The Spirituality of Hajj - Hajja Najah Bazzy

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[0:08]your [Music] regime.

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[1:17][Music] [Music] Bismar.

[1:48]Glory.

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[2:25]You are my only one.

[2:41]So That's The bad is from He was so thankful.

[4:29]Oh, [Music] [Music] be Allah.

[4:50][Music] amlaykum brothers and sisters.

[5:08]I probably should say all of you here either uh I either

[5:17]went to Hajj like myself or inshallah go into Hajj this year

[5:24]like myself or inshallah you'll be Haj in the future if you're

[5:29]not um like like Mahi um you know I was um I

[5:34]I was curious and and looked Google the other day and said

[5:36]how many Googled how many Hajj are going this year and um

[5:41]they told me last year they there was 1.83 million Hajj that

[5:44]went last year they expect around two millions this year and um

[5:51]you know as you know there's two billion Muslims uh in the

[5:56]world so if you divide the 2 million by two billion this

[6:01]is a 0.001%.

[6:03]So that tells a lot.

[6:06]That tells how blessed you are that Allah chose you to go

[6:09]to Hajj inshallah um this year and to do all the knowing

[6:15]that Haj is not only a set of it is uh it

[6:20]is a journey full of spirituality and this is inshallah what our

[6:26]dear guest speaker inshallah will enlighten us with um information and uh

[6:34]knowledge about this journey.

[6:34]journey inshallah so that we make sure that this journey is going

[6:42]to be the best in our lives.

[6:43]Um I know all of you know Hajah uh Hajah is uh

[6:49]a leader in the community.

[6:50]Hajan is uh a member of Mecca community from day one.

[6:54]She um she's a renowned speaker and of course uh we are

[7:00]so happy and u honored to have her with us tonight.

[7:06]Uh without further delay, I would ask to uh come to the

[7:08]podium after Thank you.

[7:18]Do I have to stay behind here?

[7:21]Are you are you YouTubing or Okay, I prefer just to talk.

[8:04]class took about two hours, but I think the majority of the

[8:09]questions have already been answered.

[8:11]I was following along when Salah was presenting and there's always so

[8:17]many questions.

[8:20]You know the will teach something and then a million questions come

[8:24]into your mind.

[8:24]Tonight is not about the rules and the regulations.

[8:33]So that's a problem.

[8:36]You know what?

[8:38]If you don't want Yeah, that would be good.

[8:43]Let's put up the slides.

[8:45]To everyone who's listening, including probably my son.

[8:50]So, this journey, you know, um, usually when I teach this class,

[8:59]when you enter, we're playing this beautiful And what I want to

[9:10]say is that's the starting point because you're not going to Hajj

[9:13]because you chose to go to Hajj.

[9:15]You said yes.

[9:17]You're going to go to Hajj.

[9:19]You said yes to an invitation.

[9:21]But that invitation came long before.

[9:25]And I may say things that say Salah has already said to

[9:30]you, but I'm not a scripted person.

[9:31]So I can't read from a script.

[9:32]I don't know how to read from a script.

[9:34]So, I only know how to speak from my heart.

[9:36]So, if I'm saying things that he's already said, feel free to

[9:39]say he covered it.

[9:41]We don't need to hear it again.

[9:42]I'm okay with that and I'll move on.

[9:44]But in that world of souls before we were created, when the

[9:52]great covenant happened and the Quran tells us that there was a

[9:56]covenant between all of us, the children of Adam, and it's okay

[10:02]that my brother's phone's ringing because he's my brother.

[10:05]My eldest brother.

[10:11]I didn't see the Mecca um he wasn't reading his Mecca chat.

[10:17]The point being when Allah subhana wa ta'ala created Adam and he

[10:21]pulled us from the loins of Adam as the Quran says and

[10:26]we became the souls.

[10:26]Some say we were the people of the particles.

[10:29]Some people call it the people of the souls.

[10:34]The souls we were all existing before these this human body.

[10:37]When that was happening and Allah subhana wa ta'ala took this amazing

[10:42]covenant.

[10:44]He asked you because your soul is fully learned.

[10:49]He said to you am I not your lord?

[10:54]He said yes you are our lord.

[10:58]The hadiths tell us that after we said yes, you are our

[11:03]Lord, we said and the numbers of times that you said would

[11:13]be the numbers of times that you would be granted Hajj.

[11:18]So, you all said it once at least and many of you

[11:21]more than once and some of you probably needed to get unplugged

[11:26]as people may have said it many many times.

[11:29]The point being that soul that was once created that never dies,

[11:36]that soul that is pure energy and that belongs to God, that

[11:41]soul that returns to God.

[11:43]Hajj is the manifestation, the reenactment of that covenant.

[11:52]That's what your Hajj is.

[11:55]We don't give much thought to the way we're created.

[12:00]But if you think about our creation, the purpose of Hajj and

[12:07]you understand that we were created to worship because that's what the

[12:12]Quran says.

[12:13]The way in which God wanted us to worship came first and

[12:21]then he created our bodies to do what he wanted us to

[12:28]do for us to worship him the way he wanted to be

[12:30]worshiped.

[12:32]Hence your forehead is here because he wanted you in the prayer

[12:39]to be in sjud.

[12:42]Hence he made a flat forehead.

[12:43]Your hands, your hands are webbed so that your hands can lay

[12:50]to the ground.

[12:49]Your knees bend, your back bends.

[12:51]All of the positions that you take in your salah were created

[12:57]for the purpose of worship.

[12:59]But we don't think about that.

[13:01]We think, oh, we're commanded to pray.

[13:04]My scholar teaches me how to pray.

[13:08]I go to Sunday school and I learn to pray.

[13:09]Now we go through these motions without understanding what's behind the deepness

[13:14]of the creation.

[13:17]You are created to pray.

[13:21]Your bodies were made to pray.

[13:24]Your frontal lobe was put here so that the thoughts that you

[13:27]have, everything in you, every cell in you is created in a

[13:36]specific way.

[13:33]And all of that manifests itself in all of the things that

[13:41]we do in Hajj.

