
And the things that you believe you have
the right to decide for yourself.
I wanna comb my hair. Who in the
world would tell me haram to comb your
hair?
Nobody has that right except
Allah.
Who can tell me, I mean, I I
can't,
bathe in the way I want or perfume
myself in the way I want or to
wear what I want?
Nobody here except
Allah. It is the fulfillment of your Ubudiyyah,
of you understanding your place in the order
of the world.
That Allah is the Lord and you are
the
slave.
Allah is the master and you are the
fulfiller of the duty.
Allah is the commander and you are the
subject of his command subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So you come to that place and Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala says, okay. You're ready to
come in? You want to enter the sacred
land? Wait.
You enter the way I tell you to
enter.
And you enter when I tell you to
enter. And you enter in
the words I tell you to speak.
You don't just come and knock and ask
me the way you want. You come and
let me know you're here to serve.
I do this for nobody other than you,
oh Allah.
I am here to serve. I'm here to
do as you instructed.
Inal Hamda. Because all of the praise is
to you, oh
Allah. And all of the blessing I have
in my life is from you, you Allah.
And all of the kingdom and everything belongs
to you, oh
Allah.
No one shares in it with you.
Barefoot? I will be barefoot.
No tailored clothing? No tailored clothing.
As you command,
it will be done, oh Allah.
The time and the place and the means
and the clothing and the attire is all
destined
by Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Allah Azzawajal
is the one who
orders us to attend
and change into this concept and state of
Ihram, which we'll talk about shortly, Insha'Allah,
when we arrive at the mikat.
You will not see the mikat
and you do not need to see the
mikat. The mikat is not something that you
say, I've I've arrived
here
and I want this to be,
I want this to be,
you know, I want to be in the
place where the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
was.
For most of us for most of us,
as you exit Madinah or as you land
into Jeddah, you will pass through the outer
ring of the mihat. And that was the
general understanding from amongst the Sahaba as well.
So there were those who would come by
ship. There were those who would come by
sea.
There is Masjid,
Ali or Dhul Hulaifa in Al Madina where
the prophet,
commanded the Muslims to put on their ihram,
and he made it as the of the
people of Madina. There's a masjid that is
built there by
a a king who was from South Sudan.
So it's called Masjid Ali. It's not referred
to Ali ibn Abi Talib. It's referred to
a king from southern Sudan who had come
to make Hajj and he noticed that nobody
had dug water.
Nobody had prepared a masjid in that place.
So he built a masjid
in dedication of this was the place of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and from
that place, it became the visited habit of
the people of Madinah to depart from it.
Most of the mihqat is within, a particular
range. Some as far away as 450 kilometers.
For those who are arriving,
into,
Al Madina,
you will
be at the boundary of Dhul Hulaifah. For
those of you who are on the trains
from Al Madina towards Mecca,
about 5 minutes after the train leaves,
you will hear the talbiyah, and they will
say you are now crossing that area. By
then, we will have prepared you. You will
already be ready, insha'Allah,
psychologically for that,
if you are heading straight,
in the final days towards Arafa or Mina.
So all of us are going to be
going on the 8th day in Haram or,
sorry, 7th day or 6th day, some 6th
day or 7th day from Madinah towards Mecca.
You will be in Haram. You will make
your talbiyah
just before we leave the train station insha'Allah
or on the buses insha'Allah.
A lot of people kinda talk about which
Hajjar we're going to perform.
Tamat Tur,
Iran,
Efrat.
There are 3
levels of Hajjar.
And all of them are valid.
All of them are specific to what your
needs are. And our fiqh as Muslims, mashallah,
for those of us who have to solve
problems using fiqh for those who have different
considerations,
the blessing of having more than one type
of hajj is a niyama from Allah
Most of you will do tamatua, meaning,
As Allah says in Surat Al Baqarah, the
one who wants to enjoy
the lengthy Hajj.
