Character & conductFrom the masjid's own video, Sep 6, 2025.
Follow leaders with truth and accountability
“If I do a bad job, then straighten me up.”
The khutbah in 5 steps
- Uses Epstein-related revelations and powerful figures' humiliation to contrast public image with true dignity.
- Applies truth-as-trust to social-media influencers and urges careful evaluation of their character and accountability.
- Applies Abu Bakr's defense of the weak to private service and equal justice regardless of wealth or status.
- Warns that normalized sexual indecency and barriers to marriage lead young people toward haram, urging halal conduct and easier marriage.
- Closes by defining dignity as loyalty to Allah and the Messenger and praying for oppressed communities.
Try this week
Review social-media subscriptions and stop following influencers whose character, honesty, or accountability cannot be trusted.
Support vulnerable people and treat protecting their rights as an urgent responsibility, without seeking publicity.
Follow leaders only conditionally: support them when they act rightly and correct them when they err.
Seek marriage through halal means, avoid casual impermissible interactions, and make marriage easier for young people.
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“If I do a good job, support me. If I do what I'm responsible to do, support me. But if I do a bad job, then straighten me up.”
“Honesty is an amanah. It's a trust. And lying is a betrayal.”
“The weak among you are strong with me until I get their rights.”
“So seek the halal. But don't fool yourself because we can't fool Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.”
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