Oh mountains of Mecca, what can you say
of the day that Abraham passed your way
[music]
and he was instructed by God to build a
House [music] of peace where people will
pray and they will come on every lean
camel and out of [music and singing]
every ravine for the purpose of praising
Allah
to glorify
Allah.
Oh mountains of Mecca, [music]
what can you tell of the day that stones
from the sky fell? destroying [music] an
army determined to break the house of
[music] Allah that Abraham built. Oh
mountains of Alhamdulillah,
peace be on to you. Welcome to another
episode of the Dean Show. We're going to
be broadcasting live all over the Hajj.
This is the fifth pillar of Islam.
You've testified
that there's none worthy of worship
except the creator of the heavens and
earth and Muhammad is his last and final
messenger. You've established the salat.
Pay the charity. Now you're fasting
during [music] the month of Ramadan. Now
look at this. It's time to gather with
the black and the white, yellow. If
there were purple people, they'd be here
also worshiping the one God. How
amazing. [music]
Where else do people like this gather
from all around the world?
Nobody's coming here to worship a black
box in the desert. They're coming in
here to do the same ritual as Abraham
did, as Moses and all the messengers of
God did. So now we're going to be with
our guest Sheikh Ysef Estes. We're going
to be taking you and showing you some of
the different events that are going on
around here in Mecca. So you want to
stay tuned, [music] sit tight. Going to
be live all over Mecca, bringing you the
Hajj only onam.
That's right. That's what we're going to
be saying just in a little while as we
approach the Cabba when we get to the
Haram in Mecca. for the pilgrimage.
Haj,
we're really excited about this
opportunity to be all together for this
great event once in the lifetime of the
Muslim when they're able to afford it
and able to go. What we want to do in
our program today is to emphasize the
ease of the Allah says in the Quran
he's telling us how after difficulties
there's ease certainly this is something
to reflect on when we talk about
performing
because there are difficulties from the
very beginning when we think oh how will
I do this where will I get the money how
will I take care of things who will take
care of my family while I'm away. So
many things come into my mind. But
remember, Allah wants for you,
not user. He wants for you ease. And
that's what he said in the Quran. Let us
think about it now. All right.
Alhamdulillah. Somehow we could get the
money together. Somehow we got the time
off from work. And now here we are. We
went to the airport. We stood in the
crowd. So many people. We got our
tickets. Baggage checked. Ah, seems like
a headache. And we didn't even get in
the airplane. Alhamdulillah. Finally,
now we're in the plane. Alhamdulillah.
Can we believe it? We're on our way
going all the way to Saudi Arabia for
the Haj Allah. But it's not over. It's
just beginning. Yeah. What's next? Well,
before you reach the Mikat, this is the
boundaries. There's a boundary that you
must put the on before you get to it.
Because if you wait too long, you got a
problem because you'd have to go way out
to be able to put on the wrong. So what
we'll do kind of get ahead of everybody
else is we're going to take the wrong.
Let's have that over here. Now let's
take a look at. What is it? It comes
from the word haram. It means forbidden.
Because when you're in a state of many
things you mustn't do. The haram, that's
the place where we're going to be, where
the cabba is. That also comes from the
word haram. Everything in the cabba is
haram to kill anything, to step on the
bugs, haram, to take anything. You leave
everything as it is. So it means it's
very critical for you to follow what
Islam is allowing you to do. You got
some narrow boundaries in here. And the
same is true when you go Allahbar for
your prayer. That's called a state of
and this is the
like this it means no while I'm in salah
of course I can't talk to people I can't
eat I can't drink certainly I shouldn't
fall asleep all of these things become
haram
also you don't turn around walk away in
the prayer this is something that you
know common sense tells you these things
are haram well that's what we're getting
ready to do now this is it wrong these
two towels that I hold up right here.
This is all I'm going to be wearing in a
few minutes.
