A dialogue between the Shaykh and his students, and a discussion about Hajj through the Taybah campaign in Hajj.
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The student: My master, is this from Atif’s cheese?
The Shaykh : Not now.
The student: Atif, the young Jordanian Palestinian who has a sheep farm.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: He is my partner; he and I are partners in the farm.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed.
The student: This cheese arrived a short time ago, meaning less than a week ago.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed, a blessed farm.
The student: May Allah bless you and keep you safe.
The Shaykh : Where is it, in al-Buqay’ah or where?
The student: No, in Sahab.
The Shaykh : Sahab.
The student: Yes, you visited Shaykh Atif more than once, for the ‘aqiqah of his son Yusuf.
The Shaykh : The one who used to raise goats and sheep?
The student: Yes, and he mentioned to me that you visited him.
The Shaykh : Abu Ahmad?
The student: Abu Ahmad.
The Shaykh : I remember Abu Ahmad.
The student: Yes, he is Abu Ahmad, may Allah bless you.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed, how many sheep do you have?
The student: By Allah, there are currently about three hundred and fifty, the large ones that give birth and are milked.
The Shaykh : Yes, what Allah willed.
The student: Praise be to Allah, this is Jordanian cheese; you don’t have it here, or it is not in Saudi Arabia.
The Shaykh : Yes, I do.
The student: We were looking for a sheep trader; we have a campaign.
The Shaykh : Where?
The student: We go for Hajj every year; we have a campaign.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: So we offer it to you; you can ask Brother Shaykh Rida Nu’san. Last year, he visited Abu Hazim, Adnan al-‘Ara’ur, and Muhammad Musa Nasr was with us. Then it was good between us and the middle Jamarat, about a hundred and fifty meters away, and the place is air-conditioned with Freon, and it is good.
The Shaykh : What is the name of this campaign?
The student: The al-Musayri campaign.
The Shaykh : The proportion?
The student: We are a branch of the al-Duwayshi tribe, called al-Musayri.
The Shaykh : With a shīn or a sīn?
The student: With a sīn.
The Shaykh : With a sīn?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Every year?
The student: Every year, yes.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed.
The student: We have doctors with us, meaning usually two or three doctors. We have a clinic in the same place, and the campaign has good people, so this year we intend to build our own slaughterhouse. We were looking for sheep, so the brother, meaning from near, Brother Nasser, we said to him, since you have sheep, if Allah wills, we intend to perform Hajj, because Abu al-Harith, if Allah wills, will come with us this year.
The Shaykh : Yes, finding the way is difficult.
The student: Yes?
The Shaykh : Finding the way?
The student: To where?
The Shaykh : To this camp.
The student: It is not difficult, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh : For me, because I do not remember.
The student: Doctor Rida Nu’san knows the place.
The Shaykh : Ah.
The student: Yes, because he comes to us; last year he was with us all the time, and this year, when you met him, because there was an agreement between us that I would come to him and take some of our Salafi brothers to work with us during the Hajj period.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed!
The student: So, if Allah wills, finding the way to the place will be facilitated.
The Shaykh : What is the approximate number of people in the campaign?
The student: This year, if Allah wills, about five hundred people.
The Shaykh : Five hundred?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : A lot, what Allah willed?
The student: The place is large; we have two sections for women and two sections for men, meaning there are bathrooms, probably about forty bathrooms, so the place is well-equipped with air conditioning, and there is a ready kitchen, and there is everything, and our intention, if Allah wills, this year is that the slaughterhouse, meaning the place where the hady is slaughtered, allows anyone who wants to slaughter the hady themselves to go there.
The Shaykh : By Allah, that is a good thing.
The student: And, if Allah wills, we will do it according to the Sunnah, if Allah wills, so that it is slaughtered in one place and taken to another place.
The Shaykh : A beautiful thing.
The student: As I mentioned, they do not do it in Britain.
The Shaykh : Yes, what Allah willed, meaning you have prepared the means?
The student: We are currently looking for land, on the basis of building the slaughterhouse on it.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed.
The student: We want to buy land or rent it for at least fifteen years.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: If you would like to see the place while you are currently in Makkah, we can, meaning.
The Shaykh : Where are you staying?
The student: In al-Jubayl here.
The Shaykh : My friend Rida, you said he knows the place?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : So if you meet him and we go together, will he show us the way?
The student: He will show you the way, but if Allah wills, on Thursday and Friday, which are the days after that, I will be there.
The Shaykh : You acted on the saying of the common people: "There is no greeting over food".
The student: I greeted, but with a soft voice.
The Shaykh : When did you greet?
The student: A little while ago, perhaps you did not hear me.
The Shaykh : From there or from here?
The student: From here.
The Shaykh : I heard you, but this is after the opportunity has passed. You should have greeted from there, then who returned the greeting to you?
The student: By Allah, I did not hear anyone.
The Shaykh : Because you did not listen.
The student: May Allah forgive me.
The Shaykh : And the intention is to remind.
The student: May Allah reward you with good.
Another student: This saying is not correct in our country, the common saying: "There is no greeting over food".
The Shaykh : Yes, this is a Jordanian saying, perhaps.
The student: Hehe, but they say: There is no greeting over food, they say.
Another student: But what is meant by it, is it the greeting or standing up?
Another student: No, the greeting, when you say: Peace be upon you, they say: There is no greeting over food, they criticize you and pull you, saying to you: There is no greeting over food.
The Shaykh : Ha, what do you have?
The student: I just want to hear from you, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Welcome.
The student: May Allah forgive you and reward you with good, we love you for the sake of Allah!
The Shaykh : May Allah love you for the sake of which you loved me.
The student: Shaykh, Abu Abd al-Rahman!
The Shaykh : Yes?
The student: Are we ready to go?
