Zakir Naik – Good Deeds on Eidul Adha

Let me tell you the salient features

that should be done on either Adha or

Yamun Nhar. Number 1,

that have a bath early in the morning.

Number 2, put perfume

on yourself. It's a sunnah.

Number 3

is that wear the best of your clothes.

Number 4,

say the

turbiraat. Number 5,

preferable,

do not eat anything before

the Eid prayer.

Number 6, go to pray early.

Number 7,

that

it is recommended

that all the women, including the children,

including the menstruating women, should go for the

Eid salah even if they don't have to

offer salah or they don't have to go

to the Musalla.

And when you come back from Eid prayer,

see to it that you take another route,

not the same route

in which you went for the I salah

and preferable to pray I salah in a

musalah in an open ground, which is called

an ithqa.

Now what is the reason

that a beloved prophetessallahu alaihi wasallam

recommended that all the women and the children,

including the menstruating women,

should go for the it salah even if

they don't have to offer salah, even if

they don't have to go and pray. What

is the reason? Why the prophet said that

you go from one route and when you

come back, take the other route? Route? Why

did he say that pray in a large

place, idkah?

For all this, we come to know that

the reason is

so that

it boosts the morale of Muslims.

Normally, we Muslims

offer 5 times salah in congregation in the

mosque.

Once a week in Jum'ah, we have a

bigger congregation. We pray in the Jum'ah Mosque.

The congregation is multiple times bigger than what

congregation we are doing the 5 times salah.

And twice in the year, during the Iden,

the Idul Fitr and Idul Adha, the prophet

recommended that to pray in an open ground

known as the idga.

Why? So that a larger number can gather.

Imagine

if you're living in a village

and during the Easter, I come to know

there are 30,000 Muslims. There are 40,000 Muslims.

The morale

of the Muslims is boosted. And if you

are living

in an area which has a good non

Muslim also, the non Muslims will think 10

times before interfering with the Muslims. Oh, the

Muslims are 30,000 in number, 40,000 in number.

Imagine if you're living in a big city

and if you prayed 1 idga in which

100,000 gather

or a few 100,000 gather. Imagine the scenario.

It will boost up the morale of the

Muslims

and at the same time

would give a non Muslim

thought that they better not interfere with Muslims.

This is the psychology for which

what is the reason that the beloved prophet

even told the woman and the children to

go, even the woman in the menstruating?

Pray in idga.

When you go through one way, come through

the other way. Not the same way. Why?

So that the other people in the other

locality

of that village, of that town, or that

city know,

The Muslims are going in large numbers. If

you go through route a, come back through

route b so that the people of route

a also come to know. The people of

route b also come to know that Muslims

are in large number.

The next important point, when you come back,

if you have the means, you sacrifice an

animal.

If Allah has given you the means.

Later on, you go and meet

your family friends

at the day of celebration. And when you

meet,

the greeting is

May Allah

accept the good deeds from us and from

you.

Normally, in India, Pakistan, they say or

other word, the sunnah is to wish

Oh

Allah, accept

the good deeds from us and from you.

You can say

it. It is.

The right thing is as the Sabas wished

each other.

And

the day of Eid, this should be a

day of celebration.

Be happy. Be cheerful.