 In the schools and in the Hadith school it's an obligation, it's wajj, and so after each Fard Salat we say Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar daa ilaha illa Allah, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar. What in that, Alhamdulillah, this remains according to the Hadith school until Monday Salat Salat Al-Asr. So inshaAllah between now and Monday Salat Al-Asr, we all remember to make the Takfirah at least once after each prayer. And that these Takfirahs represent the entire orientation of the believer is that whatever our state is, whatever our circumstances, whatever the difficulties we might be facing, Allahu akbar, Allah is far greater, Alhamdulillah, Allah is far greater, La ilaha illa Allah, there is no deity but Allah, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, wa ila ilhamd. The Prophet said, Salat Salat al-Asr, the Hadith that tell me the relate, Afgar al-Zikr, La ilaha illa Allah, the best remembrance is La ilaha illa Allah, La ilaha illa Allah, La ilaha illa Allah. This is a day of celebration, it's also a day of toga, repentance and perhaps a repentance that all of us must partake in is not saying La ilaha illa Allah enough on our tongues, in our hearts, Afgar al-Zikr, La ilaha illa Allah, wa Afgar al-Dua, Alhamdulillah, the Hadith continues and the best application is Alhamdulillah because irrespective of the particulars of our circumstances, Alhamdulillah reigns supreme, Alhamdulillah reigns true. Alhamdulillah is perennial, universal, timeless, eternal, all craze belongs to Allah Azza wa Jalla and this is at the heart of our celebration is, we celebrate Allah in his messenger, Salallahu alayhi salam, we celebrate the Deen. Khud bi-fadda Allah wa bi-rahmatihi, gabi thalika fan yafrahu, hu wa khayru minna yajma'un, say by the mercy of Allah, by the bounty of Allah ta'ala and with the mercy of Allah ta'ala, gabi thalika, by that and that alone, fan yafrahu, let them celebrate, let them rejoice in a group, tabi yafrahu, yani jama'u, let them together celebrate and rejoice, hu wa khayru minna yajma'un, it's better than whatever the people of dunya might amass of their dunya, it's better than things, it's better than transient objects of this world or the fame that one might have in people's eyes or how they're able to impress the reputation and whatnot and power struggles and all of these things, these are asbab in the world but hu wa khayru minna yajma'un, the remembrance of Allah ta'ala is far superior than everything that people might amass of this world and so celebrating Allah as the wajal, celebrating the messenger, salat alayhi salam, celebrating the deen, this perfect sublime christine way of living that has been revealed to us as a tremendous mercy, these days are days of optimism, optimism is perhaps a la sunnah of our communities, we need to revive and particularly for the young people that we have to always be optimistic, the prophet said salat alayhi salam inna hadith la tayyata, there's no such thing as superstition, well your egyptian and fatlu but I love optimism, but I love optimism, wa al fatlu al kalimatul hasanatul ta'iba and optimism is good, beautiful words and what better kaliba than la ilaha illallah, what better kaliba than alhamdulillah, this is the basis of our optimism, the more we engage in the remembrance of Allah as the wajal in our tongues, on our tongues, in our hearts, the more our hearts will be filled with the light of optimism, it's only light that allows optimism, it's only life that allows optimism, we need to revive our hearts with the remembrance of Allah, the prophet said salat alayhi salam in the authentic hadith matub al adhi, yadkururabbahu, wa al nadeeda yadkururabbahu, ka mathe din hayi wa nade, o kamma khal, salat alayhi salam, the example of the one that makes remembrance of Allah as the wajal, compared to the one that does not make remembrance of Allah is like the example of the living and the dead and so this is life for our hearts and therefore it's light for our hearts and when our hearts are alive and full of light then inshaAllah we cannot tremendous optimism because our optimism is not in our own circumstance or our own means, our optimism is in the creator of our circumstances and the creator of our means and he is far transcended to be limited by any circumstance or to be limited by any means that's why means asbab are often the great veil that human being himself as a suburb is a great veil my own identity is a veil Allah Ta'ala His tremendous fiat transcends all of that subhanahu ta'ala and so we have to think beautifully of Allah Ta'ala and this is one of the fruits of our eating is to fill our hearts with this optimistic outlook rooted and dedicated in the remembrance of Allah as the wajal and the prophet himself said Allah is a couple of these two things together optimism in the thicker of Allah in the authentic hadith he said subhanahu ta'ala citing his door as a wajal the hadith putsy I'm the Zani abdibi what I'm a who if I can Subhan Allah look at the statement of Allah as the wajal expressed in the hadith of the prophet said Allah is a lot of them than the abdibi I am in the opinion of my servant of me if we think well of Allah Allah will manifest far better than that I am in the opinion of my servant of me what I'm a who if I the Kareni and I am with him when he makes a remembrance of me and so optimism coupled with the remembrance of Allah and what better way of being