 Bismillahirrahmanirrahim Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah we've reached Eid and we've finished Ramadan and we know that it's a little hot today and we know that our nafs needs to sit through this, this hotness for a few seconds inshaAllah for a few minutes and it's appropriate, this hotness might be appropriate at the end of Ramadan because Ramadan comes from a word which means to scorch which means to burn and Allah burns off your sins during this month this month that we just finished Alhamdulillah and this month that we just finished is like a as what one of our teachers described it as a madrasa where you learned to be with the Quran, to be with Allah to have taqwa of Allah, to have consciousness of Allah this is the month that we just finished Alhamdulillah the month of consciousness of Allah and Allah says about this month in the Quran that He wants from you what? He wants Yusuf, He wants Eid for us in this month and we're thinking Eid for us in this month when we can't eat from before sunrise until sunset how is that Eid? Wala Yurid ibn Mu'usul he does want difficulty for us how is that Eid? what Eid we recognize and realize from this month is the Eid of how easy it is how easy is this to abstain from even the halal even from the halal that we have to stay away from food we have to stay away from any sort of pleasures during this month many different acts of pleasures during this month the Halal pleasure is in this month so Allah shows us how easy it is to avoid those pleasures then what about the pleasure what about the Haram when the rest of the month passes when this month passes and the next month comes what about the haram how easy is this to avoid that how easy is it to avoid that that Allah is teaching us through this month, the ease of avoiding the haram, and the ease of holding our nafs back, holding our ego back, holding our wings back, holding our hawaa back from our desires. This is what Allah teaches us in this month, that the Sahib al-Burgh that Imam al-Busili says about the nafs, wa an nafs wu qattifli in tahmiruhun shabba'ala khubbi al-rida'i wa an tahmiruhu wa an taftin hu yansatini, that the nafs, that the ego is like a child, the ego is like a child. And if you let it, if you let it, if you wean it off, then if you let it suckle on the milk, pass its due date, then it'll go to love that, pass its time, but after it's appropriate. But if you wean it off, if you wean it off, it'll wean off. You can train your nafs, you can train your nafs to have taqwa of Allah. You can train your nafs to submit to Allah, to be a Muslim, to submit to Allah, not to submit to your nafs, not to make the religion of Allah submit to yourself, to submit to Allah. You can, and Allah shows us in this month, that by standing the nights in prayer, and by spending the days in a little bit of hunger, with a little bit of thirst, that this is what Allah teaches us during this month. And then when this month is over, then what does Allah say? When you take abl Allah, ala ma hadaakum, ala allakum, tashurun, so that you may, that you may glorify Allah, exalt Allah. And what do we say when the, when the, when the, when the Eid comes? What we doing right before the Eid prayer? Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar. La ilaha illa Allah wa Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar wa lillahi alhamd. That Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest. And there is no deity other than Allah, and to Him is all praise, to Kabir Allah, so that we may, we may glorify Allah, wa la allakum tashurun, and so you might have thankfulness for this opportunity that has come to us. The opportunity for us to, to see what are, what are, what are, what we're capable of, of the opportunity to hold our nafs back, the opportunity to worship Allah, the opportunity to worship Allah with the people around us, to have our hearts together in the tarawih prayers that we pray, and to have our hearts together at the iftars, at the shahrud, and to have our hearts together at the Eid prayer. This is what Allah wants to teach us. Allah wants to teach us gratefulness. Allah wants to teach us taqwa. This is what is expected of us, expected of us. And Allah wants us to build these good habits. That if you've built a good habit, takes about 40 days to build a good habit. Alhamdulillah, we've just had 30 days of Ramadan. So you only have 10 more days to go. Whatever good habits that you built in this month, keep going for 10 more days. That there's six fasts of shawwad that come after Ramadan. The Prophet ﷺ said, whoever fasts for six months of shawwad, it's as if he has fasted the entire year. So fast six more days, insha'Allah. You don't have to do it all during shawwad. Just do it before, you don't, just do it before the next shawwad. Fast six more days. Build these habits. Continue to read Qur'an. Continue to, if you prayed 20 rakat in tarawih, try praying two extra nefim after Asha. Keep these good habits going. And don't allow yourself to fall back into post-umadhan laxity. The sharia still applies. You know, a lot of times we eat, we think the sharia doesn't apply. So perhaps we wouldn't pray fajr today. Perhaps there's people who are not going to miss some prayers today because of the festivities. This is still the deen of Allah. We still submit to Allah. And Allah does not submit to us. I say this in the Qur'an. And I say this in the Qur'an. He is the Forgiver. In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace be upon you. Peace be upon you, too. I am Ashraf Al-Anbiya and I am Muhammed Al-A'li. I am his friend. After the Ayat of Ramadan, Allah says, If my servant asks me, I am close. If my servant asks me, I am close. Then indeed, I am close. And we should have learned to ask from Allah in this month. We should have learned to ask from Allah in this month to make du'a to Allah. To have to waqr in Allah. That if you see something that bothers you, when you walk outside, Hamdah is speaking to one of my friends, an elder that I consider a mentor. And he said, when you look outside and you see the pollution, before you say, I wish someone could do something about this pollution, say, I wish, I pray that Allah does something about this pollution through someone. Let's recognize that Allah is the one that is the fa'a, the active agent. And we're just the means to have trust in Allah. To have trust in Allah. We should have learned trust in this month. And then when this month is over, then we continue our taqwa. We continue our shukr. We continue to exalt Allah. And we continue to rely on Allah. And to continue to ask from Allah that the Ramadan is not the only time in the year that we ask. We ask in every moment of our lives. We ask in every moment of our lives. And this month of Ramadan is taqwa, God consciousness. So that we see Allah in every step that we take. But before we take a step, we ask, what is Allah's ruling on this thing? This is what we should have learned in this month. Before we do anything, we have Allah in our hearts first. La ilaha illa huudah. There's nothing in our hearts except Allah. But whatever is in your heart, is your eelah. Whatever you keep in your heart is your eelah. So if you're nuts or if you're Hawa or if you're wealth or your status or your fame or whatever it may be is in your heart, then you have taken that as your eelah. And we asked Allah for reference in taking anything other than him as our eelah. And we ask Allah that he makes us the people who have taqwa. We ask that he makes us people who have shukr. We ask Allah that we are able to finish this day. La ilaha illa Allah. La ilaha illa Allah. We ask Allah, if there is nothing in our hearts except Him. We ask Allah, if there is no source of peace for us other than Him. For that we say, We ask Allah, we have appreciation for our teachers and our first teachers, our parents. We ask Allah for their mercy. We ask Allah, we recognize that Allah and His angels send their salutations and the blessings on the process on them. And we ask Him the same. We ask Allah, if there is no source of peace for us other than Him. We ask Allah, if there is no source of peace for us other than Him.