Going for Umrah

Auto-generated transcript: As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa salatu wa salamu ala ash-sharafi al-anbiya wal-mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathira. Firmabado. [PAUSE] My brothers and sisters, alhamdulillah. We are here in Madinah Munawwara. And tomorrow we go to Makkah Mukarrama or Umrah, inshallah. And since this is Ramadan, we know the hadith of Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa barakatuh. He said, anyone who makes Umrah in the month of Ramadan, Allah will give him reward equal to making Hajj with me. Just think about that. Somebody who makes Umrah in the month of Ramadan gets the same reward as the people who made Hajj with Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa barakatuh. [PAUSE] So the first and foremost thing to do is to be conscious of this and thank Allah sallallahu alayhi wa barakatuh. Because it's only by the tawfiq of Allah, that we are here. We are not here because we are pious. We are not here because we are so good. We should understand one thing very clearly, one thing very important, which is the reward of Umrah and the reward of Hajj, inshallah, is purification from sin. Allah sallallahu alayhi wa barakatuh will forgive all sins. Now, therefore, if anybody who comes, and feels very pious about it, must ask himself a simple question. What kind of clothes do you send to the wash, to the laundry? Clean clothes or dirty clothes? Dirty. So this is a laundry for sins. So if you are coming to the laundry, what kind of person are you? Dirty. It is the mercy of Allah. That Allah sallallahu alayhi wa barakatuh could have left you dirty. He didn't leave you dirty, He brought you to the laundry. La ilaha illa Allah. So you clean yourself. Alhamdulillah. So the first and foremost thing to do is to thank Allah sallallahu alayhi wa barakatuh. Alhamdulillah, Ya Rabb. Because of Your mercy, only and only. There is no other factor. It is not our piety. It is not our ability. It is not our race. It is not our language. It is not our color. It is not nothing, nothing, nothing. It is only the mercy of Allah that Allah sallallahu alayhi wa barakatuh brought us here. And inshallah, we ask Allah sallallahu alayhi wa barakatuh to do this. We ask Allah sallallahu alayhi wa barakatuh to take us in safety and to make the Umrah easy for us and to accept it from us and to wash our sins and to keep us and take us out pure as we were on the day in which we were born. So inshallah, this is the attitude with which we should go for the Umrah. Second thing is also, therefore consider the Umrah to be a reboot of our lives. So, whatever I used to do till today, inshallah, we make the niyyah to say that, from tomorrow, meaning, from now on, not even tomorrow, I will change and make my life, which is my tongue, and my actions, obedient to Allah swt only. so very consciously never say anything or never do anything that has any chance of being disliked by Allah so there are only three options when you are choosing to speak something or choosing to do something there are only three options one is yes I know this pleases Allah for example if I want to say something good I want to narrate a hadith I want to narrate I talk about an ayah I want to say something good to somebody I want to praise somebody I want to support somebody in anything good and so on so on so I know Alhamdulillah this pleases Allah therefore we do it second thing I am about to I am thinking I am going to say something critical about someone who is not here that is backbiting I am going to say something which can be slander about somebody I don't know for sure I am saying it it is slander this is a ! comes before the action and he said one of those things is envy jealousy because when a person is envious what is he doing he is his heart is breaking right he is burning from inside when he sees you having something good so his punishment starts even before before the action his punishment is already started because he is burning because he sees something good in you so he said don't do this rejoice in the good that you see in your brother and then what happens when you do that Allah will give you the same he said the good will come knocking on your door genuinely rejoice Alhamdulillah my brother has got such a beautiful car my brother mashallah he is a pious person my brother has such a beautiful family whatever right so anything good rejoice genuinely rejoice in that but if you are jealous the punishment actually comes before the action so we make this near to say I will not do anything which displeases Allah SWT so second thing is third thing which is that there may be something where I am not sure so when I know it is good I do it when I know it is not good I don't do it when I am not sure right for example one of the most common ones is you go and there is some food where you are not sure is it halal or not halal right I mean I saw your father the other