Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem Assalam alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh It's the season of Hajj A lot of us have already gone on to the trip Some of us are getting ready to go Friends, families, loved ones Who are taking part in this annual event Which is an obligatory act upon them Within the religion of Islam Now Hajj is a... Is rather the spirit and essence of Islam It's one of the obligatory acts upon mankind As prescribed by God In the chapter of Al-Imran from the Holy Quran Which states And pilgrimage to the house is incumbent upon men For the sake of Allah Upon everyone who is able to undertake the journey to it And whoever disbelieves Then surely Allah is self-sufficient Above any need of the world Al-Imran verse 97 Now like other religions Which also have pilgrimages Hajj is one of the main pillars Of the obligatory acts of worship Within Islam We are joined once again for Live in London With Dr. Seda Maan Akshwani With Dr. Seda Maan Akshwani It's great to have you with us again tonight Thank you Seda, now one of the questions that often arise Around the issue of Hajj Or issues of general acts of worship As mentioned in the verse of the Holy Quran Which is just read out And it says Allah is self-sufficient So why has he made Hajj Or even other acts of worship obligatory upon us? Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem It's an absolute pleasure to be discussing Hajj And there's a part of me that wishes That I was now in the Holy Land of Medina Where many of our friends are And then from there going towards the Holy Land of Mecca It's an interesting question I think many people ask this question In relation to many of the acts of worship And sadly the acts of worship And the religion of Islam Be they praying or fasting Or going on the pilgrimage to Mecca Are normally described In terms of the consequences of what happens If you do not perform them Rather than the wonderful spirituality That is the essence of them I think many of us when we were younger When we're told about prayers The focus is on the fact that When we pray we go to hell Or if you don't fast you'll go to hell Or if you don't go towards the pilgrimage You'll go to hell The reality is that this is far from the truth Of the philosophy of the acts of worship And the religion of Islam You see that there is a constant yearning In any human being for growth For evolution For perfection We recognize that at our most primitive It can be similar to an animal An animal eats we eat An animal drinks we drink An animal sleeps we sleep An animal has desires we have desires However what we seek and yearn That is different from the animalistic Is this growth This yearning for perfection This yearning to actualize our potential Having recognized In Islamic thought That the divine breath Is part of our very makeup When God mentions in the Quran That he breathes his spirit into us There is a divinity Of the most limited understanding And definition in the human being That human being therefore has immense Potential in terms of what they can achieve Imam Ali ibn al-Bitalib Imam Ali ibn al-Bitalib, peace be upon you, says Dawaa'uka min ka wa maa tabsoor Wa daa'uka fi ka wa maa tash'ar Anta al-kitab al-mubin Al-ladi bi'ahrofi hi yughharu al-muzmar Atah sabu anna ka germun saghiyan Wa fi kaan tawal aalam al-akbar What does he say? He says, the cure is within you But you do not see The disease is within you But you do not sense You are the clear open book Who with your letters The unseen can be seen Do you think that you are something small When the whole universe exists within you Therefore the human being Having recognized that at one stage They were at a very low stage In the womb of their mother Then they come into this world Then adolescence There's a constant growth And that this growth is never ending Part of the support mechanism And the training program For this growth to continue To take us away from the mundane vegetative Or the mundane animalistic And go to that wonderful representative Of God on earth As Adam is known when the human Creation is introduced to the angels Part of the training program And the mechanisms given to us Are the acts of worship The acts of worship are culturing Our growth but fundamentally The act of worship is not the ends They are a means for us To grow as human beings My prayers are not the ends for me My prayers are God's guidance to me In terms of a set of exercises That humble me A set of exercises that instill Ethics into me A set of exercises that discipline me A set of exercises that recognize That the human being in their greatest Form is a creation Who is ready to serve other creations Who is ready in turn to serve the creator Therefore when you are looking at these acts of worship God doesn't need mine and your act of worship They are for my growth As a human being Therefore my benefit is that if I pray For example the evening prayers It doesn't make a difference to God Whether I pray or I don't It makes a difference to me Because I as a human being Going down in prostration that night It's humbling me It's reminding me That one day I'm going to return back To wear exactly I'm prostrating I'm prostrating on earth I'm prostrating on clay Imam Ali Mabit Ali Gives a wonderful philosophy about Hajj or fasting or prayer And really divides the human being And the human creation into the following Says God I don't worship you out of fear of Hell That's the worship of a slave Nor do I worship you because I want heaven That's the worship of a businessman I worship you because I found you worthy Of being worshiped That is what That's the worship of a free human being There are some of us Who worship God out of fear of hell I'm going to go to Hajj Because if I don't go to Hajj I'm going to burn in hell That's the worship of a slave There are some of us who will go to Hajj Because you know what If I go to Hajj There's a good chance I'm going to be guaranteed heaven And the rivers that flow in the milk And whatever else there is in heaven But then there's a third group That third group recognizes What greater opportunity Is there in my life And which invite is more wonderful To anyone's house Like the invite To the house of God Sometimes you're invited to a wedding Or you're invited to a gathering You can't wait to be there You're actually honored that you're invited You're like oh They actually consider me as that closer friend Or they consider me as you know That's important a person Here at this moment When you're going to Hajj Instead of thinking of Hajj As this thing of if I don't do it I'm going to burn in hell Or if I do it I'll go to heaven Put these two aside That's when you look at the beauty Of worship in Islam That a human being is doing things Not as a reward system All out of fear But because they've understood The philosophy of this experience Be it prayer Be it fasting Or be it Hajj I guess as you mentioned The philosophy of the acts of worship A lot of the youth Who haven't grasped That control of their religion yet Some might miss their for example Morning prayers A lot of the ones that I've been speaking to In my friend circles For example come and say When I say to them why don't you get married I'll get married when I become more religious Or why don't you go Hajj I'll go Hajj when I become more religious What could be said to people like that Because like you said If you build up on those acts of worship You'll better yourself And it's for your own benefit Well I don't blame them Because I think that the way Hajj Was presented to many of them Was not with a spiritual base Rather it was presented as Oh this is another obligatory act That you have to perform The Furu'at Deen Or the roots of the religion are 10 Salah, Somme, Hajj, Zakat, Khoms Amor, Ben-Ma'arov, Nahi, Al-Munkar Tawalla, Tabarra and Jihad And these are obligatory on you No one was coming forward And providing them With the wonderful explanations of Hajj Which the Ahlul Bayt Aalayhum salam provide I remember Imam Aalayhum salam Before he passed away In his final will There's a wonderful line Do not abandon the house of God For if you abandon the house of God Then you've abandoned your dignity Here