You've come a little bit early, fatamatah. You're
gonna enjoy
umrah, then you're going to remove your ihram,
and you're gonna have a day or 2
or more in Mecca
to make tawaf and to rest a little
bit before you put on a Haram again
and go to Mina.
The prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam actually did
the middle Hajj, which is Quran, to join
Hajj and Umrah as one.
Which means it's only one tawaf
and only one sai that you need to
do that is combined for the both, which
is like the express
Hajj.
And that is a fulfillment
for those who have that need. Right? So
it meets the requirements of Hajj. So for
those, for example, who come late
and they just say, subhanallah, your plane got
delayed.
Or as you boarded the train, there was
a problem, and the train got delayed.
And as we're leaving on the 7th through
this, you know, 7th day, you're going to
get to Mecca on 8th to do your
umrah. You find that we don't get to
Mecca until the late on 8th day.
And we say,
we're going just to do talaaf, we're not
going to do sah.
Stay in your eharam, we're going to Mina
and then Arafah tomorrow. Don't worry about it.
We're changing to qiram. Right?
The niyyah that you begin
is when you are at the mikat.
So it will be determined before we make
our departure from Mecca. If everything is going
well, it's tamatua.
Something happens,
could be Quran.
And usually with all of my Hajj groups,
even my Umrah groups, I make it conditional.
So you would say, for example,
Oh Allah, I've intended to make umrah. But
if there's a problem on the way,
oh Allah, allow me to remove my ihram,
Get out of ihram without penalty, and let
me start again from wherever I am. Solves
your problem. There's fiqh. Right?
So don't worry about these.
Follow the guide inshallah.
You have competent people who will be leading
you in that process. Know the difference between
the two. They are not massive differences. One
is that you are in a Haram for
maybe an extra 6 to 7 hours because
you came delayed to Mecca. You're only going
to do half the umrah, and then you
begin your Hajj and you make it just
one between
them which is the essence of your Hajj,
which is what the prophet salallahu alaihi wa
sallam did. Ifrad is where it is just
Hajj and there's no umrah that is attached
for it. Before it, it's just one process
insha'Allah.
The talbiyah
is a beautiful statement
taught to us by the prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
You are not in a Haram the moment
you put on the clothes. Right? You're not
in Haram the moment you put on your
towel for us as brothers or sisters.
You're in a haram the moment you pronounce
it. And I will delay my haram
because you are not allowed to argue.
You are not allowed to fight,
but I want to fight for you. Right?
So you get on the train and there's
that brother sitting in the chair.
And you're like,
I don't want to
argue because you've come all this way. I'm
not gonna
so you look at me. I say, I
got you. Don't worry.
I'm here for you. And I will come
and say, brother, can I see your ticket?
Oh, oh, that Yahi
you are in the Haram. I'm not in
the Haram. I'm wearing my shirt. I'm wearing
a hat.
I'm the only one with a hat and
shirt on on the train. Show me your
ticket.
He's, no. No. No. Don't argue. Where Haram,
brother? Come on. Get get up. Where's your
bag? Let me help you. Ta'ala.
And I take them out of your spot.
SubhanAllah. I don't enter Haram until Arafah.
Like, for sometimes,
I if we're doing Quran if we're doing
Quran, I might not enter until Arafah. So
you will be in harammin minna.
And I'm
last year, subhanAllah,
we had,
visitors
in our Arafa tent.
Just I don't know how they got in,
which fence they broke through. All of a
sudden, my sister's tent, masha'Allah,
And it's an executive package, security and everything.
There were
75
beautiful,
little,
you know,
70 year old sisters.
And who's gonna kick out, you know, the
security guards? They were like, I'm not touching
them, man. They they make dua and I'm
in trouble.
So then we're in a haram. We have
to we're not in a haram.
Make room. I actually I actually cut the
tent
on the brother's side so that they could
get air conditioned. I brought the last 45
sisters in the men's side.
Put up sheets. This is maybe half an
hour before salatul buh.