The Shaykh : Let’s go! Two bites, start the car.
The student: Okay, I am at your service, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Not now.
The student: Atif, the young Jordanian Palestinian who has a sheep farm.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: He is my partner; he and I are partners in the farm.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed.
The student: This cheese arrived a short time ago, meaning less than a week ago.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed, a blessed farm.
The student: May Allah bless you and keep you safe.
The Shaykh : Where is it, in al-Buqay’ah or where?
The student: No, in Sahab.
The Shaykh : Sahab.
The student: Yes, you visited Shaykh Atif more than once, for the ‘aqiqah of his son Yusuf.
The Shaykh : The one who used to raise goats and sheep?
The student: Yes, and he mentioned to me that you visited him.
The Shaykh : Abu Ahmad?
The student: Abu Ahmad.
The Shaykh : I remember Abu Ahmad.
The student: Yes, he is Abu Ahmad, may Allah bless you.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed, how many sheep do you have?
The student: By Allah, there are currently about three hundred and fifty, the large ones that give birth and are milked.
The Shaykh : Yes, what Allah willed.
The student: Praise be to Allah, this is Jordanian cheese; you don’t have it here, or it is not in Saudi Arabia.
The Shaykh : Yes, I do.
The student: We were looking for a sheep trader; we have a campaign.
The Shaykh : Where?
The student: We go for Hajj every year; we have a campaign.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: So we offer it to you; you can ask Brother Shaykh Rida Nu’san. Last year, he visited Abu Hazim, Adnan al-‘Ara’ur, and Muhammad Musa Nasr was with us. Then it was good between us and the middle Jamarat, about a hundred and fifty meters away, and the place is air-conditioned with Freon, and it is good.
The Shaykh : What is the name of this campaign?
The student: The al-Musayri campaign.
The Shaykh : The proportion?
The student: We are a branch of the al-Duwayshi tribe, called al-Musayri.
The Shaykh : With a shīn or a sīn?
The student: With a sīn.
The Shaykh : With a sīn?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Every year?
The student: Every year, yes.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed.
The student: We have doctors with us, meaning usually two or three doctors. We have a clinic in the same place, and the campaign has good people, so this year we intend to build our own slaughterhouse. We were looking for sheep, so the brother, meaning from near, Brother Nasser, we said to him, since you have sheep, if Allah wills, we intend to perform Hajj, because Abu al-Harith, if Allah wills, will come with us this year.
The Shaykh : Yes, finding the way is difficult.
The student: Yes?
The Shaykh : Finding the way?
The student: To where?
The Shaykh : To this camp.
The student: It is not difficult, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh : For me, because I do not remember.
The student: Doctor Rida Nu’san knows the place.
The Shaykh : Ah.
The student: Yes, because he comes to us; last year he was with us all the time, and this year, when you met him, because there was an agreement between us that I would come to him and take some of our Salafi brothers to work with us during the Hajj period.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed!
The student: So, if Allah wills, finding the way to the place will be facilitated.
The Shaykh : What is the approximate number of people in the campaign?
The student: This year, if Allah wills, about five hundred people.
The Shaykh : Five hundred?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : A lot, what Allah willed?
The student: The place is large; we have two sections for women and two sections for men, meaning there are bathrooms, probably about forty bathrooms, so the place is well-equipped with air conditioning, and there is a ready kitchen, and there is everything, and our intention, if Allah wills, this year is that the slaughterhouse, meaning the place where the hady is slaughtered, allows anyone who wants to slaughter the hady themselves to go there.
The Shaykh : By Allah, that is a good thing.
The student: And, if Allah wills, we will do it according to the Sunnah, if Allah wills, so that it is slaughtered in one place and taken to another place.
The Shaykh : A beautiful thing.
The student: As I mentioned, they do not do it in Britain.
The Shaykh : Yes, what Allah willed, meaning you have prepared the means?
The student: We are currently looking for land, on the basis of building the slaughterhouse on it.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed.
The student: We want to buy land or rent it for at least fifteen years.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: If you would like to see the place while you are currently in Makkah, we can, meaning.
The Shaykh : Where are you staying?
The student: In al-Jubayl here.
The Shaykh : My friend Rida, you said he knows the place?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : So if you meet him and we go together, will he show us the way?
The student: He will show you the way, but if Allah wills, on Thursday and Friday, which are the days after that, I will be there.
The Shaykh : You acted on the saying of the common people: "There is no greeting over food".
The student: I greeted, but with a soft voice.
The Shaykh : When did you greet?
The student: A little while ago, perhaps you did not hear me.
The Shaykh : From there or from here?
The student: From here.
The Shaykh : I heard you, but this is after the opportunity has passed. You should have greeted from there, then who returned the greeting to you?
The student: By Allah, I did not hear anyone.
The Shaykh : Because you did not listen.
The student: May Allah forgive me.
The Shaykh : And the intention is to remind.
The student: May Allah reward you with good.
Another student: This saying is not correct in our country, the common saying: "There is no greeting over food".
The Shaykh : Yes, this is a Jordanian saying, perhaps.
The student: Hehe, but they say: There is no greeting over food, they say.
Another student: But what is meant by it, is it the greeting or standing up?
Another student: No, the greeting, when you say: Peace be upon you, they say: There is no greeting over food, they criticize you and pull you, saying to you: There is no greeting over food.
The Shaykh : Ha, what do you have?
The student: I just want to hear from you, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Welcome.
The student: May Allah forgive you and reward you with good, we love you for the sake of Allah!
The Shaykh : May Allah love you for the sake of which you loved me.
The student: Shaykh, Abu Abd al-Rahman!
The Shaykh : Yes?
The student: Are we ready to go?
The Shaykh : Let’s go! Two bites, start the car.
The student: Okay, I am at your service, O Shaykh.