# Messenger Audio 26 (24-Dec-1982) {% embed url="" %} (0:00) Commits no error by traversing. You see that? Commits no error. I'm glad I translated that. I would have been red-faced if I didn't translate it this way. (0:11) So God is saying, or rather, you commit no error by encircling this place. But it is not idol worship. (0:22) And it is similar to God's command to the angels to go across the earth before Adam. (0:27) They were not worshipping that. They were obeying God. (0:33) Is there a practice in connection with the hijab, based on what you were saying? (0:37) A practice? (0:37) A practice in connection with the hijab, that people observe the hijab? (0:43) No, I don't think of it. (0:44) You avoid that if you were to let someone hold you to do something, oh, you have to do this. (0:48) The only part is visiting the Prophet's tomb. That is idol worship. (0:55) Visiting the Prophet's tomb, going to the Prophet's tomb and speaking to the Prophet and all this. (1:17) But people have to not fast unless they break something. (1:22) Like when you break the hijab, and you cannot sacrifice Jesus, you have to fast. Like it says here. (1:30) OK, well, what about when Jesus was buried there? (1:34) Prophet? (1:34) Jesus? (1:35) Yes. (1:36) You were recommended by the Indian newsletter that they should fast for two days. (1:43) Sure. (1:44) Is that true? (1:46) It is an agent hijab. That is what I was referring to before, like this fasting. (1:51) Right. (1:51) That is a hijab. (1:54) Right. (1:56) Yes, it is true. (1:58) During the normal times of peace, if you break the state of sanctity between Umrah and Hajj and expire by offering a sacrifice, (2:06) those who cannot uphold it may fast three days during Hajj and seven when they return home, thus completing ten, (2:14) provided they do not live at the sacred mosque. (2:17) Now, this means seven days when you go back. (2:21) But if you live there, you are not going back. (2:24) Again, the Qur'an's language being perfectly perfect. (2:30) You shall observe God, and know that God is strictly and forcefully observed. (2:36) 197 tells you that Hajj is to be observed. (2:38) Remember I said on the eighth day you have to be there? (2:42) Because there are specified days. (2:45) Hajj shall be observed during the specified months. (2:48) Thus, whoever sets out to observe Hajj shall abstain from sexual intercourse, even beings, and arguments throughout Hajj. (3:00) So this is really self-control. (3:02) You cannot say a word of cursing or anything. (3:06) You don't say any bad words. (3:07) You only say, lafayekum allahumma lafayekum. (3:10) I am responding to you, my Lord. (3:17) Whatever good you do, God is fully aware thereof. (3:22) As you take provisions for the journey, remember that the best provision is right sustenance. (3:27) You shall observe Me, or you who possesses this. (3:39) Okay, any questions on Hajj? (3:46) In the eighth you must be in Mecca, the ninth in Arafat, two days a week, four days minimum. (3:53) Four days? (3:56) The first day is the fifth day. (3:59) So the 13th, the 12th, and so on. (4:04) You cannot be there in one day. (4:07) That's not in one hour. (4:10) Then on the ninth, you must be on Arafat. (4:16) Two days is not a minute. (4:18) It's coming up. (4:19) These are coming up in two or three days. (4:28) Oh, in Mina you are stoning Satan. (4:32) Stoning of Satan ceremonies are in Mina. (4:39) Now I just remembered that in Mina, you see, Satan was trying to talk Abraham out of sacrificing his son. (4:47) He says, come on, I'm going to kill your son. (4:48) It doesn't make sense. (4:51) He says, get out, get out of here, you Satan. (4:55) He rejected him. (4:56) So you throw stones at Satan. (5:02) It's a symbol of Satan's contention to disobey God. (5:08) And it is done three times. (5:10) You throw seven stones every time. (5:13) First day and second day. (5:16) And all the people must be there. (5:17) So you have one million people in Mina throwing stones. (5:23) Now they made it easy by building bridges. (5:26) So there are two, actually two stories of people. (5:29) My parents couldn't do it, so I did it on their behalf. (5:35) But it's just too much of a hassle. (5:39) You're a certain age, you cannot do it. (5:43) So I collected, let me see, seven for myself, seven for my father, seven for my mother. (5:48) And there was another sick person in the tent who was talking. (5:52) I do it on his behalf. (5:54) I do it for four people. (5:57) On their behalf. (5:59) One at a time, saying Allahu Akbar every time. (6:02) Say Allahu Akbar. (6:04) And you go. (6:06) And you have somebody who likes to get bigger stones. (6:11) Because nobody sees whoever throws what. (6:13) Really. (6:16) Allahu Akbar. (6:18) Aim at his head, you know. (6:25) It's funny, some people get carried away in that, you know, because their guide is telling them, (6:31) just think of that as Satan. (6:35) And you are throwing stones at Satan. (6:37) So some of them