Ammar Alshukry – Eidul Fitr Khutbah 2024
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The speaker shares three actions towards Allah, including showing gratitude for their actions, praising their actions, and praising their actions. They stress the importance of showing gratitude towards Allah Subhanahu Wa taqla and breaking fast to achieve their goals. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of following worship and creating a "weird year" for everyone to live in a non- Muslim society. They stress the need to pursue Allah's forgiveness, bring happiness to everyone, and create a "weird year" for serve the umpires of the next day.
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O Muslims, Eid al Fitr has arrived after
30 days of fasting,
prayer, charity, dua, recitation of the Quran.
Oh Allah to you belongs all praise.
Oh, Allah to you belongs all praise.
So what is required for us is to
show gratitude for this great blessing.
In this brief khutba,
I hope to share 3 actions that we
have towards Allah
upon the conclusion of this month,
and also share in the second khutbah 2
quick recommendations inshallah ta'ala.
At the conclusion of Ramadan,
we praise
Allah we thank him, and we seek his
forgiveness.
These are the three actions.
We praise Allah
we glorify Allah, we make takbir of Allah
we thank him, and we seek his forgiveness.
As for glorifying Allah
the first, it is by saying
We recognize that even with the happiness
of this experience,
of us breaking our fast and eating during
the daytime,
and being able to proceed and to do
that which was normally prohibited during daylight hours,
that even greater than that is our love
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Allah is grander and greater than our food,
our drink, and our desires, And he is
greater in our esteem. And that is why
even on this day of Eid, after 30
days of intense worship that we left sleeping
in, and we came out early, and we
separated from our beds and our homes, and
we separated from our wealth, by still after
giving sadaqah all throughout the month of Ramadan,
that we continued
to separate with our wealth on this day
and to give zakat zakatul fitr for the
sake of Allah. And we show gratitude to
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala that he legislated for
us. And we show gratitude to Allah that
he legislated for us this religion and these
beautiful acts of worship
that purify our souls and discipline them, and
through which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala raises our
ranks
and forgives us our sins. For whoever fast
one day for the sake of Allah, Allah
distances them from the hellfire,
70 autumns. And Allah
says,
Quran The month of Ramadan in which the
Quran was revealed a guidance for the mankind
until Allah
says,
And so complete the period
and glorify Allah for what he has guided
you, and perhaps you will be grateful. And
so the month of Ramadan is a month
that needs to lead us to gratitude. And
what does showing gratitude to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala look like? What does showing gratitude upon
the culmination of experiencing
a great blessing like the month of Ramadan?
What does that look like? I'll give you
a very simple task,
and that is that you carry yourself
after receiving a spiritual blessing that you do
not carry yourself like you didn't receive it.
That whenever Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gives you
a spiritual blessing, like having the ability to
fast 30 days, like having the ability to
pray these nights, like having the ability to
read the Quran, like having the ability to
give charity that you don't carry yourself
after the culmination of this great blessing like
you never received it. And so when a
person has received the blessing of the month
of Ramadan, that they are better. And so
we ask Allah that
we would be better after Ramadan than we
were before Ramadan and even during Ramadan.
That we carry ourselves
as if we have received in this great
gift of Ramadan. In Ramadan, we learn sincerity
and taqwa for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala by
fasting only for him and him being our
only audience.
We learn discipline and sacrifice
by refraining from things that are halal today
that we avoided during the daylight hours of
the past 30 days. We learned that we
can pray in the masajid, that we can
carve out time to read the Quran, that
we can carve out time to pray in
the night, that we could prioritize
worship and spending time breaking bread with our
families and our community.
And we saw what was difficult at the
beginning of the month become easy when we
became accustomed to it. But not only showing
gratitude for spiritual blessings,
we don't only show gratitude for spiritual blessings,
but we also show gratitude for physical blessings.
Allah
recounts the blessings on the people of Quraish,
and he says,
the one who gave them security from their
fear and gave them food from their hunger.
And as we see many places in the
world going through the threat
going through the threat of man made famine
and war like Gaza and Sudan, or persecution
like Kashmir and Burma and Syria and China,
We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to grant
them safety and security and to replace everything
that has been taken from them with that
which is better. We also show gratitude to
Allah that today we have food, today we
have shelter, and today we have security. And
we ask
Allah
to grant us the ability to show gratitude
towards it because Allah says
that if you show gratitude,
I will increase you. And Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala threatens that those who do not show
gratitude for his blessings might have them taken
away. When he says,
Allah
says, and Allah sets forth the example of
a society which was safe and at ease,
receiving its provision in abundance from all directions,
but it disbelieved
in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's favors. It met
it with ingratitude,
and so Allah made them taste the clutches
of hunger and fear for their misdeeds.
