A.Y.O@YusufAsunmogejo
Dhul Hijjah 09: A DAY IN HISTORY
Today is Arafah 🎊🎊👏🏿
On this day in the year 632 CE, over one hundred thousand people stood completely still in the scorching desert sands beneath Mount Arafat.
They were all waiting for a single voice. The voice of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). This morning marked the delivery of the Farewell Sermon by the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
This wasn’t the usual religious talk they were used to; it was a radical manifesto that completely broke the ancient world order and laid down the raw foundations for a global society.
For us to understand how deeply this day shook the world, let me remind you a bit of how brutal life was in old Arabia.
For centuries, everything was about blood feuds, deep racism, and tribal politics. If you did not belong to a powerful clan, you were nothing.
Standing on his mount on this afternoon, the Prophet (peace be upon him) shattered those old shackles with a single declaration:
“An Arab is NOT BETTER than a non-Arab, a white person is NOT BETTER than a black person, and we all come from Adam, and Adam was made from dust.”
In one moment, a crowd that used to kill each other over tribal pride was welded into one single brotherhood 🫂.
Apart from the fact that the speech dealt with spiritual things, it also went straight after the economic and social systems that oppressed the people.
On this hot afternoon, the Prophet (peace be upon him) completely abolished INTEREST and predatory loans, instantly wiping out the debts that kept poor families enslaved to the rich elite.
He then turned to the men and commanded them to treat women with absolute respect and kindness. He reminded them that women are a sacred trust from God, not property.
By the time the sun started setting over the valley, he drew a line around human life and property, and he declared them completely sacred and untouchable.
As the final words of the sermon echoed across the plain, the sky opened up with the finality of revelation:
"This day I have perfected your religion for you, completed My favor upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion."
That single afternoon transformed a scattered, warring desert people into a unified civilization that would spread across the globe within a single century.
The valley of Arafat is still a quiet desert, but the words spoken there on this day remain the permanent standard for human rights, racial equality, and spiritual accountability.
For our fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters in Arafat today, I pray the Almighty Allah accept their prayers, and count it for them as an act of Ibadah.
For us at home, I pray Allah accept our prayers. I for one, see myself in Arafat for the next Hajj, I pray the Almighty accept it for me. I pray He makes it possible and easy for you too.
Barka De Sallah 🎊🎊🎉
Allah knows best.
