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Eid al Adha: a time for unity and brotherhood

Eid al Adha: a time for unity and brotherhood
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July 20, 2021
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And when you have performed your holy rites remember God, as you remember your fathers or yet more devoutly. Now some men there are who say, ‘Our Lord, give to us in this world’; such men shall have no part in the world to come. (2:200)

Celebrate Allah’s name and glorify Him

Allah Almighty made it compulsory for those who perform hajj to praise Him through tasbih (subhanallah – glory to be to Allah), tahmid (alhamdulillah– all praise is due to Allah), takbir (Allahu akbar – Allah is the Greatest) and istighfar (I seek forgiveness) and to gloryify Him through the talbiya, by reciting:

لَبَّيْكَ ٱللَّٰهُمَّ لَبَّيْكَ، لَبَّيْكَ لَا شَرِيكَ لَكَ لَبَّيْكَ، إِنَّ ٱلْحَمْدَ وَٱلنِّعْمَةَ لَكَ وَٱلْمُلْكَ لَا شَرِيكَ لَكَ

Here I am [at your service] O God, here I am. Here I am [at your service]. You have no partners (other gods). To You alone is all praise and all excellence, and to You is all sovereignty. There is no partner to You.

Labbayka llāhumma labbayka, labbayka la sharika laka labbayk, inna l-ḥamda wa n-ni’mata, laka wa l-mulk, la sharika lak.

The whole ummah participate in the celebration of Allah’s name throughout this day.

Brotherhood is a blessing from Allah

Despite all our differences and multitude of factions, and political disagreements, Allah has united us all through Islam, through our shared beliefs and brotherhood.  It was a huge blessing (ni’mah) from Allah that He united the Ummah and brought peace to all the warring factions which existed in the Arabian peninsula at the time.

Eid is the day that we show our unity.

Unite as one ummah

Allah Almighty told us:

And hold fast, all of you together, to the Rope of Allah (i.e. this Quran), and be not divided among yourselves, and remember Allah’s Favour on you, for you were enemies one to another but He joined your hearts together, so that, by His Grace, you became brethren (in Islamic Faith), and you were on the brink of a pit of Fire, and He saved you from it. (3:103)

Allah Almighty reconciled the hearts of all those who detested and fought each other out of tribal differences. Islam came to replace nationalism with unity, and to bind hearts together.

No matter what differences we have, we are united in our belief in One God and that His Prophet is Muhammad (peace be on him).

Allah Almighty said that He chose Islam for us, and that He blessed us with it, and through it He united us. In the last revelation, which descended on the Day of Arafah, Allah Almighty said:

Today, I have perfected your religion for you, and have completed My blessing upon you, and chosen Islam as Din (religion and a way of life) for you. (5:3)

Islam is what unites the Ummah. We tried going down different paths, but we only failed and failed. The only time the Ummah was united is when they followed the word of Allah and the sunnah of the Prophet (peace be on him).

Celebrate and spread happiness

‘Uqbah ibn ‘Amir reported that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said:

“The day of Arafat, the day of sacrifice, and the three following days of al-Tashriq are celebrations for the people of Islam. They are days of eating and drinking.”

Therefore the days of Eid are for eating and drinking and celebrating.

We should spread happiness despite our pain. And help those in need around the world relative or no relative we ask Allah to make Eid a day of celebrating Allah’s name and avoid what is prohibited. And stick to the commands of Allah.

We ask the Almighty to make us among those who have been accepted. Ameen

Shaykh Haytham Tamim – Eid al Adha

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Shaykh Haytham Tamim is the founder and main teacher of the Utrujj Foundation. He has provided a leading vision for Islamic learning in the UK, which has influenced the way Islamic knowledge is disseminated. He has orchestrated the design and delivery of over 200 unique courses since Utrujj started in 2001. His extensive expertise spans over 30 years across the main Islamic jurisprudence schools of thought. He has studied with some of the foremost scholars in their expertise; he holds some of the highest Ijazahs (certificates) in Quran, Hadith (the Prophetic traditions) and Fiqh (Islamic rulings). His own gift for teaching was evident when he gave his first sermon to a large audience at the age of 17 and went on to serve as a senior lecturer of Islamic transactions and comparative jurisprudence at the Islamic University of Beirut (Shariah College). He has continued to teach; travelling around the UK, Europe and wider afield, and won the 2015 BISCA award (British Imams & Scholars Contributions & Achievements Awards) for Outstanding Contribution to Education and Teaching.

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