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Death & the hereafterFrom the masjid's own video, Sep 18, 2026.

How the afterlife should shape our choices

Masumeen · Jaffer H. Jaffer

“Just because something is halal doesn't mean we have to do it.”

The khateeb, at 7:24

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In one sentence

Belief in the afterlife should shape how Muslims handle worldly pleasures, endure hardship, and respond morally to suffering and oppression.

The khutbah in 6 steps

  1. Explains how desire combined with easy access to pleasures produces greed, impatience, and hoarding.
  2. Shows that belief in accountability encourages restraint even with permissible pleasures.
  3. Argues that the afterlife gives hardship meaning, hope, motivation, and direction.
  4. Uses a hadith from Imam al-Sadiq about each person’s potential home in paradise and hell.
  5. Remembers victims of attacks and discusses the human and economic effects of global wars.
  6. Criticizes Saudi Arabia’s alliances and calls for Muslim awakening, unity, and independence from oppressive powers.
Try this week
Evaluate pleasures by their effect on the hereafter, not only by whether they are halal.
Practice patience, gratitude, and restraint, including sacrificing some permissible pleasures when necessary.
Do not gloss over reports of suffering; remember the martyrs by reciting al-Fatiha.
Seek Muslim unity across sects and question blind support for governments aligned with oppression.
Sources the khateeb cited
Quran 4:144Supports the warning against choosing disbelievers as allies over believers.
Surah 103Concludes with the themes of faith, righteous action, truth, and patience.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“just because something is halal doesn't mean we have to do it. Allah has made many things halal for us. Halal and wajib are two very different things, right?”
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“These type of incidents unfortunately, they keep happening. And it's very important that as we hear about these things that our hearts are ripe enough to feel the pain of this suffering.”
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“The Muslim world needs to rise now. Together. Regardless of sect. Regardless of understanding. To realize that these entities that are claiming to be Muslim are not on our side.”
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Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

Sheikh Jaffer explained that remembering life after death can shape how we enjoy this life and help us find meaning in it. We can be grateful for good things while remembering that even something halal may need limits, just as too many sweets can harm us. Belief in accountability before Allah calls us to practise patience and restraint in our everyday choices. The khateeb also reminded us that hardship is not meaningless and that Allah appreciates and rewards perseverance. In the second sermon, he urged us to care about people suffering from violence and war, criticized leaders who put power and wealth first, and called for unity across sects.

  1. What is something you enjoy, and how can you tell when you have had enough?
  2. How could remembering Allah and the hereafter help you handle a disappointment?
  3. What is one caring thing our family could do for people going through hardship?
Where it was given

The masjid

Masumeen Islamic Centre7580 Kennedy Road South, Brampton, ON L6W 0A1KhateebJaffer H. JafferMore khutbahsArchiveAll khutbahs at Masumeen84 khutbahs
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