Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah Why Is Eid Mubrak Hir 04142023
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Alhamdulillahirabil Alamin wa sallallahu ta'ala wa salamalalaihi
wa
Alhamdulillah
who allowed us to reach these Mubarak last
10 days of Ramadan.
Who gave us the tawfiq
to make it to his Mubarak house on
this last
Mubarak Friday of Ramadan.
Possibly if the moon is not sighted, at
least,
on the night of 29th.
Alhamdulillah,
who gave us the
blessings in the tawfiq
of having masajid in which the taraweeh is
observed.
Many of you having listened and having prayed
every single night,
who gave us the tawfiq that our masajid
are
populated
by
Mu'takifin,
those people who have cut themselves off from
the outside world in order to connect themselves
with the creator, jalawala.
All of this is a blessing.
All of this is a nirmah. Allah
for it is to be praised.
Allah is to be praised for it. All
of it is a nirma
that a person cannot make
qiyas, a person cannot make analogy
between it and other things. Wallillahi alhamdulillahi because
it's a sign. It's a sign inshallah, that
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's love is with us
because he doesn't give these things to people
that he hates. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
accept it. May Allah rectify
whatever we have
messed up. May Allah
give us tawfiq to do better and whatever
we have left. Ameen.
Amin. Now to look now to look to
the future, we talked about last week,
the.
All those things should be fresh in our
mind.
But these nights are
those nights
that are like a tailwind. You know, a
tailwind
is you're taking a flight. If the tailwind
pushes the plane, you may actually get to
your destination an hour early.
These nights have madad in them from Allah
Ta'ala that are like a tailwind. A person
should not waste them. A person should not
take them for granted. A person should not
overlook them. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala give you
and give me tawfiq. This reminder, I myself
am in need of it first before
anybody else. Allah ta'ala give all of us
tafik. Allah ta'ala give all of us tafik.
So everyone say Amin. If Allah ta'ala accept
from one of us, may accept it from
all of us. Amin.
But now look to the future. Why? Because
you have to plan. Only a fool shows
up on the day of battle and wonders
how this is gonna turn out.
An intelligent man plans from beforehand and engages
on his own terms to the degree that
he's able to.
Once the moon is sighted or 30 days
of Ramadan have passed,
then it will be Eid.
The Eid is a Mubarak day.
It is a blessed day.
Not just because people wear nice clothes,
although that's nice.
Not just because people eat and drink all
day.
Although most of us to be honest with
you could probably
benefit from passing on
much of the eating and drinking that happens
on Eid.
But one day even
hardcore dieters have a cheat day every now
and again, alhamdulillah, if a person does so
within reason.
That's okay too I guess.
It's not a Mubarak day because
of any of these other things. It's a
Mubarak day. Why?
Because
it's an occasion
on which
the believers, they come
in the morning.
They throng
in the morning. They make the dhikr of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the morning.
To ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala that, You
Allah,
we just finished this entire
magnificent program of Ibadah, of your worship.
It lasted an entire month. We had been
preparing for it from
months in advance.
And now, we've completed it. We offer it
to you for your acceptance. We petition your
acceptance
of it.
Why?
Because
you can do something or you cannot do
it.
If you don't do it correctly, it's dead
on arrival.
You pray without wudu, laiqbalallahu,
salat and billatahuor,
wala sadaqatamin
hulu. Allah ta'ala doesn't
accept a prayer
that is not preceded by ritual purification.
And Allah doesn't accept
charity which is given from ill gotten means.
If you don't do things the right way,
it's dead on arrival. Don't ask a Mufti.
You don't need to ask a Mufti. You
don't need to ask anybody. You know yourself
that
it never happened.
However, if you do things the right way,
not just valid, in the most beautiful way
possible, you fulfill every sunnah,
you fulfill every mustahab,
every recommendation
with regards to the act.
Even then, even then,
doing something correctly and Allah accepting, these are
2 separate issues.
Doing something correctly, you can learn from a
fiqh book.
Iblis knew how to do things correctly.
But Allah
accepting from you, this is a completely different
secret. This is a completely different mystery.
Those who love Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and
who Allah ta'ala loves them, this secret and
mystery has been divulged to them.
But there are many people who are heedless
and ignorant of it.
A clue is given in the book of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in a small phrase,
In nama yataqabbalallahu
minal muttaqeen. Allah ta'ala doesn't accept from anybody.
Allah ta'ala doesn't accept from anybody, except for
the one who fears him.
Eid is the day people go to petition
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, You Allah, we did
all of this fasting.
We prayed these ta'ala, we we stayed in
the we paid our zakat, we paid all
of these other things.
We did all of our
actions. We refrain from so many actions
for your sake.
You Allah accept this from us.
