 نرى الله سبحانه وتعالى ونرى بلسطة والسلوات على أخواته وحفاظه سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم The talk tonight is about the virtues of the ten days of the al-Hujja The virtues and the blessings of these ten days Which are considered to be the best ten days of the year In this short talk insha'Allah we'll focus on how can we make the most of it How can we make the most of these ten days As you know the month of the al-Hujja is the last month of the year The last month of the Islamic calendar With the al-Hujja we end the Hijri year And then we start another year With the month of Muharram And the al-Hujja falls in between two months The month of the al-Qaeda and the month of Muharram Those three months the month of the al-Qaeda and the month of the al-Hujja And the month of Muharram are called al-Ashhur al-Huram They are called the sacred and sanctified months There are four months of the year That are considered to be sanctified Even before Islam The Arabs used to consider these four months to be sacred As they inherited this most likely from the Prophet Ibrahim and Prophet Ismail And three of those four months happened consecutively And the fourth month takes place later on Which is the month of Raja The month of the al-Qaeda is the month of sittings To sit back and don't engage in any argument In any fighting Because the Arabs they used to love to fight And their life is structured around fighting and battles and wars Before Islam And if they can't find anybody to fight they fight each other But in those four months Allah SWT Is telling them not to fight Not to engage in fighting So in the al-Qaeda you sit back you don't fight The al-Hujja is the month of Hajj The sacred months even before Islam They used to have some form of understanding of what Hajj is Followed by the month of Muharram Which is the month of Muharram means Haram Forbidden And lawful to engage in battles And the month of Rajab is the month of also a sacred month As you know Ramadan is the ninth month of the year Rajab is the seventh month of the year So midway through the year Rajab is the month where you store your weapons You remove your weapons You shun away your weapons I mean calm yourself And don't engage in these thoughts Of warfare and battles The al-Hujja is the sacred month Is the most sacred month of the year And Hajj takes place in the al-Hujja So in this short talk insha'Allah What we can focus on perhaps is The what, the why and the how So what are the ten days What are the four months What is the significance of these ten days What are the virtues of these ten days What are the blessings of these ten days Why? Why do we have those ten days Isn't it sufficient to have Ramadan Why are we encouraged to fast in these ten days So the what, the why So what is the wisdom behind these ten days And then the how How we can benefit How we can make the most of these ten days And perhaps what we can do is Is draw, we have a small number here We can draw a practical plan A personal plan A plan for the ten days in general And also plan for of specific days Let's make a plan for specific days Let's put together a small plan For the day of Arafa Put together a small plan For the day of Nahr, the day of sacrifice The day of Eid Which is the last of the ten days So the day of Eid actually Is a part of the ten days So sometimes we think of the day of Eid Is just a day of prayer And happiness and eating But it's also part of the ten days So is there something we can do For that particular day How does that sound Okay Yeah So Allah سبحانه وتعالى Mentioned the ten days of the Hajj Of the Hajj In multiple places in the Quran In one place in the Quran In Surah Al-Hajj In Chapter 22 Verses 27 and 28 Allah سبحانه وتعالى Says ليشهدوا منافع عليهم ويزكروا اسم الله في أيام معلومات And before that In the verse before that Allah سبحانه وتعالى Told سيدنا إبراهيم وأززن في الناس بالحج يأتوك رجالا وعلى كل ضامر يأتين من كل فجن عميقا And then he says ليشهدوا منافع عليهم ويزكروا اسم الله في أيام In معلومات In this verse In verse 28 Of Chapter 22 الله سبحانه وتعالى Says To attain benefits So they will come to you In the previous verse Allah سبحانه وتعالى Proclaimed the pilgrimage To all people In the most unlikely places In a place where it's All you can see is sand Nothing else Proclaimed the pilgrimage To all people They will come to you On every kind of lean camel i.e. every mode of transportation They will come to you People used to walk from Morocco To Mecca