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Youth & educationFrom the masjid's own video, Jul 18, 2026.

Use your youth to worship Allah

Highland Masjid · Abdullah Al-Hajj

“They love you more than anything else in their world.”

The khateeb, at 5:31

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In one sentence

Muslim youth and families should use their youth, time, health, and resources wisely by worshipping Allah, honoring parents, protecting their faith, and establishing prayer.

The khutbah in 7 steps

  1. Opens with taqwa and introduces back-to-school advice for youth and parents.
  2. Reminds young people that they are loved and are the future of the Muslim community.
  3. Urges youth to hold to the Quran and Sunnah, embrace their Muslim identity, and honor their parents.
  4. Encourages worship from puberty and using youth, health, wealth, free time, and life before they pass.
  5. Warns against excessive social media, gaming, unsafe devices, smoking, drugs, bad friends, and forbidden relationships.
  6. Centers prayer on time as the first major accountability and a means of cleansing sins.
  7. Announces Christian Flight Academy registration before closing with supplications for families and Muslims, including those in Gaza and Palestine.
Try this week
Hold firmly to the Quran and Sunnah and be unashamed of being Muslim.
Obey and show kindness to parents, especially as they grow older.
Establish the five daily prayers on time from a young age.
Use youth, health, wealth, and free time for beneficial and worshipful activities.
Limit social media, gaming, phone, and internet use; parents should supervise children’s devices.
Avoid drugs, vaping, cigarettes, tobacco, bad friends, and forbidden relationships.
Make frequent dua for yourself and your parents.
Parents were encouraged to register children at Christian Flight Academy, from pre-K through second grade.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“Your parents, they love you more than anything else in their world.”
Highland Masjid · Highland, IN
Play from 5:31
“Don't be afraid to be a Muslim. Don't be afraid to say I am a Muslim because you are on the right path.”
Highland Masjid · Highland, IN
Play from 6:38
Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

The khutbah reminded us that children are deeply loved by their parents and have an important future in the Muslim community. Young people should hold onto the Quran and Sunnah, be proud of their Islam, and treat their parents with kindness and obedience. They should use their youth, health, wealth, and free time wisely instead of letting phones, gaming, bad friends, smoking, or harmful relationships control them. The imam especially emphasized praying the five daily prayers on time, because prayer shapes the rest of a person’s deeds. Parents should guide their children with love, supervision, and dua.

  1. What is one way you can protect your prayer time this week?
  2. Which phone or social-media habit would you like to change, and what support would help?
Where it was given

The masjid

Illiana Islamic Association9608 Spring St, Highland, IN 46322Jumu'ah 12:00 PM & 1:00 PMKhateebAbdullah Al-HajjMore khutbahsArchiveAll khutbahs at Highland Masjid11 khutbahs
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