Waleed Basyouni – Eidul Fitr Khutbah 2024
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The importance of balancing pursuing interests and learning is emphasized in Islam. It is important to be mindful of one's time and not just trying to avoid them, as well as to be patient and not just trying to avoid them. Slowing down during the year is advised, as is the importance of expressing anger and rage in the face of issues such as upcoming conflict. Proper behavior and leadership in policy and politics are also emphasized. It is essential to not forget the bleeding and suffering of people around the world, and parents are advised to use negative language and promote the true meaning of brotherhood to their community.
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All praise due to Allah and his praise
and blessings and peace be upon our prophet
Muhammad
ibaadullah,
my dear Muslim brothers and sisters,
after 30 days
we have spend in fasting, praying, sadaqa, dua,
reciting the Quran.
We're 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
of for the people
and a clear proofs of guidance and and
create
for guide 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 your 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.
What are you reading? You read Allahu bi
kumal yus? What are you reading?
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 is greater for our love and
for need for food,
drink, and our sexual desire. He has 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
order us that and He is greater in
our heart than anything of our desires.
We 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.
And Nabiya salallahu alaihi wa sallam said, whoever
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, alhamdulillah.
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.
Umar ibn al Aziz wrote an order to
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 fitur.
Al Quran explained to us
where our disease comes from and our protections
and healing come from.
Your disease
the real disease is
in the sins that we commit
and the real healing
and protections
is in Astaghfirullah,
in Alistighfar.
Allah told us, no. That Allah is the
only one worthy of worship. He deserved to
be worshiped in the perfect
way. And 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
from any shortcoming.
So increase
in this blessed day, from the mentioning of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala from takbir
and saying alhamdulillah
and saying astaghfirullah
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,
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 submit ourselves to Allah.
Yesterday like 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 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
why Islam said and Islam came to free
people from enslaved by others. And the most
important one to free yourself from being enslaved
to, who was shaitan.
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 bitter,
but its fruit is so sweet.
Be patient
because
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 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 tiyamul layl. We have done
so much. Some of us make antikafs and
made so many good deeds, alhamdulillah, 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 blessings.
And I want you to always remember
the thing that Allah
have blessed 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 have to
do with worldly matters,
Health, money, family, job, whatever, you know, things
that you have of this nature. But also
there is blessings, the religious blessings that Allah
have guided you, that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
have made you the ability to fast, to
pray and so forth. So be grateful to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for
both. Make sure that you continue in Ramadan,
you will learn that about qiyamul layl, about
salatul wutr, about recite the Quran, about dua,
about siyam. Don't make the end of it,
end it with Ramadan.
Continue as much as you can. Pick some
of these habits, good habits and keep it
up. You know, you might not be able
to pray the same amount of prayers, rakas
or length, but keep some of these habits.
And one of the things 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 sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said.
Zakatul Futtur,
something happened at the end of Ramadan after
all the salakah we give, but we still
need to give to teach us to continue
doing what is right. And Zakat al Futtr
is wajib, a purification for your fasting and
something to elevate you. And it's wajib on
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. Allahu Akbar
Allahu Akbar Walillahil Hammed.
My dear brothers and sisters,
we are celebrating the Eid
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
enjoy ourselves during the day of Eid and
we make it a happy occasion for us
and our family.
Yes, with all the sadness and the disturbing
news that we hear every day in the
news.
Our
happiness
and our celebrating of it 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 sallallahu
alaihi wasallam. And Nabi yasallallahu alaihi wasallam celebrated
to eat and in Madinah while his brothers
and sisters still prosecuted in Mecca. That did
not make him or
the sahaba forget about what happened. While there
is crisis celebrating it is always that 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 war 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's 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 are around
us to
see this incident in the right frame.
This incident is not only related to the
Gaza because the people in 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
in the right way and channel it in
the correct way.
Our lives
begins
to end the day we become silent
about 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
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 and 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, a strategy
to be wrong or to be a reason
for us to be divided. Maybe somebody buy
cuts 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 certain 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 Gaza and the people of Palestine
is nothing but the genocide, is nothing but
a war crime, is nothing but an inhumane
way of treating these poor people who have
been for long suffering for decades.
My brothers and sisters,
as we also
pain and bleed for our brothers and sisters
in Gaza 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 Muslims 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 to 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 will be so immoral
and unacceptable and we should be
smart enough not to fall for such thing.
Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar wa lillahi lalaha
illallah ayyuhal muslimoon.
If there is anything and I want to
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 masjid 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, it 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, future.
And be smart and don't start. Don't say
let me try.
Stay away from marijuana.
It's haram.
Even if they legislate it and legalize it
in every single form, in every single state.
It is haram, and it's a sin, and
it is a nejis, 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
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.
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 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 registered and to be counted
as a voter. I'm not going to 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 want to
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
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 are 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, when you are campaigning.
I will we don't lie. Also, our community
as a principle, we should not we should
promote
to say the truth and to not be
manipulated by lobbyists and money.
We should use a language that it fits
the level of our society and how educated
and respectful society we are.
Mocking and language of violence
and sarcasm
and being
disrespectful
of women or people of other faith is
not the language that Muslims
will 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 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 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 sisters
in Gaza and Palestine and all over the
Muslim world.