We have to solve those problems. Right? So
I will delay your ihram. I know you'll
get excited. Check. I want to do Ihram
in Majid and Nava. Okay. You can.
But you have to take your bag onto
the train, brother.
There's all these little yeah. I mean, it's
up to you.
The delay in your Haram is not a
bad thing.
Until you get onto the train, I ask
you to, you know, wait,
save your Hajj keep, your the the concept
of being in ihram
is so sacred. What does it mean when
a person says I want to be in
ihram?
The the concept of being muharim.
The word
haram
means what?
We usually say prohibited. Right? Actually, it's more
about what is sacred,
like something it's special.
It's haram for you to do this
in something that has not been given you
permission to do. It's haram for a man
and woman to not have Allah bless their
union.
It's haram for somebody to take the food
that Allah has created
and give you all of these good foods,
and you choose something that he said it's
not good for you. Haram for you. Why
would you do the second best
or something lesser?
Ihram then reminds you that Allah is the
director of halal and haram, good and bad,
right and wrong, what's needed, what isn't needed
in your life, and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
takes the liberty of choice from you.
It's not your choice. What? You're
not going to make haram where Allah has
made halal. Allah is the one who's gonna
make haram for you what is normally halal.
But in this moment, Allah says you cannot
do this.
The prophet
taught you cannot do it. It raises
your awareness
of what Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, seeks from
you in the major things as you now
worry about the small things.
In the way that, subhanAllah, you're gonna come
to me and say, Sheikh Yahya, I touched
this towel and it had lemon.
You know in the plane sometimes they give
you a I had one brother almost halas.
Why you give me this?
To the stewardess. She goes, what's what's wrong?
She doesn't know. Qatar Airways or whatever airline.
She doesn't know. As he's landing in Jeddah,
I already made ihram.
And he he touched it and he put
it all stuff for Allah.
Ihram is
is is something that it is a state
where your
attention comes to detail.
You become very detail oriented with Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
Because if you become detail oriented in that
short 5, 6 day period,
The hope
is that now I am brand new.
I'm returning back to Perth, to Australia,
to
America, London, wherever I am. I want to
have that similar kind of connection with Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. I want to think about
maybe some of the bigger things. Maybe not
the smaller things. Some of the bigger things
in a similar way.
All of you would have read, and we'll
go through these very very quickly. No cutting
hair, nails.
For brothers, we don't wear sewn clothing.
Can I wear this as a haram by
the
way? So just say you land into Jeddah
and they promise that your
carry on, it's too big. We're gonna put
it on the plane, and you forgot you
have your ihram in it. And you're wearing
one of these. Can you make this ihram?
Yes.
You don't wear it the way you normally
wear it tailored. So you would wrap it
around.
It can be an haram. Like I want
you to think about the concept of the
haram. It doesn't have a particular look.
Can the ihram be something other than white?
Yes.
Can it have writing on it? Yes. My
first haram is a Malaysia ihram. It's my
favorite ihram.
Right?
Many Hajj with Malaysia.
Right? It has a print, Malaysia in green.
Right?
Can it have writing on it? Yes. Can
it be can it have a pattern in
it? Yes.
Right? So the the issue with the ihram,
with the towel, is that it's not sewn
clothing, meaning tailored. It has a sleeve.
It has pockets like this that that it's
like a a a a pants and a
trousers.
Right? That's the meaning of it not being
sewn together.
Not that it doesn't have thread.
Cannot cover the head.
For men, we do not cover the head.
We do not apply
smelling,
products to change our state
into one where we smell better,
for the impression of others. And by the
way, because I want you to keep it
in your mind. The ulama. What is,
how much perfume
is what ruins a haram?
Is that a person perfumes their whole head
with a like, it's not just,
soap touched me. Or I went to the
bathroom, sheikh, and on the train it had
soap and I didn't oh, you know, know,
even if you take that I don't believe
soap is part of perfuming. You don't use
soap for perfume unless it's like herbal essence.
