Salah Mahmoud – 2019 Eid Ul Fitr Khutbah
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Before Ramadan, we thought it was impossible to
fast. But guess what? Ramadan said, no. You're
able to do that. You're able to do
that. Subhanallah.
Before Ramadan, you thought like staying in the
masjid after I shout, praying is impossible. It's
hard. I just wanna go home. Ramadan said,
no. You can do it. What about the
sadaqah? The generosity that we developed. Ramadan told
you, yes. You can do
it. If you're trying to quit a bad
habit, smoking for example, and this is the
example I always give.
You said before Ramadan, it is impossible not
to smoke for a couple of hours. Ramadan
tells you, no, you're wrong.
You can quit smoking, you can stay away
from cigarettes or vaping or whatever for like
16, 17
hours. And if you are more consistent,
what's going to happen? You can go the
whole entire night. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. This
is the school of Ramadan, brothers and sisters.
Ramadan has proven to us that our human
capabilities
as human beings, as human beings with capable
of doing things beyond our limitations,
everything is possible.
The word impossible is out of our dictionary
because of Ramadan, brothers and sisters.
Didn't I tell you it's an amazing school
that we learned a lot of things from
it. So what should we do right now
to maintain this spirituality
and this connection?
We should be consistent
even
small deep but be consistent.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says what?
The most beloved deeds to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala
are
the
most consistent
even if there are few, the little.
We used we used to pray 8 raka
after isha, please do, but be consistent.
You're reconnecting with Quran and you're competing with
your brothers and sisters to finish the whole
entire Quran.
Please don't recite the whole just just one
ayah every day, but be consistent.
Your sadaqah, your relationship with your family, be
consistent. This is what the prophet salaam is
asking you. You will never have this, you
know, the state of iman after Ramadan is
Ramadan. That's why we call it what? Intensive
course.
Intensive course. Right? And now you graduated,
what are you going to do with the
certificate that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gave you?
You
completed.
Are you going to take the certificate and
just put it up there? Or you're going
to work? You're looking for work and for
job. This is not the time to be
lazy again. Ramadan is refreshing you brothers and
sisters. It's an amazing school. A lot of
things we learn from this. May Allah
accept our Ibad and our
The school of Ramadan has helped us to
maintain our spirituality and our connection with Allah
to reconnect with Quran, to submit to the
will of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Our
capabilities as human beings
are beyond imagination,
beyond our limitation that we can
develop any good habit and be consistent with
it. And we can stop any negative thoughts
or habits. The month of Ramadan and the
school of Ramadan taught us this fact, brothers
and sisters. Brothers and sisters, today the day
of Eid, as I said, the day of
graduation,
you see students when they graduate from college,
they are so excited. I want everyone to
be excited today. Brothers and
sisters, this is not the time to have
issues with your spouse, with your children.
This is not the day. And let me
give you a statement. Please memorize it. Remember
it. It is an act of worship
to be happy today. Can you believe that?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying, my servant,
be happy today. We say what?
Be happy.
Right? Spread love and peace among the family.
Your children need to see a role model
right now. They they need to show to
to, you know, you need to show them
love and respect, brothers and sisters. This is
very important especially when it comes to our
children and I tell you why. Because we
hear this all the time, how come the
non Muslim festivals and the aya,
they're so much fun,
you know, the Christmas decoration,
the trees and all of these things and
people exchange gift, why don't you have something
like this also in our religion? Why not?
Why don't you have some sort of tree,
no tree like them of course will not
copying or imitating other people but this is
the day of Eid when we should be
happy
and we should rejoice. This is command from
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Brothers and sisters, some brothers and sisters and
from their tradition today is to visit the
cemetery, the graveyard.
We all lost have loved ones out there
but today is not the day to visit
the cemetery. Today is only be happy and
enjoy the food and the blessings of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Today is the day of brotherhood and sisterhood.
Today is the day of love and peace
and tranquility.
Today is the day when you call your
parents, your family members either here or back
home or anywhere and say, Eid Mubarak.
This is the command of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
And this is the sunnah of Rasoolullah
us
Jannah.
The one who miss,
will come to the front and for the
sister upstairs. We are going to make a
So everyone try to be ready in about
5 minutes. 5 minutes. We want everyone to
be ready for salat al Eid.
To the brothers and sisters. They missed the
salah, so we are going to make it
up now.
So they can hear us. How is this?
I don't know how is that on top
of it too.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe like that.
That's good. Yep. And then put this one
here.
Just give it the bus. 5 minutes.
Where is your zekum?
The most important thing in this holy month,
we expect them that Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
he forgive every one of
us. At the same time,
you know, the holy month of Ramadan is
so great month. You know?
All of us, we prove that we can
make the salah and jama'ah,
and at the same time, we can fast.
You know, we prove we can read the
Quran every day.
So we need to keep this habit
every day to make salah and jamaah, to
read the Quran every day,
you
know. And
at the same time, to fast
as Abu Huraira narrated
in the hadith.
That is the prophet
He says, my beloved prophet, he advised
me three things
to to make
3 days in every month
and salatulduha,
and I never go to sleep before I
make salatul water.
So the 3 month they prefer, you know,
the the white days which is 13,
14, and 15 of every month
in the
as Ashar al Arabiya. So, alhamdulillah, my dear
respected brother, Ramadan,
give us a lesson.
And we prove to ourselves that is we
can make salatul jama'ah all the time.
We can fast.
We can read Quran every day.
So may Allah forgive it, all of us.
Amen.
Masha'Allah, still some people coming.
There there were a lot of people, at
least more than a 100 people and more
than
a
You cannot believe how much Allah is.
More than what we expect.
You do a little bit, Allah give you
a lot of
rewards.
Miss Miller.
At the same time, Inshallah, we try to
make sure to keep our iman
and the turquah.
Allah
in the holy Quran.
And the need and effort
and the practice
to be always around of the great environment,
to be with the
you know, coming back and forth to the
masjid, make,
you know, every day, make
All these things, it will increase the iman,
you know, till the next Ramadan. Who knows
who gonna be alive for the next Ramadan?
How many people they were planning for next
Ramadan and they passed away? You know? Because
Ramadan, it's the the the month of and.
Shall we should start
inshallah? Okay. The first is gonna be 7.
Okay?
Except the.
You're gonna be 7. And the the first
is
gonna
be 5. Okay?
Takbirah.
Okay?
Bismillah.