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Patience & trialsFrom the masjid's own video, Nov 28, 2025.

Patience helps us endure life's tests

Abu Huraira · Ali al Barghouthi

“Patience is at the first moment of affliction when it first happens.”

The khateeb, at 7:09

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The khutbah argues that patience is an essential gift and discipline for enduring life's tests, worshiping Allah, resisting temptation, and treating others well.

The khutbah in 7 steps

  1. Defines patience as a far-reaching gift and explains how modern haste weakens it.
  2. Presents life's hardships as tests and emphasizes patience at the first moment of affliction.
  3. Applies patience to resisting prohibited actions and persevering in worship.
  4. Explains patience's benefits, including Allah's love, guidance, protection, strength, and victory.
  5. Warns against cultural influences that pull Muslims away from Islamic values.
  6. Distinguishes patience for Allah, through Allah, and with Allah, then gives practical ways to cultivate it.
  7. Concludes with supplications for patience and for Muslims suffering in Gaza, Palestine, Syria, Sudan, and elsewhere.
Try this week
Ask Allah specifically for patience and rely on Him for it.
Pray consistently and on time, especially maintaining the five daily prayers.
Fast and practice other forms of worship to develop patience.
Pause before speaking or acting when emotions rise.
Slow down before, during, and after prayer, while driving, and in conversations.
Listen patiently to children, spend time with them, and educate them.
Avoid answering parents, spouses, neighbors, or other people’s harm with harm.
Keep company with righteous people and those who regularly supplicate to Allah.
Sources the khateeb cited
Sahih al-BukhariPresents patience as the greatest and most comprehensive gift.
Quran 3:142Frames patience and struggle as tests before entering Paradise.
Quran 2:155-157Explains that fear, hunger, and loss are tests met with patience, bringing mercy and guidance.
Sahih al-BukhariTeaches that genuine patience appears at the first moment of calamity.
Quran 20:132Connects family prayer, steadfastness, and trust in Allah's provision.
Quran 39:10Promises patient people unlimited reward.
Quran 28:79-80Contrasts attraction to Qarun's wealth with valuing Allah's reward.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“patience is at the first moment of affliction when it first happens that's when you need to call on patience that's when you show whether you have patience or not”
Abu Huraira · Don Mills, ON
Play from 7:09
“if you can do something that will bring you the love of Allah if you can do something that will bring you the proximity the nearness of Allah to you what will that do to your life”
Abu Huraira · Don Mills, ON
Play from 11:28
Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

The khutbah teaches that patience, or sabr, is one of Allah’s greatest gifts and is needed throughout life. We need it when facing hardship, resisting wrong actions, worshiping Allah, and dealing kindly with people. Patience is not simply inner strength; it grows when we ask Allah for help and practice it through prayer, fasting, good company, and pausing before we speak or act. The speaker reminds us to accept what we cannot change while improving what we can. He closes by asking Allah to strengthen Muslims and relieve suffering around the world.

  1. When is it hardest for you to pause before speaking or acting?
  2. How can prayer or fasting help someone become more patient?
  3. What is one situation you cannot change where you could practice patience?
Where it was given

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Abu Huraira Center270 Yorkland Blvd, North York, ON M2J 5C9Jumu'ah 1:30 PM and 2:30 PMKhateebAli al BarghouthiMore khutbahsArchiveAll khutbahs at Abu Huraira66 khutbahs
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