The Eidul adha'13

dear brothers! Today we are celebrating by the grace of Allah swt. One of the greatest festival of islam. Eidul adha the festival of sacrifice which is also known Eidul kabir (the great eid). It is a day of joy and celebration, a day to show happyness and delight, a day in which we renew our faith.

But, those who has the ability to do the qurbani but,not doing the qurbani. the Eid is not for them and there is nothing benificial for them those who is not doing qurbani although they are obliged to do it. Prophet sw. Saying narreted by abu huryrah ”who is capable financially to do qurbani but, didnt he shouldnt come to nearby our eid prayer.”(ibn majah).

 

Dear brothers! Every nation has made up thier own festivals and celebrations. But, muslim we got two festivals in a year and we didn’t made them ourselves. We got them from Allah swt. As a gift. When prophet sw. Migrated to madinah he found that the natives of madinah the answer sahabah had two days of celebrations. The prophet sw. Asked what are these two days? They replied: they are the two days which we used to celebrate during the jahiliyah/the period before islam. And then The prophet sw. Said: Allah has replaced you with two better days; the day of eid-ul-fitr and the eidul adha.

 Now the question is whats the eid? Whts the purpose of eid?  The celebration of eid has great meaning and serve a great purpose. The eid comes to us to make the muslim commonity united and increase love amongst us and it comes to us to make us to forget if there is any conflict in between us and makes the muslim brotherhood stronger like we all are brothers and equal. Also, it comes to be  kind to the needy and poor.

This is why The celebration of eid is greatly diffrent from non muslim festival. Another important purpose is, we are not celebrating only for fun and entertainment but, we celebrate to worship Allah sw. The celebration of eid is really a way in which we thank to Allah sw. For his infinite blessing seen and unseen.

The eid is the day of devotion: celebration in the name of Allah and devoting oneself completely to the almighty.

Brothers! Alhamdulillah after the eid prayer we are going to do the qurbani. The Qurbani is one of the best worship which is one of the great actions of pilgrims. today all the hajji are doing the qurbani and partly we are just following them. what allah swt. saying..108:2"so pray to your lord and sacrifice" Prophet sw. said Narreted by aiysha RA. He said.. “on the day of  eid ul adha the sacrificing animal is the best good action to allah swt.”

Qurbani is a demonastration of total submission to allah swt. And a proof of complete obedience to allah’s will or command. When a muslim offers a qurbani this exactly what he intends to prove. The qurbani signifies that we are a slave of Alla swt at our best. This is exactly prophet ibrahim aw. Did. Apperently, there wasn’t any reason why a father should sloghter his innocent son. But, when came the command from Allah swt. He never asked about the reason for that command nor did he hasitate to follow it.

The ibadah of  Qurbani is among the shi’aar (distinguishing features) of Islam and its not new to us it has an obligation  before us. 22:34 “And for every nation We have appointed a sacrifice, that they may mention the name of Allah over the inarticulate animal which He has provided them for food”

In last week we talked the qurbani we do its the sunnah of ibrahim aw. Allah wt. orderd IBRAHIM in his dream to sloughter his own son ISMAEEL aw. when they both agreed and went to the field to sloughter then Allah called him and said “O ibrahim i accpted your sacrifise” and “it was a test for you”. you both have passed and then Allah gave an animal like a ram which they sloughtered that. Allah liked thier sacrifise very much and made this sacrifice/the qurbani a sunnah for the next genaration. "And We kept his praise among the later generations" 37:108

So, this is how we got the qurbani.

Wht is the teaching of the qurbani of ibrahim aw.? Why Allah swt. Telling us this story?

THE LESSON OF THE QURBANI: this is very important to know whtas  the lesson of qurbani?

1.ibrahim aw. He didnt raise any question to follow Allah’s commandment why he has to do the qurbani his own son:
so, The lesson of qurbani of ibrahim is for myself and you; we have to follow or obey Allah’s all kind of commands without making any question / excuses. without saying why and for what? Also, we have to avoid what he forbiden for us to do. also, sholudnt think; how will we be benifited by this in this world?

 

2. we  shouldnt look for which commandments are easy and which one hard. Easy or hard for me whatever order comes we should obey them without spending any words. We should think even if we die by doing his commands still we have do it. And also. Keep hope and faith on him. If any difficulties comes they all coming from Allah for a test for my eeman.

 

Alhamdulillah those who we are going to do qurbani there some rules regarding the qurbani which some of them we talked in last week and there are few more importants rules  what we have to know before going to do qurbani.

1. the time of qurbani: it starts after eid prayer untill the sunset 12^th  of zulhajja. So, if anyone does qurbani before the pryer and after the 12^th zulhajja it will be a sloghtering an animal to eat the meats and the obligation of qurbani wont be comleted .

2.keeping the meat of the qurbani in the fridg its Allowed to save even for a year.but, the sunnah is some should be given to the poor and relatives.

3.after eid not involving in any bad habits like watching bad tv programmes which will be broadcast on bengali tv’s.also, we have to be carefull about our kids.

4.lastly pure intention: before going to do qurbani what we have to remember is we have to have a pure intention that the qurbani only for the sake of allah swt. There are some of us we dont know even for what reason  we are doing the qurbani and what does it mean. we just do it to show off to others. But, if there is a tiny bit of showing off came with your qurbani it will be rejected instead of accepeted to Allah sw. Coz, Allah doesnt need the blood of the animals or meat he just want to see our intention. What he said in the quran” never does thier flesh nor thier blood reach Allah swt. But, your piety successfully reaces him” 22:37

May Alla give us tawfiq to follow the lesson of the qurbani in our practical life!