Yasir Qadhi – The Basics of Hajj – A Practical Guide to Hajj 2024

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The holy Bible is a key point in the holy city of Mecca, where acceptance of Islam is essential to achieving a spiritual journey. The importance of acceptance and making a commitment to it is emphasized, as it is a blessing and choice. The journey is a microcosmic one and is designed to transform one's life. The importance of mental preparation and control of anger is also emphasized. The importance of following church guidelines and not harming others is emphasized, and the importance of not losing one's spiritual state and not just getting angry at people is also emphasized. The importance of mental preparation and control of anger is emphasized, and the importance of following church guidelines and not harming others is emphasized.

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			I just recited for you 2 of the,
		
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			verses in the Quran. There are others as
		
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			well, but 2 of the primary verses that
		
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			deal with the blessings of Hajj. And in
		
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			the first one, Surat Ibrahim,
		
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			Allah
		
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			mentions the commandment of Hajj. This is where
		
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			Hajj begins.
		
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			Where does it begin?
		
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			Say the adhan for Hajj. There is an
		
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			actual adhan that was given for Hajj. Here,
		
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			the adhan here means
		
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			proclaim to mankind that they should come for
		
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			Hajj. Where and when was this proclamation made?
		
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			It was made over 4000 years ago
		
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			in the holy city of Mecca when the
		
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			prophet sallallahu alaihi when the prophet Ibrahim alaihi
		
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			salam first built the Kaaba with his son,
		
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			Ismael.
		
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			When he first built the Kaaba and nobody
		
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			had yet done tawaf
		
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			and nobody had yet traveled and nobody had
		
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			done anything for the Kaaba yet, Allah said,
		
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			announce
		
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			the Hajj
		
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			Hajj, and make this Adan
		
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			to all of mankind.
		
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			Hajj. Make it for all of mankind.
		
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			And so Ibrahim alaihis salam, it is said
		
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			he asked Allah, oh, Allah, this is a
		
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			dead land. This is an empty land. Oh,
		
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			Allah. Who's gonna come
		
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			to perform
		
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			to your sacred house when nobody lives here?
		
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			When this is in the middle of nowhere?
		
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			And Allah said to Ibrahim alayhis salam,
		
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			you give the adhan, and I will make
		
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			sure it is heard. You give the adhan,
		
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			and I will make sure people hear and
		
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			respond to that adhan. And so our our
		
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			father, Ibrahim alayhis salam, he walked to the
		
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			surrounding valleys. He walked to,
		
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			he walked to the, mountains around and to
		
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			Safa and Marwa as well and to the
		
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			other mountains, Jabal Qobais and others he went.
		
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			And from every mountain top, he announced
		
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			that, oh people, oh mankind,
		
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			Allah has asked me to proclaim that you
		
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			should come to Hajj. You should come to
		
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			his house to perform the Hajj. And when
		
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			he gave that call, no human being other
		
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			than his family heard. But Allah
		
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			kept that call alive, and Allah
		
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			kept that adhan perpetual.
		
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			And so since that year,
		
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			every single year, even pre Islam and with
		
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			the coming of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
		
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			Islam and up until our time post Islam.
		
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			Throughout all of these 4000 years, people have
		
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			been performing Hajj. And that adhan
		
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			has become so popular
		
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			that the largest annual gathering in the whole
		
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			world, this is according to the Guinness Book
		
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			of World Records, the largest religious gathering
		
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			every single year is the Hajj. And that
		
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			is the response to that adhan. And in
		
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			fact, when we say,
		
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			and you should know this. This is a
		
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			very key point here. When we say,
		
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			we are responding to that call, that adhan.
		
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			That's what means. Literally,
		
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			means, oh, Allah, here I am at your
		
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			service. Oh, Allah, I'm responding to your call.
		
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			Is a term in Arabic that doesn't have
		
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			an English equivalent. There's no simple word here.
		
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			And laba means
		
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			to respond to a call. That's literally what
		
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			it means. So you only do labaik when
		
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			somebody has called you. You don't you don't
		
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			just come and say, hey. I'm here. That's
		
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			not
		
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			is somebody calls you says has come here.
		
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			When you respond to the call in Arabic,
		
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			you say, Labayka.
		
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			I am responding to your call. Now a
		
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			lot of us say, Labayk Allahumma Labayk, and
		
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			we don't understand why we're saying it. You
		
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			know why we're saying it? We are responding
		
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			to the adhan that our father Ibrahim gave,
		
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			And that's literally what we say.
		
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			Oh, Allah. I heard the adhan. I heard
		
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			the call. I believe in that call. I
		
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			know you have called me to your house.
		
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			You told me to come.
		
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			I have responded to that call. I have
		
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			replied to that call. Here I am, oh
		
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			Allah,
		
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			responding
		
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			to the to the call of Ibrahim alayhis
		
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			salam and replying to your commandment to come.
		
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			So that is why we are coming to
		
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			the house of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. And
		
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			all Muslim, what can
		
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			impress us? What can
		
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			make us understand
		
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			the reality of this sacred journey that you
		
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			are all about to undertake? Subhan Allah. I
		
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			have performed more Hajj's than I can remember.
		
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			I think almost 20 Hajj's. And every single
		
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			time we go over and I go over
		
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			these hadith,
		
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			it is just
		
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			humbling. It is just overpowering
		
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			the blessings of Hajj. Never you lose the
		
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			the hope and the enthusiasm
		
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			and the awe of the blessings given. Do
		
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			you know a Muslim
		
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			that the famous companion, Amr ibn al Aas,
		
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			that he had a a a stellar resume
		
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			and a a very well known career pre
		
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			Islam. And he had committed some crimes against
		
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			the Muslims because he was a general, because
		
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			he had done things, you know, militarily.
		
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			That Amr ibn Aas was the last Muslim
		
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			to convert,
		
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			before the conquest of Matkah. He was the
		
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			last Muslim to make hijra. And when he
		
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			came to Madinah, the last Muslim to migrate
		
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			to Medina, literally the last Muslim, and he
		
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			was very embarrassed at all that he had
		
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			done. He had literally, you know, harmed the
		
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			ummah, even killed Muslims in the pre Islamic
		
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			days of Jahiliyyah, you know, when he was
		
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			fighting on the wrong side. And he came
		
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			to the prophet,
		
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			and he put his hand out,
		
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			and the prophet was gonna take it, then
		
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			he put his hand back. So the prophet
		
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			said, what's up? Why are you putting you
		
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			you came to accept Islam. Right? He said,
		
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			you Rasulullah, I have a condition. Now this
		
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			was in the, 7th year of the Hijra.
		
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			This was before the conquest of Mecca. No
		
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			Hajj had been performed yet. The Muslims had
		
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			not done Hajj yet. Listen to this hadith.
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam asked him, Mahiam,
		
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			what's up? Why did you put your hand
		
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			back? He said, you Rasool Allah, I have
		
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			a condition. So the prophet
		
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			said, what's the condition? He said, you Rasoolallah,
		
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			I've done so much wrong.
		
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			I I I want to embrace Islam on
		
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			a clean slate. I want all my sins
		
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			to be forgiven. I don't want to have
		
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			to deal with all that I've done. So
		
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			the prophet smiled. Remember, it's the 7th year.
		
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			Nobody has done Hajj yet, and yet he's
		
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			giving this hadith. He said he said, oh,
		
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			Amr, don't you know that
		
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			a non Muslim embracing Islam
		
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			and a Muslim performing Hajj. Notice, Wallahi, this
		
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			hadith is mind boggling. Look at the context.
		