Yep, that's right. Whenever a man, now
women, they can just wear the regular
clothes, but when a man's ready to be in
the state of it wrong, that means that
he's going to remove all of its clothes
and only have these two towels on.
We'll see about that. Now,
when we do this, there has to be
something done before anything else. is
called the the intention. And the
prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam he told us
that before every action there must be
intention because all the actions will
be only by intention. So we make the
intention or the nia for Allah and we
ask Allah to accept from us of course
and I say I'm going to perform my haj.
Now there are three major types of har
of uh haj that we do. Now I'll make my
intention. Now this means I'm going to
put on the imam now and of course I'll
go into the restroom to do that and then
we'll be attired like this for the rest
of this journey all the way to land. And
when we be landing we'll be wearing this
and when we get there what we're going
to do we'll go through the customs and
things. So you'll have to do that and
then we'll also go with the brothers.
They'll pick us up in Jedha and then
they'll take us on out. We'll go over to
Mecca. We'll get to Mecca. Now what
we'll do is we'll do a taw. That means
we'll do seven circumambulations around
the cabba. And then after that we'll
pray two rabba by Ibrahim station. Then
following that we'll do seven
going back and forth sai between the
mount called a safa and al marwa safa
and marwa go between them seven times
then following that we have a lot of dua
in there which you will see inshallah on
the program then we cut some hair and
finish that's the omra now we'll go back
to the hotel where we're staying we'll
change to our regular clothes and Then
we'll be back with you telling you more
of that as we go where we put this back
on then for the hot. That's how it
works. So, let's get it started now. I'm
going to go do that right now. Oops.
I have to take the seat belt off first.
We're ready. You can't go in here with
me.
Well, that didn't take very long, did
it? And you can see that I have on the
two pieces of it. Now, this is the upper
garment or the top part. And then
there's a lower part here. I don't know
how well you can see that. Just take a
look at it.
Now, this is not exactly going to get
you into GQ, Gentleman's Quarterly. But
hey, we're not here for that. We're here
[clears throat] for the law. That's what
it's all about. To do the rituals that
go along with the pilgrimage established
even at the time of Abraham.
Let's go get back in the seats cuz it's
time to get started. Now, we'll start
our descent and be landing in Jet.
Alhamdulillah.
Well, that's it. That was the Omrah. We
got to do Omrah now. And it's okay for
us now to come out of the one of the
last things that we had to do was to uh
cut the hair. And we did that. That it
doesn't look like it on me because I
have such long hair. But we will, as you
noticed, we removed about that much. And
this is all that's required to cut the
hair. You don't have to shave it. But
especially when you do Omra, cuz if you
shaved it, then whenever you do your
hajes, what would you have? You know,
your hair is all gone. So, I like to cut
it in the Omra about like this. And then
when we do Hajj, which will be a little
later on, we'll be going back into But
I'm getting ahead of myself. So, let's
do this now. We'll go and I'll get out
of the finish up everything and we'll
get a surprise for you. Watch this.
We'll change and be right out. Can't go
in here.
Alhamdulillah. That didn't take long,
did it? So this is now the first stage
of Hajj tamatu or the hajj which has
pleasure in it from the word muta which
is pleasure. Now this stage we're back
now in our street [music] garb and we'll
be able to relax and enjoy and do the
things that we would ordinarily do on a
day-to-day basis with a few limited
exception but for the most part this
completes stage one. We've done our
omrah. Now, when we go back into the
again and put the towels back on us,
then we'll go and begin the Haj, and
we'll be talking about that more later.
But that gives you an idea of going in
and out of the first stages of for
Hajamaku.
Got surprise for you coming up. Watch
this.
The Cabba here in the sanctuary or
what's called the haram in Mecca has
long been the focus of the point of
worship for the Muslims. This is the
place we turn to five times a day to
perform our ritual worship called a
salat or prayer.
And for those that maybe you're not
familiar with this, the people you see
going around there, that's called a taw.