get carried away and they throw out their shoes and things. (6:40) Really gets carried away. (6:42) There are so many shoes on that thing. (6:46) Is that a requirement? (6:47) Yeah. (6:50) Take off your shoes, save everything. (7:07) The Quran is very careful not to, it's very careful to say, or not to say that God ordered Abraham to kill his son. (7:23) Out of sacrificing his son. (7:27) When Satan knew that Abraham thinks God ordered him to sacrifice his son, (7:33) and Abraham was going on that assumption that he's obeying God. (7:38) So the idea is to disobey God. (7:40) Because Abraham was convinced that God wants him to kill his son. (7:45) Of course, the whole thing is God's will, it's a fact. (7:49) But the fact is, God did not order him to kill his son. (7:54) And obviously did not want him to kill his son, because God intervened and saved his life. (8:00) Thanks to our Professor, Bin Mahmoud, again. (8:08) So the two days in Mina that will come up in two or three, you will be storing Satan. (8:13) Yeah. (8:25) Right. (8:27) Seven heavens, seven universes. (8:33) Seven gates of hell? (8:42) I don't know, what does it mean, number seven? (8:47) Our, see this, our world consists of seven universes. (8:53) The hereafter will be eight universes. (8:59) The eighth being hell. (9:02) The farthest from God. (9:14) 198. (9:19) You commit no sin by seeking commercial benefits during hajj. (9:24) When you find, okay, now we're going to stop at this sentence. (9:29) Let's say you're going to take advantage of being in hajj and buy wholesale a bunch of perfumes. (9:38) To bring them here as a trade, and you sell them to the Muslims. (9:42) You use perfume from Mecca. (9:44) Perfectly alright. (9:46) And you make a lot of money. (9:49) Perfectly alright. (9:50) So this is what this verse is saying. (9:51) You commit no sin by seeking commercial benefits during hajj. (9:57) When you find Tawba Arafat, that's on the evening of the ninth day, (10:02) you shall commemorate God at the Sacred Shrine of Muzdalif. (10:08) This is where you collect the stones, the gravel. (10:12) You pray, you pray the Maghrib and Isha, both. (10:18) And you collect 49 stones, I think, seven, seven times seven. (10:26) Gravel. (10:28) What they do in Saudi Arabia, they go, the trucks go to the places where these things are thrown. (10:33) They collect them and go back to Muzdalif and dump them there. (10:37) Yeah. (10:38) And then the people collect them and throw them there, and Saudi Arabia authorities, they take them, collect them again. (10:45) The trucks go to Muzdalif and dump them there. (10:50) Commemorate God for guiding you. (10:51) Before such guidance, you were really straight. (10:57) 199. (10:59) 199 you shall fight together with the rest of the people and seek God's forgiveness, God's forgiveness and mercy. (11:06) Now fighting from Arafat or being on Arafat should remind you of the Day of Judgment. (11:12) The people are equal, there is no rich, no poor. (11:16) And it's a wrong, a great number of people, one million people on the hill of Arafat. (11:24) The Day of Judgment will be like this. (11:25) All past, present, future generations will be up at the same time on this earth. (11:33) It will be very crowded. (11:38) And in Arafat it is that crowded. (11:45) So I said you shall fight together because there is no distinction, there is no distinction between rich and poor. (11:53) They will not reserve a special place in the hereafter for Ronald Reagan. (12:00) This is the presidential suite. (12:02) There is no such thing. (12:05) Something is wrong with my throat so far. (12:08) But I bet you... (12:09) It's going to be a big problem actually. (12:12) I bet you he will get stronger and better. (12:16) But if Reagan becomes a Muslim and he decides to go on the house, (12:22) it's how the Reagan government will give the biggest chance for him. (12:25) Exactly. (12:26) Oh yeah, you win today. (12:29) In this world. (12:33) 200. (12:34) 200. (12:35) Once you complete your duties of worship, you shall continue to remember God. (12:40) Just as you remember your own parents or even better. (12:43) Some people may say, our Lord give us in this life. (12:46) While they have no share in the hereafter. (12:50) Others would say, our Lord let us be righteous in this life and righteous in the hereafter. (12:55) And spare us the agony of heaven. (12:57) Each of these will reap the fruits of their work. (13:00) God is most efficient as they can be. (13:07) Like I said, some people spend their life here seeking the materials of this world. (13:12) Concerned about the blink of an eye. (13:15) Forgetting the eternal life. (13:19) Now, 203 are the final two days of Hajj. (13:21) Two or three. (13:23) You shall commemorate God during the specified day after Hajj. (13:29) Two to three days of Mina. (13:31) Thus, if you complete this in two days, you commit no error. (13:35) And if you stay longer, you commit no error. (13:38) So long as