Lessons from Hajj

Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillah we finished the Yawm al-Arafah today.
We ask Allah to reward us in keeping with His Majesty and Grace and to grant our duas
and to give us the opportunity for this again and again year after year.
The people who are in Hajj, they have completed Yawm al-Arafah standing in Arafah and right
now they would be in Muzdarifah, they would have finished the maybe even the Tawaf and
so on.
And Saeed and waiting for Yawm al-Nahar tomorrow for Eid and we also wait for Eid al-Fitr inshallah
tomorrow and Eid al-Adha tomorrow inshallah.
We ask Allah to help us to celebrate that in a way that pleases His Majesty and Grace.
The Hajj is a beautiful journey.
We ask Allah to enable us to do it.
Those who have not done it.
Make it your Niyah that you will do it next year.
That is the number one.
It's a Rukur of Islam.
It's not just something which is just a Faridah.
It's a Rukur.
And of course obviously it's a Faridah.
So it is something which is absolutely critical, must be done at the first possible opportunity.
And I can tell you that it is an Ibadah to be done in your youth.
Don't wait till you get old to do Hajj.
It's very difficult.
When you get old it becomes very difficult.
But in your youth, it's very difficult.
When you are young, alhamdulillah, it's good.
So do it in your youth as soon as you can.
Right?
If you just think about this, when the person...
Hajj is a reminder of the entire cycle of life.
When a person puts on his Ihram, he is effectively reminding himself that a day will come when
that is how he will live this world.
In two pieces of glass.
Everything he has will be gone from him.
Nothing to destroy.
Nothing to distinguish him.
Whether he is rich or poor, whether he was a king or he was a pauper, whoever he was.
Whether he was a scholar or whether he was ignorant, makes no difference.
He will go in the same two pieces of glass.
Just like when he puts on his Ihram, they all put on the same clothes.
There is nothing to distinguish one from the other.
Because in the sight of Allah, everybody is equal.
And then when he makes Tawaf, he reminds himself that he is equal.
He is equal.
He reminds himself that this is the house to which Ibn-i-Aim called the other.
He invited.
Allah said, you call and I will send.
And they come from every part of the globe.
In every conceivable means of transport.
To this day, there are people who are going to Hajj walking.
People are going to Hajj on horseback.
Three people from Spain have gone to Hajj this year on horseback.
People have gone to Hajj walking.
I have a friend of mine in Saudi Arabia.
He lives in Jeddah.
He is a Muslim.
He told me his grandfather and three uncles.
His grandfather had four sons.
So one son, he told him to stay back.
He was in Afghanistan in a place called Swat in Pakistan, Swat Valley.
So he, grandfather said, one son, stay here with your mother.
They will look after the property.
The other three sons he took.
And they walked from Swat to Makkah.
On the way, closer to Makkah.
They got attacked by a gang of Muslims.
They were very angry.
They were very angry.
They have a big mouth.
I am a robber.
Just these four Bhatans, right.
All they had were sticks.
They slammed the daylights out of the people.
Their leader they captured.
They tied him up on ropes and they took him to Makkah.
And they handed him over to the police.
They say who are these?
We are safe.
We are unjudged.
Who are these people?
They are trying to attack us.
So what happened?
This happened.
Take them.
So the Saudi Government gives them award and all sorts of things.
They arrested these ones and they are doing justice to them.
So they have a lot of money.
So they took them as a court.
That is it.
They walked and went for Hajj.
Until today, there are people who walk and they walk.
Right?
Sheikh Abdullah was saying his grandfather
took one year from Morocco to Mecca and back.
He was 22 years old when he left for Hajj.
He had no money.
So he would go to some place,