Have Taqwa Of Allah As Allah Deserves For You To Have
Taqwa Of Him And Don'T Die Except As Muslims. O Mankind Fear
Your Lord Who Created You From A Single Soul And Created From It.
It'S Made... And Created From Them Both Many Men And Women And
Fear Allah Through Whom We Demand Your Mutual Rights. Indeed,
Allah Is Ever Watchful Over You. Oh You Who Believe Have Taqwa Of Allah.
And Speak A Word That Is True And Correct. Allah Will Correct
Your Deeds And Forgive Your Sins And Whoever Obeys Allah
And His Messenger Has Indeed Achieved A Great Success.
To Continue The Best Speech Is The Book Of Allah;
The Best Guidance Is The Guidance Of Allah Messenger Muhammad
Sallallahu Alehiwassallaam And The Worst Of Things In
This Religion Are Those Acts Of Worship Which Were Newly
Introduced. It Was Not Done By The Prophet Sallallahu Alehiwassallaam
Allah Or By His Companions, But They Were Introduced After That
And All Of These Newly Introduced Acts Of Worship And Innovation
And All Innovation Is Misguidance
And All Misguidance Is In The Hellfire As Is Reported
In An Authentic Hadith From Our Messenger Muhammad (Saw)
From The Infinite Wisdom Of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala
Is That He Divided The Year In Two Months.
Allah Azzawajal Told Us, Indeed
The Number Of Months In The Sight Of Allah Is 12 Months In
The Book Of Allah
From The Day That Allah Created The Heavens And The Earth
Among Them Are Four Which Are Sacred.
Among These Four Sacred Months Is The Month Which Is Just
Begun And That Is The Month Of The Hate You And Allah Azzawajal, From His Wisdom
He Divided The Year Into Months And He Chose Certain Months
To Prefer Over Others
And Certain Times To Prefer All The Others And Allah Azzawajal
Chose For Us Times To Perform Certain Acts Of Worship
Which Are Better Than Other Times.
My Brothers In Islam, This Month Of Dhul Hijjah Is A Very Important
Month And It Is A Month In Which The First 10 Days Are The
Most Important And The Most Virtuous Of The Days Of The Allah
Azzawajal Swore By These Days In Surah Al-Fajr. When He Said
89. Surah Al-Fajr :1-2
Allah Subhanaw Taala, He Swore By The Fajr And Allah Azzawajal
Swears By Whatever He Wants From His Creation.
As For Us
We Are Prohibited From Swearing By Anything Except Allah,
But Allah Azzawajal Swears By What Is Important
And What Is Very Great Among His Creation And Allah Azzawajal,
He Swore By The Fajr And He Swore By ... Ashr
And Many Of The Scholars Of Tafseer And They Said That These Ten
Nights Or Ten Days.
They Are The Ten Days Of The Dhul-Hijjah, The First 10 Days Which
Started From This Day Today And The Prophet Salallahu Alaihe
Wasalam, He Said In An Authentic Hadith And The Hadith Is
Narrated By The Noble Companion Abdullah Ibn Abbass (Ra)
That The Messenger Of Allah Salallahu Alayhi Wa
Sallam, He Said There Are No Days In Which Righteous
Deeds Are More Beloved To Allah Than These 10 Days.
The Companions They Asked The Prophet Sallallahu Alehiwassallaam
And They Were The Most Keen Of The People To Ask About Good.
They Said O Messenger Of Allah And Not Even The Days When
We Go Out To Fight For Allah?
Are Days That We Go Out To Fight For Allah Better Or The
First 10 Days Of Dhul-Hijjah, They Are Better?
He Said Not Even The Days When You Went Out To Fight For
Allah Except For A Man Who Left With His Life And His Wealth
And He Went Out With Both Of Them And When He Came Back He
Didn'T Have Any Meaning That He Lost His Wealth For Allah
And He Lost His Life For Allah.
That Is The Only Example Of Someone Who Had A Better Day
Than These Days Of The Dhul-Hijjah.
The First 10 Days Of Dhul Hijjah And That Is A Profound Example
That We Should All Reflect Upon To Think That Not Even The
Most The Greatest And The Most The Highest Of Actions In
The Sight Of Allah Azzawajal
It Doesn'T Equate To The Good That You Can Do In The First
10 Days Of The Dhul-Hijjah.
And The Hadith Narrated By Imam Al-Bukhari (Rah); These 10 Days
It Has And We'Re Going To Divide Our Discussion About It
Into Two
It Has Some Things That Make It Very Very Important And Very
Virtuous. But We Want To Start By Reflecting Upon What The
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Said About Amal-E-Saleh
From This Hadith The Hadith Of Abdullah Ibn Abbas (Ra)
We Can Take That These Days Are Days That We Should Fill
With As Many Good Deeds As Possible.
We Should Fill Them With As Many Good Deeds As We Possibly
Can ,Of Any Type And Many Of Us Know About Specific Good Deeds
To Do On Those Days.