And number 3,
we glorify Allah. We show gratitude to Allah,
and we seek Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's forgiveness.
At the culmination
of Ramadan,
we seek Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's forgiveness.
And this is something that we learn that
after all of our greatest deeds that we
actually seek Allah's forgiveness. When you're done with
salah, you
say In fact, even when you're proceeding from
the mountain of Arafat, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
says
Go forward from where the people have gone
forward and seek Allah's forgiveness. We seek Allah's
forgiveness
and beautifully in the last 10 nights, when
Aisha
asked the prophet if I experienced
what should I say? He said
Oh, Allah, I seek your forgiveness and I
seek your pardon because what we offer, whatever
it is that we offer of acts of
worship, we recognize that there are human deficiencies.
We recognize that what we are offering is
not what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala deserves. We
recognize that everything that we offer is short
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's grandeur and majesty.
And so we offer what we offer and
we seek Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's forgiveness,
and whoever knows Allah and his love, forgiveness,
and mercy will always seek his forgiveness because
they will know that Allah is forgiving and
loving and merciful. So make a lot of
zikr of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in these
days and show gratitude to Allah and seek
forgiveness from him.
As for the 3 brief recommendations,
the first is that you continue in worship,
that we all continue in worship.
Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam says in the
hadith that's reported by Muslim that whoever fasts
the month of Ramadan and follows it with
6 days of Shawwal, it will be as
if they fasted the entire year. And so
fasting 6 days in this month of Shawwal
will give you the reward because good deeds
are multiplied by 10. And And so if
you fasted 30 days of Ramadan, it is
like you fasted 300, and if you add
another 6 days, it's like you fasted the
entire year. And so we continue. We don't
stop our worship in but
we continue to worship Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And also part of worship is giving your
zakat. Yes. After I gave so much charity
in Ramadan, yes. After I gave so much
charity in Ramadan, I still give zakatul faitr.
And the prophet
said that it is obligatory
on every member of your family and and
is recommended even for the fetus that is
in the womb of their mother that they
also give $10 you can give in
after we leave the salah.
But continuing worship is the first.
The second
is to make and I implore all of
the parents to make Eid special for your
family.
Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam said and he
was asked,
and he said,
happiness that you bring to a Muslim.
I urge the parents here that they don't
treat Eid like it's a regular day for
their family members. We're already raising our children
in a non Muslim society where the holidays
are big and spectacular and filled with all
sorts
of packaging,
beautiful packaging, whether it is songs, whether it
is colors, whether it is gifts, whether it
is lights.
And so Eid can't simply be a day
where they are woken up early, they come
to, Prace to pray, they put their shoes
in a bag, and then their parents go
back to work.
Make sure that you spend this day
making your brother your your children happy, making
your family happy. The prophet
said, the most beloved action to Allah is
happiness that you bring to a Muslim. And
how much more beloved is it to Allah
when that happiness that you are bringing is
not only a Muslim but it is your
family members, and how much more so when
it is the family members that you are
raising? So take the time, carve out time,
take the day off. Make sure that you
spend time with your family on these blessed
days and that you make them special. And
then number 3, let this year be a
year that you change.
Brothers and sisters, we have to understand
that we need to be the change that
we want to see in this world. The
world is better when the Muslim community is
stronger. When we are guided by the Quran
and sunnah, we become reflectors of those divine
lights upon humanity.
When we make our community stronger, we make
the ummah stronger. Let us continue to invest
in each other, support each other, uplift each
other, be loyal to each other. The prophet,
salallahu alayhi wa sallam, said,
The prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, said, the
Muslim is the brother of the Muslim. They
don't belittle
them. They don't oppress them. They don't surrender
them. The world needs your voice, a voice
that is guided by the Quran and Sunnah,
and the world needs your talent. Let this
be a year that you vote, and you
can register your to vote at the tables
outside. Make yourself present.
Let this be the year that you commit
to learning the deen properly. In a world
that is seeking happiness, Islam is what provides
happiness to humanity in this life and the
next. Let this be the year that you
volunteer for programs outside of yourself. Let this
be the year that you study harder and
smarter, realizing that the programs that you qualify
for today will put you in a stronger
position to serve the ummah tomorrow. Let this
be the year that you invest time in
your family, recognizing that it's the building brick
of society.
Brothers and sisters to conclude, Ramadan has always
been a great season of victory, and the
greatest victory is that which we win over
our own desires and the stinginess of our
souls. There are 1,000 if not millions of
people who point to Ramadan
in their life where they transformed into the
person that they became, where they ascended and
became greater, better, and never looked back. Let
this Ramadan be your ascension, and may we
all be better because we were given the
blessing of experience