Thanks be to Allah Lord
of the worlds. And peace and prayers be upon the most honorable of all
messengers,
One of the jews said to
the Kalifa Omar: There is an Aya in your book, if it did come to us jews, we
would have taken that day a festival. Omar asked: and what ayah would that be?
He said:”Today I have your religion completed upon you, and finalized my
blessings; and I have accepted for you Islam as a religion.”. Omar said: ”I do
remember the day and place it was brought down. It was brought down when the
messenger prayers be upon him was standing at Arafa on a Friday”. It came down
on an eid day, on a Friday on the day of Arafah.
The blessings of this
day are great. Two blessings joined in this day, the blessing of the day of
Friday and the blessings of Arafah. Considering some of the blessings of the
day Friday. The prophet peace be upon him said {No sun rises or sets down on
any day better than the day of Friday}. For Friday is the day when Allah
completed the creations. On a Friday Adam was created. He was entered into
paradise on a Friday and he was thrown out of paradise on a Friday. It is on a
Friday that the Hour of the end of life shall occur. It is also the day that
contains an hour during which prayers are answered. It is the day of extra
benefits when the people in paradise get to see Allah’s face. Friday has great
great benefits.
The day of Arafa has
many blessings and features. It is the day when Allah completed his religion
and finalized his blessings. Completing the religion is giving the final
pillar of Islam (the Hajj). Completing the religion also refers to the
appearance of the message calling for the oneness of Aallah. The finalizing of
the blessings is by forgiveness of sins. The prophet peace and prayers be upon
him said: {When the day of Arafah comes, Allah descends to the nearest
heavens. He boasts or shows off to angles with all the pilgrimages (Hajj
people), Allah says: Look at my servants, they have come to me tousled and
dusty, from all far and narrow gaps. Bare witness that I have forgiven them.
The angles say, “God, such and such person is so heavy”, Allah says I have
forgiven them}
A’aesah (ÚÇÆÔÉ) reported
that the prophet peace and prayers be upon him said {There is no other day
that Allah frees more people from fire as he does on the day of Arafah. Then
he comes closer to boast to angels and he says “it is what they want”}
It is also on Friday
that Satan is defeated. It was reported that the prophet on the evening of
Arafah made a lot of supplication and prayers asking forgiveness and mercy to
his nation. On the next day in Muzdalafa he made more prayers and asked Allah
the same. Then suddenly he smiled. Some of the companions said “prophet, you
laughed in an time you were not to laugh at. What was it that made you laugh”.
He said {I smiled at the enemy of Allah; Eblees, when he found out that Allah
be exulted has answered my prayers when I asked for my nation. He forgives the
transgressor. He is crying out his loss, throwing dust on his head. I smiled
at his disappointment}. For the enemy of Allah is never seen at any day as
belittled and disappointed than on the day of Arafah because of the amount of
blessings and the forgiveness of the major sins except the day of Badr.
Also, the best day where
a Duaa (a Prayer) is made asking Allah the almighty. The prophet peace and
prayers be upon him said: {The best supplication is the supplication of the
day of Arafah. And the best of what I and the prophets before me said is: áÇ
Åáå ÅáÇø Çááå There is only One God, it is Allah, No partners with him, he
alone has the entire creation, all thanks be to Allah alone. He is capable for
anything}
One man (Íßíã Èä ÍÒÇã)
at Arafah he had one hundred slaves. He started setting them free. Every time
he sets one free the people start crying and ask Allah saying: “here is a
slave of yours setting his slaves free. And we are your slaves, do set us
free”
Ebk Mubarak found the
Sufyan a-thowry the evening of Arafah day while he was on his knees with the
tears seeping out of his eyes, he asked him “who do you think is in the worst
state of all of those?”. he said “The ones who think that Allah has not
forgiven them”
Those of you who see the
hundreds of thousands or millions of Hajj leaving the worldly life behind and
head for the life after. Those who do not feel at home with this life and is
looking forward to paradise and its essences. They cry to Allah and call him
in many different languages. Allah is the one who hears all, who listens to
all, who sees all, no language is unknown to him. No question shall keep him
busy from answering another question.
