Muslims must build strength for today
“You got to have a plan.”
African-American and indigenous Muslims are called to rise in the present, purify themselves, build material and spiritual strength, and serve humanity through education, culture, business, and governance.
The khutbah in 7 steps
- Interprets Surah al-Muddaththir’s call to rise and warn as a present mission for African-American and indigenous Muslims.
- Uses numerical symbolism to connect potential, material establishment, human senses, and completion.
- Argues that contemporary Muslims are “new sahaba” with better tools and must look forward rather than live in the past.
- Presents education, culture, business, and governance as four areas of communal development.
- Emphasizes purification of intentions, speech, conduct, and understanding before action.
- Uses hadith about reliance on Allah, divine decree, patience, and relief during hardship.
- Calls for bold planning, land-based production, technological innovation, and feeding the neighborhood and world before closing with prayers.
In the khateeb's words
“you got a small little thing to look in the rearview mirror but a big window in front we had to look forward”
“You got work to do. We got work to do. We got to straighten out and remove the yokes of the backs of the people. That's us.”
“If I feed America, that's a debt of gratitude. If I feed the world, that's a debt of gratitude.”
“a damn fool with a plan is better than a wandering genius. Right? You got to have a plan.”
For the dinner table
This khutbah says that Muslims should live their faith in the present, not only talk about the past. It calls African-American and indigenous Muslims to rise, serve, and develop both spiritual purity and material strength. The speaker names education, culture, business, and governance as areas where the community should grow. He urges us to make bold plans, trust Allah through hardship, and use our gifts to help feed and strengthen our neighbors and the wider world. Gratitude, he says, is shown by turning Allah’s gifts into service.
- What is one way our family could serve our neighborhood this week?
- What big, helpful vision would you like our community to work toward?
- How can we make a plan while still trusting Allah?
More on the ummah & current events
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