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KHUTBA(PROPHET'S LAST SERMON )
On the Hajj day Prophet Muhammad,Pbuh arrived in Arafa and stayed
there.As the day declined,he sent for his dromedary.The animal was brought
and put ready.He rode into the heart of the valley.alighted there and
delivered his famous address which proved his life’s last Hajj sermon.In
that memorable sermon he dwelt upon the basic message of religion.
After praising Almighty the Creator he started address in these words:
“There is none to worship except God.None is like Him or equals Him nor
has any co-sharer.He fulfilled His promise and helped His own creature
and messenger,and He alone defeated and smashed all the concerted
forces of falsehood.
O ye people!listen to me, as I do not think we may have another
opportunity of meeting again as in this gathering (and presuambly I may not
perform another Hajj).
People! God Almighty say :â€O mankind!We created you from a
male-and-female couple and made you into tribes and nations so as to be known one
from the other.Verily in the eyes of GOD only the most righteous among
you is the most honoured of you.â€In the light of this Quranic verse,the
prophet continued ,no Arab had any superiority and respectibility was
the one element of piety.
All created beings,he said,were the off-spring of Adam and the very
existence of Adam was that he sprang from dust.â€Hence all claims to
superiority and greatness,all demands for blood or ransom and all false
traits or trends of rule have been trodden under my feet.Only the
trusteeship over the Kaaba and the age-old right to serve water to the Hajees
will remain intact.â€
The prophet further observed:â€O ye the clan of Quraish,see lest you
should appear resurrected on the day of Judgement before God laden with
wordly weight(of sins)against others equipped with acts of goodness
deserving salvation.If that happened,I shall not be in a position to keep
you up in the presence of the creator.
O the people of Quraish,God has put ab end to your notions of false
vanity and there is no room left now for your feeling proud any longer of
your forefathers deeds.Now everybody’s blood,property and prestige have
become sacrosanct for others.All these are now of the same significance
and sanctity as the sanctity of this holy month and specially in this
city.
After me do not go astray and begin to kill one another . If anybody is
made custodian of anything,he must keep that trust till the thing held
in custody is restored to the rightful owner.
O ye people,a Muslim is another Muslim’s brother and thus all Muslims
are brothers among themselves.
Take care of your slaves.Let them eat what you yourself eat and eat
them wear as you wear for your self.
All that prevailed during the pre-Islamic times of ignorance has been
trampled under my feet.All blood dues of the days of ignorance have been
written off and henceforth none will wreak vegeance on the other.The
first right to retaliate pertaining to my own house stands waived. I
hereby pardon the murder by Banu Huzail of the suckling babe of
Rabia,son of Haris,who bwlonged to my family.
All interest or usurious dues coming from the time of ignorance stand
scotched off and I lead the rest by cancelling the interest payable to
the family of my uncle Abbas Bin Abdul-Muttalib.
O ye people,God has (through the law of inheritance) fixed the rightful
heir,therefore no other testament be considered valid for any of these.
Only the child born within wedlock will be considered legitimate heir
to the parents.Adultery proved will be punishable with stoning.All acts
of omission and commission will be accountable to God hereafter.
Anybody claiming falase ancestry or ascribing untrue bondage against
his own master will be accursed by God.
Debts payable should be cleared,all borrowed property is to be
returned,while gifts should be countered and a surety must make good the loss
on behalf of the assured.
It is not proper for anybody to have anything from his brother except
whatever be given over through brother’s consent and pleasure.Do not
overstep yourselves as well as others and allow no excesses whatsoever.
A woman has no right to part with or transfer to any other person her
husband’s property without the latter’s express permission.
O ye people,you owe your women certain rights and likewise you have
rights over your women. Your right is that the women should not allow
near them anybody whom you do not like.Their right is to maintain
complete integrity and shun indecency.If they fail,God allows you to chastise
them and when they behave better and come round,let them be well looked
after.
Treat your women nicely as they are bound to you and are incapable of
managing many of their affairs themselves.hence always keep God’s
command in view,namely,that you have accepted them in the name of God and in
His name have they been made lawful to you.O people understand what I
say.I have conveyed to you the message of God.
I leave in your midst a thing which, if held by, will never let you go
astray.And that is the holy Book of God.And beware exceeding limits
fixed in matters of religion,Races which preceded you.perished because of
similar unwarranted lapses.
Satan has now been spared no hope of being worshipped any more in this
city of yours.However,chances are yet there that in matters unwittingly
considered minor by you,Satan’s ways may prevail.Even that much may
afford him a convenient footing.so, take care to safeguard your faith and
religion against Satanic persuasions.
O ye people! Worship the one God Almighty.Remain punctual in your daily
five time observances.Keep a month’s fasts(during the Ramazan).Pay out
zakat on your capital with a good cheer and perform pilgrimage to the
house of God and obey your Emirs.Thus shall you enter God’s paradise.
Henceforth a criminal will himself be answerable for his crime.A son
will not be chargeable on father’s count nor will a father repay for the
son’s doings.
Listen! Those who are present here should convey my message to others
not present here. May be many of those not even present on this occasion
may prove of greater understanding and be better trustees of what I
have conveyed unto you.
And O ye people , You may be questioned ( by God) about me. What will
be your reply?
The people cried in reply : “ We shall bear witness that you conveyed
to us the divine message entrusted to you conveyed to us the divine
message entrusted to you as Apostle of God and led us to the path of truth
and goodness.â€
Hearing that,Prophet Muhammad sallallahoalaihewassallum(peace be upon
him) pointing with his index finger towards the heaven, signed to the
gathering and observed thrice in devout passion : “ Be winess to it. O
my God Almightyâ€!!
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