knife is the big day of hatch one of the biggest problems of going with a group is
too much chitchat believe me right now if in forehead you think I'm gonna go when I'm gonna
do this I'm gonna do that believe you me when you're surrounded by people of your age and
all of your suffering and bad food and this and that it's so easy to start talking and gossiping
and talking about the situation cracking jokes at the sanitary conditions over there etcetera
etc and hours go by it's a very big fitna from Shaitaan that your hedges be just being wasted
away even if you're not doing something Haram you're wasting time that's not why you spent ten
thousand dollars these days how much is had man when I was a teenager we were used to go for like
fifteen hundred dollars back from here in America I did most of my hedges for free hum do that but
I mean you know way back then it was what fifty nine now it's what eight thousand seven thousand
fifteen thousand is for some of us not everybody can afford that fifteen thousand times ila seven
eight thousand is the the average right yeah so you're not spending eight thousand dollars
to chitchat with your friends or people that you make they're basically learn from day one to be
polite but rude exact Allah said I have something to polite but root firm you're there for your own
a bada right have your Quran with you have your doors and vicars that you want to do a vicar book
order a book and just worship don't worry about other people so you spend the night in minute as
we said if you don't your hedges completely valid not a problem viii is all so now the ninth is the
big day this is your hedge if you miss the ninth you have no hedge ninth is the day of hedge the
ninth is the day of Arafah the ninth is when you will go to the most sacred place on earth at that
time and spend the entire day on the plains of out of fat you technically should get there basically
around a while before the one after a while but I mean if you get a little bit late as well not
a problem but it is wide you've to get there before [ __ ] and you cannot leave out of that
before mockery and by the way you cannot leave in our times because the government closes the
roads so there's no issue of you leaving the roads are literally blocked they open up the gates at
Meharry so there's no issue of you leaving so our fat is the main time of hedge and that is the time
you we'll go to Halifax and you will combine the hood and acid to to and for the rest of the four
or five six hours that you have that is the time of Torah and dhikr that is the time of praying
and begging for forgiveness that is the time of basically pleading to Allah for a better life in
this world and the next this is hedge nothing is better for you at that time then dua that's
why even you prayed Lord and also right at the beginning soon as the time comes in you actually
get rid of the fog prayers because there's something more important than that and that is the
drop the whole point of hedge are those few hours believe you me you will find half the crowd just
chit-chatting believing me use is unbelievable but if you've been for hedge you know this it's just
believe it or not you just get tired just hot you're sweaty you just start wasting time stuff
for Allah you're not there for that my advice to you as I said don't even make too many friends
right so that you just on your own you go to the corner of the tent you go outside you make Torah
simple advice as well drink lots of water this is a dehydration day is a very difficult time
also out of fact is the day of a bada of dua a vicar this is when you raise your hands to allow
you beg you plead you cry especially right before mother him that's the main time when Allah subhana
Allah Himself comes down and Allah Azza WA JAL asks the Angels do you not see he's boasting you
back he become of the process that he's boasting that these are my servants that have come to me
and I will give them everything they want and I have forgiven all of them so this is the time of
dua & vicar this is the time where you open up your heart to allah subhana wa ta'ala and pray
for everyone for your friends your relatives for those who have taught you the filth of hedge this
is the time that you pray for them basically you open up your heart and you make dua for all of
your friends family yourself your children and this is the time of acceptance of dua when the
Sun sets now you may relax a little bit go sit in the bus for five hours because you're not going
to go anywhere if you're going in a bus if you've been how'd you know I'm talking about this is the
time when you just have to wait for the UV the main arribada is done you may take a little bit
of a breathing sigh of relief point of advice if you're young and healthy walk it oh Allah he
will enjoy it and you'll have a better experience take a sleeping bag take some basic items on your
backpack you know your tent in Mina right you know your tent in min a walk it you will enjoy
your hedge infinitely more right on the ninth now after an hour and a half two hours and the beauty
of this walk it is the best walk that I have ever done in my life why because the Muslims
are just around you tell BIA just the spirit of Islam I mean this is really it's a it's a it's a
humbling sight also you breathe fresh air because the path of walking is miles away from the road
one of the things that I'd read about those days is the smog makes me sick I cannot stand that smog
you're sitting in the bus and you're surrounded by thousands other buses and the smog and the smoke
and it just it gets to makes you nauseous and you're literally sitting there sometimes I have
sat there in the bus till 11 p.m. why because of traffic you just sit there in the bus whereas if
you walk you will get there by 7:30 and you enjoy it and you get some nice ice cream on the way and
you know get some Sharma's as well I'm mentioning must have sure Monsieur but anyway even noticed
that okay you see what I miss over so you get you get the spirit of hedge right everybody's walking
it's a very well lit path it's a nice huge area of just walking all of the projects are working
there right so you you enjoy hygiene dotson so if you're if you're able to walk and when I say young
I mean basically if you don't have a handicap you can walk it really it's not as if you know
it's any issue I mean there it's just a simple hour and a half with no there's not even gonna
be rush in the sense that because it's walking and there's so much area you're not congested
there's plenty of space you can breathe and and and have a nice walk there so if you want to walk
home dalila if you walk then you will meet your group the next morning in minna you will spend
the night in most ennifer so from minna you go to outer facts the day then the night you go to
a moose deliver now I wish had a map but I myself didn't have time to make a PowerPoint so it's all
my fault look at my hand simple enough right mina muzdalifah out of fat once again Mina let me put
it this way Mina right you have Mose deliver and then out of fat over here what this means is from
Mina you will cross over most editor to get to out of fat right then on the way back out of
fat was that if a Mina so it's easier to get back so you go there by car I'm not asking you to walk
it's very difficult to walk from Makkah to out of fat will take you three hours that's too far
and you don't want to get tired on that day but on the way back hour and a half hour and a half
that's good right hour and a half at mother lip time on the 9th and then the next morning after
a nice sleep then you wake up at another hour and a half right so you break up that in into two so
in was deliver you will get there between 7:30 to midnight basically right depending on how you
got there whatnot you will get there Mustafa is the most difficult part of hedge for us spoiled
Westerners why because a stock for Allah you have to sleep on rocks on this open there's no tent
there's no air conditioning except the natural air conditioning you're basically sleeping out
in the desert because it's only one night so the government has not prepared any facilities and
also one of the most difficult problems for us Westerners is the restroom and what can
I tell you about the restroom but in was that if it is what can I say ok it's just it's just
summer summer summer yes somebody and that's why in one sense you have to drink a lot of water in
another sense on was that if that's not the time to drink too much water but was that if a is the
time was then fr you pray your mother and your Isha Gemma and also three and two and your witted
as well Witter is never left so you pray with it over there as well and then you go to sleep
you