Waleed Basyouni – Eid Ul Fitr Khutbah – Clear Lake Islamic Center
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The speakers discuss the importance of avoiding negative emotions and acknowledging one's own worth. They stress the need for individuals to be committed to their values and be a good role model. They also emphasize the importance of avoiding cultural norms and acknowledging one's own worth.
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We have spend in fasting, praying,
sadaqah, dua, reciting the Quran.
We grateful and thankful to Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. And this is our duty to him
as Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says.
The month of Ramadan
is the month which is was revealed the
Quran.
And a guidance
for the people
And a clear proofs of guidance and and
create
for guidance for the creation.
So whoever
sight and witness this month,
let him or them fasted.
And whoever
is in journey,
then an equal number of other days. Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala intends for you ease and
does not intend for you hardship.
And wants for you to complete the period
and to glorify Allah for that which he
has guided you.
And perhaps you will be grateful.
In the end of Ramadan,
we say Allahu Akbar. We say Alhamdulillah
and we say Astaghfirullah.
We say Allahu Akbar because Allah is the
greatest things. He's greater than anything of our
desires. He's greater for our love and need
for food, drink and our sexual desire. He's
greater things in our heart and our mind.
Because of that we did left
sleep,
we have left our beds in the night
to pray. We went to bed late after
our bedtime usually during the year just because
we spend that time praying to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. We have given from our money
that we work hard to earn for His
sake because He's greater in our heart than
the money. We have given up food and
drink during the daytime
because Allah order us to do so. We
abandoned even our relationship with whom we were
lawful
to have a relationship with during the daytime
because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala order us that
and he is greater in our heart than
anything of our desires.
We're grateful and thankful to him.
That are we grateful to Allah that he
ordained for us such a great month, a
great act of worship
that will lead to forgiveness,
lead to guidance, lead to purification,
lead to elevate your status in jannah.
Fast one day for his sake, Allah will
distance him from hellfire
70 years.
What do you think of you have fasted
30 days not only one day.
We are grateful to Him. We are praising
Him. Subhanahu wa ta'ala also. We say,
We are grateful to him because our Lord
is all wise. Our Lord is all is
is the most knowledgeable.
Our Lord is the most merciful.
Our Lord, we praise Him because of the
perfect religion that you have sent to us.
And we are very grateful to him
Don't take things for granted.
Take things
with gratitude.
That's the right attitude towards these things that
Allah
have all ordained for us, and we ask
his forgiveness.
All his governor, a lieutenant
all over the Muslim world at that time
to make sure to inform people to end
Ramadan
with the stilfar and sadaqatil Fitar.
Quran Qata'ida said, Al Quran explain to us
where our disease comes from and our protections
and healing come from.
Your disease,
the real disease is in your in the
sins that we commit. And the real healing
and protections
is in Astaghfirullah
in Alistighfar.
Allah told us know that Allah is the
only one worthy of worship. He deserve to
be worship in the perfect way.
He followed up by say and seek forgiveness.
Because if you know His rights upon you,
you will know that you will not be
able ever to fulfill it fully. That's why
you say, astaghfirullah
from any shortcoming.
So increase
in this blessed day from the mentioning of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala from takbir and saying
and
saying
and saying, thank for Allah
Ramadan is not just days nights that we
spend. Ramadan
is a great opportunity to learn, to grow,
to change,
to be better.
Ramadan taught us the importance of sincerity.
This is an act of worship. We do
it only for Allah. As Allah said, fasting
belong to me and belong to me alone.
And am I alone will reward you for
it. Sincerity and truthfulness
are the base of every virtue.
And
you know I learned in my life
that
sincerity
make the least person
to be the most valuable the the least,
sincerity make the least person.
The most valuable
person
or the most valuable,
yours
let me put it this way. That sincerity
make
very least person
to be
of more value
than the most talented hypocrites
indeed.
In Ramadan,
we learn how to be sub to submit
ourselves to Allah. Yesterday like the now, it's
haram for you to eat And today it's
haram for you to fast.
