Introduction to another session of the Shaykh in one of the Hajj camps.

The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah; we praise Him, seek His help, and seek His forgiveness. We seek refuge in Allah from the evil of our own souls and from the badness of our deeds. Whoever Allah guides has no one to mislead, and whoever He misleads has no one to guide. And I bear witness that there is no god but Allah alone, with no partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and His Messenger. As for what follows:
So, we ask our brothers present here who have moved from another camp to this camp to make room for the people of this camp to ask their questions so that we can answer them; for they are more deserving of this than others, especially since we have spent many hours in our camp over there. Therefore, I hope that those from there do not encroach upon the people present here, and that they make space for their questions. Once they have exhausted their questions, it will be your turn. Perhaps they are wealthy—may Allah will it—wealthy in their questions. So, bring out what you have, O people of the camp!Those present : No, Doctor, until you have asked your questions, that is. Write the questions on the papers, O brothers.
Abu Layla : No, Doctor, until you ask the questions, that is, write the questions on the papers, my brothers.

The Shaykh : Are you making room for encroachment?
Abu Layla : And it is, O our Shaykh, the people of this camp who are concerned.

The Shaykh : A nice patchwork, but you need someone to understand it. The first to respond to your call were not the people of the camp. Seize this opportunity.

The questioner : Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may the prayers and peace be upon the best of the prophets and messengers, our master Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. As for what follows:
We are seizing this suitable opportunity for the presence of the honorableThe Shaykh : scholar Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani, who is a well-known man. Were it not that mutual praise among Muslims is not permissible, we would have describedThe Shaykh : him with what he deserves, but this is not permissible, nor doesThe Shaykh : he approve of it. However, we say:
IndeedThe Shaykh : He has spent more than half a century in the service of the Prophetic Sunnah and in verifying hadiths. We do not think thatThe Shaykh : he is other than one of the renewers of this Ummah in matters of its religion in the science of hadith. So we ask Allah—Mighty and Majestic—to accept this from him and to reward him with the great reward and the great recompense for what he is providing and what he has provided for the students of knowledge and for the Ummah as a whole.
And before we answer the questions that our brothersThe Shaykh : will ask regarding matters concerning them, whether related to issues of Hajj or general issues, we want a word fromThe Shaykh : him, which he chooses, either as advice for the students of knowledge, or for the people in general as he sees fit. So please come forward, and may you be rewarded.