You brought it because I want to smell
like a rainbow or something. I don't know.
You know how sometimes it's added with tropical
flavors. But if it's just a plain,
soap,
this is not perfume. It's a cleansing agent.
And the prophet
used water with siddr, which had a smell,
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Had a scent. If
you eat the orange,
your hands are gonna smell like orange. And
you touch, oh, Sheikh, I smell like an
orange.
No problem. Your ihram is valid. It's not
the problem. If you didn't apply perfume to
yourself, you didn't burn incense and and perfume
your body and put oils and colognes, and
this is the meaning of it Insha'Allah.
Obviously, no hunting,
for food.
Cutting of the nails is a deliberate attempt.
And what is meant by cutting the nails?
It's all five fingers.
So if somebody for example, they took a
corner or there was a piece of my
nail, it's better not to. But sometimes it's
a bad habit. Somebody
this isn't
one that you're going to pay a penalty
for. The penalty is enacted
by a major kind of intentional
transgression against the law of Allah. Allah said,
don't, but I I don't care. No. I'm
gonna do what I want to do.
Same with cutting the hair, the whole of
the hair or the whole of the head.
Deliberately wearing clothing,
like deliberately
wearing a shirt,
where one does not need to wear 1.
And if one needs it
because of an ailment or an illness, then
they can expiate it. So if you need,
for example, I even at the time of
the prophet alaihi wasallam, somebody had a skin
condition
and the prophet allowed him to wear his
qanese.
And he had to feed 6 people in
Mecca or to slaughter an animal,
to expiate
slaughter,
food and feed the poor people of Mecca.
So there's a way of expiating it, Insha'Allah.
Those are usually the penalties.
Either a sacrifice where, a sheep or a
goat and then it's, cooked and given to
the people of Mecca has be with the
people of Mecca.
Or you fast 3 days in Hajj
or you feed 6 poor people.
It is prohibited to intentionally harm anything in
Mecca including things like locusts, including things like,
pulling a leaf off a tree or cutting
down a tree, and so on.
The Haram of Mecca is known. The Haram
of Medina is known. There are visual landmarks
there. In Medina, it's between 2 mountains. In
Mecca, it's defined by prophet Ibrahim
alayhis salam. Ihram for women is very similar
to men except that they also are not
allowed to cover their face,
but they are allowed to wear stitched clothing.
Now for sisters who do normally cover with
niqab
or they do normally face their veil, it's
actually prohibited for them to do so in
Hajj. So some of them, they will
add a certain, like, a hat under so
that their veil kinda comes up in front
of them. Just like you and I as
brothers will wear hold an umbrella. Right? So
they try to get creative, mashaAllah.
And, it's always nice seeing,
the creativity that comes from, different places.
We're going to talk a little bit about
the Umrah, and then from Umrah, we're going
to,
finish
our first session,
and have a little bit of a break
inshallah.
I want you to hold your right hand
out.
I'm gonna teach you the
Hajj and remark. This is Hajj.
Okay? Hajj is for 5 fingers.
Today is the 8th day of Hajj. All
of you have that little single sheet of
paper?
Okay? Follow along.
8th day of Hajj is right here.
Alright?
The 8th day of Hajj, just for those
who are
abroad from us,
is your thumb.
This is called the Umut Tarwayyah,
the day of rest and drinking.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala commands the prophet shalallahu
alaihi wa sallam to exit Mecca, to go
to Mina,
find your campground, and drink.
Tarrui nafsak.
Drink
and eat
and get yourself ready, strengthen your body,
because tomorrow
is the day of Arafah.
It is the day of Ashhadu Allah Ibaa
Illallah.
So the first day,
8th, we go to Mina.
2nd day,
the most important day of Hajj, the prophet
said,
al Hajju
Arafah.
Hajj in its essence is what you will
do on the day of Arafah.
In fact,
if you put on even without the Haram,
if you make the niya of Hajj and
go to Alafah, everything else can be fixed.