From Burana to Farana East to west North to south They used to walk from all kinds of places Scholars used to take this opportunity To stop in each and every city To learn from the scholars of that city It was said that Imam Baji Started his journey from Andalusia The journey of Hajj And it took him 13 years To complete it Because he stopped in every city Learning from the ulama of that city So it was an opportunity For many students of knowledge And scholars too The Hajj is where scholars meet It's the academic community The spiritual community The community at large People from all walks of life They come to Hajj So he said They will come to you On foot And on every kind of lean camel Emerging from Every deep mountain pass From all areas of life All areas All regions of the earth To attain benefits And mention God's name Unspecified days Unknown days Unknown And these specified days Are the 10 days of the Hajj In another verse In the Quran In Surah Al-Baqara In Chapter 2 Allah سبحانه وتعالى Says In this verse And in this verse In Surah Al-Baqara That That means On the appointed days Numbered days Remember God Remember Allah On the appointed numbered days And those numbered days They come after the Day of Sacrifice These days Are not meant to be the 10 days of the Hajj But they're meant to be the 11th 12th and 13th of the Hajj Are the days Where Muslims spent in Mina To perform the rite of stoning Stoning the Devil Stoning Satan On the Jamarat So in one place Allah mentioned The first 10 days of the Hajj He also mentioned The first 10 days of the Hajj In Surah Al-Fajr Where Allah سبحانه وتعالى Says And And And And And then the Surah ends The ending of the Surah It ends with And And The Surah began with I.e. By the Daybreak by the breaking of dawn وَلَيَالِنْ عَشْرَ لَيَالِنْ is indefinite in the Arabic and here it's indefiniteness of تعظيم of تفخيم see indefiniteness of emphasis لَيَالِنْ عَشْرَ they're not just 10 nights they're great 10 nights and nights here means days because nights and days sometimes are interchangeable in the Arabic language and also in the Quran sometimes they're used interchangeably وَالْشَفْعِ وَالْوَتْرَ by the even and the odd which has many meanings it could also mean by the multiple and the one multiple means the creation one means God. الله سبحانه وتعالى is one He is Water وَالْشَفْعِ وَالْوَتْرَ could also mean as many commentators indicate شفع means the tense of the حجة it's a day of sacrifice it's a day of قرباني it's a day of نحر it's عيد الأضحة وَالْوَتْرَ وَالْشَفْعِ وَالْوَتْرَ water means the nice of the حجة the day of عرفة the day of عرفة is an odd day the day of نحر is an even day So this Sura is interesting because it talks about وَالْسَجةِ وَالَيَالِ نْعَشْوِ ونحن سنقوم بمعرفة الله إنه يوم كثير من القراءة والفجرل يمتلك والفجرل بما يقوم بمتلك يعني when light comes after darkness and light symbolizes life and darkness symbolizes death so every morning we are resurrected again every morning we have a new life every day is the end of our life and every new day is the beginning of our new life it's like every morning we get resurrected and then we have these 10 days of the Hajj which mimic a many judgment day if you look at it those who perform Hajj is a minority the Muslim Ummah is 1.6, 1.7 billion even in the best days of Hajj the maximum number they can accommodate is 2.5 million this year the target is 1 million no more than 1 million let's say it's 2.5 million over 80 years how many people can go to Hajj in 80 years 200 millions so out of the whole Muslim Ummah which is 1.8 billion and by the time after 80 years they could be over 2 billion only 200 million Muslims so maybe 300 can go to Hajj it's a small fraction of the Ummah it's like the Ummah cannot go all of us cannot go so what we do we send a delegation those who have the opportunity to go to Hajj they are actually they are a delegation they are representing the whole Ummah and they go and perform Hajj but what about us who stay behind Allah gave us these 10 days and in those 10 days as we shall see we can mimic the activities of those Hajjaj that go on to Hajj not only we can mimic some of the activities we can also get the reward of the same activities as if we are performing Hajj ourselves in the Sunnah of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم the Prophet in Bukhari it is mentioned that it is narrated that the Prophet says he said there are no days in which good deeds are more beloved to Allah than these 10 