Eid Al Fitr Khutbah 2024

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

alaykum rahmatullah.

alaykum rahmatullah.