It's a funny it's a funny observation
that if you were to tell a kafir
about
Eid. So how do you celebrate your guys'
holiday? So what normally we have 5
congregational prayers in a day,
and then on our holiday, we have a
6th one.
Let's say, woah, man. Your God doesn't ever
give you a break?
From their point of view,
this is probably a valid
objection.
But from your point of view, from my
point of view,
look, what is it that you're hoping to
achieve to this 6th congregational prayer in the
day?
There's a narrated and attributed to the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
So one of these books over here, the
Khutbaat Al Akam.
I've seen it sitting right out. There it
is. Bam. It's a a compilation of, like,
different for different occasions for people who
don't know Arabic or they're not don't feel
competent,
composing their own.
So there's actually a a narration in it
for the Eid Khutbaat that he has. Amazing
narration.
That when it's their day of Eid,
Allah Subhanahu
Wa
Ta'ala
will boast in front of his angels. He'll
show his pride in front of his angels.
He'll say, Oh,
Oh my angels,
these slaves of mine?
Well, before saying that he asked them a
question. What's the question he asked them? He
says, what what is the recompense of a
worker who finishes his job that he's given?
The angels will say,
the recompense for a worker who finishes his
job is that that he's given us, he
he should receive his pay. And then he'll
say, Oh my angels,
these slaves of mine, they fulfill the obligation
I imposed upon them.
Now they wake up early in the morning,
and they throng the streets,
calling upon me and praising me.
Oh my angels, I swear an oath.
List the number of the sifaat.
The attributes of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala of
his transcendence.
I swear an oath by my
might and by my dignity and by my
majesty
and my place
over all of the creation
that
nay, verily indeed,
This day, indeed, verily, I will answer their
call.
And I will accept their
worship.
And I will reward it.
And the last line is like the my
favorite gets me every single time.
He says, and I will write in place
of all of their sins good deeds.
I will write in place of all of
their sins.
Good deeds. This
is the generosity of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Only Allah Ta'ala has the ability to have
this generosity. The created things don't have the
ability even to think this way.
I'm telling you something, if you're this is
the deal you're gonna get.
It's worth going to the masjids for a
6th time. Right? Even that kafir, if you
tell them, hey, you know, like,
show up in the morning. I'll take you
buy tickets to see the Super Bowl or
the Stupid Bowl or the Stanley Cup or
something. They'll show up. Right? Or someone who
likes cars, I'll get you the car you
like. Or someone who likes other stupid things,
gambling for the arithmetically challenged,
or alcohol or drugs
for people who don't quite understand how physiology
works or at least weren't able to do
so in time before getting addicted.
They would show up for it.
You're getting something. I'm getting something. It's worth
showing up in the morning for, but but
you have to do it right. I have
to do it right. We have to do
this right.
What's the right way of doing this? In
addition to all of the things that we
talked about, the fasting and the prayer, the
tarawih, none of it is over
yet. Don't let the, you know, don't let
the air go out of your balloon. Sometimes
this happens when the khatam is done, people
start stop coming for taweeh, people stop. No.
Finish it strong.
Playing praying the taweeh has a separate sunnah.
The khatam is a separate sunnah.
The person who cannot do the khatam should
still pray their tawee every night.
And the person who,
you know, for for whatever reason can't pray
the tarawih every night, they should try to
at least read a khatam of Quran whether
themselves or through their salat.
All of those things keep doing them,
all of those things keep doing them. Don't,
you know, don't give up early. You have
like these videos on YouTube, you can see
that you know someone who's celebrating because he's
beating everybody else in the race by so
much, and so he slows down before the
finish line and someone else breezes past. Don't
do that. It's not
good. Allah deserves better than that from us.
How is it that you have to do
it right?
There's one important obligation that we haven't mentioned
this year yet that we mentioned last year,
that needs to be mentioned again.
That Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam sent said,
Abdullah
ibn Abbasin as his representative, as a crier
into the streets of Makkumukarama,
to inform the Meccan people
before the Eid ul Fitr.
That it is an obligation
upon you
to pay the zakatul fitr.
One sa'a on behalf of every
person.
Said Abdullah bin Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu Mah
in another narration.
He mentions the purpose of this zakatul fitr.
The comes out to something to be honest
with you, people are writing $10, $12, that's
really on the low end. It depends on
how, you know, the the the filk of
it is a long explanation, but it can
be anywhere between that around that $10 amount
at the bottom end
and at the top end, something like
closer to $60 a person.
Wherever you fit in on the scale of
what you're making with Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, this
is something you know, don't cheap out on
it.
Pay. Unlike the
the Zakatul Maal, you have to pay. It's
per head. It's not based on how much
money you have in that sense,
but it's per head. And the head of
a household is obliged to pay on behalf
of all of his dependents.
