Mohammad Elshinawy – What Gaza Taught Me About Eid
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The speaker discusses the importance of celebrating the event of the upcoming year, which is a celebration of the return of Islam to the United States. They emphasize the need to be mindful of everyone's actions and acknowledge the importance of the actions of those who accept Islam. The speaker also emphasizes the need for everyone to be mindful of their actions and to be humble.
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And we begin every read saying, Allahu Akbarullahu
Akbarullahu Akbarullah
is the greatest.
None is worthy of our worship but Allah.
Allah is the greatest and to him belongs
all praise.
And Allah has
said,
Say to them by the virtue of Allah
or by the bounty of Allah and by
his mercy. By virtue of these two things.
Meaning because of these two things, they should
be celebrating.
That Allah azza wa Jal extended to you
the bounty of Islam. And by his mercy
made you one of its people, You should
be
celebrating
It is far better than anything they can
ever accumulate.
And I do know and I do understand
that many people are wondering how can we
celebrate
despite the fact that we are hurting so
much at the same time with what is
happening in Palestine and Gaza, what is happening
in Sudan and Turkmenistan.
We are not celebrating
despite what's happening.
We are celebrating because they taught us through
what's happening how to celebrate.
The people of Ghazza today are celebrating Eid.
They are celebrating Eid to remind us that
if you have Islam, then it's enough to
celebrate.
That you can break my home and break
my family and take my family members away
from me, and you can't take away the
thing that I cherish most. As our prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, no one will
ever understand.
No one will ever taste, he said. The
sweetness of faith until Allah and his messenger
are more beloved to them than everyone else,
and everything else. And they know that, and
they have that. And that is the one
thing that can never be taken away from
them, and that is the one thing we
need to learn and reflect on today above
all else.
That Allah
has chosen us
to be rightly guided for the time being,
and so we appreciate and we thank for
it.
They are in the streets right now saying
As I've said before,
we don't bow. Any nation whose leader is
Muhammad doesn't bow. We are the ummah of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. We will
celebrate and smile on the faces of our
oppressors because we have Islam and they don't.
Our martyrs are in paradise and their dead
are in the fire.
You know, as the poet he famously said,
Of what increases me in honor above all
else
Almost makes me deluded from my joy, he
says. I'm almost intoxicated
from glee. How thrilled I am
To the point that I almost walk with
my own 2 feet
on the highest stars, he says. I'm walking
on the stars. Why? He says, because you
included me, oh Allah,
under your statement, oh my servants.
May we forever be worthy to be his
servants
because you included us under your statement, You
Ibadi. O my servants.
And because you sent Muhammad. Of all the
prophets, you sent Muhammad to me as being
my prophet.
You know, I remember
How can I forget this,
Palestinian brother,
elderly man if I'm not mistaken,
who was being told by his oppressors,
by
the smug Zionists, we are God's chosen people?
The God they don't believe in that supposedly
promised them that land.
He's Then he used to retort back to
them, no. We are God's chosen people. And
there is a huge difference brothers and sisters.
This is not tit for tat. This is
not stooping to that level. There is a
huge difference between being
so arrogant that you think god is a
racist and god plays favoritism, and you were
simply born into a certain ethnicity, and so
you're automatically god's favorites,
And between knowing that because you chose to
embrace Allah's guidance
and you accepted Allah's Islam which everyone has
equal access to, this is not a bloodline,
then you are God's favorites.
This is the day that we remember that.
And may Allah
keep us in his infinite favor.
Finally, my brothers and sisters, Allah
actually said this very theme
at the end of at the back end
of the verses on fasting.
He said,
I have legislated Islam and fasting, and I
have made it easy for those that are
sick and traveling. He said he set all
this up. Why? So that you may fast
these
days and glorify God for having guided you.
This is what today's about. For having guided
you and so that you may be thankful.
So today is a day of thanks. We
will be happy not because we're heedless. We
will we are going to be happy not
because we're tone deaf, but because Allah a
zawajal has guided us.
And the one who guided us to Islam,
we must be resilient and optimistic like those
people. He will guide us out of the
plight of the ummah today.
But be happy today.
Rejoice today. Make sure everyone in your family
is associating this day with joy and happiness
in their memories.
And be humble as well. Allah azza wa
jal said,
Why is it, the previous nations, that when
our punishment came, they did not humble themselves?
So stay humble. Live today and every single
day,
not however we wish. No. Like someone that
accepts the honor that is not unconditional. The
honor Allah has tested us with of being
the rightly guide, especially in times of difficulty.
It should not end at tears. It should
begin with tears. The tears that wash away
the rust and starts a new beginning for
us. To humble ourselves as if we are
guests in his universe because we believe that.
As if we are applicants for his paradise
because we believe that. As if we are
those who await his promise of support because
we believe that. May Allah
make this a day of appreciation
and gratitude,
of humility and obedience. And the days after
it to come,
may Allah accept from us and you once
again.