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When Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la talks about calling people
to his path with wisdom and beautiful preaching,
the wisdom, according to most of the scholars
is making sure that you give people the preaching
in proportion to where they're at,
so that they can properly grow.
Now at no point does that mean concealing the truth
or making wrong seem like right.
But whether you're speaking to the individual
and building their character,
or you're speaking to a community,
you build them in accordance with where they are at.
You prioritize certain elements of the message
and you build and you build and you build and you build.
Now with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam you can
imagine,as he looked around and he saw all of the wrongdoing
in Hajj in particular, all of the innovations,
all of the indecency that the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
had a desire to change this as quickly
and as strategically as possible.
But he was wise SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and that's why Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha
when the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam told her that,
do you know that your people built the Ka'bah wrong?
That the structure itself is actually not in the same way
that Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam built it?
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam when he said that to
Aisha her immediate reaction was,
well, why don't we go ahead and change it.
Let's go ahead and reconstruct it
on the way of Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam
but the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam he said
your people are still new.
And so I don't want to divide them over this.
Rather the important thing
is that they fulfill the original purpose of the structure
rather than the structure being in accordance
with the original structure.
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So one of the innovations of the people of Mecca,
and it's really interesting because they were stricter
than Islam in some ways.
And it's not because they believed in Allah
or they believed in an afterlife,
it's because they wanted to honor their ancestors.
So they had these practices and these cultural things
that were so rigid.
One of the things that they said
was that you cannot make your Umrah
in the sacred months.
And what you see from the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
is that all four of the Umrahs
of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam were initiated
in the Dhul Qa'dah which is one of the sacred months.
The third Umrah of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
takes place right where we left off last time,
right after the battle of Hunayn.
So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam comes to Mecca,
obviously in his armor and in fateh Makkah,
in the conquest of Mecca, he did not do Umrah.
And then immediately they went to Hunayn
and after they finished Hunayn,
the expectation was that they would return back to Madinah,
but the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam every time he
comes to Mecca
after the Hijjah, there has to be a Umrah.
He does not want to go back to Madinah
without observing the sacred ritual.
So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam takes up his ihram
in a place called Al-Ji'ranah.
And in fact, there's a masjid now,
which marks the exact place
where the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam entered
into ihram
So that we too, if we would like can enter
into ihram from that place.
And he goes at night after the battle of Hunayn
and he performs Umrah.
And in the same night, he goes back to Madinah
from the haram
after performing his third Umrah in Islam,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So that's the eighth year after hijrah
and things were still too unstable
to commission a serious Hajj from Al'Madinah.
So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
wants things to stabilize around Mecca
before commissioning a Hajj.
So now it's the ninth year and the ninth year
is a year in which Tabuk took place,
which was a very difficult journey for the Muslims.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
took the largest army he had ever taken
to confront what was seemingly a Roman attack.
And he goes out SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
with tens of thousands of soldiers in these difficult heat
in the month of Rajab in the ninth year.
And he returns SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in Ramadan.
And of course that is the year as well
that you had desperate plots from the hypocrites in Madinah,
who knew that they were losing all ground that they had
to try to unseat the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la foiled all of their plans
at that point.
And this is actually when the song
Tala al Badru 'Alayna, the nasheed
was actually sung according to correct accounts.
And ibn al-Qayyim Rahimahullah ta'Ala, he mentions
that one of the reasons for that is that Thaniyati-al Wada',
the valley of al Wada'
is from the direction of as Shaam,
not from the direction of Mecca.
And so in the part of the song where they mentioned
that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam rose upon them
from the valley of Wada and they mentioned,
and we owe it to show gratefulness Wajaba shukru 'alayna
Ma da'a lillahi da', as long as a supplicator
invokes Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la that
this was after Tabuk.
And that shows you that the love that the people of Madinah
had for the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
was not only when he first arrived,
but it only grew with every year that he was amongst them,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So now comes the time of Hajj.
Now at this point Faqif is Muslim now,
the areas around Mecca are Muslim.
There's the thought that perhaps the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam will go out to Hajj that year.
However, this would be the year
that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
would first send Abu Bakr as Siddiq radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
with a group of 300 Muslims to do the Hajj.
And Abu Bakr would hence become the first ameer
of Hajj in Islam.
Some of the scholars mentioned
that that is because the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
was busy with the wufud,
with the delegations that year,
that tribes were coming from all over the world
to embrace Islam.
