Use your time for Allah's sake
“The only way we can prevent this meaninglessness is to do things for the sake of Allah.”
The khutbah urges listeners to trust Quranic and prophetic guidance, resist attractive but harmful distractions, and use their limited time for beneficial actions done for Allah’s sake.
The khutbah in 6 steps
- Explains the hadith parable of moths rushing toward fire as people pursuing appealing but harmful desires.
- Applies the parable to youth, independence, and resistance to parental, elder, and prophetic guidance.
- Uses a straight-path highway metaphor to show how the Quran warns against tempting exits, online content, and backbiting.
- Warns that joining gossip can multiply sins after the original conversation ends.
- Uses the melting-ice analogy and Surah Asif to explain that time continuously disappears.
- Urges listeners to replace meaningless time-killing with beneficial work, worship, and community service for Allah’s sake.
In the khateeb's words
“Through his teachings, through his sunnah, through all of the revelations that he's giving us, he is attempting to prevent us from falling into the fire.”
“Do you think after you open the curtain and you see what's behind and you fall into what is behind this curtain, do you think you will come back?”
“Each second of every day, there's a piece of our life that is dripping away from us. Every year, every month, every week, every day, every hour, every second that we spend doing something, is something that is lost.”
“The only way we can prevent this meaninglessness is to do things for the sake of Allah. When we do things for the sake of Allah, this is how we can remove the meaninglessness from our lives.”
For the dinner table
Today’s khutbah reminded us that some things that look bright and exciting can actually lead us toward harm. The Quran and the Prophet’s guidance are like a passenger warning us before we open a dangerous door, especially when we use our phones or join conversations about others. Our time is always slipping away, so “killing time” can become a way of wasting our lives. We should choose beneficial work, worship, and service to others for Allah’s sake so our time gains meaning and barakah.
- What is one online temptation that feels like a bright light, and what warning could help you pause?
- How can we stop a conversation from turning into backbiting?
- What is one useful thing we can do this week for Allah’s sake?
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