Use your time before it is gone
“The time for a believer is his life here.”
Because time is the substance of a believer’s life and cannot be recovered, Muslims should dedicate their health, youth, wealth, and free time to Allah through worship and beneficial action rather than procrastination and distraction.
The khutbah in 6 steps
- Time is a believer’s life and should be dedicated to Allah, not treated as routine.
- Every pillar of Islam is connected to appointed times and intentional use of daily life.
- Hadiths urge believers to use life, youth, health, wealth, and free time before losing them.
- Wasted time produces regret at death and on Judgment Day, while long hopes encourage delay.
- Temptations, phones, games, politics, idle talk, and bad company can consume time and obscure life’s purpose.
- The khutbah closes by urging remembrance, learning, righteous deeds, and immediate use of one’s remaining time.
In the khateeb's words
“The time for a believer is his life here. The time day and night is his life for akhirah.”
“So not just to know things. But how much a person apply what he know.”
“One of the main thing is 'tool al-amel'. What's 'tool al-amel'? It means a person thinks like, no one among us will think life might be taken after a minute or next year or next day.”
“You are in this life as if you are a traveller. You are not stationed here. You are a traveller.”
For the dinner table
The khutbah reminds us that time is not empty space; it is our life and our opportunity to prepare for the hereafter. Allah gives us health, youth, money, and free time, and we should use them before they change or disappear. The speaker warned us not to keep saying “later,” while phones, games, endless political talk, or bad company quietly consume our days. As a family, we can pray on time, learn, remember Allah, make good intentions in ordinary activities, and begin one useful change today.
- What is one part of your day you would like to use more wisely?
- What distraction most often makes you say, “I’ll do it later”?
- What good deed can we start together today?
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