You can make your tawaf, you can expiate
by feeding people.
Some people they do, they express one day
Hajj.
Right? They'll come in, they'll do, powaf,
sai, Arafah, done.
All in one day. After they finish the
day of Arafah, after salatul Maghrib.
They will miss Musdalifa and miss Mina and
expiate it by feeding people. Right? Al Hajj
Arafah.
Hajj is Arafah. It is the day that
you're arriving to.
Arafah is the day of recognition
of yourself with Allah as Adam and his
wife recognize themselves with Allah.
Arafah and the story of Hajj is a
love story, for those of you who don't
know.
Adam and Hawa were separate.
And on a fateful day,
as the sun was setting,
Adam is walking through a valley,
and he sees in a distance
his long lost wife,
the one he was separated from.
Fa'arafaha.
He recognized her. This is my Hawa.
This is my she is mine. I am
from her, and she is from me.
And they reconcile
together. They run to each other in the
plane of Arafat.
And it's at that place, in their tears,
in their longing, knowing that they were separated
from each other because of sin, they ask
Allah for forgiveness.
Oh Allah, we wronged ourselves.
If you don't forgive us and show us
your mercy, we will ever be losers.
And then they leave Arafah as the sun
sets and they fall asleep in Muzdalifa,
under the beautiful stars
that you will enjoy Insha'Allah.
I hope you enjoy musdalifa. Some of the
best sleep you can have is in musdalifa.
Not for all, but for some.
By the way, I'm the grand champion of
sleep.
Masha'Allah. Yeah. Kiddah. Kida. Especially
Musdalifa, because it's a great sunnah of the
prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam. Immediately after Maghrib Isha,
there's no tahajjud,
there's no long dua, there's none of this.
You get to Musdelifa,
I'm gonna put on my Qatar Airways,
eyepiece,
I'm gonna put on my noise cancelling,
I'm gonna get on my right side.
Wake up at 2 hours before Fajr Insha'Allah.
You'll know why
when you see the bathrooms.
2:2 and a half hours. I will wake
all of you up in my group. You
Allah. Up. Up. Up. Beat the rush. Right?
I will pay the cleaners a little bit
extra. Always carry 10 riyals.
You will be surprised what 10 rial does
in Saudi Arabia.
As the cleaner's standing there,
he's got a stick in his hand. He's
got the detergent in his hand.
You're a king in Musdalifa.
People are like, subhanallah,
Sheikh, you look so fresh. I say, 10
rial.
10 rial Allah. Alright? Fresh.
Brand new bathroom for you, brand new shower
facility for you.
10 real. And then come out, give them
another 10.
Alright?
Get it ready for the next person.
Right? Musdalifa, they slept.
Mina,
Arafa,
in the middle, they
slept.
When you wake up in Musdalifa,
it is the sunnah of the prophet
to pray salatul fajr.
Those who are unable to stay the whole
night, like the wives of the Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, go
ahead. After the middle of the night, he
sent them. Young and old,
those who are unable to stay the night,
No problem.
And we will give you that option. We
will say, those who want to go,
you can go. Those who want to stay
till sunrise, stay.
You stay till sunrise,
you wake up prayfarshir, and then the prophet
stayed standing,
making du'a again.
It's one of the forgotten sunnah of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam that I will remind
you of insha'Allah.
Try to remember that if you're not with
me. In Muzdalifa when you wake up, try
to remember even if your group is moving,
as you are moving towards the train or
the bus, be in du'a to Allah standing.
The prophet
with his hands raised, making du'a to Allah
until the sun rose, then he walked, and
then he headed or rode towards Mina Insha'Allah.
So even if you are going through Muzdalifa,
walking through it, training through it, bussing through
it, do not
exit your dua. Allah is the one who
commends it.
Now that you have made
you've left like a tidal wave. Everybody leaves
Arafah at one time.
Don't forget to make mention of Allah in
that sacred place in Muzdalifa.
Right?