[13:40]We may do many zadas on our lives to our imams, our

[13:45]honorable imams, and they deserve that.

[13:48]But there is nothing more important than your hunch.

[13:53]So you're answering the invitation you said just a little bit ago

[13:58]that you never thought that you would say yes.

[14:00]You don't want to leave the comfort of your home, but you're

[14:04]saying yes because you said yes and that's what's important.

[14:12]It's not easy to go to Hajj for the first time and

[14:20]especially for people who have little children or responsibilities.

[14:22]But you've probably already began to experience that somehow things start to

[14:28]align for you.

[14:30]You don't even know how this alignment is happening, but things begin

[14:33]to fall into place for you.

[14:36]Your visa might come at the last second.

[14:39]You might be nervous about all kinds of things.

[14:42]I know this group alone has had to struggle with so many

[14:44]different things.

[14:47]Relax.

[14:48]Take a deep breath because you're going to God's house.

[14:52]If he invited you, he's not going to let you down.

[14:57]If I invite to my home.

[15:02]It's a special invitation.

[15:03]It's not like if I invite somebody else say I'm going to

[15:09]go the extra mile.

[15:11]I'm going to make sure things are perfect as perfect as perfect

[15:14]as I can make them.

[15:15]Let alone if Allah subhana wa ta'ala is inviting you to his

[15:20]house.

[15:21]It is Allah who creates that opportunity.

[15:24]And that's where your humility needs to start.

[15:27]you are not creating this opportunity.

[15:28]You need to get that off of your mind and off of

[15:32]the list because if you think that you've created this opportunity, you're

[15:35]in a state of arrogance rather than a straight state of humility.

[15:38]And you need to be in that state of humility.

[15:42]So now the journey begins thousands and thousands and thousands of years

[15:48]ago is manifesting now.

[15:49]Now you're on the way.

[15:51]You're going to visit the house of God.

[15:55]Say may have covered this but the Quran is the center of

[16:02]the earth.

[16:03]This is scientific.

[16:03]If you draw a line from every part of the earth, the

[16:08]center of the earth is where the where the cabba actually is.

[16:12]And the cabba is directly aligned with what we call which I'm

[16:20]sure you talked about in the fourth heaven.

[16:21]Meaning that there's a direct connection between what is in heaven and

[16:29]what is on earth.

[16:28]You are entering the universal orbit of worship.

[16:34]When you go to Hajj, you were in heaven.

[16:39]You came to earth.

[16:39]When you go to Hajj, it's a reenactment of being in heaven.

[16:44]So, it's a descension this way and an ascension this way.

[16:48]So when you go to see the Cabba, we'll cover Mecca first,

[16:53]we'll cover Medina later because Medina is easy.

[16:55]Medina is a vacation, but in for those of you who have

[16:59]been there at least for how many of you are first time

[17:02]going to see going to Mecca first time?

[17:06]Okay.

[17:07]So let's just talk about the Cabba.

[17:09]And I'm sure I'm sure that Seyan already did.

[17:13]But as you know, there's these four corners.

[17:16]North, south, east, the west, the four corners of the earth.

[17:19]That's what the cabba represents.

[17:22]When you're in the cabba, obviously you're going to be doing your

[17:26]tawa.

[17:27]So, let's talk about a few things.

[17:30]Let's talk about that to that circumambulation.

[17:35]I want you to understand the deep deep meaning of Tawa.

[17:39]When you're circulating that during that Tawath, you're reenacting exactly what's happening

[17:47]in the heavens.

[17:47]Because we know from our hadiths that 70,000 angels are circumambulating that

[17:55]and they leave and another 70,000 come.

[17:58]This is happening the entire time in the heavens and it's happening

[18:06]on earth all of the time through the winds through tawa.

[18:09]There's always a circular motion.

[18:10]That circular motion is even in our human bodies.

[18:15]It goes against time because time goes this way.

[18:20]What I love about taw is it goes this way as though

[18:22]you're returning to your premortal to the premortial self.

[18:28]You're returning to the past even though you're in the present.

[18:33]When you are in Tawa, I always say of course the thing

[18:39]is is everything starts with nia in Islam.

[18:42]Everything starts with your intention and you have a scholar with you.

[18:46]So every single move you make, he's going to be with you.

[18:50]You don't have to worry about that.

[18:52]He's going to gather you as a group.

[18:54]You're going to stand together.

[18:55]He's going to say, "Make the nia for this.

[18:58]Let's assume it's tawa.

[18:58]You make your for your tawa.

[18:59]He's going to make sure that each one of you say it

[19:03]correctly.

[19:04]He's going to guide you.

[19:04]He's going to make sure that the resources you need are available.

[19:07]You're going to see that cabba for the first time.

[19:11]And I think you did cover this.

[19:13]And I know it sounds like a genie in the bottle story.

[19:16]It sounds like a little mystical, but it's the truth.

[19:18]When your eyes lay on the Cabba for the first time and

[19:22]you I can't help but cry through these things.

[19:26]and you are granted three wishes.

[19:28]Think about those three wishes.

[19:29]And I pretty much guarantee you that it's about nothing worldly because

[19:35]when you're there, there's nothing worldly that you need.

[19:39]It becomes about yourself, your family, your forgiveness.

[19:43]It becomes about your your eternity.

[19:46]That's all you really want.

[19:48]And so many people have told me, and I've gone to Hajj

[19:53]many times, that when they first saw the Cabba, not only were

[19:55]they memorized, mesmerized, they were kind of like stuck.

[20:00]They couldn't think of three wishes.

[20:03]I said, "So, what did your heart tell you?

[20:06]To pray for myself and my family for heaven?" Because that's really

[20:14]what it's about.

[20:14]We talk about this begin with end in mind.

[20:17]This is the beginning.

[20:20]with end in mind.

[20:20]So when you are in your to I want you to attach

[20:25]yourself to one of our imams or whomever it is you attach

[20:29]to.

[20:30]For me it's Zanabisam.

