 As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Wa kulli aam wa antum bi khayr. Masha'Allah, we thank Allah for the opportunity as we celebrate the remaining day of Eid and the blessings that are a part of this Eid. What I think about in the celebration of the Eid and perhaps you've heard me talk about this before, where I said that each one of the zikr that we read after the salat, it's almost as if it brings us to a different station. So as we said, the Subhanallah is one of fascination. We look at the creation of Allah, we say Subhanallah, we're fascinated by it. And Alhamdulillah is one appreciation. Alhamdulillah, aladhi at-ta'umana wa saqana wa ja'ana min al muslimin. We show appreciation to Allah for the food and the drink that He has given us and for making us Muslims. Alhamdulillah, aladhi at-ta'umana wa saqana wa ja'ana min al muslimin. We appreciate Allah has given us life after giving us death, meaning death is a sleep is a sister of death in our tradition here. He's given us life, so we show appreciation for that. And then we say Allah Akbar. So Subhanallah, Alhamdulillah, Allah Akbar. So fascination, appreciation, celebration. The Takbir is celebration. The Takbir of the Eid, a celebration of what? A forgiveness from Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. For me it's special in that I took my Shahada just a few days before the Eid and it was separated by a Jumu'ah. So a Jumu'ah preceded the Eid. So when I went to the Jumu'ah, the Imam said, there is a day that is coming up. If you fast it, Allah will forgive your sins from the year past and Allah will forgive your sins for the year coming. I said, Allahu Akbar. I hit the halal lottery. Subhanallah. Everything that had done in my life 26 years up to that point, just by fasting on this day, I had never fasted a day in my life. I was in South Africa, it was summer, it was hot. The brother said, come to the beach with me. I said, okay, you're Muslim, I'm only Muslim 48 hours, let's go. Went to the beach, I advise you, don't go to the beach if you're fasting. For many reasons, your health and other reasons as well too, but we'll leave that at that. So celebration, celebration for the forgiveness of Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala. And that celebration should lead us to hope. And the hope should lead us to what I wanna talk about today. There's a story, it's in Sahih Muslim, that Abu Mas'ud, radiAllahu anhu, he narrates from the Prophet, Sallallahu alayhi wa ala ala ali wa sahbihi wa sallam. And he gives this warming, this warming story of the last person to come out of the Hellfire. The Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam gives a description of the last person to come out of the Hellfire. And so what does this indicate to us as we set up this story, think about this. Man kana fi qalbihi mithqala, warutin mil iliman dahilal janmah. That the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam has informed us that the person who has a mustard seed, and scholars say that, you know, this is something that is almost immeasurable. It is such a light weight in and of itself, that a person who has just a mustard seed, that's why it was chosen, it was said. If a person has a mustard seed weight of imman in their heart, they will enter paradise. So the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says that this man, he crawls away from the Hellfire. He says his face is slipping into the dirt. He's trumbering as he walks. And it says that the fire is lashing out and he escapes from it. And when he is back at it, he looks back and he says with a loudest voice, Alhamdulillah ala di, all appreciation again, he says, Alhamdulillah, for the one who has saved me from you, talking to the fire. And then he says that I have been rewarded with something that no one from the beginning to the end of the creation has been blessed with. Meaning that he has escaped from the fire. And it says at that moment, a tree catches his eye. It was commanded by Allah to be raised for him and he quickly raises his hand and he supplicates, yeah, Allah, allow me to draw near to that tree so I can benefit from its shade and drink from the cool water which is next to it. Then Allah says, oh, son of Adam, I fear that if I grant this to you that you will ask me for more. And at that moment, no Allah, he says, he pleads with him and he testifies I shall not ask you for anything else. And as the man is sitting there in the glory of the tree, Allah grants it to him. Another tree is