Wealth & charityFrom the masjid's own video, Dec 5, 2025.
Wealth is a test, not proof of favor
In one sentence
Worldly wealth and success are tests from Allah, so believers should remain humble and grateful, fulfill others' rights, and repent before loss forces them to return to Allah.
The khutbah in 5 steps
- Introduces the Quranic parable of the two men and their gardens from Surah al-Kahf.
- Describes the wealthy man's subtle boasting and false confidence that his prosperity will last forever.
- Explains that wealth and hardship are both tests, not proof of Allah's love or displeasure.
- Presents the poorer friend's advice to remember one's creation and attribute every blessing to Allah.
- Concludes with the garden's destruction and urges humility, gratitude, generosity, and repentance before calamity.
Try this week
Give people the rights due from whatever wealth you possess.
Practice humility, gratitude, generosity, and repentance before hardship forces a reckoning.
Sources the khateeb cited
Surah 18The parable of the two men and the two gardens illustrates arrogance, misplaced security, and eventual loss.
Surah 96The verse about humans transgressing when they consider themselves self-sufficient supports the warning against wealth-based arrogance.
Surah 21The statement that Allah tests people with good and bad establishes that prosperity and hardship are both tests.
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“the person has done all of this but the way Allah describes it he takes all credit for it”
“this is not Allah loving or hating you it's Allah testing you”
“always attribute it to Allah always be grateful to Allah always make dua to Allah”
Where it was given
The masjid
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