[20:34]When I'm in Hajj, she's I feel her presence with me.

[20:36]I attach to Lady Zanabam.

[20:39]I imagine when I'm in Hajj, I imagine her.

[20:44]What would she be like in Hajj?

[20:47]How would she walk?

[20:50]Walk like Z.

[20:52]And we have the blessing that our imams they transcend gender.

[20:58]So im you feel his presence in Hajj.

[21:02]You hear his voice.

[21:05]You see him on the wall of the you understand things that

[21:08]you hear the stories about but they become real when you're in

[21:14]the Hajj.

[21:13]Things manifest.

[21:15]Things come to you.

[21:18]You have deep understanding of things but in Hajj attached to someone

[21:22]or something that makes you strong.

[21:25]Yes, people will be pushing you.

[21:29]People will be tight like this on you.

[21:32]You will feel squished.

[21:35]You will feel like you can't breathe.

[21:37]That's true.

[21:39]I'm not going to lie to you about those things.

[21:42]And you might say, why is God putting me through these things?

[21:48]It's because life is struggle.

[21:50]Life does compress us and life does help us exhale.

[21:56]And there's actually actually a beautiful feeling you get when you accomplish

[22:02]your toath and you have been squeezed.

[22:06]And as he told you, you want to be able to take

[22:11]every single step yourself.

[22:11]But I want you to keep that left shoulder aligned because you're

[22:15]like the angels on earth.

[22:19]And so don't be frustrated.

[22:20]Don't let anyone take you out of your character in character.

[22:25]And Hajj is very different than we are, you know, here in

[22:28]everyday life.

[22:30]But if you really want to make Hajj, you have to forget

[22:38]this dunya.

[22:36]You have to let it go.

[22:39]You have to make a decision when you get on that airplane

[22:44]that it's all behind you.

[22:46]When we pray and we do Allahbar and we go like this,

[22:51]what are we doing?

[22:52]What are we doing?

[22:53]And we're putting it all behind.

[22:55]That's why we do this, right?

[22:59]You're leaving it all behind you.

[23:00]When you get in that airplane, you are leaving it all behind

[23:03]you.

[23:03]God is in charge of your children.

[23:06]He gave them to you.

[23:09]God is in charge of your home.

[23:10]He gave it to you.

[23:11]God is in charge of your sustenance.

[23:15]He gave it to you.

[23:16]It's impossible for you to be God.

[23:18]It's impossible.

[23:19]And it's impossible for you to go to him home to his

[23:22]house and you be more hospitable than him.

[23:26]It's impossible.

[23:27]So all of the stresses and the worries that you have, I'm

[23:31]going to keep telling you practice now to let them go in

[23:36]tow.

[23:37]You're joining the spiritual orbit.

[23:38]You're joining the orbit on earth with the orbit in heaven.

[23:44]You're joining the universal declaration of the oneness of God.

[23:50]But more importantly, you are centering yourself in toi.

[23:57]Because the cabba is the core.

[24:02]And now you're doing this and you're creating Islam as your core.

[24:08]You're creating to within yourself in that spiritual orbit.

[24:11]It's not just you throw on your white clothes and the men

[24:16]throw on their towels and we go down and we do this

[24:18]seven rounds.

[24:20]It's not like that's far more than that.

[24:24]When you're in Tawah, you will forget many of these things because

[24:29]you're struggling to get through the Tawa.

[24:30]And may Allah make it easy for you.

[24:33]But there will be moments where it's not easy.

[24:37]I believe that everyone should also have a magic key.

[24:41]I think that there's a word that everybody has.

[24:43]Find a word that works for you.

[24:47]Find a word that you love, an Islamic word that you love.

[24:50]And when things are tight and you feel like you're just exhausted

[24:56]or you can't do it or there's a lot of pushing or

[24:58]shoving, say the word.

[25:00]For example, if it's keep the word, find your word and use

[25:07]that word as kind of like your magic key.

[25:10]And I swear to you, I swear to you, things open up

[25:16]in front.

[25:17]You're hot.

[25:18]Ask Allah subhana wa ta'ala to send you in.

[25:22]Things happen and God is listening.

[25:23]If a GPS can track you anywhere you are and tell you

[25:28]which direction to go and you think God can't track you in

[25:31]the Hajj, you think he can't make things happen for you?

[25:36]Yes, he can.

[25:36]So, this is our Tawa.

[25:39]You already know about the black stone.

[25:41]You know that that's your starting point.

[25:43]Let's go a little bit deeper.

[25:45]The black stone is what?

[25:49]an angel and its color was white and it came to Adam.

[25:58]We always talk about Ibraim building the Cabba.

[26:02]But by many of our narrations, Adam, which makes sense because of

[26:06]Allah is going to put the first man on earth.

[26:09]Of course, he's going to put the first house of worship on

[26:11]earth.

[26:12]It was gifted to Adam from that makes sense.

[26:16]Milky white, pristine white.

[26:22]But this angel's sole job is to receive our sins.

[26:25]Hence, it's become black from our sins.

[26:29]It's an energy transference.

[26:32]Have you ever met somebody, they walk in the room and you

[26:35]feel like room lit up?

[26:37]You feel like they just have a positive energy and you feel

[26:43]good about them.

[26:42]You've experienced that.

[26:44]You meet somebody, you see somebody, you feel good.

[26:47]Have you had the opposite?

[26:49]Somebody walks in and you're like, you just there's something that angel

[26:57]is receiving all of that something and taking it out of you

[27:03]because step by step in Hajj, you're moving through purification.

[27:10]step by step.

[27:12]It's all designed for you to reach one station after another spiritual

[27:17]station after another spiritual station until you come home.

[27:21]So every corner of that cabba is significant.

[27:27]Now I know you talked about is and we have 70 prophets

[27:33]buried there and all of that.

[27:34]Now a lot of times they close it during Hajj but you

[27:37]might be able to get in.

[27:38]It's right beneath golden gutter.

[27:40]Some of us call it misi, the gutter of mercy.

[27:44]Some call it miz.

[27:45]There's something on that wall.

