Use life's blessings before they disappear
“Instead of wasting time on phone on social media.”
Because youth, health, wealth, free time, and life are temporary blessings, Muslims should use them now for worship, service, charity, and repentance before they disappear.
The khutbah in 6 steps
- Introduces mortality and the hadith of using five blessings before their opposites arrive.
- Urges young people to attend halaqas, worship, and choose righteous companions.
- Calls listeners to use health for worship and service, and wealth for family, charity, and community needs.
- Warns against wasting free time on phones and social media, encouraging Islamic learning instead.
- Makes frequent istighfar the central practical response, linking it to forgiveness, provision, and relief.
- Closes with Friday salawat, prayers for suffering Muslims worldwide, and a reminder to uphold justice and kindness.
In the khateeb's words
“instead of wasting time on phone on social media this goes to the young and the adults including me”
“do at least thousand times during the day thousand times during the night for more than ten minutes at a time”
For the dinner table
The khutbah reminds us that youth, health, wealth, free time, and life are blessings that do not last forever. We should use them now for prayer, learning, helping people, charity, and serving our families and community. The speaker especially urges us not to let phones and busyness consume our free time, but to fill it with Quran, hadith, and beneficial learning. He recommends making istighfar a regular habit because turning back to Allah is available in every circumstance. He closes by encouraging blessings upon the Prophet on Friday and praying for people suffering around the world.
- What is one blessing, health, time, money, or youth, you can use better this week?
- What could you replace with five minutes of Quran or Islamic learning?
- When do you like to say istighfar, and what does asking Allah’s forgiveness mean to you?
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