And so the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
wanted to give that its due rights,
the tens of thousands of people that were embracing Islam
in Madinah.
Some say that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
did not want to perform the Hajj
while others were still doing so with some of the rituals
of ignorance, particularly performing tawaf without clothes.
And so this was one of the objectionable acts
of Jahiliyah, of the days of ignorance
that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam abhorred,
which was that they would do tawaf naked.
And this is in fact the context of the ayat
khuthoozeenatakum AAinda kulli masjid
that you take your best clothes to every masjid
and Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la are referring to it as a
fahisha, as an act of shamelessness
that the people would do tawaf in nudity.
So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam did not want this.
And this would be the one year,
the ninth year after Hijrah that the Muslims and the pagans
would perform Hajj together.
So this is the last year that this is going to take place
that Muslims and pagans perform Hajj
in their own ways together.
And this would be the year that all of the rituals
of the days of ignorance would be done away with.
So for example, they used to carve out holes
in their homes to not enter from the front.
And they saw this as an act of righteousness.
And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says
walaysa albirrubi-an ta/too albuyoota min thuhooriha
walakinnaalbirra mani ittaqa
And it is not righteousness that you enter into your homes
from the back.
But rather righteousness is with Taqwa,
is with God consciousness and piety.
So all of the rituals of the days of ignorance,
those that were seemingly more righteous,
those that were more rigid, those that were more lenient,
those that were shameless, all of these things
were meant to be done away with
before the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
would commission his Hajj, Alayhi Salatu Wasallam.
So the Hajj of Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
is meant to really set the stage for the next year
when the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would come
with all of the Muslims on his farewell Hajj.
Now the narration of Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu's Hajj
comes from Jabir radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
And Jabir ibn Abdullah radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
who is the most frequent narrator of the Hajj
of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam as well.
So Jabir was witnessing much of this himself,
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
and is the most extensive narrator
about the way the Hajj was taking place in Islam.
So he says that when the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
came back from the Umrah of the al Ji'rranah, he appointed
Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu to lead the Hajj.
So he said, we went out with him
until we reached the area of al Irj.
And the iqamah for fajr was called.
So Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu stood up to
start the salah, to say takbir and just as he was about to,
he started to hear a camel grunting behind him.
And he said to himself that this is the camel
of Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
He recognized the grunting of the camel
of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and he said
perhaps the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam has
reconsidered, and he's going to Hajj and he's here now.
So we'll get to pray behind him
instead Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu turned around
and he saw Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
on the camel of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
which signifies obviously that he was sent
by the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu immediately says to him
ameerun am Rasul,
are you coming to assume the responsibility
of the ameer of Hajj or are you coming as a messenger?
He said, no rather I was sent as a messenger
by the messenger SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
with al Bara'ah is Surat at-Tawbah.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam ordered me
to recite it to the people
in all of the different stations of Hajj.
So they said we came to Mecca.
And one day before the day of Tarwiyah
which is the eighth of the Dhul Hijjah,
Aby Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu stood up
and he addressed the people,
telling them about the way that they should perform the Hajj
As soon as he finished Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu stood up
and he recited Surat at-Tawbah until the end.
And then they went out on the day of Arafah.
Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu who once again,
he stood up and he addressed the people,
teaching them how to do the Hajj.
As soon as he finished Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu stood up
and he recited Surat at-Tawbah until the end of it.
Then on the day of our Eve, the day of the sacrifice,
again Abu Bakr stands up, after he finishes
Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu stands up and he tells the
people, he recites to the people Surat at-Tawbah.
And then again on the days of tashreeq,
Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
stands up and he addresses the people
and Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu stands up
and he recites Surat at-Tawbah again.
So this was consistently happening in the Hajj
and Abu Hurairah radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu describes
that I was in fact one of the people that
Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu had sent out to proclaim
that no pagan should perform Hajj after this year.
And no one should do tawaf again without clothes.
So this was the year that it was ensured
that no one will come again,
performing the acts of jahiliyyah,
the acts of the days of ignorance within Hajj
and this was something that was sent out as a message
to all of the people that had come from all over the world
to set the stage for the one ultimate Hajj of
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam with his companions,
which would be done in the exact same way
that Jibreel Alayhi Salaam taught Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam
and that Jibreel Alayhi Salaam
then taught the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
In these days as we exert ourselves
with all sorts of good deeds,
that our Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam taught us, we
invite you to spend in the way of
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
so that we may all further ourselves along this journey
and draw closer to him.