[27:49]I don't know what it is.

[27:50]It's some sort of magnetic spiritual force.

[27:52]It's not explainable in human words, but it's there.

[27:55]And anyone who's been on that wall knows what I'm talking about.

[27:59]People get to that wall and you cry from a place in

[28:04]your soul that you've never known before.

[28:06]There's something there.

[28:07]I've read so many a hadiths about that wall.

[28:10]Perhaps it has to do with the prophets that are buried there.

[28:17]Whatever it is, try your best, you know, when you're not in

[28:19]Tawah, but when you're just hanging out near the Cabba to get

[28:22]to the different walls.

[28:24]Sea would be an expert at getting to the walls of these

[28:29]Hajj when you're not in Tawa.

[28:29]Right?

[28:30]So, in to walk, you're always going to be left shoulder.

[28:32]You're going to walk and you're going to walk with control.

[28:35]To the sisters, I advise you to walk like this.

[28:38]Keep your hands inward so that you are protected and that you

[28:43]are safe.

[28:44]And I don't think I need to say anything more than that.

[28:46]For the most part, the brothers are able to help you, but

[28:51]you can't always depend on that.

[28:52]So, you will be together a lot.

[28:54]You will form bonds that you've never had before with people that

[28:56]last a lifetime.

[28:59]Mam Ibraim just the fact that his footsteps are there and that

[29:06]his footsteps are in this heavenly substance that lifted him and brought

[29:11]him down and lifted him and acted as a spiritual ladder for

[29:14]him to build a cabba fact that you're going to be there

[29:18]that you're going to be able to see it and that you're

[29:20]standing between the house of God and Ibraim take this in understand

[29:28]where you are understand whose footsteps you're walking in.

[29:32]The first time you do tawa, it may be very hard to

[29:38]concentrate.

[29:39]That's okay.

[29:38]Give yourselves a break.

[29:41]You might be like, I'm doing it wrong.

[29:43]There is no right or wrong.

[29:44]The first time you're going to just try to get through it.

[29:50]You may not be able to read sudas.

[29:51]You might just be able to just talk to God from your

[29:53]heart.

[29:53]That's the best that you can do.

[29:55]That's fantastic.

[29:56]I want to tell you be easy on yourselves.

[30:00]You might have this image.

[30:01]I'm going to go into and I'm going to read all of

[30:05]Well, you may not.

[30:06]You may not be able to focus on anything except keeping your

[30:10]shoulder your left shoulder to the cabba and getting through the seven

[30:14]rounds without losing your woodoo.

[30:16]So, there is the physical aspect of the tuah.

[30:21]There is the spiritual aspect of the but when you're not doing

[30:23]a mandatory tawah when you're not anam and we're going to talk

[30:29]about that you'll have time to go down and do tuah again

[30:31]hopefully they let you and I know the new rules there now

[30:35]let's talk about your sai I want to talk about Mecca for

[30:41]a minute the difference between Mecca and Medina is really amazing before

[30:45]we talk about sai mecca is very harsh It's very harsh land.

[30:54]It's very was and still is mountainous.

[30:57]It's very It's a valley.

[30:59]No matter how many five to sevenstar hotels they build around the

[31:04]Cabba almost obnoxiously that over tower the Cabba.

[31:09]Still, no matter how and what they do, the Cabba has its

[31:15]own.

[31:16]It has its own kurama.

[31:20]It has its own dignity.

[31:21]No sevenstar hotel can take it away from it.

[31:27]It is majestic onto itself.

[31:30]Medina is very lush.

[31:33]Medina is an oasis city.

[31:34]But Mecca is very harsh.

[31:35]I would say even the people of Mecca are much harsher than

[31:39]the people of Medina.

[31:40]You know, we are from the people of the lands that we

[31:44]come from.

[31:45]Let's talk about you're finishing your tawah.

[31:47]You've made your seven rounds.

[31:49]You understand that you're in the spiritual orbit.

[31:52]You are in your which we're going to talk about in detail.

[31:56]And now you're going over to zamzam.

[31:59]You're going to take some water.

[32:01]You're going to drink from this incredible well that sprung up from

[32:07]the earth to quench the thirst of a baby to have birds

[32:12]fly to bring tribes to.

[32:13]Hence, Mecca becomes this incredible city of trade and of commerce and

[32:22]of prosperity because of the story of a woman and her baby.

[32:26]I love the story of Hajet.

[32:30]I love it because it's such a story of sacrifice.

[32:31]And your Hajj is a story of sacrifice.

[32:35]Everybody that goes to Hajj takes a lot with them.

[32:39]And I don't mean your suitcases.

[32:42]Your suitcases might weigh 50 pounds each, but many of us go

[32:45]to Hajj with deep, heavy hearts.

[32:49]loss, suffering, war, poverty, abuse, so many things that people have carry

[33:01]with them.

[33:02]Not everyone comes into their Islam and grows up to be a

[33:05]pristine Muslim.

[33:07]Hence, because God knows that we're not going to be pristine.

[33:12]He makes sure that that angel that you're saying salam to every

[33:15]time you go around the I heard you talk about that, say,

[33:20]you're saying to that angel and that angel is receiving all of

[33:24]those sins.

[33:23]I mean, it's an amazing system if you really think about it.

[33:28]So, after you drink this water and you refresh yourself and you

[33:35]head over to the mountains of Safa and Ma between which Haj

[33:38]ran back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, the word

[33:45]is sai and the word means you're you're walking between despair and

[33:50]hope.

[33:49]Because that's what she did.

[33:53]She ran from despair to hope, seeing a mirage of water, back

[33:56]to despair, back to hope, seeing a mirage here, back and forth.

[34:00]That's the story of our lives.

[34:05]We all run between despair and hope sometimes on a daily basis.

[34:10]We're between two things, two energy fields.

[34:13]This is Safan Mara.

[34:15]And then finally, as this woman is left alone, really with God,

[34:22]and with the faith and a deepness that Ibraim had to leave

[34:29]her there with God, up springs this incredible geyser of water, this

[34:36]holy water, wash your face with it, drink it, enjoy it.

