Mustafa Khattab – Eid & Udhiya

And I bear witness that Muhammad sallallahu alaihi

wasallam

is the serial of the prophets and the

final messenger to all of humanity.

So today, inshallah, we'll talk briefly about some

of the good deeds that can be done

in this week of the month of the

hija.

And we ask Allah

to accept our good deeds, and to reward

us fully for them according to the best

of our intentions.

So the first act of worship

in the month of the hija, of course,

is pilgrimage, Hajj. And the prophet

says that the reward

for doing Hajj without rebelling other people

and being indecent in the Hajj, which means

you shouldn't raise your voice or act violently

violently toward people. You will come back the

same day you were born. Sit free.

And this is in Sahih al Bukhari

So the prophet

gives you

the good news that if you are not

able to go for Hajj because you're old,

because you are not physically or financially able

to, then you still can get the reward

for going to Hajj even without going to

Hajj. So the prophet

says in the Uzzan al Hadid al Sayyat

al Midi

that whoever prays faj in jama'ah, in congregation,

then sits to remember Allah

until sunrise,

then offers 2 rakas, this person will get

the reward for Hajj and Umrah. Complete.

And the prophet

says this 3 times. So this is the

good news.

So, technically, if you do this, you will

get the reward for Hajj and Umrah,

but you don't get the official title of

Hajj. So if you stay in the Masjid

after Fazl and you do this, don't ask

people to call you Hajj because you're not

a Hajj.

It is only

a reward.

So the second good deal that you can

do this week is fasting with the day

of Arafah, which will be tomorrow.

So you can offer

this day in fasting. And as the prophet

said in the Ufinti Hadid and Sahib Muslim

that fasting on this day will make up

for all the minor sins committed in the

past year and in the coming year.

We know in the sunnah that it is

this life to fast on Friday or Sunday

or Saturday on its own. The scholar

said except on the day of Arafah. So

the day of Arafah

comes on a Friday or a Saturday or

a Sunday, you can't fast it on its

own without having to fast a day before.

So you can fast tomorrow without having to

fast a day before.

The third good deal that you can do

in these days is to make takbir for

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala as mentioned in Surah

Al Hajj.

And the scholars say and this is based

on the sunnah that you start the takbir

from the day of Alpha, which is the

9th of the hija tomorrow

until the 4th day of the Eid, 13th,

until sunset.

So this will include the Saturday,

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday until

sunset.

And this is the 3rd good deed that

you can do in these days.

So the 4th good deed that you can

do in these days is to go for

salatulay.

It's a salatulay.

Authenticated sunnah from the prophet

and Aisha alayllahu anha said in the illicit

hadith that everybody

everyone was asked to go for salatulayll,

including women and even the women who have

a monthly period or those who just delivered

a baby if they can't

go to witness

and to show everyone that the whole Muslim

community

is enjoying

So if someone misses salatul aid, they still

can make it up. So in this Eid

ul Haqqah, if you miss or if you

know someone who misses salatul 'Eid, they can

still do it on the day of Eid,

the second day, and the third day as

mentioned in the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu

alaihi wa sallam.

Muslims are encouraged to show happiness and joy

and to enjoy themselves and their families in

the day of Eid, especially the children.

Why?

Because we live in a non Muslim society.

And most of our kids, they go to

public schools. And they show and they see

their friends,

celebrating

Halloween and Christmas

and Thanksgiving

and Valentine's Day. So some of them said,

okay, my question.

Why are they having celebrations and holidays all

year long and we don't have ones? We

do have ones.

We have Eid al Fitr and Eid al

Agha. So make your kids happy in this

occasion. Give them gifts. Take them to places

and make them enjoy

these days to the fullest without going overboard.

We Muslims

are happy. We are joyous for the Eid,

and we have to show them Muslims too

that we are enjoying these occasions. And we

Muslims, we enjoy our life, and we're happy.

The

second thing regarding Na'id, take advantage of this

time

if you are not talking to one of

your Muslim brothers or sisters.

Especially your biological brothers and sisters. You are

by calling them, you are not talking to

them. So take advantage of this Eid to

call them up

or to communicate with him and, you know,

wish him a happy Eid to end the

boycott between you and your Muslim brother and

sister. So this is a good occasion. Take

advantage of it. We mentioned before that in

the sunnah, if you are not talking to

your Muslim brother for 3 days or more,

then Allah will

not accept your good deeds.

So make sure you end

this

enmity or whatever you have between you and

your Muslim brother or your sister during this

occasion, so Allah accept your good deed.

So the first good deal, and we conclude

with this inshallah, is to offer the Uqeer.

And this is an authentic sunnah from the

prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam if

you can afford it.

But if you can't,

then you shouldn't feel sorry because the prophet

himself

made

on your behalf.

And this is a great honor.

It is mentioned in the Sahih of Muslim

Al Imam Ahmad that the prophet

offered 2 rams.

You have to give the best you can

afford. And Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, tells us

in the Quran in Surat Al Imran, you

will never achieve Taqwah,

which is the highest score of Islam, until

you give al in charity

from the best you can afford or from

from that which you like.

So when you give the

you have to choose the best.

And when you divide the animal, you keep

1 third for yourself, 1 third for your

neighbors and friends. Even if they are non

Muslims, you can still give the non Muslims

from the UHAY.

And the third one, to give to the

poor.

And this is how the UHAYA is divided

in the sunnah. Some people,

they keep the best part for themselves

and they give the junk to the poor.

They give them the legs, the head, the

inside of the animal, and they tell, okay.

They don't have nothing. If we give them

anything, they will eat.

You have to give the best because the

salafah with the ukhiyah goes to Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala first before it goes to the

faqir, to the poor.

So,

whenever she gave charity, she used to put

perfume or oil

perfume

on the money before she gave it to

charity. And when people ask, why did you

do this? She said, because the money

falls in the hands of Allah before it

falls in the hands of the people.

So the time to offer the ukhiyah is

right after until

the 4th day of Eid. And this will

be Sunday,

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday until sunset.

Some people, especially back home, because there is

a so a shortage

of, people who slaughter the animals, the butchers,

so they offer the uttayyah

before salatulayyah.

And some of the butchers do this because

they are looking for the prophets,

p r o f I t, and they

are not following the prophet, p r o

p h e t.

So offer the utahya, inshallah, after salatulayim.

The last thing we mentioned,

So some people ask if I can't offer

the ukhaia here. Can I send the money

to another city or another country? Maybe they

need it more than we do here. Yes.

You can, and this is acceptable in the

sunnah. And it is done all the time

in the Hajj.

For the hadith and nah in the Hajj,

most of the people, they give their money

to institutions in Saudi Arabia, so they buy

the animals and offer them, and they distribute

the the, the meal to the meal.

That's Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.