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Youth & educationFrom the masjid's own video, Oct 3, 2025.

What adults should learn from children

CVIC · Waleed Basyouni

“Our success comes from our ability to stand up every time we fall.”

The khateeb, at 15:32

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In one sentence

Adults should learn from children's fitrah, perseverance, goal-setting, openness to mistakes, forgiveness, adaptability, and joy, and preserve these qualities in family and community life while remaining anchored in Islamic principles.

The khutbah in 7 steps

  1. Reframes children as sources of wisdom whose qualities adults should learn from.
  2. Applies children's perseverance and goal-focus to salah, Quran, family, and community life.
  3. Presents mistakes as opportunities for repentance, growth, and rejecting fake perfection.
  4. Encourages emotional openness, forgiveness, anger control, and releasing resentment.
  5. Urges adults to adapt to changing children, circumstances, society, and required skills.
  6. Calls listeners to preserve children's joy and smiling in homes and communities.
  7. Closes with prayers for the community and suffering people worldwide, including Palestine and Gaza.
Try this week
Set specific goals for salah, including focus, congregational prayer, qiyam, and sunnah prayers.
Define goals for Quran recitation, memorization, understanding, and review.
Build deeper emotional relationships with children rather than relying only on factual questions.
Repent consistently, acknowledge mistakes, apologize, and learn from failures.
Forgive those who have caused harm and release anger and resentment.
Adapt to children's changing ages and circumstances while maintaining Islamic principles.
Smile more intentionally and use warmth to improve family and community relationships.
Sources the khateeb cited
Sahih MuslimUsed for the idea that children begin with fitrah before later corruption.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“Our children are our message to the future, to the future generation.”
CVIC · Chino, CA
Play from 4:06
“Anytime we're not driven by clarity of goals, we will not progress.”
CVIC · Chino, CA
Play from 7:44
“our success does not come from never failing. Our success comes from our ability to stand up every time we fall.”
CVIC · Chino, CA
Play from 15:32
“When you forgive, you set your own heart free. You set your own self free. forgiveness is not weakness.”
CVIC · Chino, CA
Play from 18:18
Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

Children teach us more than we often realize. Their persistence, honesty, readiness to forgive, ability to adapt, and delight in smiling can remind adults of qualities Allah loves. The khutbah encourages us to set clear goals for worship and family life, learn from mistakes through sincere repentance, and build emotionally deep relationships with our children. We should adjust as our children and circumstances change while holding firmly to our principles, and bring more warmth and smiles into our homes and communities. It closed with prayers for the community and for people suffering around the world, including Palestine and Gaza.

  1. Which quality in children do you think adults most need to recover?
  2. What is one worship or family goal you want to make clearer?
  3. How can we make forgiveness and smiling more visible in our home?
Where it was given

The masjid

Chino Valley Islamic Center4711 Chino Ave, Chino, CA 91710Jumu'ah First Jummah 1:10 PM · Second Jummah 2:10 PMKhateebWaleed BasyouniMore khutbahsArchiveAll khutbahs at CVIC59 khutbahs
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