[34:40]It's so delicious.

[34:42]But I want you to think about your own zam zam.

[34:45]And this is sometimes where I think we miss the spirituality of

[34:50]Hajj, which is why I love to teach this class because we

[34:52]really have to go through the because you have to make sure

[34:55]you get it right.

[34:55]And that's the job of the scholars, but we can't miss the

[35:01]deep spiritual piece of this.

[35:02]Everybody has a zum in your soul.

[35:05]Safa and I would say to you, ask Allah when you're walking

[35:10]back and forth, what is your zam?

[35:13]What is your purpose?

[35:15]What are you doing with your life?

[35:17]What should you be doing with your life?

[35:21]What kind of obedience will you be in to your Lord?

[35:27]What what lessons have you learned in your own life going back

[35:34]and forth between your own despair and hope?

[35:35]Ask Allah subhana wa ta'ala to be your constant compass to constantly

[35:42]be your guide.

[35:42]Pray for your families.

[35:45]Pray for your um pray for people who are ill.

[35:50]Pray as much as you can.

[35:50]And pray for yourself.

[35:52]Pray for your own salvation.

[35:54]But ultimately for the people who are there, you're in a good

[36:01]place.

[35:58]You're in a healthy place because you're already on the journey.

[36:04]We're just shedding the layers of materialism when we're there.

[36:09]There's a beautiful saying I recently learned.

[36:14]The more you are, the less you need.

[36:16]That's so powerful.

[36:19]The more you are, the less you need.

[36:24]That's very true.

[36:23]And that's what it's like in because you become so much more

[36:28]innam.

[36:31]There's really nothing that you need except for a squirt bottle which

[36:36]I'll tell you about.

[36:40]So this is this is and let's talk about you know your

[36:47]Hajj begins when you go to you're probably going the night before.

[36:51]Alhamdulillah.

[36:51]That way you don't have to wor stress that you're not going

[36:54]to get there before noon.

[36:58]When I went to my first Hajj, um because I came from

[37:00]two schools of thought, I thought was this big mountain and I

[37:06]thought I had to go out onto the mountain and I had

[37:08]to go find this hill where the prophet gave his last sermon

[37:11]and that's where I was supposed to be.

[37:13]Long story short, that wasn't smart.

[37:16]Adafa is a plane.

[37:19]But what does mean when you go there?

[37:23]Adafa comes from the word to come to know in English.

[37:26]means to come to know.

[37:28]I come to know you, right?

[37:31]Mafa to come to know.

[37:35]But what's the story?

[37:35]Did you talk about the story of Adam and Eve and you

[37:41]remember?

[37:42]Okay.

[37:43]Go ahead.

[37:45]You say Okay.

[37:44]So, I don't want to bore them.

[37:46]So, the story of is so beautiful.

[37:51]Wow.

[37:50]And it makes sense that it's the beginning of your Hajj.

[37:55]So, When Allah subhana wa ta'ala placed Adam on earth, our hadith

[38:01]say that he placed Eve like somewhere in the Sri Lanka area.

[38:05]That's like almost 3,000 whatever miles or whatever away from each other.

[38:09]Remember they were soulmates in heaven and so they missed each other

[38:18]and when Allah joined them together on earth joined them where in

[38:24]And they came to know one another.

[38:28]But here's the deeper meaning.

[38:30]Me meaning what do you think is for you?

[38:34]To come to know yourself to come to know Allah subhanahu wa

[38:40]ta'ala and to see Allah in all of his splendid glory.

[38:43]This is where I can't help but cry.

[38:47]On the day of you'll already be in your you will be

[38:52]intense.

[38:53]It might be hot.

[38:56]You might get irritable.

[38:57]The tent's air conditioning hopefully works.

[39:00]It may, it may not.

[39:02]It's a test of patience.

[39:05]It's your ability to quiet yourself.

[39:10]Try to put yourself in a place of steadfast worship.

[39:16]Even your sleep and is worship.

[39:19]If you sleep, it's fine.

[39:23]Being in harafat is worship until sun sets.

[39:27]What I can't figure out is why hales leave instead of stay.

[39:33]Except for there's a busing system that sometimes forces the harmonies to

[39:37]have to leave as the sun is setting especially for the women.

[39:41]But when the sun sets, as you well know, this is the

[39:47]moment that you should be outside and you should be watching the

[39:50]sunset because the sun itself is a sign of God.

[39:55]It's one of God's ayat.

[39:58]And as that sun is setting and the angels are descending, Allah

[40:02]subhana wa ta'ala descends to the greatest archangel of all to greet

[40:12]you and to say to you, every single one of you, Allah

[40:20]sends his sons and he says to you that you are rebirthed,

[40:24]you are reborn, clean and free of all sin.

[40:30]This is your moment.

[40:33]This is your renewal.

[40:36]This is your covenant.

[40:38]This is This is the return to the primordial soul.

[40:45]This is a moment of trouble.

[40:51]This is a moment of calm.

[40:52]It's a moment that um and I don't want to sound um

[40:57]shameful in any way, but the only word that comes to my

[40:59]mind, this is a moment that unzippers you and your soul is

[41:06]just at peace.

[41:07]If you take the time to be still, if you take the

[41:16]time to take this in from the first station is you're going

[41:21]to move to Malifa.

[41:23]The word malifa, it comes from the root word.

[41:28]It's a narrow type place.

[41:32]It's a it's not, but it's it is.

[41:35]And I heard you speak about Malifa.

[41:37]I personally, everybody knows this about me.

[41:39]I'm a big fan of Malifa.

[41:40]I'm probably the only person who's a big fan of Mustalifa.

[41:43]to me is the ultimate part of Hajj because you know the

[41:50]sky is your the sky is your roof and the earth is

[41:53]your bed.

[41:54]There's no other way to describe it.

[41:56]You'll have a sleeping bag.

[41:57]A lot of people fall asleep.

[42:02]It's fine.

[42:00]I stay up.