That's the taw or the circumambulation
of the cabba associated with the visit
to Mecca. When you come here to Mecca to
the sanctuary and you perform this in
any circumstance, but especially when
you come for the Omrah, the lesser
pilgrimage or the Hajj, which is the
main pilgrimage of Islam and these
people are going to each one go around
there seven times. Now you can go around
it on the floor as you see what's called
the tower floor or in the upper levels
you see people going around there too
even on the very top of the building all
of it counts the same and it's a little
easier on the top but it's a lot longer
distance give you a little idea the feel
of what it's like to to go around like
the Cabba and do what the prophets all
did because all of the prophets of Islam
did this going around the Cabba seven
times like that
now the talia or the saying of lab
this is something very special that when
someone has come here to perform their
haj they're saying here I am oh my lord
here I because they're answering the
call. They've been called as Muslims to
come here and do these events, these
rituals associated with the worship
based on the teachings all the way back
of Abraham and Moses, David, Solomon,
Jesus Christ, peace be upon all of them,
and of course, Muhammad who came back
came to restore back to the Muslims what
the real religion was about. And when
they say,
they're basically saying, "Here I am, oh
my lord. Here I am."
And it says, "Here, here I am. And you
have no partners. Here I am." So this
begins the essence and the in the
intention toward performing this
pilgrimage. We'll have more of that's
going to be coming up, but we wanted you
to get a feel for this this coming into
the haram and going around the cabba.
We're looking at in the background
what's called the mountain of light or
jabalure.
This is the same place, this oddlooking
pointed top of mountain that you see
right there. This is the exact place
where the revelation of the Quran came
down on the night of power and this is
the same place the cave of H is there
and that's where the prophet Muhammad
peace be upon him was when the angel
Gabriel came to him. The angel came in
the night as the prophet Muhammad peace
be upon him was worshiping Allah. He was
fasting, by the way, during the daytime.
And he was praying all through the
night. And now the angel came to him.
And when the angel came to him, it
startled him. And the angel commanded
him in the Arabic language.
He responded back to him.
The command was recite. The reply, I'm
not a recer. Again, the angel grabbed
him, grasping close to him, and then
released him. And he said to him again,
"Recite." And he replied back to him, "I
know. I'm illiterate. I don't know how
to read or write is what he meant." And
then again the angel grasping close to
him and released to him in
That was the beginning of revelation of
the Quran. For the next 23 years, piece
by piece, little by little, the Quran
was revealed to the prophet Muhammad. As
his life and the lives of those around
him were affected by many different
circumstances, the Quran came to give
them the meaning behind what they were
living through and how to deal with all
different types of situations. This is
the beginning of the revelation of
Alquran Kareim right here at Jabur, the
mountain of light. And by the way, this
is just a little bit north outside of
the city called Mecca. Now, in the
Bible, it was called Baka. It's also
called Baka in the Quran. Through
different pronunciations, people began
to call it Makkah.
Alhamdulillah,
which means peace be unto you. Welcome
to another episode of the Dean Show and
back by popular demand. You suggested to
have him back again. You're always
excited when we have him here on the
Dean Show. And we're going to be talking
about the fifth pillar of Islam, Hajj
with Sheikh Ysef Estis.
[laughter]
It's great to be here with you, Eddie. I
love to be on the Dean show, but
especially in a case like this for Hajj.
We're here in Mecca, as you know, and
you and I both are here for that
purpose, to do our Hajj. And it's also a
bonus that we can make a program for the
Dean Show out of our Hajj while we're
doing it.
Yes. It's always exciting to have you
here on the show. And when you look
down, if the people can see black,
white, yellow, red, and there was pink
people, they'll be down there worshiping
one God. and we want to talk about some
of the misconceptions because the Dean
Show is here to help clear those
misconceptions and make the path to
Islam easy for them. Tell us about the
Hajj and how this all started.
