Mufti Menk – Dhul Hijjah – The Joyous Day of Eid
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The speaker discusses the importance of the day of Book ASAP, where people can attend a prayer ofams and receive blessed foods. They also mention the importance of not being dislocated by restrictions and not wanting to be in a situation where one is not living the way they should be. The speaker also talks about the importance of not being dislocated by actions and not wanting to be in a situation where one is not living the way they should be.AI: Transcript ©
The day of Eid, my beloved brothers
and sisters.
The greeting on the day of Eid is
still Assalamu Alaikum.
Remember,
Assalamu Alaikum is a greeting of Jannah. It's
a greeting of Allah. It's a greeting of
Adam alayhis salam. It's a greeting of the
angels. It's a greeting of the prophets.
It's a greeting of the prophet Muhammad peace
be upon him. So remember, never replace it
with something. You meet someone the first thing
you do, Assalamu Alaikum. You could add to
that, Warahmatullahi
wabarakat. May peace be upon you and the
blessings of Allah and His mercy.
That is the greeting even on the day
of Eid. But after that
after that, you may want to add a
cultural greeting. You may want to congratulate someone
for something. You may want to say good
morning or whether it's in Arabic or English
or good morning in English, etcetera.
You may want to,
say Eid Mubarak to someone, you know, may
Allah bless you on this day, etcetera. All
of that can only come secondary, not as
a primary
Islamic greeting. Just remember that. So my brothers
and sisters,
we ask Allah to grant every one of
us not just a blessed day of Eid,
but a blessed season.
The day of Eid, the 10th
day of Dhul Hijjah.
Amazing day. It's a very intensive
day, not just for those in Hajj but
even those out of Hajj.
If you can afford it, you should be
sacrificing an animal for the sake of Allah,
following the sunnah of the prophet Muhammad peace
be upon him, and the sunnah of the
prophet Ibrahim may peace be upon him.
And SubhanAllah, one thing that is very, very
amazing is
that animal.
Allah says it's not about the meat, it's
not about the blood. It's about the from
it.
The meat and the blood is not going
to get to Allah.
The taqwa will get to Allah. They've got
consciousness.
What are you ready to sacrifice for Allah?
Here's Ibrahim alaihis salam his life, what he
sacrificed. What about you? What are you ready
to sacrifice?
So it's not all about the meat. Although
Allah wants you to enjoy
because you've made promises to Allah and you've
changed your life. So Allah wants you to
enjoy the meat and he says, don't enjoy
it alone. You must distribute it in a
third. So a third for you, a third
for family and friends and a third for
the poor. That's how you should be doing
things.
So Alhamdulillah,
we thank Allah Almighty for giving us a
blessed day of Eid
and that will happen after the salatul Eid.
Salatul Eid, you're supposed to be coming out
for salatul Eid, the prayer of Eid. Everyone
should be coming out for the prayer of
Eid.
Now
we do know this year there are restrictions.
Perhaps in some places people may not be
able to gather the way they used to,
but in some places they will. Either way,
remember, you put on something good.
You smell good, you bathe, you make sure
that you're
clean, you're excited, you say your takbir allowed
the declaration and proclamation of the greatness of
Allah. You say that aloud and you actually,
enjoy what Allah has blessed you. You go
for salatul Eid, you have the sacrifice, you
meet each other, you congratulate
each other, you reach out to the poor
and so much more. Don't engage in the
displeasure of Allah on the day of Eid.
Don't.
Because that's the day Allah gave you to
enjoy.
Allah gave you to enjoy the fact that
you've worshiped all these days. Now here's a
day of happiness and joy.
Joy and happiness is never achieved through sin.
Those who think that I'm going to be
happy just by releasing myself into my lust
and desires,
they don't ever become happy.
It's very short term.
You want long term true happiness?
Engage in the relationship with Allah.
Engage in the beautiful connection with Allah. As
for those who are in Hajj, what will
be happening
on the day of Eid?
Well, it's the day of Nakhr, the day
of the great sacrifice.
That's what it is. And they will move
from Arafa to to,
sorry. They had moved from Arafa to Muzdalifa
the previous night. From Muzdalifah, they're going to
move back to Mina. They're going to pelt
the shaitan,
and then they will
sacrifice their animal,
and then they will cut their hair or
shave the hair depending.
They can choose either one for the males.
For the females, they just clip their hair
from some places.
When that is done, Allah allows you to
come out of ihram.
Come out of the condition
that you were in, in terms of your
clothing and all other restrictions.
The restrictive condition,
everything has been lifted.
But you would still need to go for
what is known as Tawaf Tawaf's circumbulation of
the house, Tawafuziyyah
before all the restrictions are lifted.
Now, in the meantime, this great day of
sacrifice is a day filled with with amazing
worship of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So remember,
that is one of the greatest days.
One of the greatest days after the day
of Arafa, we have the day of Nahr,
the day after him. The prophet Muhammad, peace
be upon him, got up on so many
occasions during his pilgrimage
to tell the people, to give them words
of advice, to warn them about their treatment
of one another. How they should be treating
women, what they should be doing, how they
should be following his sunnah and so on.
All these pieces of advice were amazing. May
Allah help us read through the sermons
and practice upon them.
Insha'Allah, we have another episode. I look forward
to continuing.
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