[42:02]Look at the stars.

[42:06]Smile.

[42:04]You're as pure as pure can be.

[42:08]You're at peace and you're gathering your strength.

[42:11]But malifa, what's so beautiful is how Allah orders all of the

[42:15]creatures of the desert to become homeless so that you can have

[42:18]a home.

[42:19]This is the he gives you even though you're sitting on the

[42:22]earth.

[42:23]Now the sisters may not be able to go to malifa.

[42:26]They may only be able to go to malifa for a short

[42:29]time.

[42:30]I'm sorry about all of the laws and rules that these hamlies,

[42:33]you know, put upon us.

[42:35]But no matter what in Malifa, you know, you'll be there at

[42:40]least for a little bit.

[42:41]Every time you move to a station, pray, think, renew, revow, recommmit,

[42:50]and also be still.

[42:51]Take in take in the messages that God's giving you.

[42:58]Seek clarity.

[42:57]If you journal, journal.

[43:00]If you use a phone to journal, do that.

[43:05]Don't let these moments go by.

[43:07]Inifa, especially for the men, you can pick your pebbles.

[43:10]I once heard say Hassan tell us a hadith that when you

[43:15]go to pick your pebbles that it's almost as though you know

[43:18]there's a relationship between you and that it's almost ordained somehow for

[43:23]you to choose.

[43:25]I brought you some examples that I'm going to go through with

[43:29]you about pouches and just a few little things that you should

[43:33]do um things that will help you through your Hajj little ideas.

[43:37]But in Mgalifa, it is the place that you pick those pebbles.

[43:40]Your family might pick them for you.

[43:42]They might get them from Mecca.

[43:43]They may get them from Malifa.

[43:46]You don't really know 100% for sure.

[43:48]I'm sure you don't know yet until you get there.

[43:51]But all of this is under say Allah's guidance.

[43:52]He's going to make sure you have exactly what you need.

[43:56]You're not going to go to the shaitan without enough stones.

[43:59]And while I'm on that, you cannot take anything home with you

[44:04]that belongs in Hajj except for what you pay for.

[44:07]You're not allowed to take those stones home.

[44:10]Not even the dust that's in your pocket.

[44:14]You empty all that out.

[44:14]You own nothing.

[44:16]This is all sacred land.

[44:17]So don't make that mistake.

[44:18]I remember one time somebody came home with a pouch of pebbles.

[44:22]After Malifa, you're going to go to Mina.

[44:27]Why?

[44:28]Who knows what happens in Mina?

[44:31]The word Mina in English means the place from which something flows.

[44:37]So is where your sacrifice happens.

[44:42]It's the reenactment Ibraim.

[44:44]It's the reenactment of him and his son.

[44:48]Hajj is all about the story of Ibraim and his family.

[44:52]It's where the shanan tempted him and where he pelted the shaitan.

[44:57]And that's what you're going to do.

[45:00]You might wonder why are you think about this why are you

[45:02]pelting the shaitan when you're already pure and clean?

[45:06]You were just standing on why would you do it now?

[45:10]Why does God have it in that order?

[45:11]Think about that.

[45:12]And the reason for that is because if you help the shaitan

[45:18]and you're not so pure and clean, the shaitan can still influence

[45:21]you.

[45:22]But when Allah has just forgiven you and you have a clean

[45:27]slate, it's like you have spiritual muscle that you never had before.

[45:30]And so when you're throwing those stones, you're throwing and you're pelting.

[45:34]But what you're saying is you can't touch me anymore.

[45:37]Your days are over.

[45:39]I no longer belong to you.

[45:45]I disavow myself from you.

[45:46]I belong to my Lord and he is your protector.

[45:52]And you kind of build this energy and protection like a vaccination.

[45:59]You inoculate yourself with a power that you didn't have before.

[46:03]So it's like new tools that you get, a new armor to

[46:08]protect you.

[46:10]Do you have to protect yourself when you come home?

[46:13]Yes, of course you do.

[46:16]At the same time, that's what you're doing there.

[46:20]And then the happens and then the rest of the rules of

[46:26]and then your to and your s your last all to say

[46:34]some of the things I think are just vitally vitally important is

[46:39]your frame of mind and your frame of reference.

[46:43]If your frame of reference is your Lord and your north star

[46:52]is God, then everything in that orbit as the sun sets Dalifa

[46:59]in Mina, all of these acts of worship can come together and

[47:02]you can return home.

[47:06]I don't want to say different because we're still who we are.

[47:12]I would say reformed isn't the right word either.

[47:22]Committed isn't the right word either.

[47:25]Maybe there isn't a word for it.

[47:28]Maybe it just is what it is.

[47:32]And that's okay to not have words for it because it's so

[47:37]deep that sometimes it's hard to find words for it.

[47:40]It's hard to come home and to be with your loved ones

[47:44]who don't know what you've experienced because they've never been there.

[47:46]It's hard for them to understand what you just went through.

[47:50]And that's why having your group with you is really powerful because

[47:55]your group understands what you have gone through.

[47:59]And then the idea that you should ask Allah subhana wa ta'ala

[48:05]to revisit his house as often as you can whether in Omar

[48:09]or Hajj again.

[48:09]Medina is beautiful.

[48:12]Medina is a vacation.

[48:13]Medina is such a good feeling.

[48:16]And it's so beautiful that you're going to Medina first.

[48:21]Medina is remember Medina is the state ofam.

[48:26]It's where he established the first Islamic government, but it's where all

[48:30]of the Islamic principles come together in one place.

[48:34]Pluralism, prosperity, peace, diplomacy, intercultural, deep faith, the laws of our humanity,

[48:51]how we govern ourselves, all this happens in Medina.

[48:56]And so when you visit the rasool and the sky in Medina

[49:01]is just very special.

[49:01]It's like it's purple when the sun is so beautiful.

[49:05]You will get into the roda inshallah.

[49:07]You will have your time there.

[49:09]Hajo will be with the sisters.

[49:11]So you know you have people who've been there before who will

[49:16]guide you, who will help you.

