 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen Wa Salatu wa Salamu ala Rasulihi Al-Kareem Wa ala alihi wa sahabihi Al-Ajma'een Ma ba'aqf ya'idatullahi Usin kum wa usin nafsi bi taqwa Allah O servants of Allah, we praise Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and we send peace and blessings upon His last and final and most noble and most beloved Messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam I encourage you and I encourage myself to have taqwa of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and to glorify Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala with takbirat in the takbirs of this Saeed by saying Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar The Messenger of Allah, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in his sunnah on the way to A'id he would do the takbirat in the Mussalla as you have seen today it's the sunnah to do the takbirat and in his khutba after the salah he would do the takbirat Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar to be a constant reminder to us that on this day of joy and celebration that we don't forget that the reason that we are celebrating is to glorify Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar this day of celebration that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala has made as an Eid for us for the ummah of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the most beloved to him al-Habib al-Mustafa sallallahu alayhi wa sallam we are his ummah and he has made from his sunnah of celebration a'id for us and the day is a day of joy to remember the blessings of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala we spent this month in fasting and holding our infuse ourselves back from eating and drinking on other matters and we spent our times in the masajid and we spent our times reciting the Quran and after all this month all of this hard work a day of celebration and joy the day of breaking the fast this whole month was a day that we had to fast that it was an obligation upon us even though it was hard as Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says in the Quran that it is difficult and hard and something that is difficult for you to do but we have to fast during the month but on this day on the day of Eid it is haram too fast it is prohibited too fast because Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala wants to show us all the blessings of eating and the food and the sunnah of wearing new clothes so that we know the joy that Allah has given to us and the blessings that Allah has given to us some of the sunnahs of this day is to wear new clothes so that we can show the blessings Allah is showing us that during this month we were holding ourselves back intentionally from the blessings and water we were holding ourselves back and on this day he said enjoy those blessings I want you to see those blessings one day the messenger of Allah saw a man wearing shabby clothes and he called him over and he said or he asked about that man first and he said who is this person is he poor and they said no he actually has wealth so he called him over and he said wear clothes that reflect your blessings that show their blessings what and then he mentioned وَأَمَّا بِنِعْمَتْهِ رَبِّكَ فَحَدِّتْ from Surat al-Tuha as for the blessings of Allah make mention of them show them so even though during this month we were holding ourselves back from so many things putting ourselves almost in a state of a monastery Ramadan is an institution like a monastery we held back many of us might have reduced our work we reduced our social interactions we reduced our social media we reduced listening to things watching things interacting with things we reduced so much we went inward into almost like a monastery and we worked on ourselves and we worked on our souls but on this day it's the day to come out and to greet our brothers and sisters and to ask forgiveness from our brothers and sisters for anything that we may have done or said towards them and to remember the blessings of Allah that He has given us الله أكبر الله أكبر الله أكبر part of the remembering of the blessings is that we know now how to use the blessings of Allah and to have proper shukr of Allah pure and proper shukr is using the blessings of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to thank Him in His service in the two surahs that I recited in the Salah today per the sunnah of the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam surah sabbih and surah wa shamsi wa dhuhaaha in both of those surahs there is a mention about teskiyatun nufus purifying ourselves as almost a reminder to us that on this day of celebration this is not just a day just to celebrate for the purpose of celebration it's to remind us of who we are as Muslims and to remind us of the blessings that Allah has given us and how we use those blessings how we use those blessings during this month of training that we just finished this month of Ramadan and may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to reach the next Ramadan the Sahaba and the people of the Salaf used to spend the next the last six months after Ramadan being sorry for having missed Ramadan being over and then the six the five months before the next Ramadan looking forward to the next Ramadan the whole year was looking forward or being sad that Ramadan has gone and the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam used to make dua at the beginning of every month for him to reach Ramadan this is our hallmark month of the year our holiest month of the year and in it Allah through the immense blessings he has given us he has allowed us to see what we're capable of Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar he has shown us his blessings on us and he has shown us what our aspirations can be he has shown us what we can do he has shown us he has proven to us through ourselves that yes we can give up food and water for 15, 16, 17 hours a day not only can we as adults do it but the thing that amazes me the most is the old people and the very young people the seven-year-olds who fasted raise your hands if you were seven eight or nine and you fasted the entire day Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar this is the blessing of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam on the ummah of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that even young children can fast an entire day can go through the whole day fasting when adults will come up to you and say I can't understand how you fast the whole day we have children and we have elders in our community who are able to do it Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allah was showing us what we can do Allah was showing us that his masajid his houses we can go to them if we want to because in this month Alhamdulillah we have filled the masajid we have filled the masajid with people the MCC was blessed on later to Al-Qadir or the 27th night of Ramadan with over sixteen hundred people Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar expecting only about a thousand or twelve hundred people the masajid now they're built and pretty soon they're beyond capacity masajid