raised. And it's more beautiful than the one that he is sitting under. More lush, more water and the man pleads, yeah, Allah, allow me to draw near to this tree so that I can benefit and I can cool off under its shade and drink from its water. And Allah says, didn't you just promise me? That you would not ask me anymore? So if I give this to you, perhaps you will ask me for even more. And then the man says, yeah, Allah, no, I swear, this is it. And just as that, he sees the doors of Jannah. And as he says here, affwan, at this point, he sees a tree near the doors of Jannah. And he says, oh, Allah, that tree, I'll ask you for nothing else. So this third tree, oh, Allah, I'll ask you for nothing else. Didn't you promise this to me that you would ask me for nothing more? After this tree, yeah, Allah, nothing. And he draws near to this tree. And he says that as he comes near this tree and he enters the door, close to the doors of Jannah, he hears the people, oh, Allah, enter me into Jannah. Oh, Allah, enter me into Jannah. And for those of you who have been to the Ka'bah, my first year when I took my Shahada, Allah blessed me that I went for Hajj. And the image that is ingrained in my mind right now is the image of the doors of Multazim, of the between the Blackstone and the doors of the Ka'bah. And I thought to myself, as the people were grabbing onto the cloth of the Ka'bah, the Qiswa, as they were struggling with each other and they're wrestling with each other to kiss the Blackstone or to get to the place which is called Multazim where it says that the dua is readily accepted at that place. And I thought all of this fighting, all of this kind of going back and forth and the doors were closed, I said, yeah, Allah, never close the doors of Jannah on me. Think of that image, if you've ever been there before, of that type of fighting, that type of longing to kiss the Blackstone, imagine we came to the doors of Jannah and they were closed. So as he sees these doors and he sees the people, oh, Allah, enter me into Jannah. And he says, Allah then calls to him and he says, oh, son of Adam, what will satisfy you and finish you pleading? What will satisfy you and stop you asking me? And then he says, oh, Allah, and then Allah tells him, will it please you if I give you all of these treasures and all of the bounties of this entire world and I doubled it and then the man smiles and he looks up, lowering his head. And he says, yeah, Allah, you are the Lord of the worlds. You have all power and all authority. Why do you ask me this question? You know that I want this. And then at this time, Ibn Mas'ud, narrating the hadith, he says he begins to laugh. And then the Sahaba asked, yeah, why are you asking? And he said, because the Prophet, say, Salaam, laughed when he told this story. And he said, do you know what makes me laugh? The Prophet, say, Salaam, they asked, he said, what made the Prophet, say, Salaam, laugh? Is that when the man said that you are the Lord of the universe, are you mocking me? And he says that I am not mocking you, Allah, says, rather I am capable of doing whatever I wish. I am capable of doing whatever I wish. And what I take from this story is that Allah is taking a person who perhaps did not have a man, did not have the actions of the people to sit here in a Juma'a, to have the actions of the people who fasted the 10 days of the l-Hijjah, to have the action of the people who fasted in the day of Arafat, to feed people, to give Sadaqah, to make the Amal that is inside of this community, perhaps this person was not even at the degree of Iman of that, and yet Allah gives him, do you not want the boundaries of this world? And I will double it for you, and I will give you this tree, and I will give you that tree, and I will enter you into Paradise, but yet now we sit in and we think about every page that we turn to in the Quran has some sort of description of Jannah. That's the hope of these days. And although we weren't on the plane of Arafat, but yet Allah allows us to have a piece of that and actions are by intentions, and if we have the intention to be on Hajj and to be with the Hujjaj, by the permission of Allah, Allah will write that for us to be with the Hujjaj. Ya Allah, I didn't make 45, 50, 60, 70 Hajj, but you made intention for it, my servant. You made intention for it, may Allah make us of those people. So as we said here, this is what we're talking about. We've never seen Jannah. We've never experienced Jannah. And the prophet has told us in the hadith