Well, first of all, the one of the
things that people ask us about what is
the origin of the ritual itself? Where
did it come from? Is this something that
was invented by Muhammad peace be upon
him or is it something that came from
the pagan? Is it original uh what do
they call a ritual from some kind of uh
pagan worship and that kind of thing?
What we'd like to stress first and
foremost is that for all of our viewers
everywhere that Islam is based on the
worship of one God. Let me tell you what
Allah said about it in the Quran when he
said
in
he's telling us that he only created us
to worship. So our worship has to be for
him alone. And this is very key and this
is what we're going to be talking about
in the program. Now, you've probably
heard a lot of nonsense
things that people have made up,
misconceptions, intentional,
unintentional. Why don't you give us
some of the top
four or five misconceptions that people
have about
what we do here?
Well, yeah. What we can do is to begin
with is to talk about the oneness of
Allah. And in this when we begin to talk
about monotheism or oneness in Islam,
Allah is telling us that he only created
us for worship. As we said, he says
we're only created for worship to start
with worship of him rather than worship
of multiplicity of gods or worshiping
something that you can create with your
own hands and you know a rock, a stick,
a stone, a bone, statues and things,
idols that people make, good luck
charms, all these things are not what
Islam is all about. So when somebody
tries to associate Islam with false
worship of these pagan gods and so on
this is a big mistake but no to be fair
a lot of people are ignorant and they
don't know and they assume things from
what they might observe from what some
people might do and then this is one of
the best cases for us to come here to be
in the center of the whole thing the as
you say the heart of the matter and
that's for right there right that place
right there that Cabba is on the same
spot According to the Israeli, the
stories of in the children of Israel,
that's the spot where Adam put his head
when he asked Allah to forgive him for
eating the fruit that he was forbidden
to eat. This is the very place according
to that narrative. Now in Islam, we know
that for sure it is the exact spot that
the Cabba was built on in the very
beginning and that was erected by
Abraham who is the great great great
grandfather way back a bunch of greats
in there of Prophet Muhammad himself by
way of Ishmael which was pronounced
Ismael in the Arabic language. Now,
Ismael, the son of Abraham, peace be
upon them, was left here in the desert
along with his mother by Abraham by a
divine command or dream that came to the
prophet Abraham. That's the very spot
right there where it happened. Now, they
were left there and after food and water
was all gone, when it was exhausted,
then they had nothing left. So, his
mother went up on one hill called Asafa.
She went on top of it and looked and
looked trying to find anything she
could, you know, help or maybe water or
something. Then she went down to the
valley and then up on the other side on
Al Marwa between Safa and Marwa. These
two places she ran back and forth
looking looking and she went back seven
times between these two mountains and
finding nothing at all. She really
turning to Allah and asking Allah, "Help
us, help us." And then Allah caused
water to come up out of the ground. The
angel Gabriel came down and then water
came up out of the ground. It kept
coming up and coming up in the desert.
And this water was coming up so rapidly
and so fast that it was really a
miracle. There was no mistaking what it
was.
And that [snorts] water still comes up
even until today. This is called the
well of Zamzam. And the Zamzam is one of
the representatives of this great event.
Now, we don't worship the mountains and
we don't worship the well and we don't
worship the water, but we worship the
one who created all of it to begin with.
And we worship the one who brings us
water when there's nothing there to
bring water out of. And still today,
that water is running like this. It's a
miracle. This whole entire city is
making it off of this water. The well is
you'd be surprised that how much water
can be pumped out of there and it just
never dries up. It's amazing.
