Dhul Hijjah – #2

Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillah.
My dear brothers and sisters and elders,
we come to the last of the reminders I want to make about these 10 days,
and that is the days of Hajj and the day of Arafah.
These 10 days are very significant because they also include the days of Hajj.
And Allah SWT said about the day of Arafah,
which is the day of Hajj when people are standing in Arafah.
He said there is no day on which Allah SWT frees more people from the hellfire
than on the day of Arafah.
Hajj is the pillar of Islam as we know,
and which must be performed at the earliest opportunity.
Rasulullah SAW warned us against delaying the performance of Hajj,
and warned us that delay may result in deprivation and deep regret.
Rasulullah SAW is reported to have said,
to perform Hajj,
which is the first obligation,
obligatory for Hajj,
as none of you knows what may happen to him.
He said, you don't know, maybe you will die before that.
Maybe you will not get time after that, do it.
So as soon as you have the opportunity, go make Hajj.
And this is in Musnad Imam Ahmad, in Abu Dawud and Ibn Majah.
And then also in Abu Dawud and Ibn Majah,
Nabi SAW said, which means,
whoever wants to do Hajj, let him hasten, let him hurry to do so.
Hajj reminds us about the virtue of obedience,
because it's rituals,
are an enactment of the actions of Ibrahim and his family,
which Allah SWT declared to become and to be rituals of worship.
They did those actions because they needed to.
We do them because they did them,
in honour of them,
and in honour of that Allah SWT forgives our sins.
This is the wages of obedience.
Allah SWT caused those actions,
not just to be remembered,
but He made them the rituals,
the rituals of Hajj.
Abu Hurairah narrated that he heard Rasul saying,
whoever performs Hajj and does not commit any obscenity or transgression,
shall return free from sins as he was on the day his mother gave birth to him.
And this is Haib Bukhari, we make this dua for all those people
who have gone for Hajj this year,
including those who went from here.
And we ask Allah SWT to enable us to go next year,
InshaAllah, especially those who haven't done Hajj.
In the name of Allah,
make it your topmost priority.
If you are eligible, meaning if you have the money and you have the health,
then that has to become the number-one priority for you, InshaAllah.
Abdullah bin Umar narrated that Rasul said,
the one striving in the cause of Allah,
Jihad feeh Sableeelillah,
and the one performing Hajj,
and the one performing Umrah,
these are all the guests of Allah.
He called them,
and they responded to His call.
and he answers their dua.
And this is in Ibn Majah.
It's a beautiful opportunity to ask Allah SWT
for whatever you want,
and Allah SWT promised to give it.
Hajj is a lesson in life which is worth reflecting on.
When the pilgrim puts on,
when the hajj puts on his ihram,
he is reminded that this will be the way
in which he will begin the journey of his eternal life
in two pieces of cloth.
During hajj, he stands equal to everyone else there,
without any sign to distinguish him from anyone else,
shorn of all his pomp and splendor,
alone as a supplicant.
On the plain of Arafah, he stands bareheaded and disheveled
with two million others,
begging Allah SWT for his mercy and forgiveness.
When he does tawaf,
he is reminded of Khalilullah Ibrahim AS,
our father and the father of the ummah,
who built the house to be a place of sanctuary
and a place of peace.
He is reminded of the blessing which Allah SWT has bestowed upon humankind
in the form of this blessed water,
which millions of people have drunk through the ages.
And Rasulullah SAW said,
make a niyah and Allah will accept that dua.
He said, zamzam is for whatever it is, drug for.
When he does tawaf,
between Safa and Marwah,
he is reminded of the actions of our mother Haja AS
and the mother of Ismail AS,
the wife of Khalilullah Ibrahim AS.
She didn't sit and wait for the help of Allah SWT...