Yasir Qadhi – Eid Al Fitr Khutbah 2024
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The speaker discusses the day of Book ASAP, where Muslims receive the blessings of Islam and receive the daily blessings of Islam. They emphasize the importance of the implementation and encourage individuals to use the lessons of the book to motivate themselves to be a better versions of Islam. The speaker gives three messages to Muslim leaders to take care of their lives, including balancing hope and fear, living through multiple agendas, and celebrating the upcoming year. They stress the importance of not disobitting the day of celebration and taking advantage of opportunities to be better versions of Islam.
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Alhamdulillahi
Rabbilah Alamin,
Arrahmanir
Rahim,
O Muslims, today is the day of Eid
ul Fitr. Today is the day that the
angels come and they give glad tidings to
those whose sayam, whose qiyam, whose qira'at al
Quran was accepted. May Allah make us amongst
them. Today is the day of 'id, a
day of happiness. And do you know why
it is a day of happiness?
Because today the default in the entire ummah,
the default is that every single Muslim
who attempted to be religious, who fasted the
month of Ramadan, who prayed extra, who recited
the Quran extra, the default is every single
Muslim today
is sinless. How do we know this? Our
prophet Muhammad salallahu alaihi wasallam gave us the
good news, gave us the basharah when he
said, whoever fast the month of Ramadan believing
in Allah and expecting Allah's reward will have
all of his sins forgiven.
Whoever prays every single day of Ramadan,
believing in Allah and expecting in Allah's reward
will have all of his sins forgiven. And
whoever prays on Laylatul Qadr believing in Allah
and expecting Allah's rewards will have all of
his sins forgiven. And so every one of
us who fasted this
month, every one of us who raised the
bar of worship and rituals and religiosity,
InshaAllahu
ta'ala,
Today is the day of real Eid. We
are being spiritually
reborn. We are giving a new opportunity
at life, at spirituality,
at a new connection with Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. And that is why it is called
the day of 'id, the day of happiness.
In some narrations, the day of reward and
jawa' is Allah gives prizes, the angels distribute
those prizes, and we wanna be amongst those
people that get that prize. And what is
the prize? The pleasure of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala and Jannatul Firdaus. That's what we want
all Muslims. All Muslims, my khutbah today is
very short and very few points. The first
point I just mentioned it, and that is
the real Eid is the Eid of spiritual
happiness. The real Eid is not just the
wearing of clothes, it's not just the putting
on in the perfume, it's not just the
happiness of family and wealth. The real Eid
is the Eid of hearing the news that
we will enter Jannah. And that is why
these Eids in this world are opportunities for
us to feel that happiness. How happy we
are, how blessed we are, well, the real
happiness will be when we get our deeds
in our right hand, and we are told,
Udhurul Jannatabima
kuntum ta'amaloon. So as we prepare for our
worldly yearly eid, prepare for the actual Eid
of the akhira.
My second point, oh Muslim. My second point,
the Eid of 14 45. Uhijraah. This is
14 40 5. 5. The Eid of 2024
and the Ramadan
of 2024,
it is gone. There was but one Ramadan
of this year, and we have caught it,
alhamdulillah.
But it is gone, fleeting, few days. How
quickly it came, how quickly it went, and
so too will be my life and yours.
How many Ramadans have we sat through, and
Allah knows how many more we will be
sitting through. Where are are all those generations
before us? Where are my ancestors and your
ancestors who celebrated Eid after Eid? Where are
the dozens and 100 of generations before us?
They are no longer here. So to Allah
has given us a short period of time,
and Allah has given us one more Ramadan.
Alhamdulillah,
we we have managed to get one more
Ramadan. But now that Ramadan is over, and
now that Eid has come, then we are
divided into 2 camps. The first camp is
that just like Ramadan is gone, just like
their deeds are gone, so too their religiosity
and spirituality
will be gone. And this is not the
camp of the successful. The second camp is
those who realize Ramadan is gone, but the
good deeds remain. Ramadan is gone, but the
spirituality
remains. Ramadan is gone, but the effects of
Ramadan should remain. We wanna be in that
category. Just like when Ramadan is gone, so
too our lives will continue onwards. O Muslim,
take the lessons of Ramadan.
O Muslim,
absorb the iman and spirituality we felt in
Ramadan, and let it sustain you to be
a better person today than you were before
Ramadan began. The goal, as I have said
multiple times, the goal of Ramadan
is to push us up every year so
that we maintain a better lifestyle until the
next Ramadan. And every Ramadan should be a
boost. Every Ramadan should raise our rank until
we meet our Lord. So all Muslim, today
is the first day after Ramadan. Now is
the time, right now, to make the sincere
intention.
