Name: A Taxi Cab Ride | #MyHajjStory
Uploaded: 2020-07-21 11:48:40
Channel: Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy
Description: Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy recounts a beautiful story on traveling for the pilgrimage as told by an elderly cab driver.

<p>Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy recounts a beautiful story on traveling for the pilgrimage as told by an elderly cab driver.  </p>

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My Hajj Story

 Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. In 2015 was my first opportunity to perform hajj and  Hajj is always special, but the first hajj always has a very unique taste, a very unique thinness in the air  And I ask Allah to write for us and you  At least one hajj, an accepted hajj, a pure hajj before we meet him. Allahumma ameen  So it was four years after I was forced to leave my studies in the College of Hadith in Medina  a very difficult decision, but my father was very ill and  So I left and it was the first time back in four years and it was exactly four and change  months after my father, rahimahullah  Passed away and  I remember being in Medina before the hajj rituals even started and  I got into a taxi to make my rounds certain places that I wanted to visit or revisit and  the taxi driver was a man with clearly Asian features and  So I said to him  Where are you from?  Because he had an impeccable Saudi accent  And usually those who come for the jiwar they call, they come to be in the company of the Prophet  Sallallahu alayhi wasallam in his city to live and die and live off of people's charity, the new-age ahlus-suffa if you will  Not necessarily recommending it, but just a beautiful intention  you can tell they're not from that part, but this person was an elderly man of Asian features that  Had a flawless Saudi accent. So I asked him where are you from?  All this is happening in Arabic, of course  He said to me, I'm from Bukhara. I'm from Bukhara, the land of Imam Al-Bukhari, right of Uzbekistan  And I said, how long have you been here? He said I  Was born here. This man was roughly 65 years old. I said, oh subhanAllah, how many generations?  He said my grandfather and this is my hajj story for everyone and inshallah. It is all that you need to hear  To decide to make hajj  Every single time that you can and immediately next year if you've been putting it off  he said my grandfather had all girls all his children were daughters and  He said oh Allah if you give me a boy  I'm going to make hajj for you and you shouldn't do that  By the way, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said  innama yustakhraju bihi minal bakheel  You know vowing that if Allah does something for you, you're gonna do something for him  It's as if you're implying he hasn't done anything for you. That's why the hadith says  That's how you pull something out of a stingy person a vow, right?  and  So hajj is obligatory to begin with right on every capable person  But he he made this vow and Allah granted him a boy  Which is the father now of the brother driving me around the taxi driver  He says and so when my father was about 12 years old my grandfather decided that he had to  Hold true on his promise to Allah and he said we have to make hajj  So he took my father and they traveled south  All the way down to India and then they ran out of money  He says and they did not have enough money to buy their tickets to get on the ship  to cross the sea to get to  Arabia  He says and so they worked. Can you imagine for two years?  To put together the money to get on the ship  He says at the end of the second year. It was time for  the voyage and  We did not have enough money for two tickets  my grandfather and my father had enough money for one ticket and change and so  The seamen or the captain  basically  Sympathized with their situation. He let them board anyway, and so they got on the boat and they traveled across the water  Till they got to let's just say roughly Saudi Arabia. He says the moment we got to Saudi Arabia  I think he told me Jeddah because the ports are in Jeddah and there are others as  Well, he says my grandfather died. And so now my father is all alone there at 14 years old  He said and he would just you know, loiter if you will in the streets and come to the masjid and  They were at the time  Selling citizenship to Saudi Arabia for one real one real nowadays is about 25 cents us  He says and whoever couldn't afford it  Was going to get apprehended arrested could get deported so after getting there he was about to get sent back or sent away or imprisoned  Or may Allah forbid worse, you know get abducted into some trafficking  dynamic human trafficking and  So he said I was in the masjid and the officers grabbed me and I explained to them my situation  My father just died and I'm here all alone. I have no money. I don't even have the one Riyadh and  So Allah opened  His heart the heart of the officer to this man, and he wrote my father the taxi driver is telling me  He wrote my father a Saudi citizenship  and  He became a Saudi citizen he said and the Hajj season began and a  Hajj group from Jordan Hajj group from Jordan showed up and we interacted and  We became friends the owner of the Hajj group and when he realized I had a Saudi citizenship  He married me to his daughter  This is the father narrating and so this 65 year old Uzbeki driver  Allah bless him and protect him if he's still alive says that's my mo…

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