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New Eid Khutbah 2026 | How Do The Angels See You Now? - Dr. Omar Suleiman
Dr. Omar Suleiman delivers the Eid khutbah at Valley Ranch Islamic Center — Friday, March 20, 2026.
This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings.
Wa lillahi al-hamd. We praise Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, we bear witness that none has the
right to be worshipped or unconditionally obeyed except for Him, and we ask Him to send His peace and blessings upon our beloved Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the prophets and messengers that came before him, his family and companions that served alongside him,
and those that follow in their blessed path until the Day of Judgment. We ask Allah to make us amongst them. Allahumma ameen. Dear brothers and sisters, we often talk about the return of the shayateen after Ramadan,
that the chains have been broken, and they come out now to find new beings, new souls, people that have been in a state of worship for a month, people that typically have a
difficult time remembering Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, spending their entire evenings remembering Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, especially in the last 10 nights, people who maybe struggle
with their Islam in public settings in particular, but found the courage and the steadfastness to say inni sa'im, I'm fasting, I'm fasting, in all of their environments within this past
month, people that push themselves with the Qur'an, and perhaps do not read the Qur'an throughout the entire year beyond this month of Ramadan. But I want you to imagine for a moment if
you were an angel, if you were an angel, and you were particularly one of those angels that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala commissioned to look for the gatherings of remembrance
during the month of Ramadan. Imagine if you were one of those angels that on the night of Laylatul Qadr was coming down and writing down the places, and marking the houses, and
marking the masajid, and marking the people that were remembering Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And I want you to imagine if the angels, you being one of those angels, you had a map
of the district, you had a map of the city, and it's a heat map, so some parts of it, places light up on that map, and some people light up on that map. And these are places
where Allah is remembered, and people who remember Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And the lights go on in some places, and some places they're entirely dark. Similar to how when
it was time to vote, some of you had the heat maps of how many houses voted, and how many people voted in each house. You had that map. Imagine the angels' heat map of those that remember Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, and the places where Allah is remembered, and where
that does not happen at all. And here's what I want you to think about. Even in Ramadan, imagine the swaths of darkness as they pass through, and there was a traffic jam in the
heavens for them to document the people of Laylatul Qadr. May Allah make us amongst them. Allahumma ameen. So they pass through these entire places, and there are places where people were sleeping, or worse, people were sinning, even in the last 10 nights of Ramadan,
but they clung to these places, and to these people. These are the beautiful places, these are the beautiful people that were remembering Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And my question
to you is, does your place and your person go dark after Ramadan on the heat map? Does it become now a place that's indistinguishable? Or do you become a person that's indistinguishable
from everything and everyone that is around you at this point? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, Afaman kana mu'minan kaman kana fasiqan la yastawoon.
Are those who are believers and those who are wicked and rebellious equal? They are not equal in the sight of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. In the Hereafter, Afanaj'alu al-muslimina kal-mujrimin. Will we treat the believers the way that we treat the transgressors? Absolutely not.
That's faulty logic. But here's what I want to give you in these short few minutes, dear brothers and sisters. When you were here in Ramadan, and you were in the masajid, or you
were praying in your houses, the Prophet ﷺ teaches us that sometimes the environment carries the person. So when you're around people, and the angels report on that gathering,
even if you were falling asleep, even if you kind of just came because of peer pressure, someone pulled you along, those that sit amongst them, la yashqa, they will not be deprived.
The jalees, the one who's in that gathering will not be deprived. Allah will not extricate a dark spot from a gathering of light. You were good. Your environment carried you.
Your masjid carried you. Your garden of dhikr carried you. But after Ramadan, the Prophet ﷺ says, in an authentic hadith,
Mathalu al-bayti alladhi yudhkaru Allahu fih, the example of the house in which Allah is remembered, and the home in which Allah is
not remembered, mathalu al-hayyi wal-mayyit, is like the difference between a dead house and an alive house. And in one narration, the Prophet ﷺ says, mathalu alladhi yadhkuru rabbahu,
the example of the one who remembers his Lord, walladhi la yadhkuru rabbahu, and the one who does not remember his Lord, mathalu al-hayyi wal-mayyit, is like the living person and the dead person. So let's start with the place.