That intention should be, I want to be
better this upcoming year than I was in
the previous year. And it should be a
serious intention, and it should be a committed
intention. And if you fail in your deeds,
don't fail in your intention. If you fail
to live up 100%,
do not give up on your intention because
remember, what counts is your intention, what counts
is your effort. Even if you slip, even
if you fall, continue trying,
continue trying to be a better person, and
in that trying shall be our success. Allah
doesn't care about the quantity of deeds. Allah
cares about the quality of our ikhlas and
sincerity. And that quality is shown what is
inside the qal. So my second advice to
you, take the lessons of Ramadan,
take the spirituality of Ramadan, and then absorb
it and use it to motivate yourself to
be a better person for this entire year.
And every Ramadan, keep on raising the bar
until the best Ramadan will happen to be
your last Ramadan. And the best days of
your life will be the last days on
this earth, and none of us knows when
that will be. My 3rd and final message.
My 3rd and final message. O Muslims,
as we celebrate today, and yes, we should
celebrate. And wallahi, it is our right, every
Muslim's right, that we Muslim's right, that we
be happy on this day. Regardless of what
is happening, there should be also a level
of happiness. There should be a level of
personal joy and satisfaction at having completed the
month, at having been given all of these
blessings, but let us also temper that happiness
with a little bit of a reality check.
And that too is Islam. We balance between
the hope and the fear. We balance between
the positive and the negative. And when we
look at what is happening in the Ummah
today, subhanAllah, o Muslims, we are living through
not just a time of crises,
but times of crisis. We're living through multiple
agonies. The Muslim ummah is bleeding from multiple
points on its body, not
ghazah. Ghazah. We see this reality,
6 months of a besieged people, over 40,000
people dead. If this is not a genocide,
then what is a genocide? And the world
watches coldly and callously.
At the very least, oh, Muslim, we should
be motivated to be better. We should be
motivated to have a connection and to able
to do something,
to not be neutral, to not be silent.
We should be motivated to better our own
lives and to try our best to raise
awareness and do whatever level of activism is
possible for us. But it is not just
ghazah around the world. And if I start
mentioning countries' names, then unfortunately, I will never
be able to finish because of the time
limit. But wallahi, where does one begin? Still
the situation in Kashmir for 75 years and
the rising Islamophobia
in the land of India. We see what
is happening to our Muslim brothers and sisters
in Burma and how they have been the
Rohingya have been cast aside. The Uyghur brothers
and sisters in China in concentration camps, the
likes of which we haven't seen since World
War 2, civil wars in multiple regions in
the world, Sudan recently as well, and I
can go on and on. And if I
didn't mention a country, it's just because of
time, not because we're not thinking about it.
But wallahi o Muslim, as we celebrate Eid
today, and as you have a level of
happiness, just keep a reality check as well.
Because, o Muslim, what is happening over there
might happen over here as well. What is
happening around the world, they never thought it
would happen to them, and yet Allah tested
them. We don't want to be tested, but
we need to be prepared for those tests.
And even if we ourselves are not tested
directly, we are being tested indirectly by other
things. And of the things we're being tested
with is how are we living our lives
with the freedoms that we have, with the
pleasures that we have, with the merriment that
we have? O Muslims,
there are people around the world that are
forced to not fast Ramadan, that are forced
to break their fast, that are forced to
live difficult lives because their regimes persecute them?
What excuse will I have and you have
on the day of judgment when we are
asked about what we did and we had
all of these blessings and freedoms. We thank
Allah for the freedom to be Muslims. We
thank Allah for the freedom to worship. We
thank Allah for the abilities we have where
we are living. So take advantage of those
abilities. Me
And so, look at the world around you
and be motivated to be a better person.
This is my final message to you, oh
Muslim. Today is the day of Eid. It
is a day of celebration. Do not disobey
Allah on this particular day especially.
Fear Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala on this day.
Show gratitude, show thanks, make your families happy.
This is the day of Eid. Look at
what is happening in the ummah. Pray for
them and be motivated to be a better
person. O Muslim, today is the day of
Eid. We do not know how many more
Eid that we will have in this world.
Maybe 1, maybe 50, Allah knows best. For
some of us, this this might be our
last Eid on this earth. O Muslim, take
advantage of these Eid so that the day
of judgment becomes the best i'id for you.
Take advantage of this time frame so that
when the hisaab is given and when the
mizans are brought out and when the angels
of the scrolls are shown our deeds, when
the hissab takes place, we want to be
on read on that day, and the only
way to be on Eid on that day
is to prepare from here and now. Prepare
for that Eid so that you have the
ultimate happiness on that day.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala accept all of
our good deeds. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
forgive our sins and bring Izzah to the
Ummah with us and through us. Please stand
up and greet each others. Taqabralam minawmin kumwassalamu
alaykum rahmatullah.