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			There has never been a Hajj done, yet
		
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			the prophet wanted us to know the equivalent.
		
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			Don't you know, o'amr, that when a person
		
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			embraces Islam or when a Muslim does Hajj
		
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			and it is accepted,
		
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			then all of their previous sins are forgiven.
		
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			All of the sins are forgiven. SubhanAllah,
		
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			our prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam equated the going
		
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			for hajj. He equated the performance of the
		
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			Hajj as a Muslim with literally
		
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			the embracing of Islam as a non Muslim.
		
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			That's literally the equation. Oh, Muslim whom Allah
		
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			has chosen to go for Hajj, listen to
		
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			me and listen carefully. And I'm see I'm
		
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			being very, very frank over here. If you
		
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			are going for Hajj,
		
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			if your
		
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			to go for Hajj
		
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			is just to cross off something on your
		
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			to do list, if it is just to,
		
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			in your mind, get rid of some, you
		
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			know, deep seated, you know, obligation you think
		
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			you have and that's it to go back
		
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			to resume your normal life afterwards,
		
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			then I warn you, I caution you that
		
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			you are not performing Hajj with the right
		
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			frame of mind. This is not how you
		
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			perform Hajj to cross it off your to
		
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			do list. It is not a chore that
		
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			you just have to get rid of and
		
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			then return.
		
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			No. Hajj is literally a transformative
		
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			experience. It is a life changing experience.
		
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			What changes occur when a non Muslim embraces
		
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			Islam? What sacrifices
		
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			does that person have to do? What new
		
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			routines and rituals does a non Muslim have
		
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			to take on? You and I both know
		
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			it is literally a game changer, a life
		
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			changing experience. Well, guess what, o Muslim? You
		
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			and I performing the Hajj, that is the
		
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			equivalent
		
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			of a non Muslim embracing Islam. That is
		
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			a life changing transformation
		
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			that should affect a complete overhaul, a complete
		
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			redo of your priorities, of your ethics, of
		
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			your livelihood, of your routine. Everything should change.
		
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			That's the goal of Hajj. And if and
		
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			when you go with that mindset, well then
		
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			that is a whole different experience. And that
		
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			is when Hajj will indeed have all of
		
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			these blessings that we are talking about. But
		
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			dear Muslim, and I tell you from now,
		
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			if you go with the wrong intention, if
		
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			you go without having this mindset that I
		
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			want Allah to accept my Hajj and I
		
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			want Hajj to be something that truly impacts
		
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			me. If you don't go with this mindset,
		
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			well then, there is still time Insha'Allah.
		
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			We think through and have a genuine,
		
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			sincere commitment that, oh, Allah, you're allowing me
		
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			to come and realize, oh, Muslim,
		
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			that the very fact that you get for
		
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			Hajj, the very the very fact you're allowed
		
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			to go for Hajj in and of itself.
		
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			This is a blessing and a choosing that
		
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			is not in my hand. Our prophet said,
		
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			The Hujjaj are Allah's delegations and guests.
		
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			Allah's delegations and guests. Allah invited them and
		
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			they accepted that invitation.
		
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			So to be there in Makkah, to be
		
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			there in Hajj, this is not something that
		
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			is in your choice or my choice. It
		
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			is in the choice of Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala. So the very fact you have been
		
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			chosen, the very fact that Allah has given
		
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			you this opportunity
		
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			means he wants you to change, and he
		
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			wants you to become somebody that is beloved
		
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			to him. And he wants to forgive your
		
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			sins. So accept that invitation.
		
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			Accept that blessing that Allah has given you,
		
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			and make sure you have the right mindset.
		
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			Make sure your niyya, your paradigm, your entire
		
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			your entire,
		
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			methodology of going for Hajj that you think
		
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			about it from here and now. There's barely
		
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			2 months left, oh Muslim. So now is
		
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			the time you have to start thinking, why
		
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			am I going? What is my goal? When
		
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			I come back, what will I be doing
		
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			to manifest the blessings of Allah for having
		
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			gone for Hajj? Our prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			said,
		
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			The best of all deeds is iman in
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And then Hajj, then it is the Hajj.
		
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			Hajj is the greatest thing you can do
		
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			after iman in Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. And
		
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			our mother, Aisha Radiallahu
		
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			Anha, she came to the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wasallam, and she said, you Rasulullah,
		
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			all the men are getting the rewards. They
		
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			go for you the battle of Barid, the
		
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			battle of Uhud, the battle of Khandaq, the
		
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			battle of of Amurisiyah, all of these battles.
		
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			What can we do? We can't go in
		
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			these battles. We wanna get all of the
		
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			blessings of jihad and of shahad and everything
		
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			possible. We want those blessings. The prophet
		
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			said, I will tell you of the equivalent
		
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			of jihad that has no hardship
		
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			of blood. There's no blood being shed in
		
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			it, but it'll get the rewards. And that
		
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			is
		
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			the jihad of going for Hajj and Umrah.
		
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			Simply doing Hajj and Umrah, traveling for Hajj
		
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			and Umrah, participating in Hajj and Umrah,
		
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			all of the blessings that the true people
		
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			of Jihad and of Badr and and and
		
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			and and all of those,
		
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			expeditions that that will come to the one
		
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			that is undertaking the Hajj to the house
		
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			of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			and our prophet Sallallahu Alaihi wa Salam said
		
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			3 people
		
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			feel the man in Allah
		
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			3 people are under the protection of Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Allah has promised that they
		
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			will be blessed by protection here. It doesn't
		
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			mean no harm will come to them. Protection
		
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			here means that Allah has given them special
		
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			attention, special care. 3 are the people that
		
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			Allah
		
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			has protected.
		
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			And he said one of them,
		
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			a person who came out and did Hajj.
		
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			As long as he is in Hajj, he
		
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			is Allah's guest and Allah has protected him.
		
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			And that's why, by the way, if a
		
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			person dies in the state of Hajj, if
		
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			a person dies in the state of iharam,
		
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			there's special rituals that that the the type
		
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			of perfume and whatnot is not done upon
		
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			this person because they are honored in a
		
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			special manner that other people are not honored.
		
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			Because they are Allah's guests, Allah's delegates. So
		
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			all all Muslim, Allah has chosen you to
		
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			be his guest. Allah has chosen you to
		
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			be his delegate. Delegate. So from now from
		
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			now, my advice to myself and all of
		
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			you is to get the right mindset, to
		
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			understand this is not something that is just
		
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			crossing off the list. It must be, it
		
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			should be a life transformative experience. Your goal
		
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			should be that Hajj changes your heart and
		
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			soul. Hajj causes you to reconnect with your
		
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			faith in a manner that you have never
		
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			been connected before. Hajj brings you closer to
		
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			Allah than you have ever been in your
		
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			entire life. That is the goal. And if
		
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			that happens, then
		
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			Hajj will genuinely be a transformative experience. Realize
		
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			all Muslims, the blessing is of Hajj began
		
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			even before the journey. And during the journey,
		
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			the blessings of Hajj began as soon as
		
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			you leave your house. Our prophet
		
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			said that no person
		
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			takes one footstep nor does an animal take
		
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			1 even one step from the animal except
		
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			that going for Hajj obviously. Except that Allah
		
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			causes
		
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			an entire level of jannah, an entire daraja
		
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			for him to be given, and, an an
		
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			entire set of of evil deeds to be
		
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			wiped out. Every single footstep that you take,
		
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			every single,
		
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			portion of the journey that you do and
		
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			and many of us are going from faraway
		