Amazing. Tell us, do you know of any
other event that brings together this
many amount of people in the world from
all different
places all over the globe? White,
yellow, brown, red, you know, anywhere
and tell us what are some of the things
that when someone comes down here, what
do they do? Well, even the Olympics in
Beijing, okay, even in that, you'd be
surprised that uh there weren't there
were a lot of people, but nothing on the
magnitude of what we have here during
the Haj because literally millions of
people are converging on a place that
normally only inhabit inhabitants here
are just a few maybe less than 100
thousand or something that. Now all of a
sudden you've got three million, four
million, sometimes even up to 5 million
people all gathering together at the
same time. Not only in the same city,
but in the same place to do the same
thing. Now, you might imagine that uh
this could be chaos and it would be if
it weren't for the very clear uh
rituals, the way it's been spelled out
by Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him,
what needs to be done at what time and
where you're supposed to go and what
you're supposed to do. and everybody
basically falls into sync, locking
together and moving together and doing
the things they're supposed to do. Now,
if somebody makes a mistake and goes a
wrong way, it's a problem for them.
That's for sure. But for the most part,
it goes very, very smooth. Of course,
you have the people here of Saudi who
have been for years and centuries really
taking care of the pilgrims when they
come and it's their responsibility
really to be sure everything is
facilitated and they do. They do an
excellent job to make sure everybody's
doing what they're supposed to do when
they're supposed to do it the way
they're supposed to do it. And one of
the things that people come up to us and
they'll ask us about was these rituals.
Do you guys like change them over the
years? Cuz some other religions, they
will change their rituals according to
the modern times as you might say or the
according to the traditions of the
people changing. So they want to change
their religion to go with it. But that's
not the case here. It always stays
exactly the same. It's the same place,
the same time of the lunar year and in
the same way and the revival of bringing
this back to the way of Abraham actually
was Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him.
Now you asked uh about some of the
innovations or the ideas that people
have thinking that this is just
something made up from pagan religions
and things like that. In fact, they have
a good cause to say what they say
because pagans did go around this cabba
and pagans did invent false worship. But
it was after Abraham they were children
of Ishmael and descendants of them and
they got away from the true religion and
they began innovating and doing some
strange things along with these rituals
and really confused a lot of people.
Some historians and archaeologists who
have mixed the two together have not
understood that the what Abraham came
with and never anything different was
the worship of one God. In the Bible you
find it saying that this is the God of
Abraham, the God of of David, the God of
Solomon, that the God of Ishmael and
Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of Job,
the God of Jonah, and of certainly the
God of Jesus Christ, peace be upon him,
and peace be upon all of them. So this
one god is the same one worshiped and it
was always in the same way and this is
the place where every single prophet
came and performed this circumambulation
going around and doing a tow right here
at this place. Couple more point shake
before we uh come to an end and then
we're going to take them over our
viewers to see a little more of the
details with you explaining it. We talk
to the non-Muslims now, our brothers in
humanity who we're trying to clear these
misconceptions for so they can end up
being our brothers in faith accepting
that there's only one God.
Muhammad is his messenger. Okay.
Tell us now for the Muslims
who should be here at Hajj,
but they're they're making uh pilgrimage
somewhere else, Florida, the Bahamas,
and they're procrastinating. What advice
do you have?
Well, first of all, it is a commandment.
It's a commandment in Islam that we must
perform the Hajj. Allah says it in the
Quran.
Whenever he says this statement, all you
who believe, it's a commandment and we
have to do it. We mustn't uh treat this
lightly because it could put you out of
the faith of Islam. When Allah says for
you to perform the Hajj on the way of
Abraham and his son Ishmael, which is
being restored to you now by Muhammad,
revelation coming to him from God and
showing us and telling us exactly how to
do it, where to do it, when to do it,
and it's clear. So this is not an option
for us. It is the fifth pillar of the
five pillars of Islam. So, as soon as
you're able to find your way to do it as
soon as you have the money, as soon as
you have the your bills taken care of
properly, somebody to take care of your
family, you must do this. It's not an
option. You can't put it off till next
year or the year after. Oh, I want to
save up for this, I want to save up
that. No, you have to do it as soon as
you can do it. And then you'll be
blessed by Allah for this. You will be
highly blessed. And Allah will take care
of your family. Allah will take care of
your money and the matters that you're
worried about. In fact, everybody who
comes back from Hajj, the only regret
they will say is, "I wish I would have
done it sooner. I wish I could do it
more often." Nobody comes back going,
"Oh, that is a lame thing. I wish I
didn't do it." Or never I ever heard
this. Out of the millions and millions
of people who did the Hajj, they always
come back saying, "Alhamdulillah, I did
my Hajj. Alhamdulillah, this is a great
way to get close to Allah.