day he is asking the guy is the chicken hand slaughtered or machine slaughtered it is very important very important to ask this question because if it is machine slaughtered it is halal but people say say Bismillah and eat so I asked one of my friends one day I said supposing somebody gives me a bottle of whiskey can I say Bismillah and drink equal it is halal so saying Bismillah makes halal into halal what is halal is halal you can say Bismillah you can read the whole Quran and it is still halal what is what is the Bismillah so make sure so now when you are not sure what do you do supposing for example you ask the question is this machine slaughtered or hand slaughtered he says sir I don't know what must you do say Bismillah and eat no I am not sure I will not touch it until I am sure I will find out if I am sure then I am sure no problem so when you are sure you have one of the two things yes it can be done can't be done accordingly but never touch anything which is doubtful so make let us make this umrah a reboot of our lives right now let us make this umrah a reboot of our lives right now let us make this umrah now umrah is something which it is the part of hajj that is done in the haram in the haram sharif other parts of hajj mina muzdalifah arafat and so on are run outside part of hajj which is done in the haram sharif is the umrah which is taaf and say the umrah is also a a reliving a remembering of a family which Allah showed as an example for all of humankind on the basis of their complete and total obedience to Allah the family of Ibrahim Ibrahim and Ismail these three were the epitomes of obedience to Allah about Ibrahim Allah said he said to him submit he said I have submitted he didn't say no let me think about it let me consider it I'm not sure does it make sense I'll tell you tomorrow morning no Allah said submit he said I have submitted now this is the quality of submission which is the requirement of a person being that's why Allah said la tamutunna illa wa antum muslimun do not submit do not die until and unless you are in a state of submission die only and in the state of submission die only as a Muslim how do you make sure you die as a Muslim by living as a Muslim you cannot live you know a life of disobedience and then somehow someday when you are dying you will die in sujood somewhere how will you die that jump and happen right the way to die to ensure that I die as a Muslim in a state of submission is to make sure that I live as a Muslim in a state of submission if I am living as a Muslim in a state of submission inshallah Allah SWT will take care right so therefore this action when we make ta'af do it with this awareness that I am here I am going around the house of Allah SWT which Ibrahim AS built the first masjid on the face of the planet right he built it and the what we are seeing there is what Rasulullah SAW himself took part in the building of that the putting of the Hajar Aswath and so on was by the blessed hands of the Prophet SAW and then the Tawaf itself is something which the Prophet SAW said show us he didn't say tell us he said show us how Allah showed in his way will Allah so the it's part of the of the arcana of Hajj so the Tawaf is something which Allah has ordered to do and do it with this awareness that this is the only abadah which can be done in this place nothing else right everything else can be done anywhere but Tawaf is only around the Kaaba you can't decide I'm going to do Tawaf in in Florida you know make my little walks like this and painted black and walk around it no it doesn't work like that it is only here then remember also two or three beautiful Ahadis one is where Navishwarasana said the first time you look at the Kaaba whatever Dua you make Allah will accept so when we enter the Masjid tomorrow InshaAllah look down and as you go there once you are the Kaaba is you know in that area then look up look at the Kaaba and make Dua and InshaAllah Allah Ta'ala will accept the Dua now Hanifa Rahmatullah Ali when he did this when he came to the thing and he looked up he said O Allah whatever Dua I make after this please accept it yeah this is the this is the ah so Allah will accept the Dua so make this so InshaAllah we do this the other thing is the Ahadis of the Prophet also he said the one who sees the Kaaba with his own eyes Allah will make Jahannam Haram on him ah imagine how many times Allah gave us the opportunity so many times only Allah can do this like my brother always says only Allah can be so generous Wallahi right seeing once is enough InshaAllah but Allah says no do see many many times so InshaAllah we make ourselves again having said that it doesn't mean that you go and do Kufr and Shirk no keep your life clean InshaAllah Allah Ta'ala will give us Jannah we ask Allah for Jannah so this is somebody who sees the Kaaba Allah will make will give him give him InshaAllah Jannah makes the Jannah Haram on this person so when we are maki...