Community & unityFrom the masjid's own video, Sep 3, 2025.
Our faith calls us to serve humanity
“To know that it's bigger than us is to serve humanity.”
In one sentence
Our lives are part of a larger human story, so Muslims should respond to Allah’s decree with patience and gratitude by serving humanity beyond themselves.
The khutbah in 7 steps
- Life and its events are decreed by Allah and exceed any individual’s personal story.
- The delayed justice in the Mega Evers story illustrates how one life can affect people decades later.
- Trials and relationships should be approached with acceptance rather than selfishly asking, “Why me?”
- Islam is a trust that requires enjoining good through feeding the hungry, supporting people in need, housing the homeless, and mentoring youth.
- Serving children, elders, neighbors, and other creation strengthens relationships and can become a path to reward.
- Helping others, charity, patience, and reliance on Allah bring unexpected blessings and may open the door to Paradise.
- The khutbah closes by applying this message to suffering in Sudan and Palestine and praying for unity and relief.
Try this week
Feed people who are hungry.
Create resources for people needing mental-health support.
Help create housing for homeless people.
Mentor and support youth in the community.
Respect and support elders as one would support parents.
Help and console people in difficulty.
Give charity and serve humanity beyond one’s immediate family.
Sources the khateeb cited
Quran 3:110Used to establish Muslims’ duty to enjoin right, forbid wrong, and serve humanity.
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“Your Islam is not your own. Your Islam is a trust. It's an amen. And we have a duty to mankind.”
“To know that it's bigger than us is to serve humanity. Not just for my family! Not just my brother. but humanity.”
“When we serve those in whom the laws of Allah put in our way, our kids, the kids that ain't ours because they still ours, they a part of our community.”
“Our story is a story. It is not the story. This story is the story of humanity.”
Talk about it at home
For the dinner table
The khutbah teaches that our lives are part of a story larger than ourselves. Allah’s decree includes both hardship and blessing, so patience, gratitude, and trust can change how we walk through them. Islam is described as a trust that calls us to serve beyond our own families by feeding the hungry, supporting people in need, mentoring youth, and honoring elders. The speaker reminds us that these acts may help people we never meet, and he closes by praying for relief for suffering communities, including Sudan and Palestine.
- How can patience change the way we respond when something feels unfair?
- What does it mean for Islam to be a trust?
Where it was given
The masjid
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