are being bought and built in America here and pretty soon they need another masjid Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar these are the blessings of Allah SWT but we have to remember that now that he has shown us what we are capable of doing we have to carry this out through the rest of the year we have shown ourselves that we can make the Quran central to our lives we have gone to the masajid and we have listened to the Hufa recited from their hearts that Allah SWT has put in their hearts when they memorized it we have listened to the Quran we have read the Quran we have reflected on the Quran let us brothers and sisters for the rest of the year now use that momentum to not take this Quran as something that we leave behind one of the complaints that the messenger of Allah SWT made to Allah SWT about his people Quraish is that they took this Quran Mahjura they left it alone they left it behind their backs they ignored it they didn't think about it because if they really listen to it with open ears and open hearts and they were sincere they would have benefited from it and so let us not be from the people Ya Rabb Al Alameen make us from the people who take this Quran as central to their lives and not take this Quran as Mahjuran Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar I will end the first Hufa by reminding us that we have seen what we can do we have seen our our aspirations and our capability let's use that momentum for the rest of the year there were things in this month that made it easier no doubt Allah SWT has made certain things he locked up the shayatin he opened up the doors of jannah he closed the doors of jahannam and he sent multitudes of angels to the world so no other month is going to be like Ramadan in terms of ease of ibadah so all of those things were there but we can replicate to a lesser degree some of those things there are things that we can do in our life to reduce the shaykhonic presence around us there are things that we can do in our life to increase the angelic presence around us there are things that we can do to open the doors of jannah for us let us brothers and sisters use this momentum that we have from Ramadan for the rest of the year to use that and to keep that momentum going and to increase our tizquia and our purification of ourselves Allahu akbar Allahu akbar Allahu akbar Allahu akbar Allahu akbar Allahu akbar Alhamdulillah wa s-salatu wa s-salamu ala Rasulillah Wa Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen Ya ibad Allah ussikum ussikum ussikum O brothers and sisters we praise Allah SWT and we send peace and blessings upon his noble messenger and I encourage you and I encourage myself to have taqwa of Allah SWT and we will end with a reminder to us I remind myself and remind others that even though this month was focused on ourselves we also thought about others we thought about others when we gave our zakah we thought about others when we gave our sadaqah we thought about others when we served people such as the people who served today and didn't make it to the salah because they were serving in the parking lots they were serving in the administration to facilitate it for us there are people brothers and sisters behind the scenes at every masjid who didn't make it to all of the Karawiyah who weren't able to listen to all of the Quran may Allah SWT bless them for facilitating the ibadah for other people but it's a reminder to us of service to other people that even on this day one of the main sunnah of this day that's even stronger than the salah and stronger of a sunnah than the clothes and greeting other people in visit is the sunnah of zakah and fitr of sadaqah and fitr this sadaqah that the Prophet SAW made as an obligation upon his community what does it remind us? it reminds us that we have to think about others especially on our days of joy that we want the less fortunate to be able to enjoy this blessing by having food in their stomachs and so it's a reminder to us we have to think about other people we have to think about serving other people Muhammad Ali the Wali of Allah rahmatullahi alayhi the boxer one of his famous quotes was service to humanity service to humanity service to humanity is the rent we pay for our stay here on earth service to others is the rent we pay so when we pay our zakah to fitr it's reminding Allah you gave us this blessing we're going to pay rent and help other people and not forget those less fortunate we are blessed brothers and sisters here in the bay area we are living in the top 3% of the economy of the entire world we have one of the most richest economies in the world after the Gulf states additionally maybe it was the duaab somebody that said make it easy on the people of the bay area Allahu Akbar but didn't it make it easy for us? Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar I take that as something that I remind that Allah when He gives you ease when He gives us ease He wants us to give to other people He wants us to give to other people one of the things that bothers me the most is when I look at the blessings that I have and we see on the news the people who all over the world don't even have the ability to do what we're doing here the safety and the security to praise Allah to join in congregation to glorify Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and it bothers me so much that I've asked the number of people I asked one of my students recently Ahmed Adesan may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala free him from prison he's innocent with life with parole in Missouri I said Ahmed I have we have a lot of blessings it makes me feel guilty when other people around the world don't have any he said brother remember we believe in the qadr of Allah we believe in the order or demon of Allah and those blessings that he gave you that's from Allah that's from the qadr of Allah that he gave you and didn't give to other people but he gave that to you to make it easy for you so that you could help other people so let's just take this month when we helped other people and on this day when we gave out our subhanfica to be distributed before or during this day to help other people we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make us from the people who serve humanity and who serve the ummah of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to make us from the khuddam from the servers Allah make us from the people who serve you Allah make us from the people who you have forgiven in this day and in this month Allah make us from amongst the people who when you have opened the doors to jannah those are the doors that you have made us that you will make us enter from Ya Allah Ya Rabb Al Alameen Ya Allah when you have closed the doors of jahannam in this month those are the doors that you have closed for us Ya Allah we ask you to purify us and to purify our sins and to purify and to give us the ability to continue in your worship and in your service and in the service of humanity Allah hu Akbar Allah hu Akbar Allah hu Akbar Akbar Al-Qulq Ali Haidah Wa Astaghfirullah Alayhi Wa Lakum Al-Isair Al-Muslimeen Al-Muslimeen Al-Muslimeen As-Salaamu Alaykum Al-Rahmatullah