Many Of Us Know About Fasting On The Day Of Arafah
For The People Who Are Not Performing The Hajj
And We Know About The Hajj That Is Performed In These Days.
And We'Re Going To Discuss That Later On In Sha Allah Tala
But Right Now Everyone Needs To Remember That These
10 Days Are To Be Filled With As Many Righteous Deeds As
Possible And Almost Everyone After The Month Of Ramadan
We Felt Our Eman Go Down And We Felt Our Good Deeds Decrease.
These 10 Days Is Your Opportunity To Go Back To Where You
Were In The Last 10 Days Of Ramadan.
It'S An Opportunity For You To Continue And To Increase In The Good Deeds
That You Are Doing And So Although We Are Going To Talk About
The Different Good Deeds That You Can Do In The 10 Days Of
The Dhul-Hijjah The Hadith Is General.
So Whatever You Can Do Out Of Good Then Strive To Do It In These 10 Days.
If There Is Some Extra Sadaqah That You Can Give, If There
Are Some Extra Prayers That You Can Pray, If There
Is Some Extra Quran That You Can Read And There Is No Better
Time To Get Back On Track And Started Again Than The First
10 Days Of Dhul-Hijjah Because These Are The Days In Which
There Are No Other Days Of The Year In Which Righteous
Deeds Are More Beloved To Allah Than These 10 Days.
So While We Talk About The Specific Things We Want Everyone
To Remember That These Are Days For General Good Deeds And
Whatever Good Deeds That You Do In
These Days, They Are More Virtuous And More Beloved To Allah
Azzawajal Than Any Of The Other Deed You Do Or Any Of The
Other Days That You Would Do Them During The Year.
However, There Are Certain
Parts Or Certain Days Within These First 10 Days Of Dhul-Hijjah
That They Have An Additional Reward And They Have An Increased
Importance And When We Were Talking About The Wisdom Of Allah
Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala, I Just Want You To Reflect Upon
The Last 10 Days Of Ramadan And We All Know The Last 10 Nights
Of Ramadan And Their Virtue And That Is Why Some Of The Scholars
They Said The Best 10 Nights Are The Last 10 Nights Of Ramadan
And The Best 10 Days Are The First 10 Days Of Dhul-Hijjah.
But In That Last 10 Nights Of Ramadan There Was One Special
Night Laylatul Qadr And Likewise In These First 10 Days,
There Is Also A Special Day.
Or Even We Can Say Two Special Days.
The First Of Those Special Days Is Youm Arafah
It Is The Day About Which Umar Ibn Al-Khatab (Ra)
He Said That A Man From The Jews
He Said O Amir Al Mu'Minin.
An Aya In Your Book That You Read It.
If It Came To Us... This Group Of Jews Us As A Group Of
Jews, We Would Have Taken It As A Day Of Eid (Joy).
And Umar (Ra), He Said To Him Which Ayah Was It; Today
I Have Completed Your Religion For You And Completed My Favor
Upon You And Chosen For You Islam As Your Religion And Umar (Ra)
And He Added At The End
He Said We Knew This Day That Ayah Was Revealed.
It Was Revealed When The Prophet Sallallahu Alehiwassallaam
Was Standing On The Day Of Arafah And It Was Youmul Jummah
And The Messenger Of Allah (Saw)
He Said There Is No Day,
He Said There Is No Day In Which It Is More Likely That
Allah Azzawajal Will Free A Person From The Fire Than
The Day Of Arafah.
There Is No Day In Which Allah Frees More Of His Servants
From Their Hellfire Than The Day Of Arafah
And That Is Why It Is A Day Which It Is Recommended For Us,
Highly Recommended For Us To Fast On That Day
And In Fact, If You Can Fast All Of The Days Of The First
10 Days Of Dhul-Hijjah, Except For The Day Of Eid, If You
Can Fast All Of The Days Before Eid Then This Is Also Something
Praiseworthy And Imam Nawawi (Rah), He Mentioned
This Among The Most Important Of The Recommended Actions.
And If A Person Can Fast As Many Of The First Nine Of These
10 Days As Possible, Then This Is Something Beneficial But
If They Struggle To Fast All Of Them, Then Let Them At Least
Put Their Attention To Fasting ...The Day
Of Arafah Except For The People Who Go To Perform The Hajj
Because They Have Something Even More Important To Do And
That Is To Stand In Dua, Imploring And Calling Upon Allah
Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala And That Is Not To Be Done By Fasting.
Not Only Does The First 10 Days Contain The Day Of Arafah,
But It Also Contains A Day About Which The Prophet Sallallahu
Alehiwassallaam. He Said ... The Greatest Of All
Of The Days In The Sight Of Allah Is The Day On Which The
Muslim Slaughter And That Is The Day Of Eid Ul Adha
And This Is... My Brothers In Islam
It Has Another Specific Deed That We Do And That Is The Deed
Of The Sacrifice.