you maintain righteousness. (13:41) You see here the openness? (13:42) Because sometimes it is impossible for you to leave Mina when you want to. (13:47) There are so many people and only a few buses. (13:51) So you may not be able to leave in two days. (13:56) So God says it's perfectly all right. (13:58) Because when God says the wudu shall be that first step, then that's it. (14:02) First step. (14:03) But when He says it's okay to do it by steps, then it is okay by steps. (14:07) But it doesn't. (14:08) So the Quran is very careful. (14:11) And takes all circumstances into consideration. (14:16) You shall observe God and know that you will be gathered before Him. (14:23) Where's Jihad? (14:30) I knew he was here, but I couldn't see him. (14:33) It's too close. (14:36) Can you take two of something, two or four? (14:40) I was looking for him to start. (14:45) Sorry, it's too wet. (14:46) Yeah. (14:47) That's why it's not a good time. (15:08) Two or four. (15:16) Two or four. (15:19) Okay. (15:21) I'm hungry now. (15:25) I'm hungry now. (15:38) Yeah, that's not the real you. (15:48) You're not comfortable, are you? (15:51) You're not comfortable to just carry on. (15:54) Okay. (16:21) Okay. (16:56) Okay. (17:09) Okay. (18:17) These people are already tired. (18:20) You sit in the Quran and you say, here's what the Quran says about wudu. (18:24) It says, this is how you do the ablution. (18:26) Is this how you do your ablution? (18:28) No. (18:29) They say no. (18:31) And then sinful pride over sex. (18:33) And they say, what is wrong with having more? (18:35) And you say, you're disobeying God. (18:37) You're not following what God says. (18:39) But you can see they think they're righteous. (18:45) And they call on God to witness. (18:47) They're talking about God and worshipping God and all this. (18:50) When really they are not. (18:52) How can they be worshipping God and not following his commandments? (18:58) Worse yet is when you're doing it the right way and someone tells you you're supposed to do more. (19:02) Yeah. (19:03) I've had that happen to me. (19:04) Oh, yeah, of course. (19:06) And they're so righteous, you know. (19:09) Well, you're not doing it completely right. (19:10) That's right. (19:15) Okay, then. (19:16) And then those that are more consulted by God say, are you doing wudu? (19:36) Oh, I think to go to business, for example, there's submitting to God. (19:40) You just have to submit to obeying to God. (19:42) Just what God says, just what we do. (19:46) And that's not the question of fasting. (19:49) If God says you fast and specify physical and mental, just what do you do? (19:53) You just strictly adhere to what God is saying. (19:58) You don't deviate. (19:59) Because Satan wants you to deviate. (20:01) God wants you to do something else. (20:03) Then you have a guy beside God who's telling you to do nine steps of wudu instead of four. (20:10) You know, and you're following the steps of Satan. (20:13) You know, you can see that following the steps of Satan as he's walking along and saying what he thinks. (20:19) But also I could see it as, Satan always adds more steps to everything. (20:24) More prayers, more wudu, more this, more that. (20:27) And it's kind of like a double meaning here with steps and steps. (20:30) And I think it's really important for you to cover that. (20:32) You can blindly follow Satan as he leads you, or you can, you know, (20:37) think of things like this and look at all those extra steps and what do you do? (20:40) The idea is to let people go to God. (20:42) That's the whole idea. (20:47) If you rest despite these profound revelations, (20:51) and are there waiting until God himself comes down, (21:03) and then advance the cause together with him, (21:05) this happens. (21:07) I was just looking at this video. (21:17) How many profound revelations are there? (21:21) So, just regard God as the greatest God. (21:23) Just see that. (21:26) Yeah, that's more, that's more than I want. (21:29) And God parted the sea for them. (21:32) They walked across the Red Sea. (21:34) Walked, no bridge. (21:36) There was no bridge. (21:39) Walked across the Red Sea, and then Pharaoh and his army followed, (21:42) and the water flows, and Pharaoh, right before their eyes. (21:46) And they still wanted to worship the cat. (21:50) And so, these are the questions. (21:52) And we are the same people. (21:55) Because it seems quite a miracle. (21:58) We've got even more profound miracles. (22:01) We show that the Koran is from God. (22:03) What more, what more can you do? (22:07) Prove to them that this is from God. (22:10) No, but some people are not satisfied. (22:14) They would like to, they would like a lot from you. (22:16) Exactly. (22:17) Because, because it seems that, (22:21) certainly 2.10 is connected with 2.11. (22:25) It is the first. (22:27) Because, as we know, the Jews have asked Moses, (22:33) Who is he? What's his name? (22:34) They want to see him. (22:36) They