Dear\nbrothers and sisters, as mentioned in last week\u2019s khutba, we are now in the\nmonth of Dhul-Hijjah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the\nmonth in which the Hajj is performed by millions of Muslims all over the world\nand followed by Eid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We also\nmentioned last week how the Prophet SAWS spoke of the first ten days of this\nmonth leading up to Eid and that specifically they are days in which good deeds\nare worth more to Allah SWT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The day of\nArafa also holds great importance in Islam because this is the day when Allah\nSWT completed his revelation on his messenger SAWS. It was on the day of Arafah\nwhen the following verse from Sura Al-Maidah was revealed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This day I have perfected your religion for you, completed my\nfavour upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The imam\nmentioned the hadith also of the prophet SAWS in which he explicitly revealed\nto us that the reward for fasting on the day of Arafah is that it removes the\nsins from the previous year and forgives the sins for the year ahead. And so,\nthis is a day we cannot afford to treat like another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, for\nmany of us, we are making plans during this time for the Qurbani or Sacrifice\nas is the practice during these blessed days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Qurbani\nitself is an annual sacrifice of an animal offered to Allah during the days of\nEid al-Adha, marking the completion of Hajj. By sacrificing an animal each\nyear, we are confirming that we are willing to sacrifice whatever Allah asks of\nus and to submit to Him completely. This sacrifice commemorates the actions of\nthe Prophet Ibrahim (as). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
One point\nworth remembering about this is that the Sacrifice is to be done during the 10th<\/sup>\nand 12th<\/sup> days of this blessed month. Anything outside of this time\nis not considered a Sacrifice for the blessed month and is instead counted as a\nsadaqa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nfollowing translation of the Prophet SAWS confirms this as it is translated to\nsay:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhoever slaughtered the sacrifice before offering the Eid\nprayer, should slaughter another sacrifice in its place; and whoever has not\nslaughtered their sacrifice yet, should slaughter now\u201c. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Dear\nbrothers and sisters, this leads us onto the difference of opinion regarding\nthe Sacrifice itself during this blessed time. There are two schools of thought\non this. One is that the sacrifice is Sunnah Mu\u2019akadah which means it is a very\nhighly recommended Sunnah act but not compulsory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Others go\none step further and add that this is a compulsory act and must be carried out\nby those who can afford to do so. An easy way to know this is that if Zakat is\ncompulsory on you then so is the Sacrifice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But whatever\nthe opinion may be on the act, it is still considered an act of immense reward,\nan act that our beloved Prophet SAWS carried out diligently and an act that he\nencouraged others to do as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We live in a\ntime and a place where the sacrifice can be arranged via a number of Islamic\ncharities that specialise in this so make the most of this opportunity to reap\nthe reward of this blessed act of worship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And so, dear\nbrothers and sisters, we conclude with 3\ntips we can adhere to in order to make the most of the blessed day of Arafah:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dear brothers, what greater incentive do we need here? To\nfast next Friday for just under 13 hours will remove two years\u2019 worth of sins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dear\nbrothers and sisters, let us adhere to this reminder and be from amongst those\nwho were referred to by the Prophet SAWS when he said that there isn\u2019t a day in\nwhich Allah SWT forgives His slaves from the hellfire than the day of Arafah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear brothers and sisters, as mentioned in last week\u2019s khutba, we are now in the month of Dhul-Hijjah. This is the month in which the Hajj is performed by millions of Muslims all over the world and followed by Eid. We also mentioned last week how the Prophet SAWS spoke of the first ten days […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_regular_price":[],"currency_symbol":[],"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon"],"blocksy_meta":[],"post_slider_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","post_slider_layout_landscape_large":"","post_slider_layout_portrait_large":"","post_slider_layout_square_large":"","post_slider_layout_landscape":"","post_slider_layout_portrait":"","post_slider_layout_square":"","full":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}