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The call for Hajj

The call for Hajj

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 Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wassalatu wassalamu ala al-sharafi al-anbiya wal-mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbuhu sallam. Tasliman kaseeran kaseera. Wa min baadu. My brothers and sisters, I am here in Mecca. We completed our Umrah yesterday, alhamdulillah. And we have not been able to come for, I think, for the last eight years almost. So, it was very nice, very lovely to be here and to be able to complete the Umrah. Allah made it very easy, alhamdulillah. We completed the Umrah in a very short time, alhamdulillah. Although the crowds, a lot of people, alhamdulillah, to the house of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And among the reminders that I always get, anytime I am feeling tired or something, alhamdulillah. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala shows me somebody who is probably, I won't say twice my age because I am now at an age where nobody can live twice my age. But certainly much older than I am. Maybe 10, 20 years older maybe, Allah knows. But doing Hajj, doing Umrah, making Tawaf, as well as little children. So, alhamdulillah, there is no excuse for feeling tired or anything like that. It's the house of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that attracts people from all over the world. The greatest, most cosmopolitan, most multicultural, multiracial gathering in the world is the Hajj. There are many gatherings where people gather in their thousands and in the hundreds of thousands. But if you look at the plurality of the gatherings, there are hundreds of thousands. People from practically every single country, every single nation in the world. And people of all levels of society, from the wealthy, wealthy and the wealthiest to the poorest. They all come to the house of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said in Surah Al-Hajj, إِنَّ أَوَّلَ بَيْتٍ وُضِعَ لِلنَّاسِ لَلَّذِي بِبَكَّةَ مُبَارَكًا وَقُدًا لِلْعَالَمِينَ Surely the first house of worship established for humanity is the one at Bakkah, a blessed sanctuary and a guide for all people. The first house of worship, meaning, somebody might argue and say, well, chronologically we know that there have been temples in Egypt, and temples in India and other places, which, Angkor Wat, for example, in Indonesia, in Bali, and different places which are probably much older. The house that Ibrahim alayhi salam built, the Kaaba, is approximately about 4,000 years old. And somebody might argue and say, well, you know, there are temples which are older than that. The house of worship here means, the house of worship of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the Creator Jalla Jalaluhu wa Manawaluhu, who has no partners. So the house of worship of, in the sense of Tauhid, the house of worship of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala alone, without partners, without associates, without anyone to share His kingdom, share His power, share His authority, because there is no one who shares His kingdom, who shares His power, who shares His authority. And that is the house that Ibrahim alayhi salam built. And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave him the hukm. And he said, And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave him the hukm. Allah said, And call all the people to the pilgrimage. Call all the people to Hajj. They will come to you on foot and on every lean camel from every distant path. And today they come in. Plane loads upon plane loads. I was here once, many, many years ago. And we went to Majid al-Aisha for the mirkhat, to put down the ihram. And I saw there a truck, a container truck in the container. They had made a platform midway. They had made a platform in height. So there were people sleeping on top and people sleeping below. And this had come all the way from Uzbekistan. They had driven this truck all the way from Uzbekistan. And this truck, you looked at it, it looked like it was something manufactured by Adam alayhi salam, who was a young boy, who was a youth. Allah knows. Adam alayhi salam was never a youth. But the point being that this is an ancient truck. And the drivers and the mechanics who keep these things running, they are geniuses in engineering, believe it. People come. And then these people, these are all actually whole families and related families traveling together. So they camp, and they cook their food, and they wash their clothes. The whole thing, it looked so incredible. I really wished that I was... At that time, I was... I wished I was a man. was about 20 years old or something and I would ask to go back with them to Uzbekistan just for the trip just to see how it all happens so people who love Allah people who love the house of Allah people who love to come to the house of Allah and then I said about this house Allah said in in it meaning in this house in Masjid al-Haram are clear signs understanding place of Ibrahim the maqam of Ibrahim whoever enters it should be safe whoever enters the ...
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