Video Khutbah: Focus on Allah – ʿEid ul Fitr 1446/2025 by Shaykh Abū Ḥakīm Bilāl Davis

Bismillāh wa-Alḥamdulillāh wa al-Ṣalātu wa al-Salām ʿalá Rasūl Allāh ʿamma baʿd

Alḥamdulillāh we were blessed to have our Shaykh Abū Ḥakīm spend ‘Eid ul Fitr with us at Masjid ‘Abdullah Ibn ‘Abbaas – Tobago, home of Mpubs. He delivered an extremely potent and powerful ‘Eid khutbah admonishing the community to focus on Allah throughout  all tribulations.

We ask Allāh to give us beneficial knowledge followed by righteous actions

Wa Billāhi Tawfīq

The following are the main points covered in this lecture

• Ramaḍān is a month where acts of worship are established purely for the sake of Allāh (سبحانه وتعالى).
• Ramaḍān is the month when the Qur’ān was revealed.
• Allāh wants ease for you. He does not want hardship for you.
• Allāh wants you to make takbīr of Him – to deem Allāh greater than everything else.
• ʿEīd is intended to purify and strengthen you and your bond with Allāh.
• We make takbīr of Allāh (سبحانه وتعالى) in gratitude for guiding us.
• Takbīr is said on the tongue but it resides in the heart.
• The Muslim should focus and concentrate on Allāh and not what people think.
• Fasting is done for Allāh because only Allāh knows if you are truly fasting.
• There is no deity besides Allāh and He has given us numerous blessings.
• Do not be a servant of Allāh in the month of Ramaḍān only.
• Evil is the one who only knows his Lord in the month of Ramaḍān.
• When tried with afflictions, your first call should be to Allāh.
• Focus on Allāh, the One who will judge you on Yawmul Qiyāmah.
• On the 1^st of Shawwal, the Shayāṭīn are returned and unrestricted. We need the aid of Allāh to repel them from us.
• We need the aid of Allāh to develop our soul.
• ʿAlī Ibn Abī Tālib (رضى الله عنه) said he knows that his soul inclines to blameworthy traits and that he is not guided except when he disobeys his soul.
• ʿAli also said there are some things that are only manifest by the look in the eyes, i.e, the evil eye and an evil intention.
• True love can also be seen when what is in the heart is manifest through a ‘twinkle’ in the eye.
• What is in the heart also becomes manifest through the tone of one’s voice.
• Do not focus on what people say about you. Focus on Allāh, the One who truly knows you.
• Ibn Al-Qayyim (رحمه الله) said a person should recognise that his forelock , as well everyone else’s, is in the Hands of Allāh.
• The Muslim should have no need or reliance on the servants of Allāh.
• Did this Ramaḍān make us closer or more distant to Allāh?
• ʿAlī (رضى الله عنه) said that  taqwá is fear of Al-Jalīl, acting upon the Revelation, being satisfied with little and preparing for the day of our Journey.