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			lands. Imagine we are going all the way
		
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			from America. And so every single step that
		
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			you do and every single journey that you
		
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			travel, it is as if Allah
		
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			will continue to give different levels of Jannah
		
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			and forgive different quantities of sins simply by
		
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			your undertaking the journey for Hajj. And our
		
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			prophet said
		
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			that nobody says the Talbiyah. Nobody says the
		
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			Takbeer in the Hajj. Nobody says that while
		
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			they're going for Hajj, except that an angel
		
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			is gonna be giving him glad tidings of
		
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			Jannah. An angel will be giving him glad
		
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			tidings of of of Jannah. And whatever
		
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			that we do
		
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			that every time that we do the
		
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			whatever hears that around us will testify on
		
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			the day of judgment. Every rock, every leaf,
		
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			every stone, every brick of the building, even
		
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			inanimate objects, they will testify that, oh, Allah,
		
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			this person answered your call. Oh, Allah, this
		
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			person left his house or her house and
		
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			walked or rode the bus or took the
		
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			train or took the airplane and and traveled
		
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			all the way from his home in order
		
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			to please you and to sacrifice of his
		
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			wealth and time to answer the call of
		
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			Ibrahim alaihis salaam. And every single footstep that
		
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			we take is going to be blessed. And
		
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			as for the blessings of Arafat,
		
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			as for the blessings of the people of
		
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			Arafat, then what will make you realize the
		
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			blessings of the people of Arafat? What will
		
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			make you realize the blessings of the people
		
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			of Arafat? There is no gathering
		
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			more sacred than the gathering of Arafat. There
		
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			is no blessed people more blessed in our
		
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			times after the Sahaba, obviously. There is no
		
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			blessed groups of people that is more blessed
		
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			than the gathering of the plains of Arafat.
		
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			Allah
		
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			himself
		
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			boasts to the angels of how proud he
		
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			is of those people. Allah himself boast to
		
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			the people that look at all of my
		
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			servants. They have gathered from all over the
		
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			world. Look at how tired they are. This
		
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			is all in the hadith. Look at how
		
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			tired they are.
		
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			Look at how dusty they are. Look at
		
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			how disheveled they are. You know, you're in
		
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			Ihram for 3 days. Right? You will you
		
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			will realize if you haven't been, you will
		
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			realize exactly this hadith. Oh, Muslim, memorize this
		
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			hadith and console yourself because you will feel
		
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			tired. You will feel dirty. You will feel
		
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			disheveled. That because of the circumstances,
		
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			it's gonna be difficult to take baths and
		
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			showers. Because of the circumstances, you're gonna be
		
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			sweaty and grimy. Because of the circumstances, you
		
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			wouldn't have combed your hair, your deodiance, your
		
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			perfumes, all gone. And so you are literally
		
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			dusty and tired and disheveled. And when you
		
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			are feeling that way, don't feel down. Don't
		
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			feel don't feel depressed.
		
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			Thank Allah that you're there and remember this
		
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			hadith that Allah hadith Qudsi. Allah
		
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			will boast to the angels, look at my
		
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			servants.
		
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			Look at these servants. They They have come
		
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			from all over the world
		
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			responding to my call, and they are dusty,
		
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			tired, disheveled. They are they are as they
		
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			are, and they are all
		
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			gathered for one reason, and that is they
		
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			want my forgiveness.
		
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			And then he Allah, azzawajal, will say to
		
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			the angels that I call you to testify
		
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			that I have forgiven
		
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			every single one of them. I have forgiven
		
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			down to the last person and our prophet
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi wasallam told us you know, authentic
		
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			hadith. He said,
		
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			The best dua anybody can ever make is
		
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			the dua of Arafa. The best dua anybody
		
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			can make is the dua of Arafa. Oh,
		
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			Muslim,
		
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			no dua of yours in your whole life.
		
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			No dua is more powerful and more effective
		
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			than the duas you can make on the
		
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			day of Arafa, in the plains of Arafa.
		
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			You will have the opportunity
		
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			to speak directly with Allah. You will have
		
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			the opportunity to hand in your petitions directly
		
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			to Allah and
		
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			Allah will be listening to the please of
		
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			every single one of you, to the request
		
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			of every single one of you. So go
		
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			prepared. Make sure you know the duas that
		
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			you want. And the most important dua is
		
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			the dua of and Hidaya. You want Allah
		
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			to forgive your past. You want Allah to
		
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			bless your future with guidance. You want Allah
		
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			to forgive all the sins you've done. You
		
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			want Allah to make it easy for you
		
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			to be the best Muslim you can be
		
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			in the future. Make these duas a priority
		
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			and know
		
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			that the dua of the dua of Arafa
		
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			is a dua that is accepted by Allah.
		
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			No dua is turned away on the day
		
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			of Arafa. Every single dua that you make
		
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			is going to be accepted. Now, of course,
		
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			to be accepted means that Allah
		
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			will hear and give you something
		
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			something what you wanted or something better than
		
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			that. So an equivalent or better than that.
		
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			So every dua you make will be accepted.
		
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			And when you finish Arafat and you go
		
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			over to the land of Musdaliifa,
		
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			there Allah
		
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			mentions the Muzdalifa in the Quran.
		
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			Allah, that's where Muzdalifa is the sacred,
		
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			lands and territory. Allah mentions Muzdalifa in the
		
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			Quran. And he says, once you finish up
		
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			Arafat, then go and continue your dhikr in
		
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			Mashal Haram. Continue in Musdariqa. And then from
		
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			Musdariqa, when you work your way, walk your
		
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			way to the Jamarat, our prophet
		
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			said, And as for your stoning that you
		
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			do for the Jamarat,
		
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			then Allah will safeguard
		
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			every single blessing of that day. You're walking
		
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			and you're pelting.
		
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			It will be invested for you is a
		
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			saying, well, you can translate it. All the
		
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			deeds of that day, because that is a
		
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			hectic. The the 10th of the is always
		
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			hectic, because there's so much to do. Right?
		
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			You have to walk, you have to go
		
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			pelt, you have to go to change and
		
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			everything. Always the most hectic day, right, of
		
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			10th. So so the prophet
		
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			said, that day and the day of Jamarat
		
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			that you do it, all of it, Allah
		
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			will invest it for you. Allah will store
		
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			it for you. Meaning, you're going to see
		
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			all that you've done on the day of
		
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			judgment. You will get it back and it
		
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			will please you and you will be happy
		
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			of all that you have done. And then
		
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			as for the
		
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			shaving of a hair, our prophet
		
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			said that when your hair is shaved or
		
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			trimmed for every hair that falls, Allah
		
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			will forgive will forgive your evil. Allah will
		
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			forgive all of your evil deeds. So it
		
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			is symbolic and it is real that as
		
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			you are shaving or trimming, then all of
		
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			this is falling off, so too your sins
		
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			are completely
		
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			falling off. And then when you do your
		
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			and that is, of course, the the the
		
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			the main, rukun after the rukun of of,
		
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			of of standing in was and and and
		
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			Arafat. When you do it,
		
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			which is done, on 10th or 11th or
		
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			12th, whenever you do it, whenever you do
		
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			it,
		
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			realize that is one of the primary pillars
		
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			of Hajj.
		
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			And our prophet said, when the Hajj when
		
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			the Hajj does his tawaf and he finishes,
		
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			then he will leave
		
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			the the Kaaba
		
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			as pure as the day his mother gave
		
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			birth to him. You know the famous hadith
		
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			that we have about, having all your sins
		
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			forgiven? It applies right at the point of
		
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			tawafl ifada. When you finish tawafl ifada, then
		
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			expect
		
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			Allah
		
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			to bless you with a complete clean slate.
		
