Wealth & charityFrom the masjid's own video, Aug 3, 2026.
Wealth should serve faith and others
“Define yourself by what you do with your wealth.”
In one sentence
Worldly wealth and power are deceptive tests: believers should remain humble and receptive to correction, use Allah’s blessings ethically, and measure success by rooted faith and lasting good rather than public display.
The khutbah in 6 steps
- Explains the opening prayer’s request to follow people whose completed lives were affirmed, rather than living figures who may change.
- Uses Qarun in Surah al-Qasas to show how wealth can produce arrogance and distance from faith.
- Contrasts financial measures of progress with ethical wealth, warning against exploitative interest and defensive rejection of advice.
- Describes Qarun’s public display of wealth and contrasts materialistic admiration with the wisdom and patience of people of knowledge.
- Shows Qarun’s downfall and uses the spider web and firmly rooted tree imagery to contrast fragile power with rooted faith.
- Closes with supplication, announces an absentia janazah prayer for a deceased convert, and briefly requests recurring community support.
Try this week
Use wealth to invest, give back, and build beneficial things.
Earn and spend money lawfully while staying committed to ethics.
Pause and reconsider when someone respectfully points out a blind spot.
Maintain consistent good actions, even when they are small.
Consider supporting the community’s work monthly or weekly.
Participate in the absentia janazah prayer for the deceased sister.
Sources the khateeb cited
Surah 28Uses Qarun’s wealth, arrogance, public display, and destruction to argue that material success does not indicate moral or spiritual success.
Surah 29Uses the spider’s fragile web as an image for attractive but predatory systems that collapse under pressure.
Surah 14Contrasts the spider web with a firmly rooted tree to represent the strength of sincere faith.
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“Today they might be a great example. Tomorrow they might be the opposite. Today they might be a source of inspiration. Tomorrow they might lose their way.”
“Define yourself by what you do with your wealth. Earn it lawfully. Spend it lawfully. Have ethics, values. Commit to those ethics.”
“Rather than saying, you know what, let me think about this. Maybe I have lost my way.”
“despite having that much confidence the believer is not arrogant the believer is a tree with branches that reach everywhere low within reach ready to give ready to feed ready to energize ready to be a source of life”
Talk about it at home
For the dinner table
Today’s khutbah reminded us that wealth and success can test us just as much as hardship. The story of Qarun showed how blessings become dangerous when they make us arrogant, unwilling to hear advice, or careless about justice. We were encouraged to stay rooted in faith, use what Allah gives us to help others, and measure success by lasting good rather than public display. The khutbah also invited us to respond to correction with humility, keep our good actions consistent, pray for a sister who died without a proper Islamic burial, and support the community’s ongoing work.
- What is one blessing we can use this week to help someone else?
- How can we respond when a family member points out something we need to rethink?
- What would it look like for our family to be like a strong tree with branches that help others?
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