[49:17]I know Mimi, you've gone before.

[49:18]So there are people who will be there.

[49:21]When you get into the Raa, you are going to stop, drop,

[49:26]and pray because that is heaven on earth.

[49:27]And you know you feel the presence of Fatima Zah.

[49:30]You feel the presence of your imams.

[49:33]You're visiting them.

[49:35]It's like you've gone to Mecca to the house of God.

[49:37]But in Medina, you're in the house of that's where he lived.

[49:44]Like there right there in the mosque, that area.

[49:46]That's his house.

[49:48]Of course, it wasn't so big like that.

[49:52]And you will visit the different places in Medina.

[49:56]But I want you to think about a feeling.

[49:59]I want you to focus on.

[50:01]You might feel it, you may not.

[50:03]I don't know.

[50:04]But it seems to me it's hard to leave Medina.

[50:08]It's hard for me to leave Medina.

[50:09]I'm not going to say it's hard for everybody.

[50:12]It's very hard for me to leave Medina because there's a protection

[50:15]you feel there from.

[50:17]You feel like this fatherly presence that's just protecting you.

[50:23]And of course, when you say, he is responding to you.

[50:30]He's saying amlaykum so and so and so and so.

[50:31]He's speaking to you from his grave.

[50:34]The same thing with your imams that you're going to visit.

[50:37]It's such like a family reunion in Medina.

[50:41]A spiritual family reunion.

[50:42]But I want to say this, you can also feel when your

[50:48]time is up in Medina.

[50:49]You feel it.

[50:51]You can feel your prophet saying, "Go.

[50:54]You visited me as I asked you to visit me.

[50:57]Now go.

[50:59]Go to the house of God.

[51:01]You feel something going like it's okay.

[51:06]Go.

[51:07]I love you.

[51:06]Go.

[51:07]It's really a profound feeling.

[51:09]Pay attention to it.

[51:12]Try to try to be as present as you can through your

[51:14]Hajj.

[51:15]But also have fun.

[51:18]Haj is fun.

[51:20]By the way, we're not talking about the fun elements of Hajj.

[51:22]The bonds you make with your group.

[51:24]Unbelievable.

[51:25]Yeah.

[51:26]going to struggle with the rooms and the bathrooms and the lines

[51:29]and you're going to be exhausted.

[51:30]All this other kind of stuff, but there's an exhilaration that comes

[51:38]along with it, too.

[51:37]Enjoy every piece of it.

[51:39]Take it all in and try your best when you come across

[51:44]a thought to write it down.

[51:46]This is the spirituality of Hajj.

[51:48]I didn't cover everything because we're short on time.

[51:52]But what I do want to do is for the for the

[51:56]men, the brothers, my husband has made 100 times, mashallah, literally because

[52:00]he used to work there.

[52:01]So I always keep his aams I give them away and things

[52:05]like that.

[52:06]But I wanted the brothers who've never been to Hajj to at

[52:09]least come up and feel it.

[52:11]This isn't a bad one.

[52:11]And you have say he'll he'll tell you what's a good one.

[52:15]It's not a bad one.

[52:15]But you want to make sure that you have What am I

[52:18]doing here?

[52:19]I'm holding this like it's a microphone because I'm used to holding

[52:22]a microphone.

[52:21]You want to make sure that you have one that's really good

[52:25]and that you know covers you well.

[52:27]This is about a good size for a bag for a pouch.

[52:28]Usually they'll give you one, but I always take one home as

[52:33]well from home with me.

[52:34]Just buy one.

[52:35]It can even just be a baggie.

[52:36]Doesn't have to be anything significant because you're going to end up

[52:39]throwing it away anyway.

[52:43]Did you really?

[52:46]God bless you.

[52:47]This is your best friend.

[52:50]Sorry saying it to be so um blunt.

[52:53]The bathrooms are far away when you're in towah.

[52:58]And if you lose your woo in tow and you have to

[53:03]leave, it's not like everybody's leaving with you.

[53:04]So I recommend everybody keeps a little bottle, squirt bottle.

[53:11]This is phenomenal.

[53:11]All you do you lose your wood and depends on what cycle

[53:17]you know say it's go over there whether it's first second third

[53:20]seventh they have different rules you simply go out of the towah

[53:23]you find yourself a little tiny corner for the sisters you just

[53:31]throw your clothes above you hide put a little bit of water

[53:35]in your hand you know say talked about remember first second allowable

[53:42]third strike you're out.

[53:43]No.

[53:44]Three times water.

[53:46]First base, second base, third base out.

[53:48]You can't put use water three times.

[53:50]That's why you don't need that much.

[53:51]You can do your whole woo with a little bit of water.

[53:56]It's no joke.

[53:58]Take unscented Kleenex.

[53:58]You're done.

[54:01]You're just going to doom doom.

[54:03]Done.

[54:04]Done.

[54:04]Go back into your tawa.

[54:05]Men and women.

[54:07]You don't really need to go to the bathroom if you've lost

[54:10]your woodoo simply because you lost wind, which isn't unusual if your

[54:15]body is being pushed and pressed.

[54:16]Subhan Allah.

[54:18]Some kind of miracle from God.

[54:19]Most people don't lose their woo.

[54:20]You don't even know how that happens.

[54:22]But for the most part, people don't.

[54:23]But if you do, there's a solution.

[54:25]There's a solution for everything in Hajj.

[54:29]It's an incredible system.

[54:29]What do you think about this?

[54:32]You think this is about the right size?

[54:33]Yes.

[54:34]Okay.

[54:34]on the tip of the finger.

[54:35]Mhm.

[54:36]So, I want to pass this around because, you know, many people

[54:40]grab like boulders.

[54:40]No, I'll leave it up here, too.

[54:42]This is about the right size that you're going to be looking

[54:46]for for the men.

[54:48]This is one of my favorite pairs of slippers.

[54:52]I don't know.

[54:52]I think we'll see what you think.

[54:53]But this one, you don't have to cut so much back.

[54:57]Oh, okay.