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			And you are now spiritually
		
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			absolutely pure
		
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			even though physically you're sweating and physically you're
		
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			tired and physically your clothes are dirty and
		
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			physically you might hit this and that. But
		
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			spiritually,
		
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			you are sparkling clean. You have never been
		
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			cleaner in your whole life than that day
		
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			as an adult. Yes. You were clean as
		
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			clean that day when you were born because
		
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			you have no sin. But since that day,
		
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			now is the cleanest day you have ever
		
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			been. So as you do, tawaf al ifada,
		
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			as you do, your ifada,
		
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			understand the spiritual significance of that
		
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			do not trivialize
		
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			that day and ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			to have your Hajj accepted. All Muslim realize
		
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			as our prophet
		
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			said that
		
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			The Hajj that is accepted, it has no
		
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			reward lesser than Jannah itself. You see, there
		
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			is no grade for Hajj. You don't get
		
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			a b plus for Hajj. You don't get
		
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			a c plus. You don't even get an
		
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			a minus. There is no grade for Hajj.
		
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			You can't do a mediocre Hajj. You either
		
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			have an accepted Hajj or you don't. And
		
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			if you have an accepted Hajj,
		
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			the only reward for Hajj is Jannah itself.
		
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			Now do you understand
		
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			why the prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam equated the
		
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			embracing of Islam by a non Muslim with
		
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			a Muslim doing the Hajj? Because just like
		
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			the non Muslim
		
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			saves himself or herself from Jahannam and guarantees
		
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			Jannah when they say the the Shahada.
		
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			So to the Muslim, when the Muslim goes
		
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			for Hajj, when the Muslim participates in the
		
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			rituals of Hajj, there is no reward lesser
		
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			than Jannah itself.
		
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			So either you do it and Allah accepts,
		
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			in which case you get to Jannah. Or
		
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			we
		
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			don't do it. We don't do it because
		
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			the only reason the Hajj will not be
		
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			accepted is if we did it with the
		
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			wrong intention. The other, you know, technicalities
		
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			we can always make up. But the only
		
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			reason that the Hajj will not be accepted
		
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			was something inside of us. That's something we
		
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			did wrong. That our was wrong. We messed
		
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			up,
		
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			spiritually.
		
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			That's what's going to ruin our Hajj. And
		
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			so my dear brothers and sisters, realize that
		
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			the journey of Hajj,
		
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			it is a microcosmic
		
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			journey
		
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			of the spiritual soul to the akhira. Literally,
		
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			as you are going to the akhira spiritually,
		
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			the hajj is like a a physical manifestation
		
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			of that. So just like the soul will
		
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			journey back to Allah, in hajj, the body
		
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			journeys to the house of Allah. In the
		
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			akhira, the soul goes back to Allah but
		
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			in this dunya, we are voluntarily
		
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			walking and going to the house of Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala. So don't forget your spiritual
		
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			journey as you are going physically to Makkah,
		
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			physically to the house of Allah. Now when
		
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			you come back, your heart and your soul
		
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			must walk on the Surat al Mustaqim to
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. As you go for
		
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			Hajj, you prepare yourself with money. You prepare
		
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			yourself with medicines. You prepare yourself with taking
		
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			the packages that are, you know,
		
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			the packages you wanna go with. You you
		
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			prepare yourself by reading,
		
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			about Hajj and listening to lectures about Hajj.
		
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			So to prepare and this is by the
		
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			way, all of this is in the Quran.
		
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			What does Allah says prepare for the journey.
		
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			Don't just leave your house and expect, you
		
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			know, rain to fall on you that are
		
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			along the way. What does that do? Pack
		
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			your bags, have your money, have your passport.
		
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			That's literally what does that do means. Be
		
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			take preparations for the journey. And as you
		
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			take preparations, fa'ina khayra zaad I taqwa, the
		
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			best way to prepare yourself for this world
		
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			is taqwa. That's your real
		
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			zad. That's your real provisions that you need
		
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			to take. So when you prepare yourself physically
		
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			for Hajj, prepare yourself spiritually to go back
		
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			to Allah
		
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			Realize as well, when you go for Hajj,
		
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			you are leaving your family and friends. You
		
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			are leaving your work. You're leaving your house.
		
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			And remember, a time will come when you
		
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			will permanently leave all of these things to
		
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			return back to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. As
		
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			you say goodbye to your family, you say
		
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			goodbye to your friends, as you walk away
		
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			from your house voluntarily,
		
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			a time will come when you will walk
		
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			away spiritually,
		
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			involuntarily. The angel of death will come and
		
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			there will be no goodbyes. But the
		
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			same,
		
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			separation will take place. But the difference is
		
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			that for Hajid, it's temporary. And for the
		
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			akhirah, it is permanent. As you get into
		
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			the ihram, you will take a ghusl and
		
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			shower and you will wear the ihram. Realize
		
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			what is this if not a reminder of
		
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			death? What is this except exactly a reminder
		
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			that at least now you are taking the
		
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			shower. A time will come when will be
		
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			given to you. Now you are wearing the
		
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			shrouds,
		
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			the ihram. A time will come when the
		
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			shrouds will be paste placed on you. Now
		
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			you are taking your clothes off voluntarily and
		
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			putting the ihram on. A time will come
		
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			when others will take your clothes off and
		
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			shroud you in your kafan of the akhira.
		
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			So as you put all of this, prepare
		
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			yourself for that journey as well. That's the
		
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			whole point of hajj here, to put yourself
		
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			in the spirit and mind of the journey
		
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			back to Allah
		
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			And
		
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			as you go for Hajj and you see
		
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			the,
		
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			extremes, you see the chaos, you see the
		
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			crowds, you see, you know, all that is
		
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			going on. Well, then think of the day
		
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			of judgment. Think of
		
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			the because what you see in Hajj is
		
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			but a fraction, but a miniscule
		
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			fraction of the chaos and panic and the
		
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			rush that is gonna be taking place in
		
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			the akhira on the day of judgment. Oh,
		
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			Muslim, the Hajj isn't just a physical journey.
		
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			It is a spiritual journey. It is a
		
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			transformative journey. It is a journey that is
		
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			intended
		
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			to completely
		
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			change and restructure
		
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			your life. That is the goal of Hajj.
		
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			Make it your goal from now. That is
		
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			the ultimate goal. And if you make it
		
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			your goal and if you genuinely go with
		
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			that intention, then inshallah,
		
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			your Hajj is a Hajj.
		
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			What does Hajj mean? Hajj
		
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			means Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has blessed you
		
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			with it that Allah has
		
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			accepted it. You want your Hajj to be
		
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			Hajj and you
		
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			want Allah to have accepted your Hajj And
		
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			so a Muslim, some very quick generic advice,
		
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			and then I'll open the floor for some
		
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			q and a. And today is not really
		
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			the day for for q and a. We'll
		
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			have another, multiple sessions and, you know, each
		
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			specific group is gonna have, you know, more,
		
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			classes and talks. Those are with my group,
		
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			then we have obviously our own intensive,
		
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			series of lectures we're gonna be doing, and
		
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			other groups can have their, I'm sure they
		
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			have their own own plans and packages as
		
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			well. And so,
		
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			this is not really about the fiqh of
		
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			q and a, but I do wanna give
		
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			you some, aspects or some, realities, and
		
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			especially for those that have not gone for
		
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			Hajj and this is your,
		
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			first time going for Hajj, then let me
		
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			explain to you that,
		
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			I'm gonna tell you something that is not
		
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			politically correct to say, but it is needs
		
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			to be said.
		
