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Ramadan & fastingFrom the masjid's own video, Mar 6, 2026.

Win forgiveness in Ramadan's final days

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“We need to read the Quran.”

The khateeb, at 28:24

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In one sentence

The final days of Ramadan are a decisive opportunity to win forgiveness and taqwa through intensified worship, disciplined behavior, and compassionate service to the community.

The khutbah in 7 steps

  1. Connects Ramadan 17 and the Battle of Badr to a decisive spiritual turning point.
  2. Frames the final ten days as a game whose winners seek forgiveness and whose losers waste Ramadan.
  3. Defines losers as those who persist in sin, lack sincere purpose, or treat fasting as cultural routine and time-killing.
  4. Urges winners to fast with faith, pray qiyam, and seek Laylat al-Qadr throughout the last ten nights.
  5. Explains taqwa through Quranic qualities including generosity, anger control, and forgiving others.
  6. Extends Ramadan success to cleanliness, calm conduct, kindness, respect for elders, and mercy toward youth.
  7. Uses Abu Hurayrah as an example of focused time use and calls Ramadan a method of change for individuals, families, and communities.
Try this week
Increase worship, prayer, Qur'an reading, charity, and masjid attendance during the last ten days.
Pray qiyam with the congregation until the imam finishes.
Seek Laylat al-Qadr throughout the last ten nights rather than assuming it is only the 27th night.
Stop lying, backbiting, cursing, wasting time, and other harmful behavior while fasting.
Keep the masjid and parking areas clean, avoid rushing, and park considerately.
Smile, speak kindly, respect elders, and show mercy toward younger people.
Use Ramadan as a method of change for individual, family, and community life.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“the whole purpose of fasting Ramadan it is to gain taqwa to gain closeness to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to get close to Allah”
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“Cleanliness Is part of our deen Dear brothers and sisters”
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“We need to read the Quran It must be method of change In terms of Individual level Family level And community levels”
MCC · Silver Spring, MD
Play from 28:24
Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

The imam said Ramadan’s final days are a decisive opportunity, so we should renew our intention, seek forgiveness, and increase prayer, Qur’an, charity, and time in the masjid. He warned that fasting loses its purpose when we keep lying, backbiting, cursing, wasting time, or treating the month as mere culture. Winning Ramadan also means good character: staying calm, keeping the masjid and parking areas clean, smiling, speaking kindly, respecting elders, and showing mercy to younger people. He reminded us that Islam should change individuals, families, and communities, and used Abu Hurayrah’s focused use of three years as an example. As a family, we can choose a few simple acts of worship and service for the remaining days and make them sincere.

  1. What is one habit you can improve before Ramadan ends?
  2. How can our family make the masjid cleaner or kinder for others?
  3. What helps you use your time more wisely?
Where it was given

The masjid

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