days than these days so there are no days in which good deeds what kind of good deeds it is not mentioned it can be little it can be much according to everyone's ability it is an opportunity to do as much as you can or as little as you can in which good deeds are more beloved to Allah than these days this is narrated in Bukhari and also in some other narrations in Muslims and the narration of Imam Ahmad it says the same thing there are no days in which good deeds are more beloved to Allah and more magnificent in the sight of Allah than these 10 days and then the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم told us فأكسيرو فيهنة من التسبيحي والتحميدي والتهليلي والتكبير then say as say much so remember much to say much of تسبيح سبحان الله much of تحميد الحمد لله and as much as you can of تهليل لا إله لله as much as you can of تكبير الله أكبر in this hadith the quantity is emphasized اكسيرو say as much as you can usually when we do an act of worship we focus on the quality more than we focus on the quantity the sincerity is more important and sometimes to get quality you need quantity we may say a hundred times سبحان الله but our heart is only present for one moment or two moments and in the narration of امام بزار it says اعظمو ايام الدنيا the most magnificent days of the world i.e. of this dunya of this life are these ten days the most magnificent days i.e. of your life of our life are these ten days so what is special about those ten days we also read in the Quran that Allah سبحانه وتعالى says in surat al-arraf verse 142 he says وَوَعَدْنَ موسى ثلاثين ليلة we appointed 30 nights for muses موسى عليه السلام spent 40 nights he fasted, he did good work good deeds and then after that Allah spoke to him directly so he said وَوَعَدْنَ موسى ثلاثين ليلة we appointed 30 nights for muses for muses وَأَتْ مَمْنَاهَا بِعَشْرَة and then perfected it by adding ten more then added ten more فَتَمَّمْ يِقَاتُ رَبِّهِ أَرْبَعِينَ ليلة the term set by his lord was completed in 40 nights the ulema say that the first 30 nights are the nights of the quada and the additional ten nights or ten days are the first ten days of the huja so musa عليه السلام was giving 30 nights initially and then ten nights were added or ten days were added as a perfection were added to perfect وَأَتْ مَمْنَاهَا بِعَشْرَة وَلَمَّا جَاءَ موسى لِمِقَاتِنَ وَكَلَّمَّهُ رَبِّهُ قال ربي أريني أنظر إليك and then after he completed those 40 nights and 40 days God spoke to him we have been given 40 nights in the month of Ramadan or 30 days we are giving the month of Ramadan whether it is 29 days or 30 days we get the same reward and Allah completed those 30 nights by adding ten additional nights or ten additional days which are the days of the huja in Ramadan the first ten days are the days of rahma mercy the middle ten days are days of maghfirah forgiveness and the last ten days are days of freeing from hellfire عدق من النار will free as many slaves from hellfire we will see here that in the the professor told us that on the day of Arafa Allah will free so many slaves from the hellfire so these ten days are like they play the role of catch up Allah gave us out of His mercy and out of His grace additional ten days so those who fell behind in Ramadan in Ramadan for example maybe I didn't read I wanted to read so much Quran I only read 30% of what I wanted to read I wanted to do these these deeds and I did less than what I wanted these ten days are given some of the wisdom of these ten days is to catch up what we miss in Ramadan and also these ten days also help those who are not able to go to Hajj to do the same activities as those who are in Hajj and they can mimic the Hajj they can do as the Hajji in Hajj does they can do many by not cutting their nails and cutting their hairs for ten days before they slaughter the animal here they can do as the people in Hajj can do many of the activities that people performing Hajj do we can do in those ten days and they are emphasized in the Sunnah emphasized by Allah SWT and his messenger these ten days also the wisdom behind these ten days is that in those ten days the Deen was perfected our religion was perfected اليوم أكملت لكم دينكم وأتممت عليكم نعمتي and in the ayah two words were mentioned كمال and تمام and كمال and تمام in the Islamic law in the Sharia they imply both quantity and quality i.e. in quantity the religion was perfected and also in quality the quality of the Ahkan the quality of the rulings the quality of the principles