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Character & conductFrom the masjid's own video, Sep 3, 2025.

Justice means returning people’s rights

Daar-ul-Ehsaan

“You have to be fair and make sure that he gets his right.”

The khateeb, at 24:42

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In one sentence

After Ramadan, believers should continue worship by fasting six days of Shawwal and protect people’s rights through justice, restitution, and repentance for harm.

The khutbah in 5 steps

  1. Encourages fasting six days of Shawwal, consecutively or otherwise, for the reward of a lifetime of fasting.
  2. Introduces huquq al-ibad, the rights of all people regardless of faith.
  3. Uses Surah al-Nisa and Surah al-Ma'idah to demand justice despite self-interest, family ties, or hatred.
  4. Warns against withheld wages, insults, backbiting, and unpaid debts through Day of Judgment accountability and the true-bankrupt hadith.
  5. Applies justice to family, inheritance, and disputes; recounts Dawud’s rushed judgment and recommends apologies, restitution, and a supplication for forgotten obligations.
Try this week
Fast any six days of Shawwal, whether consecutively or on separate days.
Act fairly in dealings with relatives, employees, spouses, children, and people one dislikes; speak up when truth affects justice.
Pay employees fully and settle debts or other rights owed to people.
Ask forgiveness and apologize for insults, backbiting, unfairness, or hurtful treatment.
Recite the supplication attributed to Hasan al-Basri for forgotten obligations.
Sources the khateeb cited
Surah 4Used to require standing for justice even against oneself, parents, or relatives.
Surah 5Used to teach that hatred must not prevent fairness and justice.
Surah 38The story of Dawud was used to warn against judging before hearing the full case.
Sahih al-BukhariThe true-bankrupt hadith warns that harms against others can consume one’s good deeds.
Surah 70The Day of Judgment was described as lasting 50,000 years.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“the definition of backbiting is to say something to say something that your brother does not like to be said about him.”
Daar-ul-Ehsaan · Bristol, CT
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“Then you have to be fair and make sure that he gets his right.”
Daar-ul-Ehsaan · Bristol, CT
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Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

After Ramadan, the khateeb reminded us that six days of fasting in Shawwal can carry the reward of fasting for a lifetime, and the days do not have to be consecutive. He then focused on huquq al-ibad, the rights of other people, saying Allah asks us to be just even when the other person is a relative, employee, child, or someone we dislike. Small harms, unpaid wages, insults, backbiting, broken hearts, or unfair treatment, are not small before Allah and may have to be settled on the Day of Judgment. We should correct wrongs, apologize sincerely, pay what we owe, and ask Allah to help settle obligations we no longer remember. The message is to carry Ramadan’s worship into everyday fairness, mercy, and careful treatment of people.

  1. What is one fair action we can take this week toward someone in our family?
  2. Why can apologizing be a sign of strength?
  3. How can we avoid saying things about people that they would dislike?
Where it was given

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