Alhamdulillah, I learned more about my
religion, my dean. Alhamdulillah, Allah
is blessing me. All my problems became
solved when I got home." This is the one
thing that you should really look for as
a salvation here on earth is to do this
Hajj. It is a great and wonderful thing.
I know personally I've done the Hajj
many times and every time alhamdulillah
I came back home and found things to be
much better than when I left and I found
in myself much better from them
immediately from doing this Hajj. So
this is all good for us. And when people
see the features of the Hajj and
understand it and then they realize the
benefits that go with it, they can only
say it's an advantage to me really to do
this thing. I need to do it as soon as I
can. Now, as far as some of the
criticism that we find, people saying,
"Oh, this and that about they don't know
Islam." We're talking about the
non-Muslims now. And they look and they
say, "Well, why do you worship this
black box? Why you have to go there?
Doesn't God know where I'm at? Doesn't
he know what's in my heart?" The answer
is absolutely. He knows where you are.
He knows what's in your heart and he
knows you're procrastinating and not
doing what he told you to do. And that's
also important to understand. Our salat
five times a day must be on time. Our
fasting of Ramadan is not an option. And
our giving the charity or the zakat as
it's called the purification of wealth.
This is something imperative. We must do
this. And certainly that we would do the
Hajj, the pilgrimage here to the bait or
the house of Allah. And alhamdulillah,
this is something so beautiful when you
see the true way of Abraham and his
followers up until Muhammad, his
descendant, peace be upon all of them,
and you realize that I'm getting to do
this. I'm a part of this. I'm a part of
this great brotherhood of human beings
coming together for the worship of the
one God in the way it was commanded to
be. I can't imagine anything better than
this. I really can't
worship one God.
That's it.
Not his creation.
That's it.
That's a simple message. That's the same
message.
Make the prayer. Fast during the month
of Ramadan, pay the charity. Come to
Hajj.
Make your Hajj. Make your pilgrimage.
That's the That's the simple system.
And then what's the reward?
The reward is by following this dean,
this way of life is nothing less than
paradise for all the believers. And
coming back from Hajj, when you come
back from your Hajj, all your sins are
forgiven. You're like newborn, like you
just came from your mother. It is the
real salvation in this life. If you want
to really know about salvation, do your
Hajj and feel what it's like to come
back knowing Allah forgave you of every
single sin since day one. It's gone.
It's wiped clean. And now you're good
with your Lord. You get a fresh start.
And then on the day of judgment, this is
something good for you. And certainly in
the next life to be there with the
believers and be close to the prophets.
What more could you ask for? Indeed, he
is the most merciful, the most loving,
the creator of the heavens and the
earth. One more request. We want to see
you in the We want to see you go over a
little more of these details. You think
we can go to the next segment and you
can go over some
Certainly. Yeah. What we'll do now,
we've already performed our omrah and
the people have had a chance to get a a
taste of that. Now we'll get ready to do
the Hajj. What we'll do for the Hajj is
to begin the same way that we did with
the Omrah by putting on the after we've
made our intention. Then [snorts] we'll
go on out to Mina. After we spend the
night in Mina, we'll then go on out to
Arafat. On Arafat, there are some things
that we'll do there as well as combining
our prayers together. And uh we won't
perform the night prayer, the the
evening prayer of Maghreb. Instead,
after the sun goes down, we'll take off
and we'll go to a place called
Mustalifa. And then in Malifa, that's
where we'll pray our Maghreb and our
ISha, the two night prayers together and
spend the night there. We'll actually
sleep right there on the ground if you
like or maybe you take a mattress with
you. But anyway, we'll spend the night
there. Then before the sun comes up in
the morning, just before that, we'll
pray what's called the fudger, the
morning prayer. And after that, we'll
make our way back to Mina. Following
that, we go into the uh for the towah
and the sai. We'll go back here to the
cabba, the area you see behind me here,
and perform that. We'll cut the hair.
