Hope and fear in the Eid of Fitr

The month of Ramadan passed and the Eid of Fitr arrived. This feast is a day in which the spiritual prizes are given to the believers. It is true that this is a day in which we are happy and joyful, but there are some worries about this great day. The first worry is that we do not know did Allah accept our worships in this month and are we among His real believers or not?

The wise Loghman said to his son:

Fear Allah in a way that if you have performed all of the good deeds of the Humans and Jins, He still might punish you and be hopeful in Him in a way that if you have committed all of the sins of Humans and Jins, He might have mercy on you.

Although we are told by the Islamic teachings to be optimistic about the mercy of Allah, but there are Narrations that recommend us to have both of fear and hope, fear because of our wrong deeds and hope because of the very vast mercy of Allah.

So we see that this Eid and feast is a place for both hope and fear.

The second worry about this feast is that according to the Narrations, the Satan and devils (at least some of them) were chained in the month of Ramadan, due to the vey vast blessings of this holy month, so for one month we were somehow convenient, but from this feast on, the attacks of devils are there and we might be deceived and overcome by them and their temptations.

 Another worry about this day is the occultation of the twelfth infallible Imam. If the Imam was apparent we would be able to perform our prayer behind him, but now we are deprived from the blessing of his presence, and we are like the orphan that has no father.

There is a hopeful point here, according to the Narrations that we mentioned before, in the holy month of Ramadan Allah releases every night thousands of thousands (one million) wrong doers from the fire of Hell and in the night of Fitr Allah releases as much as He has released throughout the whole month of Ramadan. In the history of the life of Imam Sajjad peace be upon him it is mentioned that sometimes he was writing the faults of his servants, but he was not telling to them and he was not punishing them. When the night of Eid of Fitr was arriving, the Imam was calling them and saying: You have these faults, I did not say anything to you or did not punish you and I won’t do that. Now I released all of you and made you free; I have only one request from you, I ask you to say: O Allah, have mercy on Sajjad and release him just like he did so to his servants.