What is Eid really about

What is Eid Really About?

For a moment, I want you to imagine yourself if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala took away the blessing of Islam for you. Where would you be right now? Where could you have been?

All of us in our lives, there have been moments in our life with a pull of misguidance, of ضَلَال — the pull of the shaitan. It has, at once in our lives, pulled us towards something we don't want to do.

And all of us at some point in time in our lives, we have tasted that — the pleasure of sin — which is very short-lived. Imagine we never came back. We continued in that sin, we stayed there, it ruined us.

And we never made it back to experience the sweetness and the beauty and the blessing of guidance. When you imagine this moment — you imagine yourself in haram, yourself not praying salah, yourself far from Allah — you realize: why are you here? Who brought you here? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala guided you.

This is What We Are Celebrating — Eid

It is the celebration of Allah's guidance. And this blessing of Allah's guidance — any moment He can take it away.