There'll be sacrifice to sacrifice the
animal for charity to give to the poor.
And then uh we'll begin stoning the
jamarat. Those are the pillars that are
out there in Mina and certain rituals
that go with that. All of this
established by Abraham, Abraham and
Ishmael, his son, and the great
great-grandfather of the prophet
Muhammad. This is all going to be taking
place. And then when it's all over with
and we're ready to wrap it up, the last
thing we'll do before we leave, we've
come out of our we're ready to go. We'll
do our final to this one last to that we
do to say farewell,
the towel wada. And that'll be the
farewell. And by the way, this will be
the farewell from us, too, cuz we got to
get ready to go do that right now.
Stay tuned. We got more for you here on
the Dean Show. We're talking about Hajj
with Sheh Ysef Estis.
One of the things too we noticed that we
see people from every part of the world.
from Africa,
from the Gulf, from Asia, from South
Asia, from Europe,
literally around the entire world. We're
seeing people from everywhere all coming
together for this same wonderful event.
And that is to have our sins forgiven by
repenting to Almighty God and following
the the disciplines that he set forth
for us to obeying his commands and and
performing our Hajj. You look out
through here and you see a tremendous
number of people. You look right
straight out over in the uh center here.
You look, you see these people are
actually walking. Many of them walking
for the last 5 to 10 miles. And there
you see
all these people like this.
You might wonder why we
You might wonder why people would go to
the trouble to pay money to take off
time from work and everything to gather
to be here. The reality of it is that
this is something we look forward to.
It's a once in a-lifetime occasion. And
we've talked about Hajj before and you
know that this is a pillar of Islam.
something that Muslims have to do to
really uh fulfill their their obligation
to their Lord. The one who created us,
the one who has given us life, who
sustains us. So, it's only fitting, it's
only right that we would obey his
commands. And this is a command of the
law that he gave not just for Muslims
today, but it's actually going way back
to the prophet Abraham. Prophet Abraham
or Ibrahim as he's called in Arabic
language peace be upon him.
He was instructed by Allah in what to do
in his sacrifices
and everything from even trying to
sacrifice his own son to please Allah to
show how much uh obedience there is.
Even if you don't understand something,
you're still willing to obey God in it
because you know this is what he's asked
you to do. And when Muslims do it, this
has given them a a tremendous sense of
being forgiven, being accepted, their
salvation. And one of the things that we
know about coming here for Haj,
the pilgrimage
is that when the person returns back
home, he comes back as if he was just
born from his mother. He comes back
sinless with no sin on him. All previous
sins are now forgiven. He gets a new
lease on life. It's a good chance for
him to start over, to be the person he
would like to be, to give up these bad
habits, to get away from the evil and
the sinful life that perhaps he or she
was leading. But now they've got this
new chance by coming back clean and
they're clean with the law. It doesn't
mean that people forgive you, of course.
It doesn't mean you don't have to pay
your debts, but what it means is you've
got a chance in front of Allah. And one
of the things that our prophet peace be
upon him told us that it's a very
horrible person who thinks he made so
many sins that Allah couldn't forgive
him because Allah can forgive everything
as he says except one thing and he
mentions it in chapter 4 verse 48 of the
Quran when he tells us that he does not
forgive people setting up partners with
him in worship but anything less than
this he can forgive and this is one of
the greatest ways to be forgiven is to
do this to come here for this hajj for
this pilgrimage
And it's been going on as we said since
the time of of Abraham and
something
at the time of David in something at the
time of Jesus and something at the time
of Muhammad was something called
pilgrimage. And that ladies and
gentlemen was the fifth pillar of Islam.