It's a full submission to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
You fast when you see the the new
moon and you end your fasting when you
see the next new moon. In Ramadan, we
learn how to control our desires.
Not to be controlled by our desires. And
if you learn self control, you can master
anything.
Control yourself
or someone else will control you. And that's
that's why Islam said Al Islam came to
free people from enslaved by others. And the
most important one to free yourself from being
enslaved to,
Okay.
In Ramadan we learn that patience
is the base for all virtue as well.
In the beginning it's hard, but with commitment
and training things became much easier later on
by the end of Ramadan.
Patient is not the ability to wait, but
the ability to keep a good attitude while
waiting.
Patience is better,
but its fruit is so sweet.
Be patient
because
good time
good things take time to happen. And that's
something we learn in Ramadan, to have that
sabr by abstaining from the haram and sabr
in committing what is what is what is
good. In Ramadan,
we learn the value of time. We learn
how to manage time. Days goes very fast
and we have accomplished so much during this
month, alhamdulillah.
We fasted 30 days. Some of us read
the whole entire Quran. We have given sadaqa,
we have given qiyamil layl. We have done
so much. Some of us make tikafs, and
made so many good deeds
during this month. It's such a blessed month
in a short period of time.
The way we treat time defines who we
are.
And I do believe
that lack of direction, not lack of time,
is the problem.
Lack of management not the lack of time.
Managing the time not the lack of time.
Otherwise
we all share the same 24 hours.
My brother and sisters,
fear Ramadan
In Ramadan we learn how to be grateful
and thankful for Allah's Allah's blessings. And I
want you to always remember
the thing that Allah
have blessed you you without you asking.
Not only thinking about the thing that you
did not receive
after praying.
Many people, they think about the thing that
I've not even got after praying, I didn't
get after praying. But they forget about all
the countless blessings that Allah have given you
without you even asking for it.
In Ramadan,
we be grateful to Allah.
Allah
blessings are too kind. A blessings had to
do with worldly matters.
Health, money, family, job, whatever you know things
that you have of this nature. But also
there is the blessings, the religious blessings that
Allah have guided you, that Allah have
made you the ability to fast, to pray
and so forth. So be grateful to Allah
for both.
Make sure that you continue in Ramadan,
you will learn that about qiyamul layl, about
salatul witter, about recital Quran, about dua, about
siyam.
Don't make the end of it, ended with
Ramadan.
Continue as much as you can. Pick some
of these habit good habit and keep it
up. You know you might not be able
to pray the same amount of prayers, rak'ahs
or length, but keep some of these habits.
And one of the thing that we train
ourselves right away after Ramadan
is to fast 6 days in the following
month, the month of shaaban. And if you
do so it is equal to fasting the
whole entire year as the Prophet
said. Zakatul fthur,
something happened at the end of Ramadan after
all the sadaqa we give, but we still
need to give to teach us to continue
doing what is right. And
is
a purification for your fasting and something to
elevate you. And it's when you and every
member in your household.
And if you give it before
the you have to give it even if
you forget, you should rush to give it
after salah. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala forgive
our sins and accept our deeds.
My dear brothers and sisters,
we are celebrating the 8th with full happiness
and joy. And that's the sunnah of the
prophet
We're smiling and happy
not
because it ended or it's over,
rather
because
we made it and we did it and
we were able to accomplish such a great
act of worship,
and to add it to our
account, and our saving that we prepare
when we meet Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. May
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala accept and reward us
for it.
It is because of the grace and the
mercy of Allah we were able to do
it. Yes, we celebrate
and we happy and we smile and we
joy our enjoy our self during the day
of Eid. And we make it happy occasion
for us and our family.
Yes. With all the sadness and the disturbing
news that we hear everyday in the
news. Our
happiness
and our celebrating of Eid will not make
us forget about our brothers and sisters around
the world, or their rights upon us. But
adding more sadness to sadness will not change
the reality.
Those who call people not to celebrate to
eat have went against the sunnah of the
prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam. And Nabi salallahu alaihi
wasallam celebrated to eat, and in Madinah while
his brothers and sisters still prosecuted in Mecca.
