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Death & the hereafterFrom the masjid's own video, Sep 3, 2025.

Use your life before it ends

EPIC · Mikaeel Smith

“Every day you woke up was a new chance to define who you are.”

The khateeb, at 10:44

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In one sentence

Because life and opportunity end, believers should regularly imagine their final legacy, reject entitlement, and use their present time, health, wealth, and abilities for gratitude, worship, and service.

The khutbah in 6 steps

  1. Opens with taqwa and asks listeners to imagine their funeral and how they want to be remembered.
  2. Uses the new year and Quranic self-accounting to urge reverse-engineering daily life toward that legacy.
  3. Explains valuing youth, health, wealth, free time, and life before their opposites.
  4. Identifies entitlement as a vice that blocks gratitude, contrasting it with Musa's humility and need for good.
  5. Uses Umar's deathbed humility to show the urgency of doing good without spiritual entitlement.
  6. Concludes with dhikr, serving people, and enjoining good as forms of charity.
Try this week
Decide how you want to be remembered and align daily choices with that legacy.
Practice regular self-accounting about what you are preparing for the Hereafter.
Value youth, health, wealth, free time, and life by dedicating them to Allah and good deeds.
Replace entitlement with gratitude for blessings and eagerness to do good.
Use dhikr, serving people, and enjoining good as daily forms of charity.
Sources the khateeb cited
Surah 23Shows the dying person's wish to return and perform one more good deed.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“every day you woke up was a new beginning every day you woke up was a new chance to define who you are”
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“Allah doesn't owe you anything. Allah does not owe you anything.”
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For the dinner table

Shaykh Mikaeel asks us to think about how we want our loved ones to remember us and to begin living those qualities today. He reminds us to make good use of our youth, health, wealth, free time, and life while we have them. Every morning gives us another chance to do good and grow closer to Allah. He warns that feeling entitled to our blessings can stop us from being grateful, and he shares examples of humility from Musa and Umar. Remembering Allah and serving people are forms of charity, so each of us has ways to put gratitude into action.

  1. What kind action would you like our family to remember you for?
  2. What blessing did you notice today that you sometimes forget to appreciate?
  3. How could we use a little of our free time this week to help someone?
Where it was given

The masjid

East Plano Islamic Center4700 14th Street, Plano, TX 75074Jumu'ah First Jumu'ah 12:30 PM · second Jumu'ah 2:00 PMKhateebMikaeel SmithMore khutbahsArchiveAll khutbahs at EPIC165 khutbahs
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