the Imam is not telling people Don't abandon the house of God Otherwise you're going to burn in hell I think for many years people When it came to their understanding Of the philosophy of Hajj For many that philosophy of Hajj Was always focused on the fear aspect Or always focused on a very legal Look at the pilgrimage in Islam They hear people coming back from Hajj You know what, I got this wrong Or they're haram Or for example I didn't wear this properly There wasn't much of a spiritual emphasis Whereas when you look at For example Imam Zayn Al-Abideen Aalayhum salam and his famous Discussion with Shibli It's a phenomenal discussion on Hajj The way he looks at Hajj He's telling him that you know what This journey that you're going on Is one of the most wonderful Spiritual journeys you'll ever go on Or you'll ever undertake And I think there needs to be More of an emphasis to our youth On this front The spiritual aspect But also another front Which is what? When someone says I don't want to go to Hajj Because if I go to Hajj Therefore I'm going to have to become religious I prefer to go to Hajj When I'm 40 Or when I'm 50 Then I'll go to Hajj Who gave you a license Saying you're going to live till 40 and 50 If you have that person Who's giving you that license I beg you to give me their phone number Because I'd be delighted To have their license as well I'd be delighted To have their permission as well Nobody knows when they're going to die For them to arrogantly assume That you know what I can't afford Hajj But I'm not ready yet That's a famous line Many Muslims have When it comes to an obligatory act of worship You find the Quran On many occasions it says That people follow religions According to their whims and desires What suits them of the religion They take And what doesn't suit them They postpone With Hajj You have many people Who always say lines like I'm not ready yet to go on Hajj When you ask the person What do you mean you're not ready You know what When I come back from Hajj I'm going to have to wear hijab That's not an excuse On the contrary The moment you realize that You have to wear hijab In the religion of Islam That is when you have to Undertake that act There are others who say You know what If I go to Hajj What if I come back And I'm not as religious You take one step towards God God opens ten doors for you But fundamentally However many excuses You're going to make Allah has made it clear In the Quran As you mentioned In chapter 3 verse 97 Allah has made it clear In the Quran That one of the rights of God Upon us is Hajj You can give as many excuses In the book Now yes Someone will say Hajj is one of these obligatory Acts that has conditions You know in Islamic law We have acts of worship Which are absolute And acts of worship That have conditions For example Salat al-Jum'ah Has an act of worship That is obligatory But there's a condition to it In the presence of an infallible And so on Salat al-A'id Is an act of worship That's obligatory But with condition That the presence of the infallible And so on Likewise with Hajj Hajj is an act of worship That yes there's no doubt The ayah says God has a right over us That we perform Hajj On the idea that we Have the capability To undertake that journey Now someone says Al-istata'a over here In this famous verse In chapter 3 verse 97 Istata'a That capability To undertake the journey What does God mean by that? Do you see This word highlights That this act of ibadah Is conditional God has made it clear in the ayah Man istata'a ilayhi sabila You have the capability to go Naturally mental capability Physical capability Passage capability You can't go on a journey towards Hajj If you know for example It's fraught with danger along the way And financial capability Financial what does it mean? Financial If you look at the legal texts Amongst the number of conditions And explanations they have of financial Is that You are able to Afford That journey to Hajj Of course that you don't have Certain obligatory payments Which are due upon you Before you go to Hajj These must of course be cleared And that upon your Journey to Hajj You're not going to leave your family In a quagmire Or in a very difficult situation You don't want to say for example I know that Hajj prices these days Are getting more and more expensive You don't want to spend 8,000, 9,000, 10,000 Pounds For example going to Hajj And then coming back And your family is just about Got a few hundred pounds at home You have to have that istiqa And above all else If you put mental capabilities Passage capabilities Physical capabilities Financial capabilities That intention is fundamental That I'm going on this journey Not because six of my friends Are on that journey Not because all my friends are called Hajj And I'm the only one not called Hajj But rather I'm going on this journey Because I sincerely Want to have a fresh start with my Lord I sincerely want to develop I sincerely want to go in the footsteps Of Nabi Ibrahim The Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him And his family So you mentioned passage capability A lot of the elders say We don't want to go Hajj Or it's not right to go to Hajj Because it's under a Wahabi rule It's not safe Things like this What would your response be to them? Well I would reply by saying that No doubt the ruling establishment Of Saudi Arabia Is an establishment that Has its clear grievances with The Shia school There's no doubt about that And there's been Sad events that have occurred In the last 30 odd years In that Hajj period There's no doubt about that There's been loss of life There's been people You know involved in stampede And so on At the same time If none of us are going to go to Hajj Then who's going to honor The house of God The place where Nabi Ibrahim Provided us with a base Understanding of the meaning of discipline And the meaning of sacrifice With his son Ismail And his wife Hajjar Who's going to honor the house of God which saw Its doors open for Imam Ali To be born in Who's going to honor The prophet peace be upon his family I know there are people out there today Who are saying I don't want to go there Because when you go there You see a real sectarian identity As well as a sectarian ideology Which is a disgusting combination But I think these can also fall Into excuses as well We have to be careful That Shaytan may whisper to some of us That listen You have to go on Hajj But you know what The people who are there Who are ruling They're not good with the followers of Ahlul Bayt So don't go Go somewhere else, no Hajj The moment the istiqaa That capability Mental, physical, passage, financial Is there That person has to undertake that journey Now Some will argue well If some of our scholars May have made a certain statement or two That's between you and The scholar that you may follow In terms of his political directives And what he believes is the maslaha What is for the benefits of the ummah At that particular moment But for those who come and say that No, I'm not going to go Because there's a clash there I think if people go there Don't necessarily have to make every slogan Every day while you're there Or you don't always have to make it a point That this is who we are I think there's been good times And bad times When I've gone to Hajj I've seen years of a wonderful Da'aqumail by Jannah al-Baqiyyah And I've also seen years of Unbelievable sectarian hate Shown towards the followers of Ahl al-Bayt Aleym As-Salaam And we could only pray that the Muslims Come together And this sectarianism is removed Insha'Allah Going back to Prophet Ibrahim As-Salaam as you mentioned Why was he ordered to build A house for God, build the Ka'bah Was there What's the significance of the house Being there Because throughout narrations There's things about Prophet Arden Building a house of God as well So it's a bit confusing to See different things In the same way That there is The mystical house of the Lord in the heavens Likewise, this is its reflection on the earth In the same way the angels Are constantly glorifying the Lord in the heavens The mystical aspect of the Religious Islam states that it's the Duty Of the human being to constantly glorify Their Lord For