are encompassing they are enough so that it can become timeless it can become time independent the Sharia is so flexible that it can adapt to all times and places and as Ibn Hajar says also one of the feature of those ten days is that those are the only ten days where the five Arkan of Islam can be implemented so the five pillars of Islam are to say to pray to fast to perform Hajj Hajj can only perform in the first ten days of the Hajj there is no other time to perform Hajj in addition to performing Hajj one prays as well and during the first ten days of Hajj as we will see one of the good deeds that one can do is to give as much Sadqa as one can in Ramadan maybe maybe I fell short in reciting the Quran I fell short in giving Sadqa I fell short in visiting people I fell short in doing good deeds in these ten days I can do that I can give as much Sadqa as I want so I can I say the Shahada I pray I fast in these ten days I give Sadqa which is the form of Zaka or lesser form of Zaka and I perform Hajj in those ten days the five pillars of Islam are implemented and executed in Ramadan we can only execute four of them not five so what plan can we put in these ten days in order to benefit the most out of them perhaps in Ramadan I didn't do enough to ensure that I'm going to be free from half a year perhaps I fell short perhaps I didn't shine perhaps something happened that prevented me from making the most out of Ramadan these ten days are an opportunity for me to ensure that insha'Allah I will be freed from half a year perhaps my fasting wasn't perfected in Ramadan these ten days or these nine days I can fast nine days to make up and compensate for what I've done in Ramadan perhaps in Ramadan I wanted to read so much Quran and I wasn't able to in these ten days I can put a plan to read as much Quran as time allows me and if you know when you read every letter of the Quran is ten hasana ten rewards so if you read one juzer it's actually 100,000 rewards if you're able to read three juzer a day that's 300,000 and if you read the whole Quran it's 3,000,000 rewards those that like quantity and knows how to count it's 3,000,000 rewards and that's a minimum some ulama get rewards reading one letter of the Quran and reflecting on it and understanding the deeper meaning there are narrations that indicate that one could get 100 rewards 1,000 rewards per letter depending on the focus and the sincerity and the depth of understanding and application of the ayat so what practical plan can we put for these ten days I can put a plan for the Quran every day let's say my plan is to read one page or two pages or one juzer so as little as one can or complete the whole Quran in ten days and if one does so why not every day select a verse from the Quran let's say you read two pages, three pages, five pages out of these five pages select a verse from these five pages a verse that when you read it affected you when you read it awakened your heart when you read it it made you think about something when you read it it made tears fall from your eyes every day log this verse think about it contemplate look at the tafsir try to understand it and try to apply it we can also put a plan for fasting the Prophet ﷺ encouraged us to fast the nine days if we cannot fast the nine days we can fast five days i.e. every other day I can fast on the first, the third, the fifth, the seventh and the ninth if I cannot fast five days let's fast three days the Monday, the Thursday and the day of Arafa if I cannot fast nine days let's fast the day of Arafa only let's not deprive ourselves of fasting I can also put a plan together to get the reward of Hajj and Umrah how? there are many hadiths that the Prophet ﷺ mentioned and I shall mention some of them here that implies if one has if one purifies their knee number one, purifying the knee number two, praying the prayers in Jama'a i.e. exert try as much as you can to pray prayers in Jama'a the Prophet ﷺ said if one purifies oneself in their home by way of encouraging us the Prophet ﷺ said if one purifies oneself in their home and then they come to the mosque to pray Jama'a they get a reward similar to the one performing Hajj it's a way of emphasis if you keep on doing that you get close to getting the reward of someone performing Hajj the third is to complete the prayer by performing the Asqar after the prayer i.e. to subbihuna وتحمدونا وتكبيرونا الله خلف كل صلاة the Prophet ﷺ said after each and every prayer you make the subbih تهليل