Qudsi that Allah has said it's what no eye has ever seen and no ear has ever heard and what hasn't even come on the consciousness of anything from his creation. And no soul knows what is hidden for them of the comfort, meaning the satisfaction, as a reward for what they used to do. What we used to do in Jannah. This is what I'm hoping that these days will bring within us. This is what I'm hoping that these days will inspire within us, that despite everything that is happening in this world, that this is our resting stop. This is not the final abode. This final abode, as we said, is something that we cannot even comprehend. Hasn't come on the consciousness of anything, the consciousness of anything of Allah's creation. No eye has ever seen, no ear has ever heard and it's not on the consciousness of anything from the creation of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And Allah has put us in that category. As real as we're sitting here today is as real that we will experience the reality of that next life. And to confirm that after the battle of Badr, when those that the Prophet ﷺ said to them, those that put the camel entrails on his back when he was in Sujood and couldn't come up and those that had slain or those that had harmed his family and killed the 70 of the Sahaba and all of these things, when the Prophet ﷺ mentioned that such and such will perish here and such and such will perish here and so and so will perish here and they found that on Badr and all of them were in the places that the Prophet ﷺ had walked to and pointed to and said that they would die there. And then when all of them were buried the Prophet ﷺ said to them, have you not found the promise of which your Lord has promised you? And Omar radiya Allahu anhu he turns to the Prophet ﷺ says, Ya Rasulullah, you talk to them and they are dead. He said, Ya Omar, they hear me better than you hear me right now. The Prophet ﷺ said to Omar radiya Allahu anhu with the iman of Omar radiya Allahu anhu, Ya Omar, they hear me better than you hear me right now. That reality that we're all travelling to that destination. But alhamdulillah Allah has given us a guide ﷺ to guide us through this journey and to guide us home. I just want to leave and quickly with this verse here. That as we said that imagine that we are present on the day when the gates of jinnah will be opened with all of its splendor and that lie and that which lies inside of it. And as the Qur'an tells us, Allah make us of those people. May Allah make us of the people of Taqwa. May Allah make us from the Ameen. It will be said to them. And those who fear their Lord, al-Muttaqoon, they will be led to the gardening crowds. Allah make us from those crowds. Until behold they will arrive there. These gates will be opened and the keepers, huzna to hawa say salamun alaykum. The Malayka will say to us, salamun alaykum. You have done well. So enter paradise. Enter jannah and dwell in here forever. This is the reality, alhamdulillah, that we are promised. This is the reward for getting up for fajr. This is the reward for paying the zakat. This is the reward for being nice to people even when they are harmful to us. This is the reward of following the Prophet's Islam's orders. This is the reward, alhamdulillah, raising a family that are believers in Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala. This is the legacy that will leave for our children. May Allah make us people of Jannah Ameen. Allahumma alhamdulillahi wa mu'minina wa al-mu'minaat. Al-muslimina wa al-muslimat. Allah ha'im minhum wa al-amwati al-hammur al-rahmeen. Allahumma sali wa salim al-baalik al-asirin wa muhammad fil awwalin. Allahumma sali wa salim al-baalik al-asirin wa muhammad fil awwalin. Allahumma sali wa salim al-baalik al-asirin wa muhammad fil mala ala ila yawm ad-din. Ya Rabbi al-Alamin. Allahumma fta'alina abwab al-rahmatika ya'r hamur al-rahmeen. Wa l-khinna fi jannati ya'a Allah. Allahumma inina as alaka al-rahmatika ya'r amr al-rahmeen. Allahumma l-khinna fi jannat ya'a Allah. Tahti dillika ya Rabbi al-Alamin. Tahti liwaii seydina Muhammadin. Salallahu alai wa alai wa sahb al-salam. Tahti dillika ya'a hafid ya'a hafid ya'a hafid. Allahumma ihdina siratak al-mustaqin ya Rabbi al-Alamin. Wa salli ala huma ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala ala alai wa sahb al-salam. Subhanahu al-Rabbi al-Rabbi al-Azzatina wa ala al-Masifun. Wa salli ala amr al-borsaleen. Wa alhamdulillahi Rabbi al-Alamin. Aqim as-salat. Ya Rabbi al-Alamin, Ya Rabbi al-Alamin.