Ramadan & fastingFrom the masjid's own video, Jan 30, 2026.
Ramadan opens doors but demands action
The khutbah in 4 steps
- Explains that chained shayateen expose internal sources of wrongdoing, including ego, greed, racism, and indifference.
- Urges listeners to identify personal triggers, habits, and vulnerabilities before Ramadan.
- Connects Ramadan’s moral responsibility to suffering, displacement, and generosity in Sudan and Palestine.
- Closes by calling for communal care, sustained transformation, and preparation for Ramadan through prayer.
Try this week
Prepare before Ramadan by identifying personal triggers, anxieties, anger, risky spaces, and people you mistreat.
Set aside reflective time to ask who you are becoming and what you bring into other people’s lives.
Practice istighfar and apologize to people you have wronged.
Replace consumerism and busyness with restraint, contemplation, and generosity toward people in need.
Greet people you know and do not know, ask how they are, and offer a smile.
Plan specific changes to continue three and six months after Ramadan.
Sources the khateeb cited
Surah 1The phrase Ihdina al-sirat al-mustaqeem was used to say guidance must be walked, not merely known.
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“The moral clarity and perspective is rooted in a recognition that sometimes it's actually coming from me.”
“It was so that I would increase in my sense of moral responsibility. I would start to understand my capacity.”
“Bring yourself with an intention of love to this Ramadan. So that your presence, your gifts that you utilize, that Allah has endowed you with, your giving, your generosity.”
Keep listening
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