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			Many of us who have never been for
		
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			Hajj,
		
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			you think that you're gonna be spiritually at
		
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			an all time high, and you think you're
		
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			gonna be in this nice little bubble of
		
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			iman and taqwa.
		
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			But when you get there, there's going to
		
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			be a 1,000,001
		
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			problems,
		
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			starting with the traffic
		
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			and the jostling and shoving of people. Right?
		
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			And the filth around you everywhere. And the
		
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			beggars coming to you. And this and that.
		
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			And you are a human being
		
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			and surrounded by all that you are. And
		
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			you're gonna see things you don't like to
		
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			see. People are being very nasty and mean
		
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			in Hajj. They're pushing people in front of
		
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			the Kaaba, and it's really heartbreaking. Right? And
		
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			they're trying to do this and that. And
		
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			you're like, are you here for Hajj or
		
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			what? I don't understand. So realize, oh, Muslim,
		
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			you're not gonna have this calm, serene bubble
		
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			that you think you will. You're gonna be
		
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			tired.
		
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			Eighty, ninety, 99 percent of people fall sick
		
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			during Hajj. That is the reality of Hajj
		
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			because you are, you know, congregate together. You
		
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			might have a slight fever, coughing, you know,
		
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			this is the reality, the Hajj gift we
		
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			call it. Is going for Hajj all the
		
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			time. I have been for Hajj more times
		
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			than I can remember and every single time
		
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			I get to the coughing virus and whatnot,
		
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			it is the part of Hajj, the voice
		
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			goes and whatnot. It is what happens during
		
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			Hajj. So in that state, and you're gonna
		
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			be like, how can I find spirituality?
		
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			How can I get that that that that
		
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			high that I wanted? And I'm telling you
		
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			from now, that's the spiritual high. In that
		
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			chaos,
		
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			with your body tired, surrounded by that filth
		
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			and that dirtiness and that smells and the
		
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			list and that, in that difficult situation
		
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			for you to muster
		
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			spirituality.
		
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			It's not the way you're gonna imagine it.
		
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			That's what I'm trying to explain to you.
		
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			It's not going to be the way you're
		
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			thinking about it. But whatever you do at
		
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			that stage, that is what is required. The
		
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			fact that you're attempting
		
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			in that complete chaos
		
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			to find your personal safety, safe space, your
		
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			personal spirituality,
		
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			that is where your salvation will occur. So
		
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			So understand this point as well. And, of
		
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			course, and this is something again, I've already
		
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			hinted at this. Do realize that Hajj brings
		
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			out the best and the worst of people
		
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			around, and it is the reality of the
		
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			ummah. The ummah is not angelic. We know
		
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			this. Look at what is happening around the
		
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			world and what the ummah is doing. So
		
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			the Ummah is not angelic. It's not full
		
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			of angels. The Ummah is full of good
		
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			people and the opposite. And in Hajj, you
		
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			will find the best of the best. People
		
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			will sacrifice. People will you will find people
		
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			that would have walked from halfway across the
		
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			world to come to Makkah and Madinah. And
		
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			here we are traveling in air conditioned planes
		
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			at 600 miles an hour, you know, within
		
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			or within hours from one end of the
		
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			world to other. There are people that have
		
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			spent their life savings and they are walking.
		
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			They're on bicycles. You will see this. They've
		
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			come all the way from the furthest, you
		
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			know,
		
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			countries in the world. And now they're doing
		
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			Hajj, and they're smiling and so happy just
		
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			to be there. And your iman is gonna
		
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			be all time high. And then the very
		
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			next second, you're gonna see a person getting
		
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			irritated, pushing somebody, you know, not being, nice
		
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			to somebody. And it's gonna hurt you immensely.
		
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			And this is the reality
		
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			of Hajj. And realize your job and my
		
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			job is to control our temper, is to
		
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			control our,
		
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			tongue and our anger. Our prophet
		
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			said, whoever does Hajj
		
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			without being vulgar
		
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			and without, you know,
		
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			doing any fisk to other people harming and
		
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			and hurting other people.
		
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			He's not vulgar, and he's not pushing and
		
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			shoving and being nasty to people. That is
		
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			the one who will go back with all
		
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			of his deeds,
		
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			with all of his sins forgiven. Why did
		
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			the prophet say he's not vulgar and he
		
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			doesn't hurt other people? Because in Hajj,
		
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			so many people can't help it. They lose
		
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			their temper. And when they lose their temper,
		
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			and believe me, and I as I said,
		
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			every hajj I've done, you see this happening
		
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			in front of you and you think to
		
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			yourself, subhanAllah, hey, didn't you listen to the
		
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			lecture? Didn't you listen to what the prophet
		
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			said? Did it weren't you warned not to
		
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			do this? You're gonna get angry at everybody
		
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			next to you. Akhi, why are you snoring?
		
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			Akhi this, oh, did this, that on and
		
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			on. And you realize this is the the
		
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			test of Hajj. The fact that you're congregating
		
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			with 2,000,000 people. You don't think issues are
		
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			gonna happen? You don't think there's gonna be
		
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			problems and stuff that gonna happen? Control your
		
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			tongue. Control your anger. And if you're an
		
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			if you're angry,
		
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			expect Allah to reward you for your anger.
		
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			Don't waste your Hajj be by getting angry
		
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			at somebody else. Don't cause your Hajj to
		
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			be obliterated because there are things beyond your
		
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			control.
		
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			Things are gonna happen you don't like and
		
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			I don't like. And you can't you know,
		
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			it's easy to blame everybody else in the
		
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			end of the day if there's only so
		
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			much people can do. You control your anger
		
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			and control your tongue, and that will be
		
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			protection of your Hajj. Also, one other generic
		
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			advice,
		
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			and again, this is my advice to you
		
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			as somebody who's, as I said, done done
		
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			plenty of Hajj's and I've I've been with
		
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			hedge packages so many times, and,
		
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			I've seen this over and over again. So
		
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			my generic advice to all of you when
		
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			it comes to,
		
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			the fiqh of Hajj
		
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			and the fatawah of Hajj
		
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			is
		
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			follow from now
		
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			the scholar or scholars whom you
		
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			want,
		
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			and don't worry about the differences of opinion.
		
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			Because Hajj, like all fiqhih issues,
		
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			you have differences. Can you do this? Can
		
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			you do that? And
		
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			Hajj is not the time to become a
		
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			self styled expert. Hajj is not the time
		
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			to become your own mufti and go fatwa
		
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			shopping. You need to decide
		
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			which sheikh you wanna follow and whichever sheikh
		
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			you follow that has studied and has whichever
		
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			one is all good. No problem. And here's
		
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			another point.
		
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			And I I hope, inshallah, this is not
		
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			taken in the wrong way.
		
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			Oh, Muslim,
		
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			I am very troubled personally
		
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			by how
		
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			so many Hajjaj
		
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			become obsessed with
		
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			the minutia of Hajj.
		
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			They become obsessed with the fine print.
		
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			You know, the number one questions
		
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			we get asked are about,
		
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			about the things that baked the ihram. Oh,
		
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			I I plucked a hair. Oh, I did
		
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			a nail here. Oh, I used perfume soup.
		
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			So so etcetera. I said, oh, I ate
		
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			biryani that had saffron in it, and the
		
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			saffron smells. So the biryani is not spreading
		
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			my
		
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			I'm not trying to make fun of that
		
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			attitude. May Allah bless you with that attitude.
		
