Eid Ul-Abrar

Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya Sadat As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Dastur Mawlana Sheikh Abdullah Faiz Daghestani, Sheikh Nazim al-Haqqani. Madad. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.

These are holy days, the six days of Shawwal. Our Holy Prophet ﷺ says that whoever fasts on these days will be counted as if he fasted for a year together with Ramadan. He deserves that Thawab. Whoever can fast on these days, when starting on the second day of Eid, they finish it on the 7th of Shawwal which is the second Eid, Eid ul-Abrar. Eid ul-Abrar is the feast of those who do goodness. It is not an ordinary Eid, it is a special one. It is a favor of Allah ﷻ. Otherwise, you can fast on different days of Shawwal, dividing six days one by one or all at once. It is of great benefit because the benefit of worship is both spiritual and physical.

There is a spiritual benefit and a physical benefit for the body. Everything Allah ﷻ has ordered is useful for people. Whoever carries out the orders gets these benefits. Forbidden things have no benefit; they are only harmful. Allah ﷻ does not wish harm for people. That is why He wants them to stay away from forbidden things. Those who do them have both spiritual and physical harm. When you do something bad, it is not only spiritually harming, as you sin, but also physically useless for the body. You cheat people or do something forbidden enjoying yourself. Don’t think that your body gets benefit from it. Neither spiritually, nor physically; there isn’t any benefit but only harm to both.

Therefore, we should perform the Sunnah and the Fard as much as we can. We must certainly perform the Fard. As for the Sunnah, we should make intention to perform them all and try to make as much as we can. If we cannot make it, Allah ﷻ will reward us according to our intention. As we said, we will have both spiritual and physical benefit. May Allah ﷻ make these benefits always last for us. May we always be in servanthood. May we obey the orders of Allah ﷻ and stay away from what is forbidden insha’Allah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 18 May 2021/6 Shawwāl 1442 Morning Prayer, Akbaba Dergah