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His entire household as well as all his companions may Allah bless them all and all those who have struggled and strived to learn the deen protected in a way that it has today come to us, they passed it on may Allah make us from those who can pass it on as well and may Allah accept us and may He include us in the prayers of those to come who will remember those who have served the deen protected it and conveyed it to others.

We ask Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala to open our doors. We have just completed the recitation of the Quran and we ask Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala to grant us every form of acceptance on this eve and we ask Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala to accept every letter we have read and to grant us every single one of us ease in the difficulties we have. Everyone has different difficulties and Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala knows them before we utter them.

Yesterday we spoke about the farewell Hajj and we asked Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala to grant us the ability to come back this evening and to continue. So here we are speaking we ask Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala to bless us all.

We had made mention of when the Prophet ﷺ was in Arafah. When he was in Arafah it was a Friday and the Prophet ﷺ gave a lecture. He gave several lectures what were known as Khutbah on the day of Arafah, the Khutbah the following day and the Khutbah the following day.

Three days in a row and whenever he had had the opportunity he kept repeating certain words. The lectures were more or less similar. What I will do for you today is we will make mention of the points or some of the points of these lectures not necessarily just the one on Arafah but even the ones that happened the following day and the following day which were all on the same topic and as I have said moments ago he repeated the words again and again.

Firstly he asked his companions on the day of Nahar. What day is it today? They were thinking perhaps he is going to give it a different name until he said is this not the sacred day the day of Nahar? He responded yes or they responded yes.

Is this not the sacred month? Yes are we not in the sacred city? Yes well you should know that your wealth and your lives as well as your honour and dignity amongst yourself is all sacred just as the sacredness of this day in this month in this city as Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has granted it.

So remember the status that we have among one another our lives are sacred our wealth is not supposed to be usurped and our honour and dignity all this is granted the status by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala no one is to harm the other in any way this was the bottom line of the message or that particular statement.

May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala grant us goodness then he says everything that was laid out in the pagan era is now thrown under my feet it is cancelled null and void all the evil that was happening is null and void thrown under my feet gone for good.

We have opened a new era and a new chapter of goodness and of piety of worship of Allah alone without any idols without any association of partners with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

When he included in that the issue of interests known as Riba he says the interest is all cancelled and it is bad and abomination the handiwork of the devil it shall not be repeated and we will not be engaged in it as believers from this day on it is deleted and cancelled and any of you who have any dealings of interest it is dropped and what you are owed is only your capital.

And he went on to say even from my own family those who are owed monies I am telling the rest of you that any interest amount is completely cancelled what is owed is only the capital may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala grant us the ability to surrender to this.

This was the message in the farewell pilgrimage and we had said the reason why it is called the farewell pilgrimage is because it was the only hatch and yet it is there where he greeted the people and he told them perhaps I will not meet you after this so he bidded farewell to them may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala grant us a lesson.

Thereafter he spoke about the way they used to kill one another and he says blood is sacred in one narration he says it is higher than the status of the Kaaba in the eyes of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

So to kill one another to harm one another is very dangerous and he continued to say people have been killing one another for no reason that is all gone under my feet.

We will never engage in that type of pagan behavior after this day. Then he continued to say fear Allah, fear Allah be conscious of Allah regarding your women be careful how you treat your women this was the advice of the Prophet of Allah Wa Sallam in the last year which means in this farewell pilgrimage he is giving advice saying be careful how you treat your women.

Be careful about women you have taken them with the name of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala your spouses your wives he is speaking about here he says you took them with the name of Allah be careful who are they I'd like to pause for a moment and take us all back or should I say take us all to who are our own wives they are the daughters of people they also have their family members they have left everything in order to come to us.

How can we then oppress them the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam warns us about oppressing women and that having been said today we have a new type of a problem where women are oppressing men may Allah grant us ease and this is a reality we need to remind the sisters as well make life easy for your husbands not difficult Allah has put you as a gift so live your life as a gift may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala grant us the coolness of our eyes in our spouses

may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make us from those who can fulfill our rights and even beyond our rights may he make us from those who can give even much more may Allah grant us through his mercy.

Then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam warns the believers he says

Do not turn after me to disbelief by fighting and killing one another do not harm one another do not fight one another remember you are brothers you are believers you are to be like one body if the head is aching the entire body is restless.

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