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			I am going to say something blunt here.
		
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			You know that enthusiasm and zeal you have
		
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			for all the minutia?
		
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			Cut it to 10%.
		
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			Take that 90%
		
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			and put it to the broader goals of
		
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			Hajj. I wish people were more concerned about
		
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			the spirituality
		
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			of Hajj as much as they are about
		
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			the very minute uhgam.
		
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			How many times people are gonna come to
		
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			me? I'm not even exaggerating. It's a sounds
		
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			funny. It's so true. Showing me their shoes.
		
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			I'm not joking. Wallahi, every sheikh knows this.
		
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			Sheikh, is this shoe allowed or not? They're
		
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			gonna come and display their shoe to me
		
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			and whatnot. Okay. Alhamdulillah.
		
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			Good. May Allah bless you. But you know
		
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			that concern you have, wallahi, whichever thing you
		
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			do, you'll find some it's not the main
		
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			issue.
		
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			A 1000 times, a 100000
		
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			times more important than the shoe that you
		
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			wear, how is your qalb? How is your
		
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			spiritual attitude of hajj? So please, for the
		
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			love of God,
		
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			don't become obsessed with the minutia.
		
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			Allah is not gonna punish you if you
		
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			followed one scholar over another about this shoe
		
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			that you wore, the sock or whatnot. This
		
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			is not what Hajj is about. Yes. You
		
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			need to study. And, yes, you follow the
		
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			hakam to the best. I'm not, you know,
		
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			telling you not to not follow. I am
		
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			saying prioritize the bigger goal. Don't lose the
		
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			forest for the trees. Prioritize
		
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			your reason for being there. And that is
		
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			you want a cleansing experience. You want to
		
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			reconnect with Allah
		
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			Far more important
		
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			than the ihram and this and that is
		
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			the dua and the dhikr you're making from
		
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			the qalb. That's a 1000000 times more important
		
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			than, you know, making sure that, oh, the
		
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			button is this and that. No. Keep that,
		
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			Yani. As I said, 10%. I'm not saying
		
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			throw it out the window. 10%. Right? And
		
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			the main thing
		
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			the main thing that you should be aware
		
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			of, there's 4 arkan of Hajj. As long
		
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			as these arkan are done, you're gonna go
		
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			over it in the fiqh of Hajj. As
		
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			long as these arkan are done, and that
		
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			is you declare the nih of Hajj that's
		
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			called Ihram, and that is that you stand
		
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			at Arafat and that you do the Tawaf
		
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			alifada and the Sahib. Okay? These are the
		
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			4 arkan.
		
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			As as long as you do this, the
		
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			rest is
		
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			salvageable.
		
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			You can do something to make it up.
		
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			You can do the crash course of Hajj
		
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			in 20 minutes. That's it. Now the rest
		
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			of the time should not be spent in
		
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			the minutia,
		
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			in the hair splitting, in going to the,
		
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			the the the footnotes. That's not what Hajj
		
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			is about. No. The rest of the time
		
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			should literally be spent. What duas am I
		
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			gonna be making? How is my spiritual state
		
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			here? The that I'm doing here. Am I
		
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			truly connected with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala? That's
		
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			the spirit of Hajj. And then to start
		
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			thinking from now,
		
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			my life when I return from Hajj must
		
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			be different.
		
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			I must be a better person. From now,
		
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			you start thinking like this. And if you
		
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			do this, well then, the trivial stuff will
		
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			make its way there. No problem. And the
		
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			actual Hajj will be accepted, Insha'Allah,
		
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			by Allah.
		
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			So this is in a nutshell,
		
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			some of the stuff that I wanted to
		
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			share. And be thankful to Allah that you
		
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			have been chosen.
		
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			Be appreciative of the blessings. There are so
		
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			many people that are not able to go
		
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			less than, what is it, 0.1 percent of
		
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			the ummah is able to go for Hajj.
		
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			So, subhanallah, you are now in that 0.1%.
		
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			You are now in the elite, the creme
		
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			de la creme. You are the highest now
		
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			that that Allah has chosen. So once you
		
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			get there, appreciate those blessings. Don't trivialize those
		
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			blessings. Take advantage
		
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			of those days and nights. Fill them with
		
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			Ibadah. Fill them with the dhikr of Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Do not waste your hajj with vain talk,
		
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			with making people angry and irritated.
		
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			Control your tempers, all Muslims. I'm telling you
		
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			from now, Hajj will test your temper in
		
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			ways that has never been tested. You will
		
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			get angry at the person next. You're gonna
		
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			get angry at the bus driver. You're gonna
		
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			get angry at me for whatever reason. I
		
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			don't even know. You're gonna get angry at
		
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			the world, whatever. It is what it is.
		
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			We can't control everything. You're gonna get angry
		
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			at the for sure, without a doubt. That's
		
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			the reality. And Ahmed knows this. Right? There's
		
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			only so much they can do. In the
		
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			end of the day, this is 3,000,000 people
		
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			there. There's they're trying to their their rest
		
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			and whatnot. So whatever you wanna do, just
		
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			control your tongue. Don't lose your hedge for
		
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			trivial matters. Allah blessed you to go. Allah
		
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			blessed you to be there. Okay. You might
		
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			not have gotten the AC you wanted. You
		
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			might not have gotten a particular bed that
		
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			you wanted. You know what? People are sleeping
		
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			on the streets while lives needs to be
		
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			set. People have walked a Hajj and they
		
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			don't have a fraction of the luxuries we
		
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			do, and they're thankful to Allah for that.
		
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			Now I'm not saying that, you know, if
		
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			you don't get your stuff that you're not
		
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			you're you know, you it's your haqq as
		
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			well. We understand this. But at the same
		
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			time, there's a time and a place. And
		
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			I'm telling you as the religious guide, I'm
		
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			telling you as the person, Yani, from the
		
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			spiritual side,
		
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			during the days of Hajj is not the
		
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			day to argue business. During the days of
		
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			Hajj is not the day to lose it
		
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			by showing your frustration and anger. Now is
		
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			the time for sakinah, for ibadah, for dhikr,
		
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			for rituals, and to control, you know, your
		
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			anger and tongue. Don't hurt other people. Don't
		
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			harm other people. Allah knows, you know, Hajj
		
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			is not the time you're gonna kiss the
		
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			black stone, honestly. It's not the time. Get
		
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			it out of your mind. It's not even
		
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			the wisest thing to do.
		
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			Another time, go when there's less rush there
		
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			to to hurt people and do the and
		
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			and get there. This is not what the
		
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			sharia is about. If Allah allows it without
		
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			you hurting other people, then, alhamdulillah. Otherwise, don't
		
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			worry about this. Don't the time for Hajj
		
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			primarily, as we said,
		
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			is the spiritual journey to Allah and to
		
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			be in these holy places, in Muzdalifa,
		
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			in Arafat in particular. Right? In Mina. These
		
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			are the main requirements. When you are there,
		
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			you are worshiping, you're doing dhikr, you're reading
		
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			the Quran, you're turning to Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala, you're contemplating
		
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			the blessings Allah has given you, you're contemplating
		
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			your life up until that point in time,
		
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			and how your life is gonna be better
		
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			henceforth from that point in time. That is
		
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			the main point of Hajj, internal and not
		
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			the external stuff and not the minutiae of
		
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			this and that. No. This is all trivial.
		
