Asalamualikoum wa rahmatollahi wa barakato. and Eid Mubarak.
Allah Loves, and this episode is a special Eid episode but not just restricted to Eid.
'Inna Allah jameelon yohibo al jamaal.'
Allah is beautiful and Allah loves beauty.
This hadith speaks to the etiquettes that we should have today and a general mindset
that we are supposed to have.
The Prophet (pbuh) said whoever has in their heart an atoms worth of pride will not enter
into paradise.
So one of the companions said, ya rasool Allah, o messenger of God, a person loves to have
nice clothes, they love to have nice shoes.
The Prophet (saw) said thats praise worthy.
'Inna Allaha jameelon yohibo al jamaal'.
Because Allah is beautiful and he loves beauty.
The Prophet (pbuh) that also if Allah is has given you blessing Allah loves to see the
effect of his blessing upon you.
And Allah (swt) wants to see it upon you, but 'ma tosreefo' , enjoy the blessing of
Allah but don't be extravagant.
But at the same time to dress nice, take your best clothes, take the blessing of Allah (swt)
upon you and to show it, not to show it off.
To show it with gratitude.
Let the trace of Allah's blessing be upon you, taking care of yourself, being well dressed,
you know, showing that blessing and thanking Allah (swt) for that blessing.
Allah also tells us in the Quran 'khotho zeenatokoum enda koli masjid' take your best appearance
when you go to the house of Allah (swt).
And of course on Eid Day, there is no greater demonstration of that when the Prophet (saw)
said to obviously come out with our best form, to bring our best clothes, to show the best
of adornment within that is permissible of course and to thank Allah (swt).
So just as after the long month of Ramadan you thank Allah (swt) and you come out with
your best on the day of Eid, showing that beauty for the sake of Allah (swt) who is
the most beautiful, within permissible bounds, I'm going to keep on saying 'within permissible
bounds' then in the same way we take that mindset for our entire lives that when Allah
gives us something, Allah doesn't want to see us beaten down and showing that we are
poor and that we are deprived when Allah has given us.
Allah (swt) wants us to show our best as a means of showing our gratitude for his blessings.
And that's why Imam Al-Ghazali, rahim Allah, mentioned a people who would wear wool even
though they didn't need to, or they wore certain clothes that were beat up and raggedy, and
they would deprive themselves because they thought that was an expression of love to
Allah (swt).
But you have a Lord who is generous and Allah wants to see the trace of his blessing upon
you.
So enjoy his blessing.
Omar ibn Abdel Aziz said 'speak of your blessing but without boasting, without showing off,
and without attracting envy'.
You know when people talk about attracting envy, most of the people that are very paranoid
about envy are the people who show off the most, who have the most extravagant weddings
and the most extravagant things, right -- no you do thing in a moderate way without being
extravagant and you say, alhamdulilah all the time.
You let the gratitude show in the actions with the beauty that Allah (swt) has given
to you.
We ask Allah (swt) to always envelop us in his beauty, embrace us in his beauty, embrace
us in his love.
I hope you enjoyed the series, inshallah, and I hope that this 30 episode series provides
you with a road map on how to become amongst those who are most beloved to Allah (swt)
and if you have benefitted in anyway from it, then I ask you to make one duaa that Allah
(swt) include me and everyone who worked on the series, the entire team at Yaqeen amongst
those who are beloved to Allah (swt).
So may Allah (swt) make all of you beloved to Him.
Enjoy your Eid, may Allah make it blessed, may Allah accept your Ramadan, and may Allah
make all of us amongst those that are beloved to him.
Inshallah ta'ala we'll see you after the Eid party is over.
Jazakoum Allah Khayran, wa salamualikoum wa rahmatollahi wa barakto.