Family & marriageFrom the masjid's own video, Jul 4, 2026.
Parents shape children through love and example
“You can't expect them to pray if you don't pray.”
In one sentence
Parents are entrusted with raising children through patient love, faith, moral example, protection, fairness, and sustained investment so they become righteous and a continuing source of reward.
The khutbah in 6 steps
- Parents must protect and raise children through time, compassion, sacrifice, and faith education.
- Make prayer and Islamic practice attractive through patience, encouragement, knowledge, and example.
- Cultivate manners, truthfulness, identity, and love of Allah, the Prophet, and the Quran.
- Stay engaged amid media and summer distractions by providing activities and modeling values at home.
- Fulfill practical duties involving healthcare, safety, education, lawful living, and merciful play.
- Build a loving, peaceful home, cooperate as parents, and treat sons and daughters equally.
Try this week
Spend regular quality time with children and listen to them.
Pray with children and explain salat as a beautiful connection with Allah.
Model prayer, Quran reading, truthfulness, promise-keeping, and mosque attendance.
Fill children’s summer time with beneficial activities and monitor media use, friends, books, and entertainment.
Take children for medical care and immunizations, and secure household hazards.
Teach children good manners, halal and haram, love of Allah and the Prophet, and Quran recitation.
Coordinate parenting strategies between spouses and treat sons and daughters fairly in affection and gifts.
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“But to protect them from the fire means educate them, teach them, give them the faith, make them love Allah.”
“If you don't fill their time with good things, they will fill their time with bad things.”
“you can't expect them to pray if you don't pray you can't expect them to read the Quran if you don't read the Quran”
“what makes the house peace of heaven is the love it's the connection it's not the physical thing it's the spiritual thing”
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