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			The main point, your soul is going to
		
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			be reborn. You're gonna be given a second
		
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			chance at life. Spiritually, you're gonna be coming
		
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			back a new person. So that is what
		
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			hajj is about. Take advantage of that. We
		
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			ask Allah to
		
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			bless every single one of us to have
		
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			a Hajj Mabroor. We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala to make this Hajj a blessed Hajj.
		
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			We ask Allah Azza Wa Jal to make
		
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			it a Hajj that is easy for us.
		
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			We don't want difficulties in our lives, so
		
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			we want an easy Hajj. We want a
		
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			Hajj that allows us to reconnect with him,
		
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			that allows us to have our sins forgiven.
		
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			We want to return
		
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			back to our home safe and sound and
		
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			as pure as the day our mothers gave
		
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			birth to us. And with that, InshaAllah,
		
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			I'll open the floor for, q and a
		
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			from your side.
		
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			And so InshaAllah, where do I get the
		
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			questions from? Oh, the q and a tab.
		
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			Sorry. Okay. It's like a little kid, Shaykhna.
		
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			Yes. And then I think you can sort
		
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			by up votes and we can take a
		
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			couple of questions InshaAllah for the next 11
		
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			minutes or so. May Allah bless you Shaykh.
		
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			For the session. Okay. InshaAllah. So let's take
		
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			some questions here from now.
		
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			How do you deal with keeping up your
		
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			spiritual momentum after big events like Hajar Ramadan?
		
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			I always feel super motivated during these times,
		
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			but struggle with post event blues. Any advice?
		
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			Brother Azzam, are you from Tennessee with your
		
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			post event blues? I was living in Tennessee
		
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			for 10 years. So,
		
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			the answer to this question
		
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			is the struggle
		
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			for spirituality.
		
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			There is no easy answer.
		
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			And in attempting
		
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			to find spirituality,
		
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			in trying your best
		
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			to reconnect with Allah,
		
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			in that is your salvation.
		
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			As I explained to you even during Hajj,
		
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			that
		
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			you're not gonna find
		
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			the peace and quiet that you have right
		
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			now. Wallahi, right now, right after this lecture,
		
00:43:07 --> 00:43:09
			if you sit down for 5 minutes, the
		
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			type of spirituality you're gonna be feeling, you
		
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			will not experience it during Hajj. You're gonna
		
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			experience different types. Because in Hajj, like I
		
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			said, your stomach's gonna be growling. You might
		
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			have had istaghfirullah
		
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			stomach issues as well. Right? And then you
		
00:43:22 --> 00:43:24
			have fever and coughing and sneezing, and everybody's
		
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			crowded. And it's just damp or hot or
		
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			taut or cold or whatever. And there's coughing
		
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			and there's smoke and there's this and that.
		
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			How can you find the spirituality you're gonna
		
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			find in your own home right now for
		
00:43:34 --> 00:43:36
			the 5 minutes? That's not gonna happen. But
		
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			in that environment,
		
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			for you to attempt
		
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			to push the boundaries
		
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			and to raise your hand to Allah and
		
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			to carve out your own spirituality.
		
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			It's not gonna be like today's. It's not
		
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			gonna be like in in Ramadan. It's not
		
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			gonna be like in the peace of your
		
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			masjid. It's gonna be a different type, and
		
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			that type is what Allah will bless. So
		
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			understand. Have your expectations realistic. And understand
		
00:44:00 --> 00:44:01
			spirituality
		
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			is never just achieved once and that's it.
		
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			It is constantly strive for. You constantly wanna
		
00:44:04 --> 00:44:05
			push it more and keep it
		
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			When you try, you're gonna get it. And
		
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			of them is you immerse yourself in
		
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			rituals of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Constant dhikr
		
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			and Quran during Hajj is comes with the
		
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			territory. That's what you do during Hajj Hajj
		
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			is about,
		
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			This is literally in the Quran.
		
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			What that literally Allah says do
		
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			in those days. That's what you're supposed to
		
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			do. So adhkaar here doesn't just mean but
		
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			dhikr is also the Quran. Dhikr is also
		
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			dua. Right? Dhikr is also contemplating over life.
		
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			All of this is dhikr. So all of
		
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			these are, things that you can do.
		
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			Next question, sister Nadeen.
		
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			Does
		
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			a woman have to make up any missed
		
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			fast before going for Hajj? She should, but
		
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			it is not a requirement. She should simply
		
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			because it is good to get rid of
		
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			all your debts before going for Hajj, but
		
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			it is it has nothing to do with
		
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			the validity of Hajj. So if you're not
		
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			able to do that, for example, if a
		
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			sister has multiple years, you know, she was
		
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			pregnant, she was breastfeeding, she was pregnant, she
		
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			was breastfeeding, She has plenty of, Ramadans to
		
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			make up. She cannot do it in 2
		
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			months. No problem. It is not a requirement
		
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			that you make up your fast before you
		
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			go for Hajj, but it is good to
		
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			do so if you're able to do so
		
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			just because of the generic,
		
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			reality of having, all of your debts paid
		
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			if you can. And again, this is not
		
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			even a requirement because even if you have
		
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			a debt to somebody who allows you to
		
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			go for Hajj, that too is allowed, no
		
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			problem.
		
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			Question
		
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			here. Does every accepted Hajj clean the slate
		
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			of sins or only the first Hajj of
		
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			a Muslim? Every single Hajj brother Khurram. Why
		
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			do you think I'm doing Hajj every single
		
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			year that I can do and all of
		
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			us are doing it. We want every single
		
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			year. It will cleanse you. It's a cleansing
		
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			experience every single year. So definitely,
		
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			uh-uh,
		
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			every single year.
		
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			Question here, trying to find the highest question.
		
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			My skin my question is can men wear
		
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			fragrance free sunscreen on the exposed sin? Yes.
		
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			They can. No problem. Inshallah, you can wear
		
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			fragrance free anything. No problem.
		
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			And like I said, so many of the
		
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			questions will be about this. No problem. Just
		
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			ask a few of them and and don't
		
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			get too much bogged down in detail. As
		
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			I said, the bulk of questions comes over
		
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			shoes
		
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			and then over lotions. These are the 2
		
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			bulk questions. Okay? That's what every sheikh, like,
		
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			we are shown this. We're smell smell this
		
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			sheikh. Smell this. This is halal.
		
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			All
		
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			Muslims,
		
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			don't sweat the small stuff. Pun intended.
		
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			Don't sweat over these petty issues. Okay? Use
		
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			whatever soap is available and try your best
		
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			to find perfume free soap. But soap in
		
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			and of itself is not perfume.
		
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			Perfume is perfume. Do not take your cologne
		
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			and put it on you. And even if
		
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			you do it accidentally, again, the Sharia is
		
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			so easy. Please take a mini course on
		
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			the fiqh of Hajj so you know. And
		
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			once you've done it, khalas, no need to
		
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			ask a million questions. Really, wallahi,
		
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			Hajj is not meant for the minutia as
		
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			I said. Know your stuff. Know what is
		
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			haram and halal. And then, Yani, don't worry
		
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			about, as I said, these these petty things.
		
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			It's not gonna make or break your your
		
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			your hedge.
		
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			Is it mandatory for a man to shave,
		
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			or is trimming sufficient? Shaving is more blessed,
		
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			but trimming is sufficient. Shaving is more rewarding
		
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			by Allah,
		
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			and the reason is to show humility. So
		
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			the whole purpose and again, oh, men, we
		
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			know how we feel. Like, we wanna have,
		
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			you know, that nice hair and whatnot. And
		
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			so by shaving, you are literally
		
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			sacrificing your ego. You are literally like, Halas,
		
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			I want to show my humility to Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Right? So I do encourage,
		
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			but if not, and I've done had so
		
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			many times sometimes that it's me on a
		
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			personal level. Sometimes I shave, sometimes I don't.
		