Minors, elders, whoever it is that are their
legal dependents, the per the head of the
household is obliged to pay on their behalf.
He explained that the purpose of this is
what? The outward purpose of it is?
To feed the masekeen, to feed the indigent,
the people who have nothing to eat or
drink,
the people for whom Eid will not be
a fun day because they're struggling just to
get by.
The inward purpose of it is what?
It's tuhr alisa'im.
It is a purification for the
person who fasted. Purification means what?
In your fast, there are a number of
things a person can do that are dumb,
that don't necessarily break the fast, technically speaking.
You said something you shouldn't have said, I
said something I shouldn't have said. You looked
at something you shouldn't have looked at. I
looked at something I shouldn't have looked at.
You wasted your time with something you shouldn't
have wasted it with? I wasted my time
with something I shouldn't have wasted it with.
Taint usually makes something defective
unwanted.
When you go to any store,
if you see a box of
anything
you wanna buy, you wanna buy a widget
and there's like a big stack of boxes
of widgets.
You're like, what's a widget? It doesn't matter.
There's a bunch of them.
And the box that's closest to you has
like, it's kinda, like, broken or it looks
like the tape has been ripped or something
like that. What do you do? You put
it to the side and you take the
other one. Right?
This
is your opportunity to fix it up before
you present it to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Petition him for his acceptance.
That is a tura.
This is a purification
for the one who fasted in his ibadat,
in this Mubarak month. It is a purification
from lahu, from from vanity and from indecency.
Allah ta'ala knows what passes through the heart
of a person when they're fasting and what
doesn't. This is our chance here.
You can clean it up, make it look
nice before you put you you give it
to be accepted.
This is from the obligations of deen. There's
a difference of opinion about it.
Imam al Hanifa, Imam Malik.
Their opinion is that this is from the
obligations of deen, a person who has the
ability to pay it. Imam al Hanifa says,
whoever has the nisab, whoever is liable to
pay zakat has to pay this as well.
Malik
goes a step further. He says, whoever has
this amount of money has to pay it,
Even if by paying it, that person becomes
so poor that they're eligible to receive it
as well.
Even if they don't have it, they have
to borrow the money from somebody else,
and they have the ability to pay it
within the year. They should borrow it from
somebody else and pay it. Why?
Because this $12,
$13, $15, $17, 20, 30, 35, 40.
What do you get in exchange for it?
You show up and read.
Allah accepts from you. Your sins turn into
hasanat. This is a really good thing. Your
community also, everyone gets to celebrate together. The
poor people don't get left out in the
cold. This is a good thing as well.
This is also
necessary for our survival as a community.
If the community fails, we will fail as
individuals. Stop thinking as an individual.
Brothers and sisters, a couple of that need
to be mentioned again and again with regards
to the zakatul fitr because I grew up
over here and I see that people are
very heedless about these things. I had to
go travel
to some several foreign countries and learn foreign
languages in order to realize that the zakatul
fitr is not handled properly in most places
in America.
For the
to be validly
discharged.
Just like when you pray Jummah. Right? Listening
to this talk. If you listen to the
talk and you went home, is your Jum'ah
valid? No.
For the zakatul fitr you'd went all the
way. You came right to the brink, but
it's you didn't get the job done.
For the zakatul fitr to be valid,
it has to be received by the hand
of the poor person that it's given for.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
It is not validly
given by putting it into a box.
It is not validly given by coming into
a Masjid bank account or any institutional bank
account for that matter.
Many masajid will because the people running the
masajid themselves don't invest anything in learning
about the din, to be honest with you.
Many will take it and say, oh, look,
They'll put in the deposit slip, allata accept
from you and accept they don't know.
Some of them sadly actually know and they
still eat it up. Or they allow the
ambiguity to go because fundraising, nobody likes doing
fundraising.
Then we breed a weird class of fundraisers
that are
not people you want to have running your
Masada. Trust me.
The zakato fitter is not validly discharged until
it is received in the hands of the
legitimate recipient, which is what the fakir and
mazkeen by the zakat definitions of what a
fakir and mazkeen is. There are some differences
of opinion amongst the but
a person has this idea that it's a
person who doesn't have enough money to pay
their expenses.
They don't have to necessarily be starving to
death right in front of your eyes, but
there are people who struggle to pay the
rent and things like that. This is sufficient
to to say.
To make their their monthly,
payments on their necessities of life for themselves
and for their family.
Or the alternative to that is what? That
the the
the official government zakat collector who collects on
behalf of the sovereign Muslim government
receives it, then it's discharged as well. That
doesn't exist right now. If someone's able to
make that happen, what are you waiting for?
Until then,
the poor person has to receive it in
their hand. So tell me something.
What does this mean? And
say, the
He said this,
The person who will render it before the
for them it is an accepted zakat.