That did not make him sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam or the sahaba forget about what's happened.
While there is crisis celebrating ages, always
the the the sunnah of the Muslims around
the world and through the history.
We are a balanced Ummah.
Allah is the one who makes one's laugh
and weep.
Yes my brother and sisters, we should
always feel the pain and share the pain
that our brothers and sisters suffering around the
world, especially with the genocide
that's taking place in Gaza. That
the open water that was declared
against
innocent people, against the people of Gaza who
are just a citizen are suffering from being
bombed and killed.
Members of our community have lost over 100
of their family members during this unfair war.
War will never determine
who is right. It will always determine
who left. You know?
And I do believe
that this genocide and this suffering
of those people who've been in open jail
for years decades,
will not come to
an end unless
unless
there is a fair and just peace
calling for peace only when never lost. It
has to be a peace that based on
justice. A peace will secure
dignity and freedom to the people of Palestine.
I know it's hard and I know it's
not easy, but I promise you something
that the more
we sweat in peace,
the less we bleed in war.
My brothers and sisters,
it is
important for us and those who around us
to
see this incident in the right frame.
This incident is not only related to the
Gaza
because the people on West Bank are also
being killed. Their land been confiscated.
They've been put to jail. They've been prosecuted.
It's not only in the 7th October, it
has been going for decades, that massacre and
killing.
And we should speak up, we should express
our anger and rage. We in the right
way and channel it in the correct way.
Our
lives begins
to end the day we become silent about
thing things that matter. As Martin Luther King
once said,
rise your word,
not your voice.
Raise your voice raise your word, not your
voice.
Raise your commitment and action
not just your voice.
It it is rain that grow flowers not
thunder.
Strong people stand up for themselves.
But you know what?
Stronger people
stand up for others. And we ummah that
stand up for others.
The best nation that we brought out to
people.
I want to also say,
it is so important
when we talk about the issue of Palestine
that we understand that there is a common
factor or a principle that we almost agreed
upon.
But there might be an area we defer,
maybe technique, strategy of how we deal with
this issue.
It is so wrong
and it's so dangerous for us as a
community
to deal with this area where we might
differ and have a different opinion about how
to approach these issues,
and make this small area a reason for
us to be divided,
a reason for us to be not united.
You know, we might have a different strategy
of how we deal with 1. For example,
might have people think protest is the best
form of expressing their possessions. Might some people
don't think that way. Don't ever point finger
to people who choose another
strategy to be wrong or to be a
reason for us to be divided. Maybe somebody
by cut certain product, maybe somebody doesn't believe
that or doesn't consider this company, or doesn't
agree with that method. Don't make that a
reason for us to buy cut and turn
away from each others, you know, at all.
That does not ever shake our principle, our
unified message. I might agree with such an
organization but not other organization,
But in the end of the day, we
all must agree that what is right is
right. And what is happening to the people
of Ghazan, the people of Palestine
is nothing but the genocide, is nothing but
a war crime, is nothing but an inhumane
way of treating this poor people who've been
for long suffering for decades.
My brothers and sisters,
as we also
pain and bleed for our brothers and sisters
in raza and Palestine, that should not also
make us forget about the bleeding and the
suffering of people around the world.
Because the blood of our brothers and sisters
in Rohingya,
in
Burma, is not in any way less valuable
or less important than the blood of people
of Gaza. The blood of the people in
Syria is equal to the blood of people
of Sudan, and the blood of the people
in Kashmir. And they are all equal.
All Muslim are equal, their blood. Yes, land
are different. Some land and some strategic land
have more value than others, but that does
not make the innocent life ever less. As
a matter of fact, any innocent person's life
is sacred and it should be protected no
no matter where it is.
My brothers and sisters,
don't ever allow anyone,
anyone
to make a cheap
political gain on the expense of the issue
of Palestine,
or you know a business to make out
of it a business to enrich themselves.
That would be so immoral
and unacceptable and we should
be smart enough not to fall for such
thing.
