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Death & the hereafterFrom the masjid's own video, Oct 3, 2025.

Use life before its expiration date

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“Each and every one of us has an expiration date that Allah has stamped on us.”

The khateeb, at 14:47

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In one sentence

Because every person has an inevitable expiration date, Muslims should treat life, health, time, wealth, and relationships as temporary gifts and use them now for worship, good deeds, and faithful guidance of their families.

The khutbah in 6 steps

  1. Gratitude for Allah's gifts introduces the contrast between consuming blessings and wasting them.
  2. Food expiration dates become an analogy for the neglected expiration date of human life.
  3. Quranic reminders emphasize that all creation perishes and death may arrive unexpectedly.
  4. Listeners are urged to imagine death by tomorrow morning and prioritize what they want their children to worship.
  5. The sermon applies the hadith of five matters before five, urging immediate use of youth, health, wealth, free time, and life.
  6. It closes by urging family ties, prompt good deeds, remembrance of Allah, and preparation for a good ending.
Try this week
Ask each day whether you have used your life well if your expiration date is tomorrow morning.
Prioritize worship and teach your children what they will worship after you are gone.
Use your current youth, health, wealth, free time, and life for good deeds before they diminish.
Maintain good relations with family members.
Let food expiration dates remind you to prepare for your own death and increase remembrance of Allah.
Sources the khateeb cited
Quran 7:31Warns believers to eat and drink without waste.
Quran 28:88Establishes that everything on earth perishes except Allah.
Quran 55:26-27Establishes that everything on earth perishes except Allah.
Quran 27:88Uses the passing mountains to illustrate the transience of creation.
Quran 3:185Reminds listeners that every soul will taste death and true success is salvation.
Quran 18:45Compares worldly life to vegetation that becomes dry stubble.
Quran 2:133Shows Yaqub's concern that his children worship the one true God after his death.
Quran 4:18Warns against delaying repentance until death or unmistakable signs arrive.
Quran 6:158Warns against delaying repentance until death or unmistakable signs arrive.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“We are consumers. We are not creators. We are consumers of what Allah has given to us.”
ICF · Fayetteville, NC
Play from 6:50
“Every breath is a blessing from Allah. We don't cry out, why did Allah give me that breath?”
ICF · Fayetteville, NC
Play from 14:01
“But each and every one of us. has an expiration date that Allah has stamped on us as certain as He has stamped one on the mountains and the earth and the heavens.”
ICF · Fayetteville, NC
Play from 14:47
“For Allah warns us that trying to wait right up to the actual expiration date is a dangerous practice.”
ICF · Fayetteville, NC
Play from 27:43
Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

Allah has given us life, health, time, wealth, and family as temporary gifts, so we should not waste them. The sermon asks us to remember that every person has an expiration date and to live today as if tomorrow morning could be our last. Like Prophet Yaqub, we should care about what our children worship and teach them throughout our lives. We should use our youth, health, free time, and opportunities for good deeds before they diminish. Keeping family ties, remembering Allah, and acting promptly can help us prepare for a good ending.

  1. What gift from Allah do you want to use more wisely this week?
  2. If tomorrow morning were your last, what loving or faithful words would you want your family to hear?
  3. Which of your time, health, free time, or family relationships needs more care right now?
Where it was given

The masjid

Islamic Center of Fayetteville2415 Rosehill Road, Fayetteville, NC 28301Jumu'ah 1:30 PMArchiveAll khutbahs at ICF51 khutbahs
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