For the person who renders it after the
it's just like you gave $12 for anything
like on any other day. This thing this
deal is not gonna count for it.
Although there are some khalaf amongst the with
regards to it if a person for whatever
reason missed it
by the salat, they still according to Malik
at any rate, you
can still give it to someone before Maghrib.
But at any rate, it's still considered late.
It's still considered late. It's just not considered
so late that it's no longer valid.
And it still remains an obligation if a
person can't give it at Maghrib. At that
point, it's just a liability. You don't get
the benefit from it, but you still have
to pay.
Tell me something. If you show up on
the day of Eid and you put the
money in a box and say, Alhamdulillah, masha'a.
Now, you know, Allah matakabal minna.
Is that going to happen? Is that going
to be discharged?
No.
We ourselves also have to think about the
poor.
We also have to still have some sympathy
for the poor, that there are people who
struggle.
This is one really weird thing because so
many immigrants and so many of the people
who were born in Islam in this country
are poor and have to struggle or had
to struggle until very recently.
That we become traumatized and we try to
enact our trauma on other people. I had
to struggle and nobody helped
me. Who here? Raise your hand if people
helped you.
Nobody helped me. I came here to this
country with an empty pocket blah blah blah.
I paid for my own college. My dad
didn't pay this. My mother didn't pay that.
I come from a poor family. I worked
my way up. Everybody become all of a
sudden, mashallah when it comes to, like, wars
in Muslim countries, we're all protesting. When it
comes to helping the poor, all of us
become republicans. Bam. Like that.
The Rasul salallahu alayhi wa sallam was not
a republican.
You
have to have sympathy for the poor.
This is part of the ma'amifa of Allah
ta'ala a person has, love for the people
who are poor.
If no one helped you, Allah helped you.
You're the beloved of Allah. What's your problem?
Help the poor.
Have some sense about it. Have some feeling
about them.
Don't give your zakat to institutions. Don't give
your zakat to institutions if you want Allah
to accept it. The idea of the idea
of giving cash to a poor person bothers
you, you have a problem.
Sheikh, they don't have good spending habits. They're
gonna go buy a phone with it. Why
do you have a phone as well?
What's your problem?
We'll give them a grocery card so that
they can buy groceries.
Okay. I can understand. Someone's a drug addict.
They have the needle in their arm. That
person is subject to safaha, the rules of
safaha and fiqh, then somebody should be appointed
as a guardian to buy them things regularly
or whatever. But just normal people, if you
resent the fact that they'll have money and
they'll go enjoy with their family and with
their kids and they'll go buy something nice
for their kids on Eid. This is a
problem. This is an issue.
If you don't know who these people are,
someone from the masjid, someone needs to be
able to go and talk
to somebody who knows who they are. They
exist in our community in this very jum'ah.
Right now, there's somebody who's not gonna pay
their rent on time.
In this jum'ah right now, there's somebody who's
not gonna pay their bills on time. In
this Jum'ah, there's somebody who has school debt,
there's someone who has medical debt, there's somebody
who has college debt. There are people who
have all sorts of different debt just because
they don't walk around like, you know, like
to the point where in our countries, in
the Muslim world, where we have beggars on
the street. Do you wanna wait until they
get to that point that your sisters are
standing in front of like gas stations asking
people for money? Is that what you wanna
wait for?
This is something very important. It's one of
the parts, the precepts of the sunnah that
the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam taught. In this
world and the hereafter, the entire institution of
Shafa'a is like that. That we're taught. That
the Ummah is like a ship. The Ummah
is like a body.
If it sinks, everyone sinks. If the body,
one part hurts, the entire body is is
is distraught.
If one of us makes it, we all
make it. We're happy for our brothers when
they make it. We're not jealous. We're not
haters. And if one of us fails, it's
just like a failure for all of us.
We all have to get together and pull
them along with us.
Rasulullah
salallahu alaihi wa sallam himself will delay entering
the Jannah for the sake of the sinners
of this ummah,
and petition the Lord for the sake of
the sinners of this Ummah.
Brothers and sisters, think about this zakatul fitter
and render it properly than when you wake
up in the morning.
Indeed, successful,
happy, felicitous is the one who takes out
his zakat.
The zakat in this sense means other things
as well. But this is an Ishara towards
the zakatul fitr.
And we're
and praise is the name of his lord.
And then they pray that salat
before the recitation.
Be that successful person. Be that
Do it right. Plan it from ahead of
time. Give what you need to give ahead
of time. If the masjid is going to
ask them, are they gonna give it out
to poor people? If they're gonna give it
to poor people, give it a couple of
days in advance so they can find those
poor people and give it to them. So
that your eat can indeed be a Mubarak
eat. Allat,
I accept from us all.