FIRST REMINDER. Yaum Ar-Raaba'a 12th day of Zul-Qa'âdah (Wednesday, 25th July). SOME BASIC ADVICE FOR THOSE GOING FOR HAJJ In shaa Allaah. BismilLaahir Rahmaanir Raheem. Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn Baaz (may Allah have mercy on him) advised in one of his numerous fatwas that; If a Muslim decide to travel for Hajj or ‘umrah, it is mustahabb (recommended) for him to advise his family and friends to fear Allah, may He be glorified and exalted, which means fulfilling His commands and heeding His prohibitions. Hajj is an act of purifying ourselves and seeking to be complete born again bcs accepted hajj means all sins forgiven in shaa Allaah. He should write down what he is owed and what he owes of debts, and he should have that witnessed like a "will" in case he doesn't return alive. He must hasten to repent sincerely from all sins, because Allah, may He be exalted, says to the nearest meaning: “And turn to Allah in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed” [an-Noor 24:31]. True repentance means giving up sin, regretting what one has done in the past, and resolving not to go back to it. If he has wronged people physically or financially, or has said something to impugn their honour, he must right that wrong or ask them to forgive him for it before travelling, because it is soundly narrated from the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) that he said: “Whoever has wronged his brother with regard to his wealth or honour, let him ask him for forgiveness today, before there will be no dinar or dirham, and if he has any righteous deeds to his credit, they will be taken from him commensurately with the wrong that he did, and if he does not have any good deeds to his credit, some of his companion’s bad deeds will be taken and added to his burden. SubhaanAllah. To be continued in Shaa ALLAH. May ALLAH keep guiding us all and increases us in beneficial knowledge. Aameen.