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Greatest collection of humanity

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 Auto-generated transcript:Salam alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Allah is truly all-knowing, all-aware. As-salamu alaykum. As-salamu alaykum. As-salamu alaykum. As-salamu alaykum. As-salamu alaykum. As-salamu alaykum. That thing is maintained to this day. It's amazing the millions of pigeons that are here, incredible amount of pigeons, incredible number of pigeons. And then people in there mistakenly, Allah have mercy on them, mistakenly believe that some kind of sadaqah in feeding pigeons. There are people selling grains and people buying grains and throwing it on the floor. And you have these absolute clouds of pigeons descending and eating the grain and drying up. And then of course, there are people like people eat food, they are sitting everywhere eating food. So all that food is dropped on the pigeons. They eat all that. But you don't see the kind of, you know, pigeon poop that you should really, technically speaking, see in a place like this because of the absolutely peak efficiency of cleaning that happens. Yesterday we were, as I said, in the first floor of Mataaf and we see people on machines, on scaffolding and so on, cleaning by hand every single ring in the decoration of the ceiling of the Haram. You know, they have all those beautiful Islamic art decorations, which are little rings and circles and squares and all kinds of geometric shapes. All of these are being cleaned by hand. There's a guy there on the top, way on top, who is polishing the, what looks like metal from below, because he is, by hand literally, he's spraying something on it and he's polishing it by hand, way up in the top of the roof. Amazing, the kind of cleaning. And I was thinking to myself that these are not people doing a job. These are people who are doing it, salamu alaykum, bismillah, these are people who are doing it for the barakah and for the blessing and for the reward of the Lord. And I was thinking to myself, these are not people doing a job. Cleaning the house of Allah . These are people, whether they are doing it with awareness or not, they are following the sunnah of Ibraheem . Who Allah commanded to clean their house. These people are doing it. There's no way that this job can be done by somebody who does not actually have this awareness. This is my gumman, this is my assumption that it's not a job that's being done just in the top. Because there's not a scrap, can you imagine? And people are peeping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . being done just in the dorm. Because there's not a scrap. Can you imagine? And people are peeping. Subhanallah, may Allah have mercy on Muslims yesterday. My wife and I were walking up. We are walking up to the harem. We are not even in the, we are not in the mataf. We are not even in the immediate sand of the harem. We are on what used to be a road between the, between our hotel and the hotel opposite. And all these roads have now been closed off. And they have been paved with marble and then made into purely walkways, which is a wonderful thing. So, there's no cars and buses and stuff. But people walk. But it is still a road. It is actually a road. People are walking up and down that. In the middle of that road, there are these two large, portly gentlemen who are on the floor sleeping. One guy is about to fall asleep. The other guy is fast asleep. Literally on the stone floor, they are fast asleep. Amazing. Allah grant us this. Ability to sleep anywhere. And the people are beating around. They are women and children and peaches. Peaches and occasionally cats. They are all, you know, beating around and walking around them. Completely oblivious to the world. And as I said, my wife said, this is tabak kool. I said, smart. Only Muslims can do it. May Allah have mercy on us. There's nothing good about that. So, please don't even try putting putting, you know, obstacles in the way of people. Tabak kool or not, it's definitely not Islamic. But anyway, may Allah have mercy on them and forgive them. And forgive all of us. So, my point I'm making is that all of this that you see here, there's such a sense of peace. Imagine millions of people come here. There are incidents. And, you know, may Allah have mercy. There are incidents of sometimes stampedes during Hajj. And some people dying because of that. Some people dying because of dehydration, because of the heat. When they are walking from from Arafat to Mina and so forth. Of course, you don't need to walk. Now they have a train. They used to have, they've always had buses. Anyway, long and short of it is, that is it. But you never ever have a riot here. Think about that. Go to one football match and you know what I'm talking about. Right? There's no rioting. There's no rioting. There's no yelling. There's no screaming. There's no cursing. There's no people fighting each other. Although people are, you know, bumping and all of that stuff. I mean, you know, there's no way it can be reduced. I agree because there are people who...
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