Ahsan Hanif – Eid Prayer & Khutbah
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The speakers discuss the importance of showing gratitude towards Allah for the blessings he has given to them, including showing gratitude to the father of all and the negative impact of fearing for one's life and family. They emphasize the need to show gratitude to Allah's Azport for providing guidance and space for their brothers, and reminding oneself of the importance of balance in Islam. The speakers encourage people to take advantage of opportunities ahead, including showing gratitude towards Allah for the blessings he has given to them.
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Gaps
ahead of you or if you're sat on
the walls on the back, don't be shy.
Please move forward. Fill in the gaps so
we can allow everyone to fill in, and
we can fit as many people in for
salatul 'id as possible.
The takbirat
will start shortly, so please join in and
glorify and praise Allah
for guiding us to have completed the month
of Ramadan
and for the blessings that we have all
enjoyed and experienced throughout the month.
Please join in and raise your voice loudly
in the glorification of Allah
If we can ask all brothers and sisters
to plea please move forward as much as
possible, There are some gaps in the rows,
and we wanna make sure that we can
get as many people in as possible. So
if you see a gap in front of
you, please close it. Please move forward. There's
more at the front anyway.
For administrative reasons, the first Eid Jamaat has
been delayed until 6:40.
So we've got 10 more minutes of Takbirat
for you guys to enjoy.
So there's a few brothers who are struggling
to find a space. They're in the Door
H lobby.
So can we please all of us who
are in the masjid, please, you know, whether
we're at the top or we're at the
bottom, let's stand up, move forward to try
and make as much space as we can
for our brothers at the back because they're
being locked out and they can't enjoy Eid
on the nice comfy carpets. So please stand
up and move forward, you will find space,
Allah will make space for you, move forward
as much as you can.
Barakallahu
feekum. So let our brothers in.
Hey, brothers. Try and make as much space
as you possibly can. We don't want anyone
left out. I need.
Still
still after you've obstructed your roles, fill in
the gaps,
make space for your brothers, make sure that
the roles that you're in complete.
The Eid prayer is an ad prayer that
consists of 2 rakas. There will be a
number of additional takbiraat in the first rakah.
After the takbiraat Ilikhram, there will be 7
additional takbiraat.
In the second rakah, after the takbir for
standing up, there will be 5 additional takbiraat.
Law.
No. What, ma'am?
Law.
This day, the day of Eid, is a
day of celebration.
It is a day in which we thank
Allah
praise him and glorify him for the many
blessings that he bestowed upon us, not least
of which he's being able to fast these
30 days of Ramadan.
That you may complete the appointed days of
the month of fasting, that you may glorify
your lord and praise him, and that you
may show gratitude to him, subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And from that which we show gratitude for,
from the greatest of Allah, azza wa jal,
blessings on this day, are the blessings that
Allah, azza wa jal, places upon the Quraysh,
that they should have shown gratitude for. The
2 that Allah, azza wa jal, mentions in
Surah Quresh.
And I picked this topic and want to
speak about these two blessings
because today is a day of celebration and
happiness and Eid. But at the same time
it is a day that is tinged with
sadness.
Because we know that many of our brothers
and sisters across the Muslim world, and especially
in Palestine and in Gaza, today your day
for them is a difficult day, just as
for the past 6 months have been extremely
difficult for them. And this religion,
it tells us to take benefit from the
signs of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and it
tells us to take benefit from the lessons
that others are going through. Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala in Surah Quresh when he speaks to
the people of the prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam, his tribe, his clans people, his kin
and kith. He says to them,
Worship the Lord of the house, meaning the
Kaaba.
The one who gave you food saved you
from hunger. And the one who gave you
safety saved you from fear.
Those two blessings of Allah, the fact that
we, for the last 30 days, by Allah's
blessings, by his mercy, by His grace and
His bounty, subhanahu wa ta'ala, we were able
to wake up. We knew where our meals
were coming from. We had relative safety
within our homes, within our families, within our
property,
that we could go and worship Allah azza
wa jal. So we fasted those 30 days
in relative ease and comfort. We came to
the masjid to offer prayers and worship Allah
azza wa jal. We did that which we
did in terms of the good deeds that
we put forth. May Allah azza wa jal
accept them from us. Those are signs from
the signs of Allah.
