 الله أكبر الله أكبر لا إله إلا الله وعود على في كتابه الكريم بعد عوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيب بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم شهر رمضان الذي أنزل فيه القرآن هدى للناس وبينات من الهدى والفرمان فمن شهد منكم الشهر فليصم ومن كان مريضاً أو على سفر فعدة من أيام أفر يريد الله بكم اليسرة ولا يريد بكم العصر ولي تكمل العدة ولي تكبر الله على ما هدىكم ولا علىكم تشهرون الله سبحانه وتعالى to Him is all praise and to Him is all praise and to Him is all sugar الحمد لله we have made it through the month of Ramadan الله سبحانه وتعالى has given us the great honor, the great privilege and the great blessing to witness this day of Eid الله سبحانه وتعالى says in his holy book that the purpose of Ramadan is so that we can have gratitude towards Him He says in the Quran كتب عليكم صيام كما كتب علي الذين من قبلكم لعلكم تتدقون that fasting is prescribed upon us so that we may achieve تقوى God consciousness but when he talks about Ramadan سبحانه وتعالى he says so the purpose of Ramadan is so that you may be grateful to Him سبحانه وتعالى so that we can embody what it means to have sugar to Allah this celebration that we partake in today on this blessed day of Eid is a celebration then of gratitude it is not a celebration of look how I did so much good in Ramadan and so now I am getting this blessing of Eid it is not that I am deserved of something it is not that look at what is owed to me now it's not about my right to celebration it is a blessing that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has given us it is a form of gratitude and the gratitude is of the mercy and forgiveness of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and so we are meant to celebrate celebrate His mercy celebrate His forgiveness celebrate the good that He has allowed us to do not the good that we claim for ourselves rather we ascribe the good to Him سبحانه وتعالى and so it's a day of joy and a day of فرح a day of happiness and this is the sunnah of Eid to show your happiness on your faces show it through the clothes that you wear show it through the food that you feed people and the food that you eat but what accompanies this happiness and what is natural for human beings is an accompaniment of grief and sorrow where does this grief and sorrow come from one we set goals in Ramadan and we set goals throughout the year that these are the accomplishments that I want to make these are the things that I want to do these are the things that I have planned for my Ramadan I have planned for my life and when those goals are not met there is a form of regret that takes place in our heart in which which causes us to grieve which brings upon our hearts sorrow so there is one element of difficulty then when we just look out and we see doesn't it feel a little bit hypocritical that we are so happy and having fun and experiencing joy when so many Muslims across the world are experiencing pain and suffering what do we do with them how do we reconcile between these two opposite emotions it seems how am I supposed to have joy and happiness when at the same time due to my own shortcomings and due to the situation of the Muslims my heart is filled with grief and sorrow what is the solution between these two when Allah tells us to be happy on this day how do we bring about this happiness while Allah سبحانه وتعالى says إن الله مع الصابرين that Allah is with those who are patient He is ascribing a معية a witness to Him سبحانه وتعالى through the patient that we observe so if we can be patient through whatever we are afflicted with Allah سبحانه وتعالى tells us have glad tidings be joyous Allah سبحانه وتعالى guarantees for us tribulation in this earth He says وَلَنَبْلُوَنَّكُمْ بِشَيْئِمْ مِنَ الْخُوفِ وَالْجُوْعِ وَنَقْسِمْ مِنَ الْأَمْوَالِ وَالْأَنْفُسِ وَالْخِمَرَاتِ He says and there indeed I am going to test you I am going to try you with just a small amount بِشَيْئِمْ مِنْ with just a little bit of of what of hope of fear of joy of hunger the loss of life the loss of wealth the loss of fruits I am going to test you He is promising us that tests are bound to come upon us just a little bit of them He says what we experience is just a little bit of what He gives what we can give after these tests that He says He is going to try us what does He tell us وَبَشْيَدِسْصَابِرِينَ and glad tidings enjoy to the people of summer He says I am going to test you but if you are patient you should be happy you should be joyous you should be smiling with the faces of Noor with the faces of Noor by the Noor of Allah SWT if you are of the patient you should be happy you should be joyous how does one attain this how does one attain this joy Allah SWT says when they are afflicted with a trial or a tribulation anything that it may be قولوا they say إِنَّا لِلَّا هِوَ إِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ we belong to Allah and to Him is our return we are completely His property we are completely His servants we are completely submitted to Him سبحانه وتعالى this is the lens through which the person who is patient looks at the tribulation he looks at the tribulation with the lens of إِنَّا لِلَّا وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ so what does it mean to be of this lens Allah SWT says وَجَعَلَّا بَعْضَكُمْ لِبَعْدٍ فِتْنَا أَتُبْصِرُونَ وَكَانَ رَبُكَ بَصِيرًا that He is going to try us with one another He is going to make a challenge for us amongst one another we are going to be tried and we are going to be tested will you be patient indeed Allah is بصير over everything that you do He is witness and seeing over everything that is happening we need to have the بصيرة we need to have the vision the بصيرة of سبب of patience of إِنَّا لِلَّا وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ through difficulty we will come out stronger through difficulty bearing with patience we will be given joy and glad tidings with smiles on our faces in this life and in the next إيمان بُصيري in his بُردى شريخ he mentioned a few lines that culminate this entire talk he says في صليبه إن أمارتي بالسوء ما التعظت من جهلها بنذير الشيبي والإحرمي ولا عدة من الفعل الجميل قرى ضيفا برأس غير محتشن that my soul it inclines towards evil because of the ignorance within my soul وخطف في قوة ددتي even when I try to advise give advice to my soul when I try to advise it with my gold with my old hair with my gray hair and my broken back it still doesn't listen من لي برد أجماله من غوايتها كما يرد جماه الخيلي باللجم فلا ترم بالمعاصي كسرة شهوتها إن الطعام يقوى شهوتها و النفسه قطف لي انتهمله جب على قبر الله و انضمه ينفطمي من سيساعدني أن تساعد هذا النفس مني؟ يبدو أنه يساعدني أن تساعدني أن تساعدني أن تساعدني أن تساعدني if I need to be strong, eating is not going to help Eating is not going to help control my soul rather eating is only going to increase my appetite increase my Sh需要 when enough to get lifley your ego your soul is like a child like a little baby it needs milk to grow and if you keep giving it milk it's going to grow old only needing milk but you have to wean the baby off of the milk so that the baby can go grow stronger through the difficulty of weaning of the baby through the difficulty that the baby screams and asks and begs for milk the parent say no we need to take you off of it so that you can grow we are like that baby the difficulty that we experience are opportunities for us that Allah is telling us to grow strong don't rely on your food i give you Ramadan for that to show you how strong you can be without food do not look at the trials that are faced with that you are afflicted with you don't come with you come with good or not good it doesn't matter it's how you react to those trials are you patient do you have the lens of we are like with Allah like a baby is with his parents completely helpless absolutely nothing in our power given exactly what is given to us and we just cry and beg oh الله take this pain away but through that experience through that crying through that grief through that sorrow through that sadness الله سبحانه وتعالى is giving us strength through that pain we come out on the other side stronger through that pain الله سبحانه وتعالى وَبَشْيَدِسْ سَوَابِرِينْ غَلَا تَيْدِينْتُ to you so as we look upon this day we need to look at it with joy we have been patient this month we are continuously patient we are patient with you yeah Allah Ramadan prove that Ramadan prove that we can be patient we stayed away from food and drink for your sake يا الله allow us now to rejoice so with that we say الله سبحانه وتعالى says in his glorious book يا أيها الذين آمنوا صلوا عليه وسلموا تسليما let us partake in the action done by Allah and His angels on this joyous day with smiles on our faces and happiness in our hearts الله سلي على سيدنا محمد وعلى آل سيدنا محمد كما صليت على سيدنا إبراهيم وعلى آل سيدنا إبراهيم إنك حميد مجيد الله مبارك على محمد وعلى آل محمد كما باركت على إبراهيم وعلى آل إبراهيم في العالمين إنك حميد مجيد عباد الله رحمكم الله إن الله يأمر بالعدي والإحسان وإتائذ القربى وينهان الفحشاء والمنكري والبغي يعيذكم لعلكم تذكرون اذكروا الله يذكركم ودعوه يستجب لكم ولا ذكروا الله يتعالى أعلى وأولى وأكبر عيد بارك