Community & unityFrom the masjid's own video, Sep 3, 2025.

Love for fellow believers is part of faith

“Our love for one another is an obligation.”

The khateeb, at 14:01

In one sentence

Love of Allah, His Messenger, and fellow believers is an obligatory part of faith, expressed by spreading safety, forgiveness, and good treatment.

The khutbah in 6 steps

  1. The opening remembers the seriously ill and deceased in prayer and introduces the visiting khatib.
  2. The khutbah begins with taqwa, truthful speech, obedience, and love for Allah and His Messenger.
  3. Love for the Prophet and fellow believers is presented as obligatory and central to faith.
  4. Hatred and envy are described as diseases that destroy religion, requiring pardon and prayer instead of backbiting.
  5. Spreading salam is explained as creating real safety through speech, conduct, and mutual protection.
  6. The khutbah closes with exhortations, blessings, and prayers for Muslims suffering in several regions.
Try this week
Remember the sick and deceased in dua.
Resist envy, malice, and hatred toward fellow believers.
Pardon and overlook affronts instead of allowing resentment to fester.
When hateful thoughts arise, pray for people rather than speaking ill of them.
Spread salam by protecting others from harmful speech, physical harm, cheating, and betrayal.
Sources the khateeb cited
Quran 4:1The creation of humanity from one soul and the importance of kinship and taqwa.
Quran 33:70-71Speaking truthfully and obeying Allah and His Messenger as a path to forgiveness and success.
Sahih al-BukhariFaith requires loving the Prophet more than one's parents, children, and all people.
Sahih MuslimMutual love is connected to faith and entering Paradise, with spreading salam given as its practical means.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“Additionally, We must love one another. Our love for one another is an obligation. I'll say it again. Our love for one another”
Jamiat Ul Ansar · Brampton, ON
Play from 14:01
“Hatred of one another, well the Adab Allah is the razor. doesn't raise hair, doesn't shave hair, it raises deen, meaning strips it down, totally eradicates it from the surface of the earth”
Jamiat Ul Ansar · Brampton, ON
Play from 17:37
“If any of us cheat one another, that's not spreading As-Salaam.”
Jamiat Ul Ansar · Brampton, ON
Play from 22:53
Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

Today’s khutbah taught that loving Allah, His Messenger, and fellow believers is part of real faith. The speaker warned that envy and hatred can hollow out a community and even strip away its religion. He encouraged us to pardon people, pray for them instead of speaking badly about them, and spread salam as real safety through our words and actions. We should make sure others are safe from our tongues, hands, cheating, and harm. This week, we can greet people warmly, repair strained relationships, and remember the sick, deceased, and suffering in our prayers.

  1. What does it look like to make someone feel safe with our words and actions?
  2. When have you turned a hurtful thought into a prayer for someone?
  3. How can our family spread salam this week beyond saying the greeting?