The Hajj. Allah, God Almighty, the
creator is so merciful and loving that
he gives us so many different ways to
expedate, to absolve, to get rid of
these many heavy sins. And this is one
of those ways. The pilgrimage you just
got to see to Hajj, one returns from it
sin-free like a newborn baby. He's got a
fresh start to make a new beginning and
live a good wholesome life. Putting
Allah, God Almighty, first before
anybody else. I'd like to thank our
special guest, Sheikh Ysef Estis, who
helped us cover the fifth pillar of
Islam, the Hajj, and all the brothers
who are out there supporting and helping
Zaku. May God Almighty Allah reward you
in abundance. And we got a couple more
points I want to cover before we come to
an close. So you know and you leave with
knowing these facts. Islam
means submission and surrender to one
God. Islam is not a new religion. This
concept was brought by all the
messengers of God. They all called the
people to surrender and to submit to one
God to worship him alone and not his
creation. If you want to follow a
man-made religion, if you want to follow
an organized religion organized by men
or man, go right ahead. But if you want
to follow a divine religion, a divine
way of life, knowing that you don't have
the answers to everything, you need
God's help, you need his assistance, and
you need his paradise. Because we got to
admit, we don't know everything. And
this life is not a paradise. This life
will come to an end. And the system, the
way of life that God has sent for you to
live by, taught
throughout time is Islam, submission and
surrender to one God. Second point we
want to cover
and let you go away knowing this fact
that the pilgrimage that you got to see
to Becca known as Mecca is also not
something new brought by Muhammad
sallallaihi wasallam. It was something
established by Abraham, practiced by
Moses and Jesus, and it was revived by
the prophet Muhammad, the last and final
messenger sent to mankind. [snorts] Just
as monotheism was brought by all the
messengers of God. And
throughout time, man put his hands in
things, made things a little convenient
for himself,
changed things according to his desires,
[snorts] added, deleted. So God sent his
last and final messenger to bring things
back to their pure state. So the
pilgrimage to Mecca, the Hajj was
brought back to its pure state. The same
way monotheism was brought back to its
pure state. Now for those of you who
want to do the right thing, for those of
you who want to do what God wants you to
do, sick of following your desires,
you're hitting a dead end every time.
You want to do what the creator wants
you to do because at the end it's
nothing less than paradise. Call the
number below 1 800662
Islam. Remember when somebody accepts
Islam, surrender and submission to one
God, he's not accepting a new religion.
He's accepting the way of life practiced
by all the messengers of God. You're
accepting something that you were born
with, something that God embedded inside
of you already, and that's to worship
him alone, not his creation. It's very
simple. 1 800662 Islam. Be our brothers
in faith. You're already our brothers in
humanity. Take that extra step. There's
a lot of things distracting you out
there. When you flick through and you go
to the next channel, you might see a
half- naked lady on the screen. You
might see a music video and you know
what? We got to face it. These things
ain't reminding you about God, about the
hereafter, about the day of judgment.
This program is. So take a the
opportunity and seize it.
Come to Islam. Take the necessary step.
It's up to you. You got one life to
live. What are you going to do with it?
You going to keep going and satisfying
your lusts and your desires, or you
going to live a godly life? You're going
to live a life doing what God wants you
to do. And I told you there's nothing
less than paradise. It's a very simple
formula, but you know what? We got a lot
of things distracting us. That's why
I've extended the invitation. Take it
right now. Time's running out. I got to
go. Hopefully, we'll see you back next
week on the Dean Show.
I don't know why I did that. Maybe it's
just to break the ice to ease a little
bit of the tension. But hopefully I got
a smile out of you. And hopefully you'll
be back again next week here, same time,
same channel on the Dean Show. Until
next time,
peace be unto