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This is the day of Arafa.

It is the most blessed day of the year.

It is the day in which Allah boasts to the angels of his servants,

gathered together, all covered in dust, all covered in dirt, disheveled,

but calling upon him, invoking him for his mercy, and people all over the world doing the

same.

The prophet, sallu ariwa, said, al-Haju Arafa is, or haj is Arafa.

And what he meant by that, sallah ari-sana is that the core of haj is Arafa. The core of haj is Aarfa. And what he meant by that, Sallallah ariwa is that the core of haj is Arafa.

The core of haj is really contained in those moments,

those blessed moments of Arafa.

Same way the Prophet's Lai Sam said,

Addua'u al-Ibada,

that supplication is worship,

or he said,

Anadmu-Toba,

that regret is repentance. It's not that it is only regret that is repentance,

but the core of true repentance is sincere regret. And then everything that stems from

that will be beneficial. Likewise, Aarfa is Hajj. It is the core of Hajj. And it has

significance to all of us around the world. The Prophet, sallah a a while said,

there is no day in which Allah sets free more souls from the fire than on the day of Arafa.

And on that day, Allah draws near to the earth and by way of exhibiting his pride, remarks to the angels,

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