Make dua. Stand up and ask Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala after salatul fajr, hopefully until the
sun rises.
Get onto your transport. Make your way to
the jamarat. Now this is day 3. As
you could see in my fingers, it is
the longest
day.
It is the longest day of Hajj.
It is also,
for many, the most difficult day of Hajj.
This is where you will do most of
your walking.
This is where you will exert yourself the
most.
So you've watered yourself.
You've worshiped Allah in Arafah.
You've slept and rested well and early in
Muzdalifa.
It's an early sunnah sleep. You've woken up,
longest day,
head out towards Mina. You're going to throw
your 7 jamarat.
You're going to throw the 7 jamarat at
the last
jamarat. Only 7.
Notice I didn't say collect your pebbles from
Musdelifa. You can.
But you can collect it from Mecca, Musdelifa,
Mina,
Arafa,
anywhere in the sacred lands.
And it's nice if you can collect it
in Musdalifa, but I usually tell my group,
get your stones if you have a little
bit of time
as you are in Mecca, as you are
in Musdelifa. In fact, our group will usually
give you the prepackaged Chinese stones. No. They're
not from China.
I call them Chinese stones because the bag
it said made in China. I was like,
SubhanAllah.
The stones are the bag only.
So we give you a bag. We make
it easy for you. There's no requirement for
you to wash your stones or anything like
that.
None of that is sunnah of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam. You can collect your own
stones
anywhere in Makkal Mookaruma,
anywhere in Arafah, anywhere in Muzdalifa insha'Allah,
and you have them ready for you and
you take it with you. Collect as many
as you can because people drop them along
the way. You can give salvecca to others
insha'Allah.
Alright?
So you will throw 7 stones, then you
will make your way down towards the camp
in Mina.
And,
for some of you, if you are in,
Al Mu'ayasam,
you are not going to go straight back
to Mina.
They will take you straight to Mecca
to do because the return journey and then
returning back is going to be too much.
So what I would suggest and they might
give you the option, by the way. They
might give you because you can make your
tawaf later. No problem.
I suggest to you
quick and clean.
Get there. Do your jamarat.
Make your way down to Mecca.
Walking the road from,
Jamarat to Mecca is not, it's undercover. It's
nice, and you feel the Hajj. Even for
those of us who do trains, I usually
will do one day with my group walking.
Because you you've come for that. Right? You
want to feel
every footstep.
Right?
Everybody with you. And then the Malaysians start
singing. Right?
You're like, okay. You Allah, Malaysia.
Indonesians, masha'Allah,
South Africans, the Turkish people throwing hazelnuts at
you. It's a beautiful
experience. Right? So the 3rd day, you begin
jamarat.
You're going to do
the slaughter for you. It will be done
for you, the Hedi.
For all of Alburji groups,
it's already done. We we've already covered the
cost. It's already been pre ordered.
If you follow the Hanafi Merhab.
Right? And, by the way, for those of
you who are traveling with me, I have
no problem with you saying, Sheikh, I want
to do this and no problem. Let me
know what your considerations are. In the Hanafi
madheb, there is the concept that I want
to do things in order.
Even though the majority opinion is that it's
not essential in order. It just was coincidental
in order for the prophet alaihi wasallam. It's
not that he said, don't do this unless
you do this. It just happened that he
did this, which is good. Let's follow the
sunnah. No problem. And the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam ordered the slaughter sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam before
having his head shaved.
Every year you will have some brothers who
are waiting for a phone call to confirm.
And I can tell you with my group,
I will not take that responsibility that I
will tell you, I will get a phone
call for you that will say, Yahya, Ibrahim
has done. Yeah.
What I will say to you is wait
until the zawal,
wait until the sun is at noon,
and it should be done by then. Usually
our groups, because we prepaid early, that's why
we prepay early, we're the first lot
that gets done. So if you are not
one who has a prepaid package,
what I would say to you now is
book it now.
Don't book it there because what it means
is you will be
in the later lot. So get your prepackaged
done now Insha'Allah.
