Repentance & taqwaFrom the masjid's own video, Dec 13, 2025.
Prepare for Ramadan by guarding your senses
“If we do what it takes to work on ourselves and put barriers in between ourselves and those things that we may be addicted to, Allah will grant us aid.”
In one sentence
Believers should prepare for Ramadan by cultivating chastity, guarding their senses and private parts, and making gradual, honest changes while modeling uprightness and compassion within their families.
The khutbah in 6 steps
- Introduces chastity, purity, fitra, and preparation for Ramadan.
- Explains the successful believers’ qualities from Surah al-Mu’minun.
- Urges listeners to avoid harmful media, gossip, and influences entering through the senses.
- Addresses men on honoring parents, lowering the gaze, and modeling chastity.
- Encourages repentance, barriers against sinful habits, and focus on gradual victories.
- Addresses women on modesty and warns men not to weaponize religious proofs against them.
Try this week
Begin preparing for Ramadan before it arrives through gradual self-discipline.
Create barriers against addictive or indecent media and conversations.
Lower the gaze and avoid pursuing inappropriate attention or relationships.
Leave gossip, change the subject, or change the channel when harmful content appears.
Seek Allah’s forgiveness, identify a specific area for improvement, and build on small victories.
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“if we do what it takes to work on ourselves and put barriers in between ourselves and those things that we may be addicted to, Allah will grant us aid.”
“Everything that you take in with the eyes and with the ears, they have an effect on the heart.”
“Just because we come from a place, just because we were raised up on something does not mean that that is the correct way in which we should enact our lives.”
“Yes you can, but you have to look at the small victories and the Shaytan wants us to focus on solely the mistake so we can keep ourselves low.”
Where it was given
The masjid
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