Use your time for Allah
“You want barakah in your time?”
Time is a dwindling lifespan, and its barakah comes from dedicating it to Allah through early rising, daily Quran, prayer-centered planning, kinship, and consistent righteous action rather than worldly distraction.
The khutbah in 5 steps
- A metaphor portrays death as a lion, the grave and afterlife as a snake, lifespan as a rope, day and night as mice, and worldly temptations as honey.
- The khutbah explains diminished barakah as accomplishing less despite having the same hours as earlier righteous generations.
- The speaker gives five practices: wake early, maintain a daily Quran minimum, organize life around prayer, serve parents and relatives, and perform one additional righteous deed daily.
- The sermon applies the message to Western Muslims’ screen time and communal responsibility, urging listeners to reclaim one or two hours daily.
- The khutbah closes with prayers for forgiveness, blessing, guidance, and relief for oppressed Muslims worldwide.
In the khateeb's words
“we waste our lives the seriousness of our predicament that does not hit us and we still have this approach towards my time and how I divide it and what I want truly”
“third is to obsessively plan around your salawat you want barakah in your time? work on Allah's time His time is simple five times a day”
“what if we took back just this week one hour of every day how much would change? what about two? the entire ummah would change”
For the dinner table
The khutbah reminds us that our lives are moving quickly, and every day brings us closer to death and the hereafter. The speaker says that Allah can place barakah in our time so that small efforts produce great good. He recommends waking early, reading a daily amount of Quran, organizing life around prayer, serving family, and doing one extra good deed each day. He also asks us to reclaim time from screens and distractions so we can become more useful to our community and to people facing oppression.
- Which of the five habits would be easiest for you to begin this week?
- What is one distraction you would like to replace with a good deed?
- How could our family use one reclaimed hour for something beneficial?
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