Community & unityFrom the masjid's own video, May 29, 2026.
Protect Muslim blood, wealth, and honor
“All of mankind are safe from their tongues and their hands.”
In one sentence
Because Allah makes certain times, places, and people sacred, Muslims must honor fellow Muslims by protecting their blood, wealth, and dignity.
The khutbah in 7 steps
- The khutbah opens with calls to taqwa, truthfulness, and obedience to Allah and His Messenger.
- Allah selects sacred months, days, and places, including Dhul-Qi'dah, Dhul-Hijjah, Muharram, and the first ten days of Dhul-Hijjah.
- The Farewell Hajj teaching extends sacredness to Muslim blood, wealth, and honor.
- The speaker warns that Muslims may obsess over minor rulings while harming others through speech, deceit, abuse, or violence.
- An anecdote involving Abdullah ibn Umar contrasts concern about killing insects during ihram with ignoring the killing of the Prophet's grandson.
- The khutbah applies this principle to spouses, children, parents, neighbors, and the wider Muslim community.
- It closes by urging Muslims to protect one another's honor, wealth, and blood, and to return to Allah in repentance.
Try this week
Protect others from harm through your speech and actions.
Avoid backbiting, lying, cheating, and attacks on another Muslim's honor.
Treat spouses, children, parents, siblings, and fellow Muslims as sacred and worthy of protection.
Respect the sacred months and use them as an opportunity to return to Allah, obey Him, and repent.
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“take as sacred what Allah Ta'ala took as sacred. We take these sacred things, these months, these days, these places, these times, these hours.”
“the Muslim is the one from whom other Muslims, and in another narration, all of mankind are safe from their tongues and their hands.”
“We have a concern about whether the food that we eat is haram, talking about haram. But we don't have a concern about eating the flesh of our brothers and sisters in Islam.”
“So we need to value ourselves, we need to value our brothers and sisters in Islam, including your spouses, and your children, including your parents, and your brothers.”
Talk about it at home
For the dinner table
The khutbah teaches that Allah has made certain months, days, places, and people sacred. Just as Muslims respect the sacred months and the Haram in Makkah, they must respect the blood, wealth, and honor of other people. The speaker reminds us that harm can come through hands, words, gossip, dishonesty, or neglect. Families can respond by treating one another with dignity, protecting each other's rights, and returning to Allah through repentance and obedience.
- What does it mean to make someone feel safe with our words and actions?
- Which family relationship could we honor more carefully this week?
- How can we stop ourselves from focusing on small rules while overlooking bigger harms?
Where it was given
The masjid
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