From the greatest blessings of Allah azza wa
jal. Because you can't truly enjoy the worship
of Allah. You can't truly come closer to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala if you don't have
those 2 blessings to their maximum. Because even
if you're trying to worship Allah aza wajal,
but you're on a hungry stomach, you don't
know where your meal is coming from, you
fear for your life, for the life of
your children, or your property or your wealth,
it's difficult for you to focus on the
worship of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. It is
difficult for you to have a level of
khushur and attentiveness and submission to Allah when
you fear for yourself and your family, when
you don't know where your food's going to
come from, when you have no money with
which to feed your children and your wife
and your kids. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
says to the people of Quraysh that Allah
gave to you these two blessings where many
people around you didn't have them. Many of
the Arabs at the time of the prophet
salallahu alaihi wasallam were poor and destitute.
So they didn't have the guarantee of food
and provision. And many of them lived in
fear because of the civil strife and wars
they used to take place between the Arabs,
so they had no safety.
If you have safety though and you have
that blessing of Allah azza wa jal that
Allah has given to you your provision.
Then worship the Lord of this house. Me
and you, we have very little excuse
to continue worshiping Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Even
though the month of Ramadan has finished and
ended, we have very little excuse in terms
of turning away now from Allah azza wa
jal. Not going back and worshiping Allah azza
wa jal. Emptying our masaajid, not reading the
Quran, not praying during the night. We have
what excuse do we have when Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala has given to us so much?
As the prophet said salallahu alayhi wasalam in
the hadith in
Whosoever from amongst you wakes up in safety.
They wake up under the blanket of safety,
and they have good health in their body,
and they have enough food for that day
that they don't have to worry where the
meal's coming from, then it's as if they
have all of the dunya before them. Meaning,
show gratitude to Allah azza wa jal. Praise
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Thank Allah azza wa
jal for the many blessings that you have,
the many others around us at this moment
in time don't particularly have. Ask Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala that he accepts our deeds. That
Allah relieves the distress of our brothers and
sisters.
From the issues of our religion that are
important to remember is that this religion is
also a religion of balance.
And from the balance of this religion
is that when Allah
bestows upon you a day of occasion, a
day of celebration,
you celebrate that day.
And no doubt we are feeling the pain
of our brothers and sisters and their suffering,
but that doesn't mean that this day isn't
a day that cannot be enjoyed.
You should remember them. Today should be a
day of Ibadah, just as we started this
day with the worship of Allah, the prayer,
the tatbirat.
It should be a day in which you
still make dua for your brothers and sisters.
You should give sadaqa if you can. You
should continue to worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
because that is one of the greatest means
of attaining the help of Allah a zawajal
by turning to him in servitude and submission.
This day though is also a day of
celebration.
So those people that are saying that this
day is a day of sadness and sorrow
because of what's going on, that's not from
the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
During his time, many of the Muslims were
being persecuted in Makkah whilst he was in
Madinah. Many of the Muslims were suffering hardship.
But the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam never said
to them don't celebrate the day of Eid,
that you don't show that happiness with yourselves
and your families. This is a religion that
Allah, azza wa jal, has given to us
everything in its due measure and its due
balance.
So we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala on
this day, just as we ask Allah azza
wa ta'ala that he accepts our deeds from
Ramadan. That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala makes us
better Muslims after Ramadan than we were before
Ramadan and during Ramadan. We also ask Allah
that he makes us day a day of
ease and comfort for our brothers and sisters.
That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala relieves from them
their distress. That Allah protects them their lives,
their family, and their property. Ask Allah that
he blesses us and keeps us safe, grants
us steadfastness upon this religion.
Can we please ask those who are present
in the masjid, if you're not coming for
the next jamaat, which is at 7:30, if
you can start making your way out to
the masjid, this isn't because we don't want
you as our guest. It's simply because we're
gonna have loads of other people pouring in
for the 2nd jamaat.
So if you can please vacate the premises
just to allow the other people to come
in, that'll be greatly appreciated. Barak Alofi.
In the brother's prayer room, there's a brother
wearing a white Shamach.
You look fantastic, Barak alafiq.