[54:58]Because when you put them on the front of the foot, it

[55:00]depends on the size of the foot, but at least when you're

[55:04]cutting this one back, you can cut against the line.

[55:07]Yes.

[55:07]So, they're different than the ones they used to have.

[55:10]These these are really good.

[55:10]So, just easy to manage, right?

[55:13]Everyone, make sure you have your own pair of scissors.

[55:16]Even if you know, just have your own pair of scissors because

[55:18]you don't know if you're going to lose your ham or not.

[55:22]You just never know what can happen in Hajj.

[55:24]So, keep your own pair of scissors.

[55:26]Do not cut someone's hair before you cut your own.

[55:27]The minute you pull out your scissors, it's going to be a

[55:33]lineup.

[55:32]Remember, you have to cut your hair first.

[55:35]Aan has been called.

[55:38]May Allah subhana wa ta'ala bless you, protect you.

[55:41]I'm so happy for you.

[55:43]Congratulations.

[55:44]They asked to see Oh, sure.

[55:54]Okay.

[55:58]Sure.

[56:01]Sure.

[56:05]Well, because you have to do Mina is where the Shayan you

[56:09]have to do your ra in Mina.

[56:11]So you're going the first time and then you have to do

[56:15]a second time of and then you have to do a third

[56:19]time of what's the significance of it thean it's it's it's just

[56:22]the repelting of the shaitan it's the reenactment of the am I

[56:25]answering your question I think so yeah other questions thoughts okay let's

[56:38]quickly run through the slides just real real Oh, do I have

[56:43]two, three minutes to talk about?

[56:43]Oh, the most important part of all.

[56:46]I love talking about I'm going to say this once.

[56:49]I'm going to say this twice.

[56:50]You who are on YouTube, you can hear me.

[56:53]This is not mandatory.

[56:56]Say my witness.

[56:56]This is not mandatory.

[57:00]This is me.

[56:59]But I like to share it with you because everything begins with

[57:03]intention.

[57:05]When you do your, you're going to do your head, your right

[57:09]side, your left side.

[57:10]I heard you talk about it.

[57:11]What if you took the time, even though there's a lot of

[57:16]people who want to get in the shower, and you intentionally did

[57:20]a like no other like this.

[57:25]I'm serious.

[57:26]Wash your hair.

[57:29]This is for the sisters.

[57:29]this piece wash do your then after that step back in make

[57:37]this bold intention this I have to cry through I can't help

[57:40]it wash your hair and ask Allah subhanana wa ta'ala like rinse

[57:44]your hair is what I mean ask Allah subhana wa ta'ala to

[57:48]forgive your hair for the times you did not wear hijab if

[57:50]you did not wear hijab and to replace you with modesty inside

[57:56]and outside you men wash your head and ask Allah subhana wa

[58:04]ta'ala to do the same to give you modesty in your behavior

[58:06]go to your forehead in your face ask peace by piece ask

[58:12]Allah subhana wa ta'ala to forgive the times you did not pray

[58:15]and to ask Allah to make your head the place of sjud

[58:19]on earth where the earth will testify for you in your sjud

[58:22]go to your eyes ask Allah subhana w t'ala to forgive your

[58:25]eyes for the things that We see that we should not see

[58:29]but we see and ask Allah subhana wa ta'ala to replace your

[58:35]sight with insight wisdom.

[58:38]Go to your nose.

[58:41]We all smell things we should not smell.

[58:43]You go into the grocery store, you can't help but smell alcohol.

[58:45]You go outside, you smell weed.

[58:47]You can't help what you smell.

[58:48]Rinse your nose and ask Allah subhana wa ta'ala to give you

[58:54]the smell of paradise.

[58:53]Your ears.

[58:55]Whoa.

[58:56]The ears.

[58:56]and what we hear.

[58:58]Allahbar wash your ears and ask Allah subhana wa ta'ala to replace

[59:04]your hearing with that which is good and forgive your ears for

[59:07]the gossip and the slander that we've listened to.

[59:11]We all do your tongue, the worst enemy of all.

[59:13]Rinse your mouth and ask Allah subhana wa ta'ala to forgive you

[59:18]for the things you've said that you should not have said and

[59:21]to replace your speech with the speech that glorifies his name in

[59:27]go to your shoulders.

[59:28]We're told that we will carry the heaviness on the yoke of

[59:33]our necks and ask Allah to alleviate it.

[59:36]Go to your right side, your right arm, your right hand.

[59:38]Ask Allah to forgive your hand for the things that touched and

[59:43]the things it did that it should not have.

[59:43]Ask Allah to make your hands of the the people who do

[59:50]good deeds that your comes in your right hand on the day

[59:53]of judgment.

[59:54]Go to your the rest of your body, every part of your

[59:58]body, your legs where they walked you to that you shouldn't have

[60:01]walked to and ask Allah to make your steps.

[60:06]everything.

[60:07]Ask Allah to make you his servant.

[60:10]And most of all, ask Allah what he wants of you, not

[60:14]what you always want of him.

[60:15]What does he want from you?

[60:20]And in that there is a spiritual surrender that if you can

[60:23]get yourself in that place of mind and you ask Allah to

[60:26]make you what he wants you to be, you have just absolved

[60:29]yourself from a lot of things in your future and be in

[60:35]it.

[60:36]Be in it.

[60:36]It's spiritual surrender and it is very very very powerful.

[60:42]So do that with your body.

[60:43]Again, not mandatory.

[60:46]Everything has a ny when you put your on.

[60:49]Just remember why you're putting it on.

[60:51]Remember that you're equalizing with humanity.

[60:54]Remember who you are.

[60:58]Remember what you're doing.

[60:58]Remember that this is this is the the shutting of ego.

[61:04]Haram is the shedding of all material things.

[61:06]And inshallah you will go and come safely.

[61:09]And we ask you for your and I'm available.

[61:12]Haja has my phone number.

[61:14]You have the best guides with you.

[61:17]So you're all in wonderful, wonderful, wonderful hands.

[61:20]May Allah protect you and bring you home safely.

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