 Ramadan. That 29 to 30 days of fasting for the sake of Allah, of standing hopefully in prayer in some portion of the night prayer for the sake of Allah. And the one who did this, inshaAllah for all of us, and did it with sincerity, as the Prophet ﷺ tells us, that the one who fasts, Monsamah Ramadan, Iman and Rakhisabah, the one who fasts Ramadan with faith and with an expectation of the reward will emerge from the month forgiven, will be forgiven for their past sins. And so the believers, Alhamdulillah, the one of the reasons why we celebrate this day of Eid is to be grateful to Allah for the forgiveness that we've achieved in this noble month of Ramadan. And for the purity that we've achieved in this noble month of Ramadan. And when this forgiveness is achieved, when this purity is achieved, what happens? A light comes in the heart of the believers. The believers always have a light that this light increases and it becomes stronger and stronger and stronger. And you and I, we become more and more purified. The light becomes more perfected in this month of Ramadan. And then you emerge from this month, completely, plants and pure. Allah ta'ala, he says in the Qur'an, that O you who believe that have fear of Allah, Taqwa Allah, and believe in his messenger, and he will bestow upon you a doubt by which you shall navigate, and he will forgive you for mentioning that I am sort of upon that when somebody needs, how amazing is a religion that somebody could have been caught to lights, which now help you on your path to Allah. This is the religion who is back out. This creation that's back out, that is the shayateen. So we have to be unbarred in the first for the blessings that we are experiencing. And while Eid is a happy occasion, an extremely heavy with the atrocities that we are seeing against our brothers and sisters that have been perpetrated now for us. And we ask and we pray that Allah give them relief, that Allah give them footage, that Allah give them an opening also the shayateen and it's the shayateen of human beings, the human shayateen, the human devils that they are and their spread corruption on this earth, even while the believers were trying to hold fast to their Lord and hold fast to the rope of their Lord and to what example have our brothers and sisters in Palestine set for us that they are exemplifying and in many other parts of the Muslim world in Sudan and other parts that we are struggling with immense tribulation. What is Islam and proper belief in Allah and unlock for you? And that's why I'm sure that they're saying, what is this? What is this amazing religion that gives us ourselves the brothers and sisters while we are sitting here? Alhamdulillah, that basking and swimming in the blessings that all of these blessings. But what is our responsibility when it comes to serving the prophets? They struggle with their cells. They struggle in the path of Allah for the sake of this being. We have to ask ourselves on this day when we can limit our human potential because he knows the potential of the human being. He was jealous of Adam, alaihi salam, of us here as a special purpose for why Allah put you on this planet. It's not just that structure, the way that the people who are unsure of what their purpose is, that's how they operate we only created man, I, and Jinn for worship in order to know me as a vice-gerent, as a representative of this planet, to do good and to stop. This is one of the main responsibilities of the believer in the shaitan. He knows that. And so he tries through gradual that it is all to get you and I to fall from this high potential that we have, which especially on this day of Eid is unlocked because of the new words put the shaitan progressively one small thing, one small thing, one small thing until he comes to us. And we are now we might end up in the worst thing that we're in reverse if we understand our purpose as Allah says in the Quran. Prayer, my sacrifice, my life, my death are all for Allah, the Lord of the world. This is the ultimate goal that the believer wants to get to that it's whatever Allah is giving. It's like the life of Imran alaihi salam is Allah mentioned Surah al-Imran. She when she was pregnant, she said, I dedicate whatever is in my home entirely to you, entirely to you and your service. And she was thinking that it was going to be a boy and the temple as they usually would do time if you wanted to dedicate that service to the temple. But who was born then? It was Mariam alaihi salam. She was the one with her. She said Allah is a girl, it's a girl, it's not like Allah said Allah knew exactly who it was going to be. But what what was that intention, the deep intention to dedicate what was in the truth for the sake of Allah in one of the most pious women to ever walk the face of this earth. I say that this amazing woman who had many miracles happen on her hands, including this amazing earth of peace, alaihi salam, all because of this intention that was dedicated, dedicating what I have for the sake of Allah. And I say, the Omar during the Qadab, the one he said, that barely we were disgraceful people. And Allah in anything else from anything else besides that which Allah honored us, Allah will disgrace us. Because this Omar is supposed to seek its honor in the most noble of Allah's creation and in the being in the being of Islam, that the way in the way of Allah, the way inside Islam, that's what we are elevation in, not in our positions, and in our titles at work, and how much money we make, and how many homes we have, how many cars keep us caught up in the in the life of the Zunia, Zubiana, the nasi hookah Shahabat, Allah said, help to the life of this dunya. But that's not the purpose. We can do those things. But what if we use those things then for the sake of our Lord? That's his title, that's his goal. He's trying to get everybody to mess up their understanding and his life up. So do not let him because Allah has a goal of trying to get us out. Allah is what the belief Allah is doing for the believers and what inshallah was just done in Ramadan. And we ask Allah accepted for us. There are those who disbelieve, that those who disbelieve their guardians are the evil ones, Allah says. And so what is the Shaddan