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First and foremost, once again, I want to congratulate everyone on the

Sonoma Line, Hamdir Ilhan Brahmin. We see the blessing of having been able to come together,

while in Shaqautum, la azidannakum, and if you are grateful, then I will increase you.

So we say, Hamdir Ilhan, we thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala after a long period of uncertainty

of allowing us, or for allowing us to be able to gather together in Hamdir Ilhan Brahmin,

and to pray our tarawaita together, and to worship together, and to celebrate together

in Hamdir Ilhan, in Hamdir Ilhan. May Allah accept our Ramadan, may Allah accept our

recitation of the Qur'an, may Allah accept our Qiyam, may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala write us

down amongst those who fully observed laidatul qadr, Allah ma'anameen. So dear brothers and sisters,

I want to tackle something actually conceptually in Shaqautum wa ta'ala, one of those distinguishing

marks of Islam. And it's how we view celebration. How many Eids do we have a year? We have two

Eids, right? What about Ashura? There's one Ashura, two Ashura is a three Ashura. One Ashura,

right? But is there Eid? The Prophet's sallam told us we have two Eids, okay? So we have

Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, right? We have the Eid that comes after the period of fasting of

Ramadan and the Eid that comes after the sacrifice or with the sacrifice that is also in parallel with

the Hajj, okay? We also have these days, right? So we fast Ashura, for example, because

we are closer to Musaarihi s-salam than everyone else. And so we thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

for the victory that he gave Musaarihi s-salam by fasting, but it's not a celebration like Ashura

was not a day for the Prophet sallallahu wa ta'ala in his community of celebration. They fasted

as a form of ibadah, as a form of worship, a yam and ma'dudah to thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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