and تكبير number four you pray عشاء in Jama'a pray fajr in Jama'a number five after fajr sit until shuuk until sunrise making Asqar or contemplating or thinking number six seeking knowledge try to learn something in these ten days every day try to learn something because whoever learns something will facilitate for them a path to paradise and number seven is to seek to do as much as one can to do Birhul Walida to seek the pleasure and mercy of one's parents if they're alive and if they're dead is to pray for them after every prayer every day to pray for them الله سبحانه وتعالى says in the Quran لن تنالوا البرى حتى تنفيقوا مما تحبون you shall not achieve righteousness until you spend of that what you love the most and the word بر in Arabic بر الواليدين or the word بر in Arabic has many meanings but they all revolve around two meanings the first meaning is pleasure and the second meaning is رحمة i.e. you shall not attain the mercy of Allah nor his pleasure until you spend of that what you love the most and when we talk about بر الواليدين our goal is to achieve and to get their mercy that they care for us their mercy fall on us and also to get their pleasure that they're happy with us so let's put together for those many of us our parents are not alive but those their parents are alive let's put a plan make a plan in your mind I want to make my parents happy I want to make my parents pleased with me at least in these 10 days when they say in schools the most difficult age to teach are those who are at grade 8 13-14 they're always rebelling and making a statement and they want to assert themselves one of the good deeds that one can do in these 10 days is to make people happy ا.e. اتخال السرور على قلبي المسلم do something that make other people smile at you be happy with you this is in general for the day of Arafa one needs to put a plan for the day of Arafa so what is the plan that we can put I'm just giving you some ideas here and you can put your own plan what is the plan that one can can put for the day of Arafa the Prophet SAW says مَا مِنْ يَوْمِنْ اكْسَرُ مِنْ اَنْ يُرْتِقَ اللَّهُ فِيهِ عَبِيدًا مِنَ النَّارِ مِنْ يَوْمِ عَرَفًا there is no day on the face of the earth where Allah SWT free people from hellfire like the day of Arafa and on the day of Arafa Allah SWT tells the angels my servants who he tells them these people that come to Hajj why did they come to Hajj then at the end of the symbolic conversation Allah SWT tells the angels know that I have forgiven all of them the day of Arafa as the Prophet SAW says خَيْرُ يَوْمِنْ طَلَعَتْ فِيهِ الشَّمْسُوُ يَوْمُ عَرَفًا the best of the days is the day of Arafa so what plan can I do on the day of Arafa implement and execute all the five pillars of Islam if you can سيلا إله إلا الله as much as one can pray fast give sadaqa and if you're on Hajj you're on Hajj if you're not on Hajj اكسِرُ من التحميدي والتسبيحي والتهليلي والتكبير the Prophet SAW says the day of Arafa what you do is you say as much as you can لا إله إلا الله as much as you can الحمد لله as much as you can سبحان الله as much as you can الله أكبر what is our goal on the day of Arafa is that we don't want to leave the day of Arafa without our record being full of good deeds one can do تكبير from the pleasure of from the morning of the day of Arafa until sunset those who are doing كرباني also when you do كرباني there are some animals that are not fit to be كرباني the Prophet SAW said that the animal that should be slaughtered has to be in good health i.e. it cannot be عراق no defect in the eyes it cannot be blind it cannot be عالساء عالساء has some defect in the mind i.e. it goes like this goes wild and it cannot be sick so the realm recommends that if you want to do كرباني go and observe the animal yourself look in their eyes look in the eye of the sheep or the goat or the cow see how it walks because we want our كرباني to be fulfilling the requirements that the Prophet SAW gave to us and remember my father used to slaughter an animal every year and we used to buy it six months ahead of عيد العضحة and we used to raise it on the roof of our house and feed it every day we feed it and we were young boys we were so happy to see an animal living in our home on the roof and we feed it we feed it good food and after six months my father used to slaughter it himself and then we would distribute the عضحة it's a different feeling but we know the animal we've lived with it we know that it's of good health and the sheep are