them to glorify They can do it For example in their local mosque There are Buyud houses Where Allah has sanctioned For his name to be remembered And for his name to be exalted As per the verses in the Holy Quran But this central house is the established one For all the Muslims to unite and congregate Together on I can't deny That's a person, for example Can go to their local mosque Can go to many wonderful mosques But like you mentioned This is the mosque And this is the grounds Where Nabi Ibrahim A.S Was ordered to establish God's house Before him, Nabi Adam A.S Had laid the foundation for the house And then we see in the story Mentioned in the Holy Quran And then further discussions Of the journey towards Hajj And Surat Al-Hajj A whole chapter of the Holy Quran Is called Hajj Chapter 22 of the Holy Quran Is called Hajj And in the verses from 25, 26 onwards You see a discussion on Hajj Nabi Ibrahim is with his son Ismail They've already had this fascinating Relationship with that land That valley A weeping valley A valley of tears Known as Bakka I wonder what the similarity is Between the valley of Bakka Mentioned in the Psalms Which in other translations In the Bible as mentioned Is the weeping valley And why Allah calls That particular area Bakka Because you know That sometimes you read That that land is known As the land of Makka And then you read That Allah mentions it as Bakka I remember Muawiyah Son of Hammar Muawiyah bin Hammar In a discussion with Imam Al-Sadiq Is asking him a question About a woman who walks past Him while he's in prayer And then the Imam Having discussed that There's no issue there Mentioned that this land Of Bakka is known as Bakka From the idea that the men And the women Are weeping in this land And it's interesting That the Bible talks Of the weeping valley Bakka And how the Quran mentions Bakka From the word Bukka So you have Nabi Ibrahim A.S Has this relationship First and foremost The water of Zamzam The spring water Which emerges for his wife Hajar or Haigar When her son is thirsty They settle in that land And then Allah swt orders him Now raise and establish this house And people will come from far and wide They'll come on their camels They'll come from all the lean animals They'll come here And they'll glorify the Lord And he of course asks That Allah swt Looks after his followers And looks after his progeny And purifies this house So you found that Nabi Adam A.S Is the one who laid the foundation Nabi Ibrahim A.S Is the one who then builds the Kaaba that's what you find today When you go there The remnants of that building Is still there with Maqam Ibrahim And I know Maqam Ibrahim If you look at the discussions Many times Maqam Ibrahim Is mentioned You know some mention The whole The haram area Others mention For example Some of the acts And Hajj is being Maqam Ibrahim But generally it's considered That Maqam Ibrahim Is the remnants Of that footstep Of Nabi Ibrahim A.S While building the Kaaba With Nabi Ismail A.S So Adam A.S They're the ones who Establish that Kaaba But in establishing the Kaaba Is one thing But then the whole relationship Of Ibrahim Hajar and Ismail Is both together When remembering And honoring the Hajj So obviously Nabi Ibrahim A.S Built the Kaaba And a few hundred years later I'm guessing When our prophet came Or before our prophet came The Arabs would have had Access to it After prophet Ibrahim What did they use That place for If there were still Polytheists And the religion of Islam Had them reach them Were there still Not Muslims obviously But people who believed In the oneness of God Worshipping there Well the Kaaba had Custodians Of the custodians Would for example be Abdel Muttalib The grandfather Of the prophet Muhammad Peace be upon him and his family And he also had Khadija's father Khuwalid These people were Protectors of the Kaaba Abdel Muttalib Was a custodian of the Kaaba And Abdel Muttalib A.S The Arabs used to Reveal the Kaaba But sadly had Now been polluted By polytheism And I think that you've got Some of these Arab aristocrats Who are living at the time Who are now exploiting the fact That many people Still come and travel From far and wide To honor Ibrahim So don't imagine that The Arabs of the Quraish Don't imagine that these People were Were not honoring Ibrahim Or were not believing in God The Arabs believed in God But used to make these idols Saying that they get us closer to God Which still counts as polytheism If you believe in one God But you show that God In the form of idols That's still polytheism So what happens is That these Arabs Would still want to come They'd want to come and honor The prophet Ibrahim Peace be upon him But now the whole Ceremony of honoring What Ibrahim did And what was the Hajj ceremony Had now been distorted Had now been tainted And if you look within the Holy Quran You've got possible indicators Where when you read the world of hadith They provide you with more of an understanding You've got possible indicators In the Holy Quran Where these people The sacrifice would happen But they throw the blood Onto the Ka'ba You'd find that they'd be gossiping Around the Ka'ba Marrymaking Speaking things Which take them far away from God So sadly there was only a few Who were really honoring The rights of Ibrahim Peace be upon him The way they should have been honored Khadija's family were never those Who were touched by idol worship In terms of they were known as Hanif Abdel Muqtaleb Abu Talib These were people who were always monotheists Never polytheists Never took idols as their lords Never ever committed shirk And so you found that This was now a religious haven The Ka'ba A political haven And a commercial haven Now the aristocrats Were thinking at the time And they were thinking Well if people come here To honor the Ka'ba And honor the Nabi Ibrahim Peace be upon him This is a great time for us to For us to make good money No problem But also become loan sharks So these guys have come From far away journeys The best thing to do to them is When they come with more money Is charge them interest On whatever for example The money that they have taken So instead of it being this religious ceremony It becomes a commercial haven It also becomes a commercial haven Because there's many people Tourists who are traveling Now they have a competition There's now competitors Because you've got competitors From other parts of the world Who want a dominance Rome wants a dominance Ethiopia, Yemen All these areas they want a dominance And now Those are represented by For example the Christian faith They're not happy that this Ka'ba Is taking all the plaudits And so what they begin to do Is to say that Let's gather together Our army And go and destroy the Ka'ba Once and for all Say Jaber Which Surah in the Quran Surah-e-Fil Ahsan Surah-e-Fil Well done I'm proud That's fantastic Surah-e-Fil In the Holy Quran You find that It's a clear indicator And it's interesting How does the Surah begin Say Jaber What's the first eye of the Surah? Bismillah-Rahman-Rahim Alam Tell me how that works Have you not witnessed what your Lord Done to the people of the elephant? He's talking to Not just the prophet Muhammad here Talking to the Quraish That you people Have forgotten the fact that That army of elephants came To try and destroy the Ka'ba We protected that Ka'ba And now You want to come and have the audacity To attack the grandson of the man Who protected that Ka'ba that day Abdul-Muttalib is the one Who told everybody Listen, calm down Have trust in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala We'll look after all of this You know everyone's struggling People are praying People are going to the mountains And Abdul-Muttalib is saying Do not worry We will look after all of this And now You imagine when this story Is being told to the Arabs It's reminding them That only a few years ago Muhammad, peace be upon him And his family is grandfather What's the man Who was looking after that Ka'ba What have you people done With that Ka'ba And what have they done They polluted it with their idols Manat, Allahat, and Uzza And you know All of these idols Hubbal and so on Were all decorating that Ka'ba And it was sad Because the center of monotheism Established by Ibrahim, peace be upon him Established by Nabi Adam, peace be upon him Now becomes a center Which is polluted With people even doing Tawaf, naked Tawaf The circumambulation of the Ka'ba In the nude So it was really immoral It was ignorant And this lasted for a long time So when the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him Brought the religion of Islam And he obviously brought Salat with him Was the qiblah still towards the Ka'ba With all this idolatry going around it And this pollution Or were they praying in a different direction The qiblah was not towards the Ka'ba And you know When people hear that The qiblah was towards Palestine and Jerusalem and so on When they hear this They wonder why And you know You got this polluted place And mind you Some of the Jewish community Living at the time Were actually laughing at this Because it continues Until the Prophet, peace be upon him And his family Migrates to Madina Because the verse in relation To the changing of the qiblah Towards the Ka'ba As you know We have the famous mosque Which is known as Masjid The qiblatain In relation to the two qiblahs Masjid the qiblatain Where the The direction The pilgrimage was changed At that time Many of the Jewish community Was laughing at the Prophet Muhammad Saying his religion Has to use our Holy sites As the place is off Worship Worship But then this gets changed While he's in Madina So how did the Prophet Take back control of the Ka'ba To bring the qiblah back To the Ka'ba Well he takes back control of the Ka'ba On the day of the opening of Mecca You know That potent combination Of Rasulallah, peace be upon him And Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib Absolutely annihilates the opposition And they're able to take back control Because hitherto that point They're trying to go back And perform some sort of hajj But they're only able to do a couple of omras The minor pilgrimage In contrast to the major pilgrimage Famous treaty of Khudaibiyyah Allowed them to come back But not to come back and perform the hajj Remember the Prophet Muhammad Peace be upon him and his family Performs one hajj his whole life And that's why there are people out there Who'll brag that I've been on twenty hajj I've been on sixty hajj I've been on eighty hajj Rasulallah went on one And that was sufficient for him But when he goes on that one hajjj At this stage the whole area is purified But before that they tried to go back But the Quraish were strong They were stubborn They were not allowing them to make inroads Until that one and farewell pilgrimage InshaAllah What are the steps of hajj? We hear it's obligatory We hear there are many different parts to it Could you run us through the beginning? Well it's interesting When anyone who's come with me on hajj Will tell you that I prefer to look At it spiritually than legally I know that most people who go on hajj Are so sensitive about the legal aspects That I don't think you come back As this changed person everyone imagines Have you ever met anyone who comes back and says It's probably because it costs an arm and a leg It costs an arm and a leg I don't think it's the issue In all honesty I think You're still excited to go But there's a lot of nerves about For example things such as Am I wearing my ehram properly I just looked in the mirror and said I remember people coming up to me I looked in the mirror What's the penalty? Some hair fell down What's the penalty? I'm like just go and chill And people were coming up to me But I'm like listen When you've come towards this journey You've come so that your only concern is Oh I looked in the mirror Therefore God's going to punish me What type of God have you created In your minds You know when we say There is no God But Allah It's because man will make many Different understandings of God If you really think that your God Is a God who's concerned about the fact That you accidentally looked in the mirror Then you've not understood the Lord What I'm saying is that When people go to Hajj While the legal aspect is important Don't be so pedantic on the legal aspect Rather look at this as a spiritual change That's going to occur in your life A real journey for you The steps for Hajj First and foremost I think what's important is Before you fly Your Hajj begins Many people assume That I'm going to begin Explaining the steps of Hajj By saying well you know You have to do Umrah And then after that you do Hajj By going to Arafah And then Muzdalifah And then Mina And then this and then that It's the typical Muslim legal pedantic outlook First and foremost Before you go to Hajj Your journey begins then Not when you have reached Mecca Before you go to Hajj There are maybe some people You need to ask for forgiveness for Don't you go to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala And beg Him for forgiveness When you haven't forgiven Some of His creation Or have not sought for forgiveness From some of His creation I've seen people who come towards Hajj And they're begging God for forgiveness But when their cousin begs them For forgiveness And you find therefore that You get this sudden surge Of text messages in our community If you noticed just before Hajj Please forgive me forgive me And you get one after the other And so when you're getting these messages Alhamdulillah that's a wonderful start A person's recognized that You know what Maybe there are certain things in my life Which I regret And therefore I want to ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala To forgive me But also those who I've wronged From His creation After that When you're about to board your flight You gotta remember This is a spiritual journey And therefore on this spiritual journey You're gonna meet all types of characters Hajj if I could summarize it In one sentence And I'm nobody too And nor will it be worth anything But if I could I would say really It's a test of your discipline You're gonna from the beginning Of that journey You haven't even got to Medina or Mecca From the beginning you're gonna see The person next to you Who's complaining all the time Why is the flight late Why is the baggage this Now that could be looked at in two ways Either the group organizers done a Bad job Yeah not the best job Or That moment is your test Where you're looking at yourself And your absolute origin Because what's the whole journey The journey is to take you back To your very self No aftershaves No deodorants No gels No best of clothing No best of this or best of that It's taking you back to see This is what you really are That if you were to take all of this away They're not coming with you to the grave Your deeds are what's gonna come with you to the grave Cause Hajj can also be a metaphor for the grave And the resurrection on the day of judgement The whole shroud, white shroud People gathered in one place Going from one part of land to another Struggling to find their journey Therefore when you're on that plane You're still undertaking that journey It's even recommended Listen take some For example let's say Take some walnuts with you And give them to some of your fellow hojjaj That is something that earns the wab Why? Because it's a spiritual journey Where a person moves from the ay to the we The human being loves to work in the world of ay I am this, I am that Hajj is meant to take you towards the world of we So that first part of the journey Is very much underestimated That many times people say Hajj is Arafah Hajj is Muzdalifah Hajj is Minna Hajj is shaving Hajj is done Whereas a person first has to look and say The humbling of oneself And the disciplining of oneself Is the prerequisite that's required From there the journey should really begin in Medina InshaAllah We'll just take a short break And come back to the rest of the questions InshaAllah For those of you joining us We've just been through the first part of the show And Hajj Because it's the season of Hajj And inshaAllah you can join us after the break Where we can take your questions live Via the telephone Or by sending them through in WhatsApp The telephone number to call is Plus442035150199 InshaAllah we'll see you soon after the break Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh Welcome to part 2 of Live in London With Dr. Said Aman Akshwani Now tonight's topic is the topic of Hajj Seeing as it's the season of Hajj Many of our families, friends Have already undertaken the journey We'd like to, just before starting the show Announce that Dr. Said Aman Akshwani Will also be live from the Holy Land of Karbala As of next week for 4 nights InshaAllah Monday night Wednesday night Thursday night And also Friday night Another thing we could do is If you have your questions not read out On tonight's show You could send them in InshaAllah we can put them to him During next week's show From the Land of Karbala As always you can phone in Via the number on the screen Which is Plus442035150199 See Adnan, before we went on the break You were mentioning that Hajj Starts from before you Step foot on a plane And it's about achlag and manners And I remembered one story During the break That my dad used to tell me is He used to say I've never had the honour of going Hajj So I don't know if it's actually like Some just going on his word He used to say that When you go Hajj It's less of the spiritual Less of the prayers But rather more fighting about Who had the bigger banana Who got the better fruits Even things such as When you get on the plane The organisers say The front few seats are for the women And you get very large men Just taking the first seat Saying no I don't care Put the woman next to me I'll sit next to them etc It's a very important thing That achlag is before we Well I think the Imams of Ahl al Bayt And a number of anecdotes Stress on the fact that When people mention to them There's so many at Hajj And you know what The country where Hajj takes place Always proud to announce their figures So you find that When people hear Oh this year in Hajj There's a million people Two million People straight away assume Wow that's something amazing The Imams of Ahl al Bayt always stress That in reality This is a scrummage This is not a journey to God The way some of these people Are behaving on that journey And the first place I see it And I'm going to be very frank The first place I see it Is in Jannah al Baqia In Jannah al Baqia And some people would assume That well the Imams anecdotes Refer to the period of Tawaf Tawaf will come to in a second Listen my face has been Elbowed on Tawaf I mean smacked on Tawaf I mean kicked on Tawaf And I think some people Might have seen things worse than me Especially the woman folk Now when you come towards Madinah In Madinah We start our journey It's recommended to go and visit The Holy Prophet Muhammad Peace be upon his family As the famous tradition states Whoever visits me In my lifetime or after my death I'll visit them on the day of judgment What better honor can you have And so you can visit The Prophet peace be upon his family You visit that land Where the Imams of Ahlul Bayt Alaym al Salam are buried In Jannah al Baqia And you're there Standing there Sending your salutations And you've got these people Ushering you away Like you're a group of animals And then all of a sudden You've got this sectarian War and debate that begins In a graveyard Now you tell me I want to ask you There are non-Muslim Cemetery out there Non-Muslims When you go in there Nobody ever assumes You've gone into that cemetery Because you're going to worship That particular grave People allow you to be in peace There's a massive cemetery in Brooklyn A massive cemetery in Buenos Aires And people assume That you as a human being Require your quiet time In honoring those who have come before you Subhanallah Some of the ethics That we see over there Is disgusting And it's sad that That becomes a metaphor For the rest of the trip To you as well But when we do go We begin our journey in Medina And in Medina You visit the Prophet Muhammad Peace be upon his family Can't get too near his grave Because these guys will just kick you away Or push you away And then after that We'll visit Jannah al-Baqih And then There are certain sites Which a person goes to honor Now you mentioned Masjid al-Qiblatayn For example The place where the Qiblah was changed The direction of prayer We go and visit that We go and visit for example The grave of Hamza And the martyrs of the day of Uhud I tried to give a lecture About the biography of Hamza With my group And I was ushered away By the people who stood by his grave And I don't know What Islam these people follow Because this is the uncle Of the Prophet peace be upon his family Who for some time Was the master of the martyrs So we go and visit Hamza We go to Uhud We visit the rest of the martyrs We go and visit some of the other mosques That are there Mosques where the battle of Khandaq took place Would you believe Having gone to Umrah Over 15 years ago There used to be a house For Fatima al-Zahra, alaihi s-salam And a house for Imam Ali alaihi s-salam And a place for Salman And all of these have been destroyed And one of the worst things that has happened Is the destruction of Muslim heritage In Mecca and Medina I think every Muslim irrespective If you're Shi'a, Sunni, wherever you belong to Someone has to speak out And stop this destruction of our heritage Houses of the family of the Prophet Houses of the Prophet peace be upon his family Houses of the companions Houses of others have been destroyed And they continue to be destroyed Now when you look at the philosophy Of Hajj here Hajj is honoring the heritage Of a prophet of God Called Ibrahim alaihi s-salam And the laws of Hajj are then In turn given to us by The Prophet Muhammad peace be upon his family When we follow his sunnah Yet you find that the heritage of Of those sites I mean destroyed They've been taken over by five star hotels And I'm not one who's against Development and modernity But there's a certain class to doing it When we go to Paris for example I see Paris has got some wonderful Modern contemporary art But they'll remember Napoleon They'll remember Charles de Gaulle They'll remember the art galleries They'll remember where they're priming They'll remember the greatest Of for example palaces There's an honoring of heritage This is common with all human beings Likewise in London There's some of the most modern areas In London, contemporary art But at the same time There's a reverence for heritage But it's unbelievable how When you go to Medina And many people who have not been to Hajj Nor to Umrah will not know what I'm saying But when you go there You begin to see the destruction Of Muslim heritage And I don't care if you're a Muslim Or non-Muslim This is not human This is the sign of Bedouin filth So we go to Medina And we're there in Medina For a certain period of time Bump into everyone You manage to see everyone And then after that You begin to Make the intention To undertake the journey towards Mecca And when you begin to undertake That journey towards Mecca Naturally There is that act of A person wearing their Ihram Yes And you've got many people At that period When we go for example to Mejesh Shajara let's say You've got many people there Who will say to me Am I wearing my Ihram properly Is my Ihram unproperly Is my Ihram fallen And listen all of our Ihrams In one way or the other Are a mess on that day And I always tell people Make sure you're sitting on the right angle Now with the Ihram Instead of focusing That am I wearing my Ihram properly Focus on the fact That have I removed The skin of being a fox Or a wolf In the community Or one of the sheep Who has no opinion And am I now putting The skin of thought and intellect And reflection and contemplation The amount of people Who are worried that The white piece of cloth Is being worn properly Instead of thinking of The spiritual cloth now That they're about to undertake Is flabbergasted And that's something That has to change quickly That that spiritual element Imam Zain al-Abideen with Shibli I recommend all the viewers Go and read that conversation Between Imam Zain al-Abideen And Shibli on Hajj Did you take off your Ihram? Yes I did So you took off the Ihram of disobedience And now wore the Ihram of obedience Look at the difference in the mentality And then we undertake That wonderful journey This is to perform the Umrah We undertake that wonderful journey Going towards Mecca And telling our Lord that Here we are And that's not something easy to say Imam Al-Saleh used to tremble Many times people say Allahumma labbaika labbaika laa shalika labbaika When people utter these lines This is not just oscillating tongue movements This is a person who's telling his Lord That I'm ready to face you And I don't know how many of us Are ready to face the Lord And so the Ahl al-Bayt al-Alim al-Salam Would say do you know Who you're going to face Have you reflected? By Alhamdulillah All of the groups, the spiritual guides Many of them do a wonderful job In reciting of supplications on the way It's a wonderful moment of the we Instead of the I That journey from Medina to Mecca And after Umrah I guess comes Arafah What's the significance of Imam Hussain al-Salam and Arafah Is there any connection Because you have to do his ziyarat on that day Well Let's make something clear If it wasn't for Imam al-Hussain's sacrifice At Karbala there would be no Hajj No Hajj meaning Understanding how to perform Hajj In the correct manner Both legally Morally and spiritually And the saddest of all sadnesses Is that Imam al-Hussain al-Salam Is not able to perform Hajj Before he is martyred on the plains of Karbala He has to leave And that's why I think Imam Zayn al-Abideen al-Salam In front of Yazid and Sham says I am the son of Mecca and Mina I'm the son of Zamzam and Safa I'm the son of the greatest man To have held the black stone And circumambulated around the Kaaba When Imam Zayn al-Abideen Says this in front of Yazid and Sham He's making it clear that I'm the son of the man Who protected this whole message With what he just did On the plains of Karbala Secondly Imam al-Hussain al-Salam Has this wonderful supplication Mind you Imam Zayn al-Abideen's supplication On the day of Arafa In my opinion is equally as beautiful As his father's one There's Dua Arafa of Imam al-Hussain And there's Dua Arafa of Imam Zayn al-Abideen For years I used to recite Dua Arafa of Imam al-Hussain Until one day I came across Dua Arafa of Imam Zayn al-Abideen It is wonderful And that's what's so unique about Shiazm The supplications of the Ahl al-Beij You won't find in any other school In the whole of Islam You'll find politics in other schools You'll find law You'll find theology We have political theory We have law We have theology But the spirituality And the supplications of the Ahl al-Beij You can't find that in any of the other Bedouins In other schools Now when you're looking at this therefore Imam al-Hussain al-Salam Has that wonderful Dua Arafa He recites it in the year before he's martyred So not the Hajj before he's martyred The Hajj before that And it reaches us from the Ahl al-Beij al-Salam But there is no doubt That the most wonderful part of Hajj is Arafa I'm not surprised when people say When the traditions of the Ahl al-Beij tell us That Hajj is Arafa Just look at this equation And you tell me whether Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala God in Islam Wants to send people to hell or to heaven Look at this equation You've committed sins all your life You come to Arafa You have to stay there for a few hours Between let's say for example Midday and sunset When you're staying in that period You don't have to do no supplication Nothing's obligatory on you You just stay there If you doubt That all of your sins have been forgiven Your Hajj is void Hold on Me Who has disobeyed my Lord all my life Are you telling me that if I sit Between midday And sunset That's all I have to do Just sit Nothing else Just sit there My Lord will forgive every sin on mine And me doubting that Will make my pilgrimage void Tell me this is the Lord Who wants to send people to hell or to heaven Heaven It's phenomenal And that's why you see people break down Just while they're in Arafa Literally they break down Why? That realization If explained to you properly By your spiritual guides That realization that Hold on I'm here I don't need to do anything And my Lord just started a clean slate with me Now mind you don't use this as an excuse Some of you might think You know what Let's just mess about for the next 25 years And then go to Arafa and chill No Shouldn't be used as an excuse But Those moments in Arafa Arafa Not knowledge There's a knowledge of the conscience Which is rising to new depths It's phenomenal That in a few hours The human being Is in tune and cognizance With the greatness of their Lord And the mercy of their Lord And the forgiveness of their Lord And their Lord who keeps giving And even if we're disobedient He keeps opening the doors for us That معرفة Not علم I know God is one That علم معرفة is when I begin to taste the beauty Of having a relationship with my Creator And so that period I recommend for anyone You go to Hajj Just taste Arafa And you'll see how wonderful it is It's marvelous as if God's looking for excuses to forgive us And yet we doubt Well many times Many times if you look throughout the year Many times Whether it's that There's that one hour on Fridays When all your sins are forgiven But you don't know which one Laylatulqat For example All your sins are forgiven For example You've got other prayers Salatul Layl Which is an expiation For the sins of the day So you've got all of these What I call Doors of Mercy Of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Where he's telling you Look, here's your opportunity Make full use of it InshaAllah We have a caller on the line Assalamu Alaikum They're calling from Germany Assalamu Alaikum Yes, yes brother We can hear you Germany said I've got to crutch my head And I lose some hairs Do I have to do the biha For all of it Or for each hair What I lose Okay Thank you very much brother He says if he Scratches his hair No, no, you don't have to worry about any of that In fact On the contrary Is it intentional Or not intentional Yes There is a person Who's going to do something intentional If it's not intentional Then do not worry about any kafara And certainly do not worry about going And sacrificing A whole sheep simply because of that A person who's going on Hajj If there is an intention You know, a person intentionally Is, you know, for example Looking in the mirror Or that person intentionally has caused Some of their hair to fall Or scratched or so on That's a different story This person If it's something which is unintentional God is all forgiving InshaAllah So we spoke about Umrah We spoke about Arafa Next I guess is Muzdalifah What part of that What's included in that Well Muzdalifah is that period after you've left Arafa Where literally you see just how Basic you are as a human being You're in the middle of absolute Madness Madness There's a photo of mine I don't know if any of you will ever get hold of it InshaAllah it doesn't go Online Bring it in There's a photo of mine where I'm absolutely knocked out While in Hajj And I found a place to sleep Now I don't know what was underneath me I think there's a few dead cats And possibly someone's feces Now when I was sleeping there You know, when you're that knocked out You don't care what you're sleeping on And SubhanAllah What was behind me? Danger High voltage I think there's a better description of me In any photo than at that moment But Muzdalifah you're under the planes Muzdalifah you know And you're picking up pebbles You talk about the same areas where Tayran Ababil destroyed Abraha So there's still that connection with With history, with what's taken place And so you're collecting these pebbles Because now you're going to meet that One existence Whose cause you havoc your whole life And that is of course The shaitan Shaitan And the symbolic representation of Satan And the way that he tried to affect Ibrahim A.S. when he was about to sacrifice Ishmael So at Muzdalifah we're there for that period of time Under the dark, you know the dark skies It is the most unbelievable scene And possibly the closest scene To the day of judgement I think between Muzdalifah and Mina Between the white shrouds and the darkness of the night That one may argue Is as close as you're going to get So now we've talked about Umrah, Arafah, Muzdalifah The final one you just briefly touched upon, Mina What's