want to see Allah. (22:38) And yet, they were given so many things, (22:42) so many favors from Allah, (22:43) and they were not satisfied. (22:47) And now, as you say, (22:50) there are so many things in the Koran, (22:53) and so many wonders, (22:55) and still people are not satisfied. (22:57) It was like Allah would come down. (23:03) It's a form of ingratitude, I think. (23:05) It's a form of kufr, (23:07) ungratefulness towards Allah. (23:09) You know, last time I was telling you this old man's story, (23:12) about Koran and everything, (23:14) and he said, (23:15) Well, what does God look like? (23:18) Well, I've been into references about when God was going to come into the world. (23:21) That's right. (23:23) And I said, I can't tell you about it. (23:25) Why don't you tell me? (23:25) Well, I always tell you this. (23:27) A big, big woman, (23:30) who's kind of Jewish. (23:31) I said, fine. (23:32) If you can find a big woman who's Jewish, (23:34) and helps you to believe in God, (23:36) that's probably okay. (23:37) I think it was named, (23:41) blasphemous. (23:41) Well, not really. (23:43) The way he was, (23:44) the way he was, (23:45) you know. (23:46) So I said, (23:47) I'll believe you if you can tell me what God looks like. (23:50) Yeah, I think this is what the Jews said to Moses. (23:55) Yeah. (23:56) So I told him about God coming to the world, (23:58) and the light of the world, (24:00) and how physical God was going to smash that mountain, (24:04) to Moses. (24:05) But that's not what they said to him, (24:06) when they said it to him. (24:07) If somebody says something like that to you, (24:09) put it to your back, (24:10) and I'll tell you what they said to him. (24:12) They said, (24:13) you want your head to fall off? (24:14) He just came to me. (24:15) He said, walk out. (24:18) What about mentioning (24:19) hell and the seven universes in his hand? (24:21) I did that, too. (24:22) Can you even see how big? (24:23) I did that, too. (24:23) I did that to him, too. (24:25) I did that to him, too. (24:35) So hereafter, as we realize, (24:39) this life is a thorn in the eye for this community, (24:42) and thus their music will go to grief. (24:45) However, the righteous will rank high above them (24:47) on the day of their resurrection. (24:49) God sent us to God's kingdom without limits. (24:52) The people used to be one to one (24:55) through a strong negation, (24:56) until God sent the prophets and speakers to warn them, (25:00) and sent to them the scripture of the statute book. (25:03) Ironically, the prophets received this scripture (25:06) as laws that dispute among themselves, (25:10) not as pure judgments for one another. (25:13) As they go to believe, (25:14) God guides them to the truth (25:16) in accordance with his will (25:18) by leading the others to dispute. (25:21) God guides whoever he will to the right path. (25:28) Verse 12, (25:36) it describes some people saying, (25:39) you know, you only have one life to live, (25:41) so they can do whatever they want to. (25:43) They think that this is the only life, (25:45) and it's the greatest life of all, (25:47) so they live it up, (25:49) and do whatever they think will change. (25:52) Change. (25:57) But, (26:00) in the hereafter, (26:05) so, you know, (26:08) these people, (26:11) it's all meaningless. (26:14) The reward is there. (26:16) It's a matter of time, but what is time? (26:18) It's just a little (26:22) of an hour. (26:25) Also, the believers themselves would ask the question, (26:28) what is God's victory? (26:29) They would push, (26:30) they would push and test it. (26:34) Because we're really being persecuted (26:37) for adhering to the Qur'an alone. (26:40) I was discussing today with one fellow. (26:42) One person was saying, I mean, (26:44) what are you doing? (26:47) I was discussing nothing. (26:48) I wasn't worshipping God, I know. (26:52) It's a persecution. (26:54) I haven't visited Egypt since a long time, (26:56) because of, (26:58) you know, I miss my relatives and friends and so forth. (27:01) They were talking to me. (27:02) So it's because it's all been persecution. (27:07) And I know you're all subjected to this when you meet other people. (27:12) It's just as believers are subject to persecution. (27:16) You are a relative, a friend. (27:21) This is part of the test. (27:24) It's time for us to come to that person. (27:28) But you see, what they don't realize is that it's too late. (27:30) Once you see the truth, (27:34) there is no return. (27:36) There's no point of no return. (27:39) Alhamdulillah. (27:42) Okay, are there any questions? (27:46) No questions? (27:48) Al-Fatiha. (28:07) Al-Fatiha. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://rashad-khalifa-audios-and-videos.gitbook.io/rashad-khalifa-audios-and-videos/messenger-audios/messenger-audio-26-24-dec-1982.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. 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