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Ramadan & fastingFrom the masjid's own video, Sep 3, 2025.

Prepare for Ramadan with year-round worship

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“Allah is not in need of your fasting.”

The khateeb, at 14:04

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In one sentence

Believers should prepare for Ramadan by building year-round worship and practicing patience and tolerance, while understanding the different rulings on fasting during the second half of Sha'aban.

The khutbah in 6 steps

  1. Introduces the question of fasting during the second half of Sha'aban.
  2. Reconciles three hadiths by distinguishing precautionary fasting from obligatory fasts and established voluntary habits.
  3. Urges worshippers not to become Ramadan-only Muslims but to maintain worship throughout the year.
  4. Presents tolerance and moral restraint as essential preparation for Ramadan.
  5. Uses Quranic guidance and examples from the Prophet's conduct at Hunayn to encourage mercy and patient responses.
  6. Closes with an appeal to protect good deeds and prayers for Ramadan, repentance, and oppressed communities.
Try this week
Do not fast in the second half of Sha'aban merely as a precaution for Ramadan.
Complete missed Ramadan fasts, vows, or expiations when required.
Maintain regular prayer, Quran reading, fasting, charity, and repentance throughout the year.
Practice tolerance and protect the tongue and body from harmful behavior.
Respond to insults and aggression with patience, good words, and good deeds.
Seek refuge in Allah when provoked by satanic temptation.
Sources the khateeb cited
Sahih al-BukhariUsed in discussing the Prophet's question about fasting near the end of Sha'aban and making up obligatory fasts.
Quran 41:34-35Used to teach answering evil with what is better and connecting that response to patience.
Quran 7:200Used to advise seeking refuge in Allah when provoked by satanic temptation.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“if you do not stop the evil if you do not stop the evil whether it is verbal one or physical one if you do not stop it Allah is not in need of your fasting”
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For the dinner table

The khutbah begins by explaining that fasting in the second half of Sha'aban depends on why a person is fasting. Precautionary fasting is discouraged, while required make-up fasts, vows, expiation, or an established habit are treated differently. Ramadan should not be the first time we pray more, read Quran, give charity, or leave sins behind. The khutbah teaches that patience and tolerance help protect our fast when others hurt or provoke us. Instead of answering harm with harm, we should choose a good word or deed and trust Allah with the reward.

  1. What is one good deed we can practice before Ramadan?
  2. How can we stay calm when someone says something hurtful?
  3. What habit can we keep all year, not only in Ramadan?
Where it was given

The masjid

Colorado Muslim Society, Masjid Abu Bakr2071 S. Parker Road, Denver, CO 80231Jumu'ah 1st Jumu'ah 12:00 PM · 2nd Jumu'ah 1:15 PMArchiveAll khutbahs at CMS23 khutbahs
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