very friendly and wherever you take them they go with you they don't complain the goat is different the goat may be an annoying animal it doesn't like things you can't tie it to a fence it will yank the fence it will create problems cows and goats are very friendly so on the day of Arafah so basically it's عبادة قرآن ذكر دعا in addition to صدق good deeds could be anything good deeds could include mending relations healing the wounds between friends between people between family members good deeds could include healing the wounds between friends good deeds could include visiting the sick and if no one is sick visit hospitals soften your heart don't leave the day of Arafah without when the angels are recording your deeds on the day of Arafah by the end of the day the record is the record that you are that you can be proud of I'm happy with what I've done maybe I I felt short in Ramadan I made it up the Prophet ﷺ in one hadith says whoever fasts one day الله سبحانه وتعالى removes him from hellfire the distance of 70 70 autumns 70 years if you if one with the fast 9 days it's like he's he's been he's distanced himself or herself from hellfire by 630 years of distance on the day of Eid one can also put plan for the day of Eid the day of sacrifice the best days of the year are the day of Arafah and the day of Eid the best 10 days of the year are the first 10 days of Al-Husha the best 10 nights of the year are the 10 nights of Ramadan the last 10 nights of Ramadan of course the last 10 nights of Ramadan the days are also valuable but the nights are the emphasis we perform Tarawih we perform Ibadah we perform Qiyamul Layl we make dua and Layla to Al-Qadr in the first 10 days of the Al-Husha the emphasis on the days of course the nights are also important because in the nights we can do Qiyamul Layl we can do Tahajjud what does Qiyamul Layl mean? Qiyamul Layl means that you pray in the night and the number is not important so after one prays Al-Husha and prays Al-Sunnah if one prays Turaka this is called Qiyamul Layl if one sleeps and then wake up it's called Tahajjud Tahajjud means you slept before Tahajjud Qiyamul Layl takes place before you sleep praying at night or praying before morning after you wake up before Fajr and dawn the day of Aid is the day is the last day of of the 10 days of the Al-Husha and it's a day of sacrifice it's a day of joy it's a day of commemorating our Prophet Ibrahim our father Ibrahim his son Ismail and Sayyida Hajar Sayyida Hajar in some narrations used to be a princess but in the old days when they had wars they used to capture royal families after being captured they used to make them maids and slaves and as a result she became a slave she became a maid and then Ibrahim married her we commemorate the sacrifice of of Sayyida Hajar we commemorate that she never never lost hope never complained and she had full trust in Allah سبحانه وتعالى Sayyida and Ibrahim we commemorate the day of Nahr the day of sacrifice every day in Hajj how many days are Hajj Hajj is 5 days the day of Aid the day of Nines Nines is Arafa 10th is the day of sacrifice 11 and 12 يام التشريق and those who remain 3rd day to stone Hajj become 6 days for them so either 5 or 6 days Ibrahim عليه السلام received the command to slaughter his son Ismail on the 8 it's called يوم التربية that's when God revealed the command to Ibrahim عليه السلام in a dream in a vision he told his son يا بونية اني أرى في المنامي اني أزبحوك now my son I see in my dream in a dream in a vision that I'm about to slaughter you the Arabic the Quran is very precise did not say اني زبحتوك that I slaughtered you did not say that I'm slaughtering you or I'm about to slaughter you because the visions of prophets are true if a prophet sees a dream it has to take place as he sees it the dreams of prophets takes place exactly as he saw it Ibrahim told his son on the 8th of the الحجة his son says قال يا أبتي فعل ما تومر or my father do as you commanded ستجدوني إن شاء الله من الصبر you will find me amongst those who are patient يبراهيم علي السلام started making plans for slaughtering اسمعيل and he took the day of the 8th and the day of the 9th and on the 10th he was about to slaughter اسمعيل علي السلام when Allah swt revealed that the slaughtering was replaced by substitute by sheep so the 8th of the الحجة is called يوم التروية i.e. the day of taking your time it's a day of preparation you prepare as Ibrahim prepared after receiving the command he started preparing and putting the