They'll give you a text message if they
can, but I can tell you that it
is a broadcast message. It's sent out to
all of the community.
It's not Yahya Ibrahim Sheeb and then, you
know, Naim Mirs and then brother Harul. Yeah.
It's just done
across the board. Okay?
What I would say to you is the
generality
of it being done is that you can
believe that this will have been fulfilled on
your behalf, Insha'Allah,
by about noon.
So then you would have your haircut.
I will normally have my haircut,
before noon, and then you can remove your
ihram.
So here,
you can remove your ihram or you can
go straight down to Mecca, do your powaf,
and say you with ihram. It's up to
you. If your tents are on the way,
get changed
after you have pelted the stone, have cut
your hair, take off your ihram, you're in
a minor state of ihram,
meaning you can do anything except being intimate
with your spouse. Everything else is okay. Wearing
clothes and perfume. It's a day of Eid,
inshaAllah.
Do your tawaf if you can in sai.
If you cannot,
you can do it the next day or
the next day or the next day or
the next day. There is no time limit
for it insha'Allah.
At at your convenience, depending on your feeling
insha'Allah.
You will come back to Mina,
and you want to come back to Mina
to spend the night in Mina for the
next
2 and 2 or 3 days. Right?
So now it's 10th, 11th, and 12th, the
5 days of Hajj. For some, they might
do 13th.
You can add it, but you don't have
to. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
the one who wants,
to continue, let them, and the one who
wants to end early, they can end early
Insha'Allah.
Most of us, we end on 12th Insha'Allah.
So the 11th and 12th, you will stay
in Mina.
You're going to be there during the evening
hours
as an obligation,
as a waju. It is a necessity to
stay,
in Mina, insha Allah, even if you have
your hotel, even if you have the building
in shisha,
even if you have accommodations
that are outside the tents in Mina, come
back to Mina,
walk through it in the evening hours, spend
the bulk of the night. For those of
you who are traveling with me, we have
buses that then take us back at 1
AM. They take us back into Mecca,
into our hotels.
You can refresh. You spend the whole day,
the heat of the day in Mecca,
enjoy the Haram, and then at Asr al,
we take you back towards,
Mina Insha'Allah.
That's one of the advantageous
advent,
advantages of that. So those 2 days are
Mina days. After having done that, your Hajj
alhamdulillah is over with the final
that you do your final
7 circuits around the Kaaba.
Is seen as an obligation.
Certainly,
I would order you to do tawafulwada.
It can be combined with tawaf
al Hajj or tawafullifaba.
So whatever your final Tawaf is is your
final Tawaf. You want your final legacy with
Mecca to be a Tawaf
around the Kaaba,
insha'Allah.
All of that has in it the rituals
of the Umrah, the tawaf
and the saiyan, the running between asafah wal
marwah.
The umrah, in short, is that we have
ihram. It's 4 pillars. Ihram,
doing 7 circuits around the Kaaba,
doing 7 runs between the mountain of Saffa
and Marwa, and removing our Haram by shaving
or cutting our hair insha Allah. If you
are doing tamaatdur,
I would say to the brothers shorten
and then make your final cut for your
hajj insha Allah.
Or you could do it either way. No
problem.
Usually the barber will tell you if they
see you are doing tamaat dua. Do you
want to shorten mekana, meaning machine,
or moose, razor?
He will point to you either one and
they're multilingual there. Masha'Allah.
Tabarukarrahman.
Let's take our first break insha'Allah.
I wanted to end at 12:30. We'll end
just a little bit earlier, and then we'll
resume again insha'Allah at 1 PM. So it'll
give you a little bit of time. We're
gonna pray,
across in the mall in the gym.
We'll close the doors. Let the air condition
try to cool the room down for you
a little bit.
Do take please enjoy the snacks and fruits
and things like that. They are there
for you, For those of you following online,
we'll come back to you at 1:15
Insha'Allah.
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