The Sacrifice; .... What Some People Call The Qurbani
The Sacrifice That Takes Place On The 10th
Day Of First 10 Days Of Dhul-Hijjah On The Day Of Eid.
And That Sacrifice We Remember From It
The Story Of Ibraheem Alehissalaam And We Remember Something
Very Important From It.
We Remember How Quick Ibrahim Alayhis Salaam Was To Obey
Allah'S Command. When He Saw Himself Slaughtering His Son
In A Dream And The Dreams Of The Prophets Are True.
He Didn'T Doubt And He Didn'T Stop But He Immediately Carried
Out The Command Of Allah Azzawajal
And Then Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Exchanged
His Son For A Ram That Descended From The Heavens
And We Remember This In Our Sacrifice To Allah Subhanahu
Wa'Ta'Ala, Which Is One Of The Greatest Ibadah In General
And How Important It Is For Us To Take Part In That Sacrifice
If We Are Able On The Day Of Eid
And It Doesn'T Make Any Difference Whether You Do That With
Your Own Hands If You Are Able And If You Are Not Able Whether
You Pay Someone To Do It On Your Behalf, The Reward Is Established
In Sha Allah Tala And With Regard To The Sacrifice
There Is A Very Particular Ruling
And That Is That From The Moment That A Person Decides And
Intends That They Are Going To Offer A Sacrifice On The Day
Of Eid
Some Of You Will Know That Already, Maybe Some Of You Will
Have Decided That Now Then; That Person Refrains From Cutting
Their Hair Or Their Nails During The First 10 Days Of Dhul-Hijjah
In Order To Join With The ..... With The Person
Who Is Performing The Hajj And Umrah, The Person Who Is Performing
The Hajj While They'Re All Wearing Their Ihram Garments,
They Don'T Cut Their Hair Or Their Nails And Likewise The
One Who Intends To Perform A Sacrifice On The Day Of Eid
Should Also Share In That And Not Cut From Their Hair Or
From Their Nails During These 10 Days Until That Is Accomplished.
As For Fasting The Day Of Arafah
The Messenger Of Allah (Saw) The Law For Any Who Sell Them.
He Said In A Hadith Narrated By An Imam Muslim.
He Said Fasting On The Day Of Arafah
I Expect The Reward From Allah Or I Hope For The Reward From
Allah That It Is Going To Expiate The Sins That Were Done
In The Previous Year And The Sins That Will Be Done In The
Following Year.
To Wipe Out The Sins Of The Mistakes That You'Ve Done
And To Do That For Not Only The Year That Has Passed But
Also For The Year That Is To Come But In This, My Brothers
There Is Something Very Important.
We Have To Be Careful Of Here, In Order To Get This Great Price
And This Huge Reward From Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala We Have
To Accompany It With Toba And The Reason Is Because The Sins
That We Do Are Of Two Types.
There Are Major Sins And There Are Minor Sins.
As For The Minor Sins We Hope That Fasting The Day Of Arafah
Will Wipe Them Out.
Whether You Remember Them Or Think About Them Or Not, But
As For The Major Sins That In Order For The Day Of Arafah
To Wipe Them Out, You Need To Bring Along At Taubah,
You Need To Bring Along Repentance.
You Need To Accompany That With Repentance To Allah Subhanaw
Taala And Sincerely Turning To Allah Azzawajal.
And That Is Why Some Of The Scholars Said From
The Best Preparation You Can Do In The First 10 Is Of Dhul-Hijjah
Is To Repent To Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala And To Turn
To Him Sincerely Regretting What You'Ve Done, Stopping The
Bad Things, Intending Not To Do Them In The Future And Making
Up For The Faults And The Mistakes That You'Ve Done And
If You Were To Do That Sincerely For Allah And Then You Were
To Reach The Day Of Arafah And You Were To Spend That Day
Fasting Or If You Are Performing Hajj
You Will Just Spend That Day Making Dua To Allah
Subhanaw Taala, Then We Hope That All Of The Major And The
Minor Sins Will Be Wiped Out;
Not Only The Things That Happened But The Things That Will
Happen. It'S Very Important That We Reflect Upon The Value
Of These 10 Days And It'S Important That We Fill Them With
The Remembrance Of Allah Azzawajal. Ibn Umar (Ra)
He Narrated From The Prophet (Saw), That He (Saw) Said There Are No
Days Which Are Greater In The Sight Of Allah Nor Any Days
Which Are More Beloved To Allah Than These 10 Days.
So Within Them You Should Do A Lot Of Tasbih / Dhikr, A Lot Of
Saying Subhanallah And A Lot Of Tahmid /Praise, A Lot Of Saying
Alhamdulillah And A Lot Of Tahlil / A Lot Of Saying La
Ilaha Illallah And A Lot Of Takbir /Saying Allahu Akbar
So From The Greatest Thing That You Can Feel These 10
Days With Is To Keep Your Tongue Moist In The Remembrance Of Allah Azzawajal.