plan and discussing with his son the day of Arafa is a day of gathering or the day of meeting تعرف is when you meet someone for the first time and the day of introduction day of introducing oneself to another so when people gather in Arafa they used to introduce themselves they get to know one another it's also said that آدم علي السلام and حوى علي السلام met in Arafa آدم was when he was descended from paradise he was in one place إذ حوى علي السلام was a different place and they were looking for each other and they found each other in Arafa so every day in Hajj has a meaning مزدليفة is called مزدليفة because that's where people from Isdilaf from gathering and meeting before they go مينة is called مينة from إراقة to ديماء because that's where slaughtering takes place that's where blood flows every place in Hajj has a meaning and has a deep meaning behind it every day in Hajj has a meaning behind it the ten days of the الحجة are a mercy from Allah SWT for those of us who want to because they felt short in Ramadan they can make up what they felt short in Ramadan they can compensate for whatever they've lacked behind or for those who are not able to go to Hajj especially now with COVID and then the new laws the new regulations that the Hajj authorities are implementing many people were going to find it it was very difficult to go to Hajj but this doesn't mean that the reward for Hajj that we are deprived from the reward for Hajj but first of all since only a small fraction of the Muslims can go for Hajj we should feel happy for those who have the opportunity to go for Hajj and those who go for Hajj they should also feel happy because they are representing us and at the same time since only a small fraction can go for Hajj if I've done Hajj once I should not try to go for Hajj every year because I'm taking the place of someone who has never gone for Hajj maybe I'm selfish I want to go for Hajj more try to give other people also the opportunity in the past we used to have quota per country so it's easier to go for Hajj more than once in your lifetime but in some places in the world if you go for Hajj somebody else cannot go for Hajj and we would be depriving them of going for Hajj and they may be fulfilling all the requirements they are mustatia it's the only pillar of Islam that Allah SWT put a qualifier beside it he says whoever is capable of doing it he capable in a natural way you don't force yourself to become capable i.e. if I don't have money I don't borrow money to go for Hajj if I don't have money Hajj is not obligatory on me in the first place if I have to bribe somebody to get a visa Hajj is not obligatory on me so I don't have to do that I don't have to force myself to become capable if I need to spend money on my family and on expenses I do that I don't save money and deprive others so I don't fall in my obligations toward my family and in order for myself to go for Hajj I'm not obligated not obligatory on me من يستطاع إليه سبيل and he made it explicit Allah SWT made it explicit if I have a debt if I'm in debt the majority of themselves you cannot go for Hajj if you have a debt it's not obligatory on me and there are some differences of opinions among the schools you can check in your own school so one last comment before we start and if there are questions we can take some questions those who usually fast see in the Islamic law there are some sunnas that if you miss it you have to wait a year before you can do it again some sunnas if you miss it you have to wait a week before you can do it again some sunnas if you miss it you have to wait a month before you can do it again and some sunnas you can do it every day so عشرة for example if you miss it you have to wait a year there is no عشرة every day the day of Arafa if you miss it you have to wait a year there are sunnas that if you miss it you have to wait a month which are the sunnas of fasting the 13's 14's and 15's of every month if you miss the 13's 14's there are sunnas that if you miss it you have to wait a week like Monday and Thursday but in the month of Zul-Hujja you cannot fast on the 13's because the 13's falls is the last day of عيام التشريق is the last day of the 11's, 12's and 13's after the day of sacrifice so if one has the habit of fasting the 13's, 14's and 15's in the month of Zul-Hujja they only fast the 14's and 15's and they get the reward for 3 days because عيام التشريق is عيام أكلين وشوربن the Prophet ﷺ says are days of joy and eating and drinking الله