optimistic than to realize based on the statement of the Saadet and must do Saddam he only spoke the truth that Allah will be with us what is this maia what is this maia this witness of Allah as the wajal it's something that mine cannot encompass the mind the intellect does not have it's a tool that's used to discern good from evil and pursue the good but it cannot contain what it means for Allah to be with a person and so these are days of zikr and with that life and with that light comes the Rahmah of Allah as the wajal the person of optimism in his Lord is a person that receives unique Rahmah from Allah unique mercy from Allah it's it's it's something different than the general mercy that that permeates creation creation is permeated with the Rahmah of Allah Rahmati wassiaat my mercy encompasses everything but there's a unique Rahmah for the person who has a good opinion of Allah there's a unique Rahmah Allah used to say that when Allah Ta'ala wants to give a gift to a servant he first places in the heart of the servant a good opinion of Allah and then when the servant thinks well of Allah then the gift comes because it has to do with optimism this is why one of our early masters the great Syrian master of the third century Abu Suleiman al-Darani Rahmah of Allah he says man man has to know that no one has to know that whoever beautifies his opinion of Allah for that fatah Allah who I lay him out of Rahmah and Allah has already opened the door of mercy to that person Allah Ta'ala has already opened the door of mercy to that person this is one of the secrets of the people that Allah loves of the only a little as a wajal is there tremendous optimism in Allah this is one of the secrets of the and the one of the one of the legacies that we remember on this day is the legacy of our patriarch and forefather Ibrahim al-asr he was a great prophet of optimism al-asr when he's being thrust into the fire al-asr at a young age according to some of us sitting 16 years old when he's being thrust into that fire what's his outlook towards his board at that time subhan Allah al-asr to some to the extent that jubilee al-asr comes to offer assistance and he says as for you I don't need your help has been Allah who I'm here has been Allah who I'm here has been Allah who I'm here Allah is sufficient for us and the best one to rely on this is rooted in optimism Allah is sufficient for us he doesn't even make do I let alone ask something of creation as great as husband jubilee is al-asr not even turning to jubilee immersed in the remembrance and the optimism in his Lord and then what happens the fire is made but then was salam and ala Ibrahim cool and peaceful for Ibrahim our master Ibn Abbas said that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was also in a similar maqam and Allah revealed aladina called upon us in the nest of jama'u lakum fakhshahum fazaadahum imana wa qalu hasbun Allah who I'm here say that Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was also in a similar situation where the forces the legions have gathered to harm the Muslims fazaadahum imana their faith and optimism increased waqalu and they said hasbun Allah who I'm here Allah is our sufficiency in the best one to rely on to what will is this salient virtue that's coupled with to heed in our tradition and ma'ma ghazali and the hyangu bideen as many of you know he has a chapter called kitab with to heed what to welcome the book of affirming the oneness of Allah and reliance on Allah because the two go together the revelation of Islam is a revelation of monotheism to heed but the fruits of to heed in the lid experience of human beings that are devoted to this to heed is to welcome is reliance on Allah and this is not limited to Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the great saints of our ummah they all manifested to what go in their various moments perhaps one of the most salient examples in the time of the sahabah is our master say no athman of the radio album I'm who that when he was treacherously killed by rebels in Medina Munaura the blessed city of Medina and they cut off the supplies from going in and saying Ali was guarding the house and the Hussein was guarding the house and the Hussein was guarding the house and each one he told go home don't guard it go home don't guard it as Khalifa he did not want to meet the messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam having the blood a drop of blood of anyone on his of a single Muslim on his on his hand and so he wouldn't even allow the sahabah who wanted to defend him from defending him and then when they when the murders come in and they're about to do this catastrophic a catastrophe that to this day the calamities of that of the of the schisms affect our ummah and he warned them he warned them if you kill me the ummah will never be united like before it'll it'll get birth to a perennial sectarianism but when they came his wife ready a lot of she says if you dare to kill him or not realized that this man would keep the night alive in one he would recite the entire and that's what that was his state at that time he was immersed in the words of Allah in the Allah and when they did that deed the idea that he was reciting fa sayak feeqah Allah fa sayak feeqah Allah and Allah will suffice you against them it was where his last blessed words of the Allah when he was treacherously killed similar to Ibrahim al-Islam being thrown into the fire and he