Prayer & worshipFrom the masjid's own video, Dec 3, 2025.
Use winter to deepen your worship
“We're part of a long-standing generation and generations of people praying tahajjud.”
In one sentence
Muslims should use winter’s long nights, short days, free time, and distinctive conditions to deepen worship through the WINTERS practices.
The khutbah in 7 steps
- Introduces winter as an opportunity for efficient worship and presents the WINTERS acronym.
- Encourages worship during winter’s long nights, especially tahajjud.
- Urges increased charity for local and global people facing hardship.
- Recommends voluntary winter fasting and cultivating thankfulness.
- Calls listeners to reflect on snow and Allah’s creation.
- Encourages repairing relationships through outreach and reconciliation.
- Concludes with scholarship opportunities, winter programs, and community announcements.
Try this week
Pray tahajjud during winter’s longer nights, even earlier in the evening.
Increase charity to people in local hardship and support global relief efforts.
Fast voluntarily in winter, including Mondays, Thursdays, or other recommended days.
Thank Allah for health, warmth, wealth, and home, while thanking and helping others.
Reflect on snow and other signs of creation.
Reach out to someone with whom you have lost contact or had a fallout.
Read a new book, listen to a series, contact scholars, or attend winter educational programs.
Sign up for the winter intensive and join the weekly religious programs.
Sources the khateeb cited
Surah 17Used to encourage tahajjud and connect night prayer with the praiseworthy station.
Jami` at-TirmidhiUsed to present night prayer as the practice of the pious before us.
Sunan Ibn MajahUsed to argue that charity expiates sins.
Jami` at-TirmidhiUsed to recommend winter fasting as a cool or chilly treasure.
Jami` at-TirmidhiUsed to connect thanking people with thanking Allah.
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“Which is part of the benefit of tahajjud. But when we get up and we pray tahajjud in the night, We're part of a long-standing generation and generations of people praying tahajjud.”
“So giving charity to them, increasing in charity to them is an extremely important and beneficial thing we can do in the winter.”
“That is the infinitesimal beauty and perfection of Allah's creation. That He sends down millions upon billions of snowflakes over the earth. And yet no two of them are exactly the same.”
Talk about it at home
For the dinner table
Winter can become a special season of worship because its long nights make tahajjud and its short days make voluntary fasting easier. The khateeb encouraged us to increase charity, thank Allah for warmth and other blessings, and help people who lack them. He also asked us to reflect on snow and the wider creation, repair strained relationships, and use free time to learn the deen. A simple text, a food drive, a fast, a night prayer, or a class can turn winter into a season of growth.
- Who might need warmth, food, or kindness from our family this winter?
- What relationship or subject could you thoughtfully reconnect with during winter break?
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