If there is anything that I wanna leave
you with tonight in the end of my
khutbah,
connect your family with the masjid.
Connect yourself with the masjid.
Your family and your kids will attach to
the masjid and see you coming to the
masjid more often.
Make sure that you raise them to love
the masjid. To love to be in the
masjid. To come to pray in the masjid.
Yes
our children,
our children
are 1 third of our community and society
today.
But they are the whole entire future of
our society tomorrow.
So make sure that we raise them. Make
sure that we, you know,
be committed
to, to the masala and to the ibadah.
My young men and women,
be aware and stay away from haram especially
drugs
as it became something more common
these days.
Drugs is something will destroy the future,
your future.
Drugs
is not cool thing,
you know? Say no to drugs
and choose not to use.
You know I might, you know, I don't
know. But from what I hear,
people who use drugs,
you know,
a pill
can maybe thrill,
but also it kills.
So be very careful how you treat your,
you know, your future.
And be smart and don't start.
Don't say let me try.
Stay away from marijuana.
It's haram.
Even if they legislated and legalized it in
every single form in every single state. It
is haram, and it's a sin, and it
is a and it's not allowed to be
touched. Unless for a medical reason under the
supervision of a professional
doctors.
You know,
herbs
are maybe, you know, good for food, but
bad for the brain.
My brothers and sisters,
stay away from bad manners,
especially the young pea, young men and women.
Make sure that you hold into the good
principles,
good manners be good to your parents, be
good to your relatives, be good to your
neighbors, and to people in general.
Allahu Akbaru Allahu Akbaru Alilahaalhamdulillahi
katheera.
And
as you all know this is a year
of elections.
And I know we are in so much
pain and shame of our foreign policy in
our country.
And unfortunately, our president and our state department
have disappointed us so many times.
And as it's been said eloquently by some
of our leaders in the in the Muslim
community in America, We're not looking for changing
on the tone
of your talk mister president. We are looking
for a change in your policy
and that's what we demanded and that's what
we want. But that demand and that, you
know, request is not gonna come unless we
participate,
unless we have a voice, unless And you
see the tone have changed because of the
pain of the uncommitted people who are not,
voting.
My brothers and sisters,
I do believe that it is important for
us to vote, and important to us at
least to be register and to be counted
as a voter. I'm not gonna tell you
who to vote for or who not but
for sure definitely
there is some people I want I want
to send them back or I wanna send
them for a very very long time to
stay in Cozumel
and not to stay in Texas. For a
100%, I would do that.
But you know it's not only about the
president. It's much more important
for us to be very careful about local
also
elections.
We are a community that I believe can
have a great positive influence in American policy
which is we are in dear need for
it. I do believe that we have many
principles.
We against
lying.
Lying cannot be justified. And I wish one
day we see America legislate
a legislation to say that candidate who lie
should be held accountable for their lies, you
know, and when you are campaigning.
I will we don't lie. Also a community
as a principle, we should not we should
promote to say the truth and to not
be be manipulated by lobbyists and money. We
should use a language that it fits this
the level of our society, and how educated
and respectful society we are.
Mocking
and language of violence,
and and sarcasm and being
disrespectful of woman or people of other faith
is not the language that Muslim
will will should should use. And we should
teach that. We should promote that in our
politics today.
We should focus on policies that bring prosperity
and to to people. We as a Muslim
community,
we should lead
through our by our manners and of being
a role model to the society at large.
My brother and sisters,
we should
spread in our society the true meaning of
brotherhood. Of a society that respect God and
religion and manners. Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Walaal
ham. You Allah we ask you to accept
our good deeds. And you Allah we ask
you to accept all your good deeds, our
fasting, and all the good deeds that we
did in Ramadan. And to forgive our shortcoming,
and to help us to continue to do
good, and to grant us many Ramadans to
come while we are in happiness and unity,
and to bring relief to those who are
suffering around the world. You, Rabbi, make it
easy for our brothers and sister in Gaza
and Palestine and all over the Muslim world.