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Ramadan & fastingFrom the masjid's own video, Feb 20, 2026.

Use Ramadan to compete in good deeds

MACA · Hasan Wali

“When it comes to our deen, we should always look at people who are more than us, who are better than us.”

The khateeb, at 23:23

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In one sentence

Ramadan is a rare opportunity to return to the basics of faith by cultivating patience, generosity, worship, and healthy competition in good deeds, especially through serving parents.

The khutbah in 6 steps

  1. Frames Ramadan as a return to basic acts of faith and introduces hadith-based reminders.
  2. Explains five Ramadan distinctions, including restrained devils, Paradise’s preparation, and forgiveness at month’s end.
  3. Describes Ramadan’s multiplied rewards, patience, sympathy, charity, feeding fasting people, and easing burdens.
  4. Identifies four practices to increase: tawhid dhikr, istighfar, asking for Jannah, and seeking protection from Hell.
  5. Urges believers to compete in good deeds while comparing themselves upward in faith and downward in worldly matters.
  6. Closes by urging gratitude for reaching Ramadan and honoring living parents or praying for deceased ones.
Try this week
Fast Ramadan with faith and hope for Allah’s reward.
Practice patience by controlling anger and resisting sins and temptations.
Increase dhikr, especially la ilaha illa Allah, and regularly seek forgiveness.
Ask Allah for Jannah and protection from the fire.
Help someone break their fast with whatever is within your means, even a date, water, or milk.
Lessen the burdens of people under your authority, including employees.
Compete in good deeds by increasing Quran recitation, night prayer, and charity.
Serve living parents and seek their forgiveness; pray for Allah’s forgiveness for deceased parents.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“the first thing that we lose in the month of Ramadan is our patience”
MACA · Voorhees, NJ
Play from 2:15
“whatever you can do whatever is within your means is what Allah looks at”
MACA · Voorhees, NJ
Play from 13:47
“when it comes to our deen We should always look at people who are more than us who are better than us”
MACA · Voorhees, NJ
Play from 23:23
“But mothers and fathers are a once in a lifetime opportunity to please Allah”
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Play from 30:03
Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

Imam Hasan Wali reminds us that Ramadan brings us back to the basics of our faith and gives us a precious opportunity to seek Allah's forgiveness. Fasting teaches us patience with our temptations and our anger, including how we speak to each other when we are hungry. He encourages us to care for people in need, help others break their fast with whatever we can offer, and ease their burdens. He asks us to let other people's good deeds inspire us to grow in prayer, Quran, and charity through healthy competition. He also reminds us to increase remembrance of Allah and dua, serve our parents while they are alive, and pray for their forgiveness after they have died.

  1. What could help us speak kindly when we feel hungry or frustrated before iftar?
  2. Whose good deed has inspired you, and what would you like to try yourself?
Where it was given

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