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Repentance & taqwaFrom the masjid's own video, Nov 14, 2025.

True success comes from purifying the soul

Masjid Al-Noor
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In one sentence

True success in this life and the hereafter comes through valuing time, doing righteous deeds, advising others toward truth and patience, purifying the soul, and living with sincere God-consciousness.

The khutbah in 5 steps

  1. Explains individual faith and righteous action alongside the communal duty to encourage good and oppose evil.
  2. Uses the Day of Judgment to frame accountability for life, youth, earnings, spending, and knowledge.
  3. Presents Surah ash-Shams as defining success through purification of the soul and failure through corruption.
  4. Urges listeners to ask Allah for purification and recognize their personal faults.
  5. Calls for consistent sincerity and God-consciousness in private and public life.
Try this week
Use time intentionally for faith and righteous deeds.
Encourage family members and others toward good and away from wrongdoing.
Prepare for accountability by reviewing how you use life, youth, money, and knowledge.
Ask Allah regularly to grant piety and purify the soul.
Practice the same integrity in private that you show publicly.
When tempted, remember that Allah is watching and witnessing.
Sources the khateeb cited
Surah 103Defines loss and the conditions for success: faith, righteous deeds, truth, and patience.
Sahih MuslimUsed to teach changing wrongdoing by hand, then tongue, or at least rejecting it in the heart.
Jami` at-TirmidhiUsed to emphasize accountability for life, youth, wealth, and knowledge put into practice.
Surah 91Used to define success as purifying the soul and failure as corrupting it.
Sahih MuslimPresented as a prayer asking Allah for piety and purification.
Surah 2Used to connect Quranic guidance with taqwa, or God-consciousness.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“whenever we spend our time in activities any activity it means you giving your life to that activity”
Masjid Al-Noor · Windsor Mill, MD
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“you not only do good but you tell others to do good things too”
Masjid Al-Noor · Windsor Mill, MD
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Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

This khutbah reminds us that our time is our life, and that real success is not only a job, status, or comfort. We are asked to use our time for faith and good deeds, encourage truth and goodness, and help one another avoid harm. The speaker says we will be accountable for how we spent our life and youth, how we earned and used money, and whether we practiced what we learned. He especially urges us to ask Allah to purify our hearts and to live with the same sincerity when alone and when others are watching. This week, we can choose one good habit to strengthen and gently help someone we love do the same.

  1. Which part of your day could you use more intentionally for something good?
  2. What does being the same person privately and publicly look like?
  3. Which kind of knowledge do you want to put into practice this week?
Where it was given

The masjid

Masjid Al-Noor, Raza e Mustafa Islamic Center3900 Milford Mill Rd, Windsor Mill, MD 21244Jumu'ah 1:45 PMArchiveAll khutbahs at Masjid Al-Noor14 khutbahs
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