trying to do? He is trying to bring us out of this life and he does it with gradual steps. What's the first thing he goes after after the month of Ramadan is our prayer. The first thing that goes after is the prayer. And perhaps we were consistent with our prayers in the month of Ramadan and we might have woken up this morning and made me miss Fajr Salat. And people might prioritize to eat Salat which is not a Fajr Salat over the Fajr Salat. This is how the Shaitan works. He tries to delude us. He tries to get up to stay up late. To miss out, to forget what's important. Don't let Shaitan take away the biggest asset, most precious thing that you have, which is your prayer. On this day of Eid, protect your prayer so that you can guard yourself against the Shaitan for the rest of the year. Allah says Salawat. That protect, literally guard your prayer. Guard it. Guard it with whatever you can do. Protect it. Do what you need to do to guard the Fajr and the Boher and the Asr and the Maghrib and the Isha. We have appointments and meetings and flights to catch. We don't miss any of those things for the most part if we have to do it. But prayer time comes and goes and we get distracted and we let the delusion of Shaitan get to us. Don't let that happen anymore. This is the time. If it's not this year, then when is it? If it's not after this Ramadan, then when is it? If it's not after seeing the state that our ummah is going through when they are still praying to Hanala in the rubble of the mosque in Gaza, that they're praying the tarawih and they're praying the Eid prayer and they're prioritizing the worship of their Lord even though they're amidst immense tribulation. And yet we're sitting at humbly relaxed in our homes with air conditioning, with clean water, with so many, so much food to eat. Yet we still say there's nothing to eat. But all of these blessings that we have and we might miss the prayer. We might not prioritize the prayer. So focus on perfecting the prayer. If you are praying that in Jamaah regularly in Ramadan, don't lose that. If you are praying tarawih in Ramadan, try to pray Isha in the masjid in Ramadan. If that's something that you can put an extra effort in, it will protect, protect yourself. But guard the prayer, especially on the day of Eid. If you're busy, we might forget the prayer. Use that time to pray Jamaah and to also pray for your brothers and sisters who need our prayers right now. The second thing that the shayateen that go after is the tongue. The tongue to slip on. He says that I will surely sit in ambush lying in wait on the street. And one of the first things that we're going to try to do is get us to slip up with our tongue. How does he do that? Because now we're going to see people who haven't seen him in a long time and we're going to have a chance to talk to them about other people who we haven't maybe seen in a long time. And this is where the phila wa qal it starts. This person did this and said this and the backbiting in the liba and the na'ima. It begins. Don't let shaytan take all of the things you just earned in Ramadan and transfer them to somebody because that's the punishment for backbiting. One of the punishment is when you talk ill about somebody behind their back that you're giving them your good deeds. You don't even like that person. So why would you want to give our good deeds to that person? Let alone that all the other things that come. So we have to be on guard with what our tongue says in this day. And also be very careful on this day of argumentation and fighting and getting and letting things happen between yourself, your family, your spouses, your children. This is one of the main things shaytan, the shaykh need to try to do is to get people to start fighting on the day of Eid because they're back out. They see they've been purified and they say no let's cause problems between family members. Let's cause problems between spouses, problems between children and parents. Do not let the deluder delude you and let him slip let you slip up with the tongue and all of the other forms of the tongue, the sins of the tongue that we know of we have to be on guard for that. And as the prophet al-Isra al-Assam he says that the son of that's the shaytan he's lying and wait like like like pray like over the son of Adam like a predator. And if the son of Adam remembers Allah, shaytan retreats. And if he forgets Allah, shaytan empowers his heart. Look at the words that are used. They devour and lie and wait and the whisperer gets to them. So don't let this happen. Remember Allah as soon as you're about to say something out of anger or out of forgetfulness, we have to remember Allah says, inshallah, la ilaha illallah, allahu akbar, whatever thinker it is and the shayateen they will inshallah retreat. The third way that the shayateen they try to get to us on right after the day of Eid and right after is by trying to go after our modesty. That modesty is one of the chief traits of the believers, hayat, trying to be people of modesty, people of a type of shyness before their Lord. And what happens Allah says, al-Quran, old children of Adam, do not let say shaytan deceived you as he tempted your parents out of paradise and caused their cover, their clothing to be removed in order to expose their nakedness. That this is one of the main ways that shaytan will slowly try to go after a society is to try to get them to become more and more immodest in their dress, in their appearance, in their actions. All forms of modesty are covered here and this applies to men just as it does to women. That regardless of wearing tight attractive clothing that men are doing, they aren't the modesty. To try and be careful, we just worship Allah for an entire month. It is not on the day of Eid that certain things that would appear immodest in the eyes of Allah because we want to celebrate the favor. That's why we do so many taqirat in this day of Eid. We try to be grateful to Allah for it. And that's why the shaytan they try to get to us is our food intake. What was Ramadan all about? It was about restraining from food. It was about trying to stay away from eating things that were actually permissible. Stay away, you know, at 11 a.m. you can't just eat a banana because