سبحانه وتعالى has invited you to eat and drink and you say I don't want to I'm gonna fast that's not polite that's not polite there are 5 days in the year where one cannot fast the day of فطر the day of day of عضحة and the 3 days that follows the day of sacrifice and you can fast any other day will stop here صلى الله عليه وسلم just before I finish there is a hadith where the companions came to the Prophet ﷺ and told him those are the poor of the emigrants فقراء المهاجرين it's a hadith well known maybe you've heard it before and they were complaining to the Prophet ﷺ and they told him oh messenger of Allah ذهب أهل الدسور بالدرجات العولى والنعيم المقيم another version they said ذهب أهل الدسور بالأجور another version it says يا رسول الله ذهب الأغنياء بالأجور they were saying oh messenger of Allah the wealthy have obtained all high ranks and everlasting bliss whatever we do we cannot catch up to them they have money we pray as they pray so we can catch up to them and pray we fast as they fast but when it comes to صدقاء they can pay more صدقاء than us and then they said يُصَلُّونَ كَمَانُوا صَلِّي وَيَا صُومُونَ كَمَانُوا صُومُ وَيَا تَصَدَّقُونَ وَلَانَ تَصَدَّقُ they give صدقاء and we cannot give صدقاء وَيُعْقِقُونَ وَلَانُوا تَقْقُونَ they can free up slaves and we cannot free up slaves وَيَحُجُونَ وَيَا تَمِيرُونَ and we may not be able to do حج or عمر what should we do how can we catch up to them they can do all these things and we cannot do any of that the prophet says أَفَلَا وَعَلِّمُكُمْ شَيْئًا تُدريكُونَ بِهِ مَنْ سَبَقَقُونَ وَتَسْبِكُونَ بِهِ مَنْ بَعْدَكُمْ he says shall I not teach you something whereby you will catch up to those who have preceded you and will get ahead of those who follow you we can catch up to them and get ahead of those that are behind you they said what should we do how can we do something where we can catch up to those who perform حج and عمر and we are not able to perform حج and عمر which is relevant to what we are talking about he says تُبِرُونَ وَتُحَمْمِدُونَ دُبُرَ كُلِّ صَلَاتٍ سَلَاسًا وَسَلَاسِينَ مَرًا he said say Subhan Allah Allahu Akbar and praise Him Alhamdulillah by saying Alhamdulillah 33 times at the end of every Salat they were so happy they left then they came next week the following week they came to him they said oh messenger of Allah the wealthy have heard of what you said and now they are doing it so not only we thought we can catch up to them but they are doing the same they are making تسبيح and تحميد and تكبير and they are now ahead of us because Alayh Sota Sam told them that do this unless somebody else does the same as you then you won't be able to catch up to them so the companions they are everything so as Sam says they want to know they want to know about it they want to know what he said they want to implement it so they've heard so they started doing the same thing so he says to them فضل الله he said this is the grace of Allah which he gives to whom he wishes but intention actually as it's mentioned in the you know in the negation of the Prophet ﷺ and as our ulama explained if one makes the right intention they get the reward of those who are performing if let's say I in my heart I am not able to go for Hajj this year but in my heart I want to be there I wish to be there but something has prevented me it could be an illness it could be a problem it could be something that happens it could be I don't have money it could be anything فضل الله they have the same reward those who are performing the deed and you who are left behind but because of your sincere nia you get the same reward so sometimes if even if physically we cannot do the action as long as we are sincere الله سبحانه وتعالى out of his grace will give us the same reward أقول له هذا القول وأستغفر الله any question or comment or observation or complaint or objection صدر النام I'll have to check double check for you one can do an act of deed and and gift the reward of it to their parents as for sure the question is whether you can do it on their behalf I'll have to double check any question any comment will stop anything will stop here وصلى الله عليه وسلم رحمنا يا الله اللهم اتقبل مننا صلاتنا وصيامنا وجعلنا من عبادك المقبولين اللهم اختم لنا بالحسنة يا الله اللهم اختم لنا بالحسنة يا الله اللهم وفقنا وفقنا العمل الصالح في هذه الأيام العشر اللهم وفقنا لما تحبه وترضاه اللهم صلي صلاةً كاملةً وسلم سلامًا تامًا على سيدنا محمد سبحان ربك بللزة عم يصفون والسلام على المسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين