 This day of Eid, the Eid of Sacrifice is the Eid in which we commemorate Ibrahim A.S and him being put under the test of his Lord, when Allah asked him to slaughter and sacrifice his own son. And this Eid is a reminder of the shukr of the results of sacrifice that Allah Azza Al-Jad asked us to sacrifice. So literally make something sacred, comes from the word sanctity, right? Sacred sacrifice, to make something sacred. But this day is a day where we show happiness because of the result of the sacrifice that we make throughout the year or throughout the weeks, throughout the months on and so forth, throughout our lives that we celebrate that. So we say Allahu Akbar. Allah is greater than all things. Allah is greater than any sort of pain that I may feel in my sacrifice. Allah is more, Allah is greater than any constriction I might feel in my sacrifice. Allah is greater than the result of my sacrifice. Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar wa la ilaha illallah. Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar wa la ilaha illallah. The paragon of sacrifice is Ibrahim A.S. The pinnacle. After the Prophet A.S., if you want to know who is the pinnacle of sacrifice, it is Ibrahim A.S. If you want to know what it means to give, to give the happiness in the heart away from what Allah desires, from what Allah wants. When Allah A.S. tells Ibrahim A.S. energy to tell his son Isma'een that, oh my son, I'm going to have to lay you and I'm going to have to sacrifice you because this is the command of Allah. And look at the tasneem between both Ibrahim A.S. and Isma'een A.S. When he says, if that's the command from your Lord, Ya'ad, my father, then do it. And you will find me from those who are patient. So Isma'een A.S. with the sacrifices of his father and the sacrifice of his own self, says, insha'Allah, insha'Allah, with the will of Allah, you will find me from those who are patient. And so we're not asked to do something that grand. Allah doesn't make it difficult. Perhaps we have to sit through the sun for a little bit. Standing prayer early in the morning when we could have slept in on a Saturday. But that's part of the sacrifice. I'm sure I've got it towards Allah. Ya'Allah, throughout this year you have given me ease. And Ya'Allah, I ask for your ease through the coming year, Ya'Allah. I ask that whatever sacrifice I do, Ya'Allah, it's not difficult on me. You don't make the demands on me difficult. And with this consistent, this consistent, this consistency that Ibrahim A.S. had with his Lord, where first he had to leave his uncle. His uncle said, if you're not going to worship the idols that I worship, leave. And so he said, he left. And he said, I'm going to make dua for you. Right? So he leaves. And his people turn away from him. And eventually he has his first child, Ishaq A.S. And he loves him. After many years, after many years, Sara A.S. gives birth to Ishaq A.S. And then after that, his second wife, Hajar A.S. And he's asked both to sacrifice Ishaq A.S. and leave his wife in the desert and leave his son in the desert. After so much, so much difficulty. And Hajar A.S. she says, is this from the command of your Lord? He says, yes, this is from the command of my Lord. She says, then I submit to it. And he leaves and comes back. He leaves her with absolutely no food, no water in the desert of Arabia, in Mecca, with absolutely nothing. And she's running between back and forth between Safa and Marwa, seven times with a child. The concern she must have had for the child and for herself as well, that she has no food, she has no water, runs back and forth until Allah sees this patience and Allah sees the sacrifice. And then Zemzem births forth. She says, Zumi. She says, stop, Zemzem. Stop, this water is gushing forth. It became too much. The word of Allah for her became more than she could handle. She says, Zumi, stop. That's where the word Zemzem comes from. Means to stop. Zemzem means to stop. So you say twice means to stop twice. And Allah births forth that blessing for her. And that well is here today from her sacrifice, A.S. From the sacrifice of Ibrahim A.S. From the sacrifice of Ismail A.S. Because these people knew who they were. They knew that they were the servants of Allah A.S. They did not forget their Lord. So Allah did not forget them. Don't be like the people who forgot Allah. So Allah made them forget themselves. They became distracted with their objective in life. They didn't forget what their objective was. They did not realize their objective here is to be the vice-gerent of Allah A.S. on this earth. To be the one who brings solace to the rest of creation. They forgot that they are Ibad Allah. That they are the servants of Allah. And Allah made them forget. We need to remember who we are. On the millah of Ibrahim A.S. Through the means of the Prophet A.S. The he, A.S. came to clarify what the millah of Ibrahim A.S. is. This tradition which is millennia old. Thousands of years old. The corrective came against Allah A.S. And we need to remember that that's the ummah that we are a part of. That that's the millah we are a part of. So when Allah A.S. says كنتم خير أمة أخرجت للناس You are the best of people who have ever come to mankind. Why? تأمرون بالمعروف that you enjoy the good. وتنهون عن المنكة you forbid the evil. وتؤمنون بالله and you truly believe in Allah. And that is our objective. And before we can join somebody else to the good and forbid someone else from the evil we need to perfect our own iman. We need to be people who see the good manifest in our own lives. We need to see evil prohibited in our own lives to become effective conduits for الآن يرون بالمعروف those who command towards good and join good. ونهون عن المنكة and those who forbid that which is evil. So may Allah A.S. make us people who do not forget our objective. أبقون قودي هذا وستغفر الله لي ولكم نساء المسلمين يقوم استغفروا إنه المغفر الرحيم. اسم الله و الحمد لله وسلم على رسول الله و على آله و صحبه ولا الله أكبر الله أكبر الله أكبر لا إله إلا الله و الله أكبر الله أكبر الله أكبر لله الحمد. الله أكبر الله أكبر الله أكبر لا إله إلا الله الله أكبر الله أكبر الله أكبر الله أكبر الله اكبر الله أكبر الله أكبر لا إله إلا الله الله أكبر الله أكبر الله أكبر من الله الحمد. Our Entire Dean can be summarized in that statement. الله أكبر That no matter what act that we do. Whether it is an act of Ibadah orアادah Whether it's an act of worship or it is an act of our normal habit. that we first are cognizant that Allah is Greatest. That when Allah desires to mask His Greatest, then what we desire for ourselves. So we should remind ourselves that Allah is Greatest, Allah is Greatest. La ilaha illa Allah, Allah is Greatest. There's no deity, nothing that can enter our heart. That can take, that can be the center of our heart. The pivot of our spiritual heart except for Allah. La ilaha illa Allah, Allah is Greatest. And nothing but Allah. And Allah is then again greater. So we remind ourselves consistently on this day, and we show happiness to Allah that He is greater than us and that we don't see ourselves greater than something else. Because we can't trust ourselves and leave ourselves to our own devices to figure things out. We don't have, we're not al-alim, we're not the one who knows every particular aspect of everything there is to be known. We're not al-hakim, the one who has absolute wisdom. But we don't know what's best for us. So we make shukr to Allah that we believe Allah is everything. La ilaha illa Allah, Allah is greatest. Praise be to Allah, Allah is greatest. Allah has been cognizant of this reality. Allah has made people up patient. Allah has made people up gratitude. For the blessing of Iman, for the blessing of Min ее 정도로heuha ultimate praise to Allah. And the blessing of I Choice, for those who don't have family, because they're blessed by praying. Mlighting everyone. We thank Allah for that blessing. If you don't have children, thank Allah for that blessing. That, if you're in health, We thank Allah for that blessing. If we're not in health, then we thank Allah for the blessing of not being in health. And we ask Allah who gives us aafiyah, that whatever is difficult for us, he lifts that difficulty from us. And we realize that he is greater than us. So say Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar, la ilaha illallah, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar. Wa li-llahi al-hamdu wa a'idihi al-mubarak.