you're hungry. But today, you can eat a banana because it's Eid. We're not fast anymore. But a banana was always permissible. But in Ramadan, in a specific period of time, it becomes impermissible. But what the shaytan tries to do is, after he sees this amazing light that's emerged from the believers, he knows one of the fastest ways to ruin that light and to spread darkness is through food intake. How so? Through trying to get us to consume things that are not halal in the sight of Allah and try to get that cover our hearts with darkness. As Allah says in Muqtana, that ya ayyuh had nas, eat from what is on this earth lawful and good. And that don't fall on the footsteps of shaytan. Directly linked in another ayah, he says, do not eat upon that which the name Allah has not been mentioned. The time for indeed is a grave disobedience of significant disobedience. And then he says that the shayateen will incite their followers to try to argue with you. For now, I'm just going to go for the vegetarian option. If you didn't eat the biha or halal, try and hold fast to that for as long as you can because as shaytan, this is one of the fastest ways towards darkness. And remember it's a slow erosion of art that we are 1.5 some billion strong and we have so much potential in us from our heart of hulu ko ni hada, but let's talk a little about it. He pulled up and he told us that the times are going to get more and more difficult. He mentions in Muqtadi that as groups, two factions, that of the faction of iman and the group of iman in belief with no verses darkness about good versus evil. And that is the exact direction that this world is headed towards the truth. And inshallah we'll be on the side of haqq and the side of faith. And then you're seeing people of extreme hypocrisy, next levels of hypocrisy that you can imagine that the policies that governments around the world are in this fashion of darkness. But the question is to us as Muqtadi as believers, is what are we going to do if it's not this Ramadan? Which Ramadan is it? If it's not today, when is it the goal that we want to have? And this is this light. But remember the potential is a great thing. But it also has challenges when it tries to make us think that for us in the next light. So we have to ask ourselves, what is our responsibility? As in Muqtadi, the first thing we should be doing regularly is making go after men who didn't have his parents anymore to wish him being Mubarak because his parents had passed away in this brutal occupation, this brutal genocide. And the parents that who wanted to wish him Mubarak and to comfort them like we do in this day, they don't have their siblings anymore. This is what our brothers and sisters are going to do. The sacrifices that they made move us to become better people for the sake of Allah and for the sake of this Muqtadi. That this is the time for us to finally change if we never change before. That next thing we can do for them is Syria, there in Afghanistan that are all over the Muslim world on many many many countries. That it's one of us to make the intention of Allah, one big homes, man a lot of space, very very easy lifestyles which can help undo the trauma that these people that they have been through. Because you're a prophet of Allah, he wasn't orphaned. He wasn't orphaned and he commanded us to take the orphanage anymore. I want to be that love that they don't have anymore. I want to provide that love and that protection. Spread that, spread that well. He submitted serving people, feeding people, starting soup kitchens, whether it's in business lunches and brunches and they'll be 10, 15, 20 options to eat from and there are so many people around the world but we fasted and we don't have anything for as far but we fasted, we just send them for the sake of our brothers and sisters and finally an issue is ask yourselves what can I do for this try to use a portion of that for the sake of your Lord. Don't let society think delude you and need to think that this days of Eid we've relaxed for with our families. We enjoy it but then when it is to snake the intention that Allah want to do something for you. It's 10 minutes a week, it's an hour a week. I want to do something for your sake. Say I want to invest for the sake of Allah. I want to help institutions establish endowment in the United States of America. Somebody who was an orphan, it was orphaned when he was young and he was caught up in the streets and he was caught up in the drugs and he was caught up with all sorts of hard-on prostitution and all sorts of other things and he was literally a gangster and then he got thrown into prison and after passing lots and lots of wrong in his life he got thrown into prison and then in that prison he transformed that this orphan who had been abandoned, filled with trauma, filled with difficult life on the streets Allah transformed him in this prison and he became one of the greatest American Muslims that we know we sincerely turn to Allah. Some of the best people who do the greatest work for the sake of Allah were steeped in so much harm and wrong before. Don't remember who turned sincerely to Allah. Allah will transform the bad that they've done into good so that intention becomes very very clear and if we do that, if we dedicate ourselves to our Lord and we make that niyah, we know the reward that is waiting for you. They migrated for the sake of Allah and they're striving in the cause of Allah with their selves, with their persons and their property meaning we're putting our dedication out there, we're putting in effort and we're sacrificing with them is the highest rank in the sight of Allah and the greatest of triumphs. That's what we want as an ummah. We want that for ourselves. We want that for the ummah globally. We want that for our brothers and sisters in Palestine. Allah, we ask Allah that you bestow on us the ability to do whatever it is that we can do for this ummah yalla and to serve you. We have to reform our hearts and protect us from the whispering that you know us and the best of ways that you that's in your work and in your service. We ask you for being good to the public so that we can ask for your protection and everything evil that you ask for protection from.