included there? Well what's included there is that You're going to be in a tent Which can have air conditioning Or it might not have depending on how good your group is Do you get a deluxe package or not? Yeah, it depends if you're on the luxury packages You know some people have tents Which may feel worse than your oven at home Others have tents which are a bit more comfortable Either way, one way or the other The AC will eventually break down You've got to get ready for that But you're in Mina and your whole intention at this moment Is that I've got to get ready Because I'm going to have to throw my stones Be it first on the big Satan Be it later on on all three And I remember a funny story Of the person who went on the group And you know you've collected these pebbles From Muzdalifah to go and throw them in On Satan and Mina And everyone's throwing the stones And there's this one person who's not throwing So you're like what's going on And he's like just give me a break for a bit You're like come on you've got to throw the stones You've got to throw them on Satan He's like give me a break He's like why? He said this guy was my friend for 30 years You know let me just give him a chance first And really it's that moment where you realize That you and Shaitan have had some good nights together You've had some bad nights together But now you're here And when you're throwing those stones There's this one person Not too different from the caller who just called Who asked me a question where they were saying At what angle should I throw my pebble on Satan Should it be at 64 degrees to the circumference Of the diameter of the proximity Habibi it's symbolic for Satan Just get your pebble ready And get ready to smack it There's too much legal pedantic moments in Hajj What you're doing is Your seven pebbles let's say that you're throwing Is that you're throwing away seven of the worst sins That you have in your life Inshallah they don't reach seven but let's say Or seven of the worst attributes you have Not sins Attributes that you have in your life Maybe you're someone who's extremely envious Whenever you see someone doing well in life You're always envious of their success In a very negative manner Maybe when you're throwing that stone Don't just say Oh I threw that stone But it may not have hit the left right top corner of Satan You're not playing football son What you're trying to do is You're trying to spiritually develop yourself You're trying to throw envy out of your life You may be someone who for example Eats a bit too much You go to sleep full You wake up you're lethargic Maybe that part of God is something you can work on So you may be someone who for example Does not encourage others to pray on the contrary When people get on prayer You're always This prayers you people are too religious Throw that out of your life The throwing of those pebbles Is not just throwing at Sheykh It's throwing those areas out of your life Never wanting them to return back again What's the symbolism Between these three different areas then Are they part of For example I heard one of them was When Hz. Ibrahim A.S. took his son Hz. Ismail to slaughter him Because it was the will of God Satan came to the son and said So Minna is the representation Of that area of the sacrifice So he's gone to sacrifice his son This is the greatest moment In a life of a human being When they are willing to sacrifice Their most beloved for God It's a phenomenal moment We can't bear for our child's hurt Crying, ill, sick Not getting the best grades Is not that imagined That you're told Through the dream First time he sees the dream He's not sure Second time the day of Arafah He knows, he's certain The beauty of the fact that his wife Hijaz spirituality is unique as well You know sometimes in our communities I hear many saras But I don't hear many hijaz And hijaz spirituality is something phenomenal This mother is ready And that's why I think God honored her Every Muslim has to go around her grave It's not just God's house the Ka'bah Next to God's house is hijaz grave But it's a phenomenal moment of spirituality Where the mother and the father Are in unison with one another That you know what, sacrifice the son And when he wants to sacrifice the son Satan naturally sees That if Ibrahim has such conviction The followers of Abraham Will all recognize that one day They all have an Isma'il in their life You know sometimes when people ask me questions About certain things in their life I'm like what's your Isma'il What's your sacrifice Nabi Ibrahim's sacrifice was his most beloved And none of us will reach that level Maybe only the man of the 10th of Muharram Could achieve what that moment Was trying to achieve But you got to ask yourself in your life What's your sacrifice No one likes waking up for Fajr You agree? I'm not going to sit here and say Hey guys I can't wait till I wake up for Fajr In 9 hours time or whatever it is But that might be my Isma'il There are some sisters I don't blame them they don't want to cover their hair They can see other sisters are getting the plaudits They're getting the praise They've been told they're beautiful They're getting attention And you're covering your But that might be your Isma'il Fasting in the holy month of Ramadan It's not easy work That might be your Isma'il Picking up the Quran And reading one page of it That might be your Isma'il Therefore That moment Satan grasps That if I don't get in the way here There's trouble There's a lot of people Who are going to look at this moment As a great moment And so we honor that By the sacrifice that is made Of course in these days A few members of the group go Within minna And they'll make sure that the sacrifice is done And we hope That on their way Satan does not affect them They go on their way And many of them do an amazing job And all of us are waiting And then when we get the news Of course from then on The last of the rites are done Insha'Allah We've had a question Coming through WhatsApp Sayyidina from Amir Sardik From Croydon He says Why is it wajib upon sheers To perform Tawaf el-Nisa And not on the other sects Well, our brothers in Al-Sunnah Have a final Tawaf And some of our Marajah have said Because there are some of our brothers From Al-Sunnah who became Shi'a And the question was asked To some of our Marajah That do they have to perform Tawaf el-Nisa Now that they've become Followers of Ahl al-Bayt In the sense that they've done hajj before And you found that Some of the Marajah have said That the final Tawaf For our brothers in Al-Sunnah That could be counted As a Tawaf el-Nisa For us Tawaf el-Nisa Is taken from the imams Of Ahl al-Bayt, Alaym al-Salam That this was an act That was obligatory In their practice of hajj Insha'Allah Another question that's coming It says What's the water of Zamzam And what is its significance? It's seen as that water Which has the effects Of curing those who Have illnesses for example You found that That is the same water That gash forth for hajj When she went from The mountain of Safar To the mount of Marwa You see that part of the hajj Is known as Sa'i And that Sa'i Is remembering the struggle Of hajj From these two mountains Until the spring of water Known as Zamzam gash forth Insha'Allah Another question is Why aren't non-Muslims Allowed to enter the Ka'bah Or its surrounding areas? Muslims for example Are not allowed to enter The Ka'bah and surrounding areas If there are certain states Of impurity that they're in So before we start About non-Muslims If a Muslim is in a state Of janaabah for example Impurity There are certain rules For women as well Upon entering Mejr al-Haran So it's not just a case For the non-Muslims Yes, the non-Muslims The polytheists Spoken of for example In the holy Quran And there are laws Relating to the polytheists And their entrance Of Mejr al-Haran Naturally polytheism Is seen in Islamic thought As being the greatest sin Possible But you find that also Muslims in certain moments Of impurity Are not allowed to enter That area as well Insha'Allah Another question from Brother Irtiza from Pakistan He says I have the financial capacity To perform Hajj But time is the issue I cannot get so many days Of work and I'll