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Patience & trialsFrom the masjid's own video, Sep 3, 2025.

Keep praying after you fall short

Daleel Islamic Association · Maamoun Hassan

“You don't say I missed it, I'm going to quit.”

The khateeb, at 21:19

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In one sentence

In hardship and spiritual weakness, believers should seek Allah through patience and prayer, renew their iman through consistent obedience, and never despair of His mercy.

The khutbah in 6 steps

  1. Frames contemporary wars and Islamophobia as challenges to Muslim identity and justice.
  2. Argues that believers must seek Allah’s help through patience and prayer.
  3. Explains three forms of patience: obedience, avoiding sin, and enduring calamity.
  4. Uses Badr and Ibn Abbas to illustrate turning immediately to salah during hardship.
  5. Urges listeners to love salah, increase good deeds, and renew weakened iman.
  6. Encourages repentance without despair and concludes with prayers for the oppressed.
Try this week
Pray consistently and run to salah when facing difficulty or sin.
Practice patience in obedience, avoiding disobedience, and enduring calamities.
Increase good deeds to strengthen and renew iman.
Ask Allah for forgiveness instead of giving up after falling short.
Make dua for oppressed and suffering people around the world.
Sources the khateeb cited
Quran 3:102Grounded the opening call to fear Allah and die as Muslims.
Quran 2:45Main instruction: seek Allah’s help through patience and prayer.
Quran 90:4Supported the claim that human life is created amid hardship.
Quran 39:53Reassured persistent sinners not to despair of Allah’s mercy.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“salah doesn't come to you you go to her and this my dearly beloved brothers and respect this this is how you love Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala”
Daleel Islamic Association · Scarborough, ON
Play from 16:49
“if you want to increase from your iman from your belief then you have to increase from your actual doing”
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Play from 20:14
“you don't say I missed it I'm going to quit you don't say I missed it I'm just going to give up”
Daleel Islamic Association · Scarborough, ON
Play from 21:19
Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

The khateeb reminded us that hardship is part of life, but we are never without a way forward. We seek Allah’s help through patience and prayer, including patience in obeying Allah, avoiding sin, and enduring calamity. Salah should be more than a physical routine; we should learn to love it and run toward it. When we fall short, we should not give up, but return to Allah, ask forgiveness, and increase our good deeds. The khutbah also asked us to pray for people facing oppression and hardship around the world.

  1. When do you find it easiest or hardest to make prayer a priority?
  2. What is one good deed you could add this week to strengthen your faith?
  3. How can our family remember people who are suffering in our prayers?
Where it was given

The masjid

Daleel Islamic Association3545 Kingston Rd, Lower Level, Toronto, ON M1M 1R6Jumu'ah Jumma | 1:30 PMArchiveAll khutbahs at Daleel Islamic Association43 khutbahs
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