Repentance & taqwaFrom the masjid's own video, Jul 18, 2026.
Make seeking forgiveness a daily habit
“Nothing bothers you on an individual level or on a communal level except that it's a direct result of what your hands have caused.”
In one sentence
Istighfar (seeking Allah's forgiveness) is the constant practice of the prophets, the companions, and the righteous, and it is the believer's remedy for sins, the key to worldly and communal blessings, and the protection of one's deeds on the Day of Judgment.
The khutbah in 7 steps
- Imam Malik's story: istighfar as the answer to requests for wealth, children, and rain
- Istighfar as communal protection: one of two sources of safety alongside the Prophet's presence
- Every calamity is a result of one's own deeds, following the self-accounting attitude of the salaf
- Rejecting Shaytan's traps of despair and shame about repenting repeatedly
- Surah al-Furqan: even major sins are replaced with good deeds through tawbah and righteous action
- Warning about hidden sins nullifying mountain-sized good deeds (Tihama hadith)
- Examples from Adam, Yunus, and Ali ibn Abi Talib; closing call to make istighfar a habit
Try this week
Say istighfar frequently, including immediately after acts of worship as the Prophet did
Make tawbah and replace bad deeds with good ones rather than despairing of repeating a sin
Learn the correct rulings and method of salah and fasting instead of assuming they are valid
Respond to personal and communal hardship with self-accounting and istighfar before asking for relief
Renew commitment to qiyam al-layl by clearing the sins that obstruct it
Sources the khateeb cited
Quran 71:10-12Imam Malik cited it to show istighfar brings wealth, children, and rain
Quran 8:33Allah gave the ummah two protections: the Prophet's presence and their istighfar
Quran 42:30Every calamity is a direct result of what one's own hands have earned
Quran 25:68-70Quoted in Arabic: shirk, murder, zina punished, but tawbah and good deeds convert bad deeds into good ones
Quran 7:23Adam and Yunus responded to crisis first with istighfar, not requests
Quran 37:143-144Adam and Yunus responded to crisis first with istighfar, not requests
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“imam malik would respond by and say seek forgiveness say istaghfirullah increase in your istighfar”
“no calamity affects you nothing bothers you on an individual level or on a communal level except that it's a direct result of what your hands have caused”
“They pray the same way you pray They fast the same way you fast But when they become secluded With the maharim of Allah The prohibitions of Allah Azza wa Jal They devour it”
“You are a man Whose sins Are holding him Captive”
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