tells jibreel amma anta falaa say no atman he tells Hassan and say no I don't need your help I don't want your help saying Ibrahim al-Islam says our master atman he says fa sayak feeqah Allah the same meaning Tawakul Tawakul reliance on Allah Azza wa Jann what a beautiful human being I will say this sentence these are meanings that are easy to speak about but very difficult to actualize and And that one of our great scholars of our tradition, Sheikh Mustafa Al-Arusi, he was a sheikh of other in the 19th century. He says, that realized that the person of Tawakum, the person of reliance on Allah, is the individual who sees Allah Az-Zawajal in the forms of created means. In the forms of created means, fa'il and muhtarim, acting and having selected that eternally, Az-Zawajal. Having selected it eternally. With the things that the people who are availed ascribe to other things, that things do things. No, the people of Tawheed say Allah does everything. Things are simply the loci, the places in creation where Allah manifests His piyat, Az-Zawajal. Allah is the creator of every single thing. So, he consigns the affair to the one who already owns the affair. And he is satisfied with him, Az-Zawajal, as his wakir. It's about satisfaction. Realizing that our breaths and all the events in each moment and each breath of our lives has been decreed by Az-Zawajal. By Allah Az-Zawajal. Allah SWT has decreed it eternally. He has decreed it eternally Az-Zawajal. And so to be content and to hand over, this is one of the secrets of Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah, this beautiful zikr of the Fatiha. Some of our scholars say all of the Fatiha is found in Alhamdulillah. Because it encapsulates all of these meanings. And in the essence, one of the meanings of Alhamdulillah is to be content with whatever our circumstances. Aja Bani Amir al-Mu'min, the Prophet said, How wondrous is the affair of the believer? Inna Amrahu kullahu lahu khayr. His entire affair is good. Wa Laysa Darika liya hadin illa al-Mu'min. And this is only true for the sincere believer. The one who has tawakul and rida in Allah. Gida asabatu starraa. Shakira ful kana khayra. When good times befall him, he is thankful. Alhamdulillah. And that's better for him. Wa idha asabatu starraa. Saba ful kana khayra lahu. But if bad times afflict him, he is patient. Alhamdulillah. And that's better for him. And in the Rewah of the Musnad al-Mu'min, which is also Sa'eed, Aja Bani Amir al-Mu'min, laa liya Allahu shay'in illa kana khayra lahu. Subhanallah. How wondrous is the affair of the believer? Allah does not decree anything for him, except that it's good for him. Allah does not decree anything for him, except that it's good for him. And that's what our masters teach us. And that's what we have to revive. And that's the way we rejoice in these beautiful days. Imam al-Hussain, the grandson of the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi sallam, Hussain ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib. Hussain ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib, radiya Allahu an-Huma. One of another great legend of our Ummah. A great Imam of both the Sunnis and the Shias. An Imam that we all love as Muslims. It's not just part of the Ummah that love Sayinah. Hussain, in all of the Ummah of love, Sayyidina Imam al-Hussain, radiya Allahu an-Huma. He taught these same meanings. He said, radiya Allahu an-Huma. Man i'itamada, man i'itamada, ala husni ihtiyari Allahi lahu. Whoever relies on the beautiful choice of Allah for him, whoever relies on the beautiful choice of Allah for him, lam yata manna, ghayra maqtara Allahu lahu. He will not desire other than what Allah chose for him. He will not desire other than what Allah Azza wa Jalla chose for him. And he's someone else also who manifested these meanings when he was treacherously killed. When he was treacherously killed, alaihi s-salam. He also turned to Allah in full, in full, ridah. Contentment with Allah Azza wa Jalla. These are our great legends. These are the stories that we teach our young people. These are the people that we remember to revive our hearts and to rejoice so that we can elevate our hearts to rejoice in the remembrance of Allah and contentment with Allah and gratitude to Allah and reliance on Allah Azza wa Jalla. We ask Allah to make these meanings permanent and fixed in our hearts. We ask Allah to make us the people of the remembrance of Allah. We ask Allah to make us the people who celebrate Allah, His Oneness, Azza wa Jalla in all of our days and our nights and our good times and our bad times in full contentment with Him, Azza wa Jalla. Allahumma inna nisa luka tawfiq wa likhlas. Wa dawam mann ya'na wa husan khitan. Allahumma inna nisa luka... Allahumma may I have God with me everywhere. Allahumma may I have God with me everywhere. May I have an order by God to knee him as He entrusted us so we can enjoy our lives honestly, chant the prayer of God with ease Al-Husayman, Ima Tatiwata Zahrat, Wa Anas Baji Nalisa, Wa Alayhi Salam Al Tahrat, Wa Alayhi Al-Mu'liyina, Al-Israha, Al-Yajma'in, Wa Tabi'ina, Wa Tabi'ina, Bi-Ihsan, Ilayh Al-Din, Wa La'ahalil Al-Abu Wa La'a, Wa Tabi'ila, Bi-Lahi Al-A'il, Al-Abi, Subhanah, Rabi'l Karrab, Bi-Laih Zati'am, Al-Yasifun, Wa Salam Al-Alam, Al-Salim, Wa Al-Habbi, Bi-Lahi Rabbil Al-Ali, Al-Mu'liyina, Bi-Lahi, Al-Mu'liyina, Bi-Lahi, Al-Mu'liyina, Bi-Lahi, Al-Mu'liyina, Bi-Lahi, Al-Habbi, Subhanah, Al-Abi, Al-Salaam.