The Prophet ﷺ said, la taj'alu buyutakum, do not turn your homes into maqabir, into graves. Don't let your houses become graveyards where there is no prayer.
There are going to be dead houses after Ramadan, and houses that remain alive in the sight of Allah azza wa jal, that the angels know this is a house in which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is remembered. And then on the other hand you have people.
Sometimes it's the place that carries you, the environment, and then sometimes it's your identity. And in Ramadan you were so distinguishable from everybody around you because you were the one person at work
or the group of people that weren't eating or drinking. You could tell your co-workers, I'm a Muslim, I'm fasting right now. This is my holy month of Ramadan. And you were distinguishable, clearly distinguishable.
There are fasting people and people that are not fasting. But what distinguishes you as an individual after Ramadan? We studied the hadith as we were studying the book of al-Waabil al-Sayyib in Musnad Imam Ahmad,
where the Prophet ﷺ said that when a person calls to the heavens, and it's a known voice, the angels know this voice. They say, Ya Rabbi sawton ma'roofun min makanin ma'roof. That's a familiar voice from a familiar place.
We know that house, that's a house of du'a. We know that voice, that's a voice of supplication. Someone that always calls upon Allah azza wa jal, distinguishable. And then when someone calls upon Allah and they don't call upon Allah regularly,
they say, Ya Rabbi, that is a voice we don't recognize from a place we don't recognize. Who's this person that now is saying Allah once a year, twice a year, or when something really wrong is happening?
So what does the heat map of the angels look like now for places and people? The last thing I'll say here, dear brothers and sisters, is that you move this beyond dhikr. You move this beyond remembrance of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And you look at all of the qualities that you have as a person and that the place that you reside in has. Is this a house of charity? Is this a person of charity? Is this a house that's distinguished by forgiveness?
Or is this a person that's distinguished by forgiveness? Is this a person that is known in the sight of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in any different way from their neighbors? Or are they exactly the same?
What does the heat map look like? If the angels had a mark on your house, this is a house of 1, 2, 3, 4. What would they identify your house as? And if the angels had a map of you and I and every single person,
and they had to write five distinguishing qualities of every single one of us, what does it look like? What are those distinguishing qualities? Because at some point you can't say I'm fasting anymore.
You're not just the one not eating and drinking. You have to have distinguishing traits. And dear brothers and sisters, for the believer, the believer takes every good that everybody else does and does it even better.
There are universal goods of charity and forgiveness and justice. You take those goods and your non-Muslim colleagues will say, they're different from us.
They take it to the next level. My Muslim friend is different. He takes it or she takes it to the next level. So you take all those universal truths of good and you do them better. And then you have the things that are unique to you as a Muslim,
the things that are unique to Islam, the things that our Prophet ﷺ brought. But there has to be a difference between us and everybody else. There has to be a map that shows us in the sight of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as good.
And I leave you, dear brothers and sisters, with that thought of what the angels are looking at you now, that Ramadan has closed and the map goes dark again. The place and the person.
Five qualities of your house. Five qualities of you as an individual that makes you different from everyone else. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala find us to be amongst His most beloved believers. May Allah find us amongst the righteous. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us amongst those that are distinguished in good.
And as we come to the end of this month of Ramadan, may Allah accept our Ramadan. May Allah write for us Laylatul Qadr. And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to distinguish ourselves in a world that is drenched in injustice and darkness as people of justice.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us amongst those that stand with our brothers and sisters in Gaza, in Palestine, in Sudan, and all over the world as the suffering is growing, as the darkness is growing throughout the world.
May Allah azza wa jal make us a people that stand in the light of truth. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as He gathered us in these masajid throughout the month of Ramadan, gather us in Masjid al-Aqsa while it is liberated and free. And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gather us with the righteous of every generation
and make us amongst those distinguished by the truth. Allahumma ameen. May Allah azza wa jal accept your Ramadan. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless you as you go throughout this day. Show grace and graciousness to everyone that is around you.
Wa sallallahu wa sallam ala nabiyyina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in. Wassalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