lose My job otherwise What should I do And how much of an obligation On me is Hajj Under such a condition Actually we said that For example The capabilities have to be There, financial capability Has to be there But it should not put Your family in a perilous Position If therefore You know that You going to Hajj Is going to cause you to be sacked And put your family In a perilous position Then no But you should try and also Look at the days That you have often Try and work around them To get an extension There are some Hajj groups That are three weeks long There are others That are two weeks long And I think that Most companies in the world Will definitely allow Two weeks leave For their employees Insha'Allah So back to the Topic of Hajj Now we've performed Let's say The ceremony of Hajj We've come back to Our respective countries Homes, towns, etc How do we make sure We keep that spirituality Within us And not lose touch Of the things We've been through The things we've seen The things we've experienced And like you said Although we might Take off the Ihram of obedience, Knowledge, etc And replace it With jeans, t-shirts But internally Still keep that Ihram on If that makes sense I think it's a fantastic Question I think the whole Atmosphere of Hajj You have to somehow Try and recreate On the most micro-cosmic level If you were in God's house Known as the Masjid Then attend your local Masjid More than you used to before If for example You were willing to sit With a group of friends In Hajj And discuss religion Then start that same circle Again when you're back And get those friends together And meet on a regular basis If you saw yourself Reading a lot more Quran and Mecca and Medina Then maintain that relationship With the Holy Quran If you saw yourself For example Serving food and serving tea And giving help to people Then likewise come back And make that small environment Around you A mini Mecca again Or a mini Hajj again Every moment in Hajj Is a message for our lives All of you in that group Who are sitting in the bus together Or at that service station Have got off And are talking about religion And you're discussing your affairs Start that again when you get back I think what happens is With many people When they get back from Hajj Is there is a buzz There's no doubt But then after that The daily rigors of responsibility Take over them I'm not gonna deny That a person can maintain That same circle There's a reason For looking at the Ka'bah is worship There's a spiritual energy That's different from any other place This is the center of the existence Of the human being On the earthly level But at the same time Try and create it Or recreate it On a more miniscule level And try and maintain relations With those Who not only took you to Hajj But also were roommates Some roommates became Your best friends for life As in barring those who snore We've had some classics Who can snore In our room Like destructive washing machine Level snoring Barring those guys Then try and keep in touch With everybody else Are those people's Hajj is accepted Just out of interest or Well I said I could find I could find a crack in their Hajj One way or the other Where they messed up But Allah swt Too forgiving Is too merciful Of course We have another caller Peace be upon you Peace be upon you Peace be upon you Could you share your name Where you're calling from My question Sure Thank you very much brother The Hajj rituals performed Pre-Islam Are similar In the sense that The circumambulation of the Kaaba The honoring of Safa and Marwa The sacrifice All of these Were performed pre-Islam But like we mentioned They were performed In a very immoral manner Remember Pre-Islam The Arab loved Ibrahim The Arab was proud That they were from The descendants of Ismail But they were performing These acts In a very immoral way So the Tawaf was done Naked Or the sacrifice The blood was thrown On the Kaaba Or there was a lot Of gossiping taking place Around the Hajj period And there were loan sharks Everywhere Who were charging An arm and a leg For people who were Taking loans from them So there was a lot of similarities But these similarities Sadly were tainted With a very immoral streak Another question That's coming to his head Is what's the symbolism Or purpose of shaving The man's head Before he comes back From Hajj You know It's this new start For the human being Isn't it? So it's like You're almost reborn again You're completely ridding yourself Of what is your price Possession You know As a human being Your beauty And you're taking yourself back To the minimum That you can So here This is another of that moments Where you're not just shedding The physical But you're shedding That attachment that you have To all that you perceive As glorious But which may not necessarily Help you when you're in the grave Okay We have another caller On the line Selamu alaykum Selamu alaykum Selamu alaykum Could you give us A question Where you're calling from? Yep My name is Nezia I'm calling from Saudi Okay Yes What's your question brother? Why are the Hajj rituals Re-enactment Of Prophet Ibrahim's family? Could you just repeat That question, sorry? Why are the Hajj rituals Re-enactment Of the Prophet Ibrahim's family? Okay Thank you Are the Hajj rituals Re-enactments Of Prophet Ibrahim's family? Things that he did? Yes All the Hajj rituals Are related to Prophet Ibrahim's family But are guided By the acts of the Prophet Muhammad Peace be upon him and his family So Prophet Ibrahim Did not exactly Explain to us The wearing of the Ehram cloth Yes Prophet Ibrahim Does not exactly Explain to us What's prohibited In the period of Hajj So to say That the whole of Hajj Is related to Prophet Ibrahim Is not right Yes Where Prophet Ibrahim And the sacrifice Took place Where Sara And where Hajj And Ismaili lived That is definitely part Of the Hajj But the laws of Hajj Have come to us From the Prophet Muhammad Peace be upon him And his family Peace be upon him A question from Sister Shahila From New York Is If A Salah Is considered Qaza If it was started Shortly before The time for it Should become Qaza Then the time comes For the Salah Is passed Having the Niyah For a non-Qaza Salah We'll be discussing that In our next show Insha'Allah Where we'll look at the act Of worship That is Salah From the Karbala Insha'Allah From next week Thank you For tuning in To our episode today And thank you To our esteemed guest My pleasure Thank you If you'd like to Follow the doctor He will be live From our studios In the Holy Land Of Karbala From next week Insha'Allah He will be going live Monday night Wednesday night Thursday night And Friday night And he has already Promised the topic For the forthcoming Nights That they'll be discussing As always You can send in your questions Via WhatsApp Or you could Ring in the number direct We look forward to Seeing you again soon Insha'Allah And also the viewers at home Please don't forget us In your prayers As-salamu alaykum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh


I've heard sermons about weight loss and being good stewards of our bodies, and it's not that I think those are wrong. It's just, I wonder if the sermon shouldn't be a better steward of your body image, because it seems like God uses us in whatever body we have, at whatever point in time it is. But how we see and relate to our body, that limits us sometimes.


I'm Murphy and this is a typical triple in Abbotsford Hall. So right here we've got the bathroom. You do get a private bathroom which is really nice. And then if you want to come in here, we've got a separate room which you can do whatever you want with this room but we made it into a living room space. Then we have our beds bunked and then lofted. You can also get a ladder from downstairs so I did that with my lofted bed. And here is the kitchen. It's nice to have a sink and all that because then we can make a lot of food in here and don't have to go to the dining hall because we don't have a dining hall. Also my favorite part about Abbotsford is just how big the rooms are. I can have time away but also be with them and we can have fun but it's nice that we can all just have our own space while also just coexisting together.