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			It's just it is what it is.
		
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			It just
		
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			depends on my own mood at the time
		
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			no problem, but technically speaking the perspective the
		
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			spiritual perspective and especially if it's your first
		
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			Hajj then, I would strongly encourage you to
		
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			to shave it, off for the men. Of
		
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			course, the women, they just take the, the
		
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			end of the the tip of the hair
		
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			there.
		
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			For the 11 13 days of the visit,
		
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			we'll be performing Namaz Al Qasr,
		
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			Qasr prayer. So when you pray behind Imams,
		
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			you will pray with them full. When you
		
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			pray on your own, you may pray for
		
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			for rakaturaka
		
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			no problem when you pray on your own
		
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			because you are a traveler throughout that entire
		
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			time. But when you are behind an imam,
		
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			then you will uh-uh
		
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			be praying the full because the imam is
		
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			gonna be local. If the imam is not
		
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			local and the imam prays too, then you
		
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			pray too as well.
		
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			Could you explain the spiritual
		
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			significance
		
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			of wills for family? So you know a
		
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			lot of books they mentioned that before you
		
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			go for Hajj, you have to write a
		
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			will. You have to understand
		
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			the reality of this is nothing to do
		
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			with Hajj. It's to do with past times.
		
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			Because once upon a time,
		
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			traveling was life threatening,
		
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			especially
		
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			months of travel. And so
		
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			a good percentage of people would not return
		
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			and so the advice that you give to
		
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			somebody about to die. That's the advice that
		
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			will be given to the people going for
		
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			Hajj In our
		
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			times, going for Hajj is has nothing to
		
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			do with wills per se, but you should
		
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			always have a will ready. That's the point
		
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			here. You should have a will,
		
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			in case anything happens. And so going for
		
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			Hajj, it should just remind you that I
		
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			should have a will as well. In and
		
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			of itself, writing a will and going for
		
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			Hajj are 2 separate obligations.
		
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			So they're not causally connected with,
		
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			one another.
		
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			Question here. Let me just see. Again, I'm
		
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			trying to see which ones are the one
		
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			that have the most votes because, that's what
		
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			I'm trying to answer.
		
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			What is the suggested etiquette of handling dealing
		
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			with high conflict situations before going for Hajj
		
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			and
		
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			we're dealing with people who have wronged you.
		
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			Okay 2 separate questions here
		
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			as for dealing with people who have wronged
		
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			you in the past. I'm assuming that is
		
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			the question
		
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			that people have wronged you in the past.
		
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			It is very healthy
		
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			for the soul to forgive before going for
		
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			Hajj. But I have a longer lecture online
		
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			about the reality of forgiveness.
		
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			It is not obligatory
		
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			to forgive somebody who has done wrong to
		
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			you. It's not obligatory. It's up to you.
		
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			But it is therapeutic,
		
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			and it is good before you go for
		
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			Hajj to have a clean slate.
		
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			And so that's why it is encouraged to
		
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			do that. As for techniques of,
		
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			dealing with high conflict situations,
		
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			honestly, one of the biggest and most important
		
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			aspects is to be mentally prepared.
		
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			Realize you and I are gonna be tested.
		
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			Realize you're gonna be tested by everybody around
		
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			you. You're gonna be tested by the most
		
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			trivial things because when you're not feeling well,
		
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			right, even somebody coughing loudly next to you,
		
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			because they're in the same tent. You're in
		
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			the same tent, right, for days. Right? And
		
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			so somebody coughing loudly. You know, it might
		
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			even just
		
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			get to you much more than it might
		
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			get because you're not feeling well. Everybody's not
		
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			feeling well, etcetera, etcetera. So
		
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			keep your tongue in check.
		
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			Allah will not punish
		
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			based on an internal feeling of anger. You
		
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			can be as angry as you want inside.
		
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			Control the anger. Control your tongue and
		
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			calm down before you try to assess the
		
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			situation.
		
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			Some nuisances
		
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			you can change. Others, you cannot. I mean,
		
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			I'm telling you from now, one of the
		
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			most,
		
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			you know, problematic things of Hajj are the
		
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			long lines at the bathrooms. Right? And it's
		
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			nobody talks about this. And by the way,
		
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			I've given Hajj lectures online. I go into
		
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			the logistical details of Hajj and ways that
		
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			people don't because you need to be prepared.
		
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			Okay? It's very frustrating
		
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			waiting 50 minutes, an hour and a half
		
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			to use the bathroom.
		
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			Very frustrating. You don't think you're gonna get
		
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			frustrated? And now somebody comes in, you think
		
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			he cuts in line or he does this
		
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			and that. Of course, you're gonna lose your
		
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			frustration. And you have the right to tell
		
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			somebody, ahi, there's a line, whatever it might
		
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			be. So I'm not saying, you know, don't
		
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			correct a wrong. I'm not saying don't address
		
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			the nuisance. I am saying don't lose your
		
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			temper. That's what I said. And that is
		
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			a rule. I am saying don't become vulgar.
		
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			And that is a rule. You know, during
		
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			Sayam, we are supposed to control our tongue
		
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			and say if somebody's
		
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			rude to us, we say Allahum Benin Islam.
		
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			What do you think about Hajj then? If
		
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			in Siam, we're supposed to control, then how
		
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			how much more so about,
		
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			Hajj here?
		
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			Final 2, 3 questions Insha Allah. So
		
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			could you go over how to perform Hajj
		
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			on behalf of your parent? Yes. Very easy.
		
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			Anybody.
		
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			As long as you've done one Hajj at
		
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			least for yourself,
		
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			you may do Hajj for any person that
		
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			you feel deserves that Hajj.
		
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			You're gonna spend 10, 15, $20,000.
		
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			You're gonna
		
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			spend 2, 3 weeks of your life. You're
		
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			gonna sweat. You're gonna toil. You're gonna get
		
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			tired.
		
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			That's a massive amount. Who Who you're gonna
		
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			give that to? Don't just give it to
		
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			a stranger.
		
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			Don't that is for you. It's not it's
		
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			not just meant to be thrown away for
		
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			free. But, I mean, your mother, your father,
		
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			somebody that's, you know, moved on and owes
		
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			you owe a lot to them without a
		
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			doubt.
		
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			A parent deserves that type of, you know,
		
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			good deed without a doubt. And so
		
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			for you to perform Hajj on behalf of
		
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			a parent is a very noble,
		
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			endeavor. And how do you do this? Everything
		
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			is exactly the same except one thing.
		
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			Everything is exactly the same except one, and
		
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			that is when you enter the state of
		
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			Ihram,
		
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			when you begin the Hajj,
		
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			you say,
		
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			Labbeik
		
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			on behalf of so and so.
		
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			That's how you tell Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			that this Hajj is on behalf of so
		
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			and so. I'm answering the call, oh, Allah,
		
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			on behalf of my mother. Libayka
		
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			for my mother. That's that's all. That's it.
		
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			When you begin Hajj, you just change the
		
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			and
		
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			you say
		
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			on behalf of so and so. And then
		
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			the rest of the Hajj is exactly the
		
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			same. And you may make dua for yourself,
		
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			and you may do all the stuff you
		
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			want for yourself, and you may make extra
		
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			dua for your mother, whoever you're doing it
		
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			for, And all of the good deeds and
		
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			all of that will be gifted to,
		
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			the person that you, did it for.