Eid Prayer & Khutbah

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

You look fantastic, Barak alafiq.

You look fantastic, Barak alafiq.