A PROMISE CONTINUE FROM THE EID

  

Ramadan Lessons #22

What is Eid should be

Eid is one of the happiest days for Muslims.

When we win the game and get rewarded, we

are filled with happiness and joy.

It's just what we were all waiting for.

This is also the reward day for our fasting.

Right now we should ask ourselves, have we

done our fasting properly to get the rewards

from Allah?

If we haven’t, we don't have to be helpless.

Because right now there are still just a few

more days left before eid.

We should try our best during the remaining

days of Ramadan.

There are two groups of people when returning

from Eid prayer.

One group are the losers and the disappointed.

And another group are the people has been rewarded and is grateful.

Allah (T) will say to them, “ Go, you have

been forgiven.

You make me happy and now I will make you

happy.”

So we should try to be like the second

group of people, because then we will be successful,

InshaAllah.

Before going to Eid prayer we should give

our Zakaat ul Fitr to the poor people so that

we can purify our fasting.

When we are wearing our best outfits for Eid

we are recognizing the kindness of Allah .

It also involves beautification because Allah is beautiful and he loves that which is beautiful.

InshaAllah we should enjoy our day and have

lots of fun but one mistake we usually do

is that during Eid day, we forget to pray

our prayer on time.

But no matter what, we should not miss our prayers time.

Eid is the day of our happiness, so during

this day we should make other people happy,

and by doing that you’ll see InshaAllah

you’ll be happy meaning that Allah (swt)

will happy as well.

When we are happy during the day of our Eid

it means that we will InshaAllah have a really

happy eid.

A long time ago, one year Makkah had a very

bad drought.

And because of the drought there was a food shortage everywhere.

There were many hungry people who went to bed with an empty stomach.

At that time Umar (pbuh) a Calipha, which

is like a king or president.

He decided to give free food to all of the

poor people.

Everybody was very happy to him.

And during the night time he used to go out

in secret to different streets and neighborhoods

so he could try to know the people real condition of their struggles.

He saw that everybody was sleep.

He felt good that people were not awake because of their hunger.

After a long walk he saw a little fire was

lit, since at that time they didn’t have

lights, in front of a small poor house.

He went to that house and heard some children

were crying, and their mom was cooking something.

Umar (pbuh) knocked on the door and asked

the mom, why they were crying.

She did not recognize the Calipha.

He said, her children were hungry for three

days because her husband died and they did

not have any income to buy food.

Umar (pbuh) asked her, what was he cooking?

She told him that it was just water and stones

in the pot.

She did this so her kids would stop crying

and, cool down hoping that their food would

be ready after sometime, since they didn’t

know their mom wasn’t actually making anything

and was only pretending to so they would stop

crying.

In the meantime they would be tired and fall

sleep.

After hearing that, Umar (pbuh) became very

sad and felt guilty.

He thought as a Calipha he did not distribute

food to the poor properly.

He immediately went to the store and filled

a bag with food.

As he started to carry the bag, one of his

workers was surprised to see that.

He requested Umar (pbuh) to give that bag

to him to carry.

Umar (pbuh) said he felt guilty, so he himself

should carry that bag to that family.

He gave the food to the mom and helped her

cook food.

When the food was ready, the children and

the mother ate their food and had a full stomach.

They were very satisfied and smiled with happiness.

Umar (pbuh) also felt very happy as if though

it was like eid.

He asked the mom, why she did not go to the

Calipha and asked for help.

The mom replied, she was poor but she wasn’t a bagger.

And that was the Calipha's duty, to check

if anybody was starving in his kingdom.

Umar (pbuh) realized his mistake and requested

to forgive him.

The mom was surprised to know that it was

Calipha himself who had brought the food for them.

The mom was very happy to see the Calipha and to her it also felt like the happiness

of Eid.

Same as Umar (pbuh), this is would be our

eid, the happiness, to bring smile on others.

It is our duty as a Muslim to bring smile

on the people who had lost their smile.

As a Muslim, is it not our duty to bring peace

and smile in this world?

Yes, as a Muslim we should bring peace and smile to everybody, it doesn’t matter

if they are Muslims or Non-Muslims.

This 

is our deen, our iman, our religion and our

promise to Eid.

EID MUBARAK TO ALL.......