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Prayer & worshipFrom the masjid's own video, Jul 3, 2026.

Worship includes every honest daily action

YIC · Nabil Al gazali

“When someone trusts you with something, you keep it and you bring it back to him. That's worship.”

The khateeb, at 10:28

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In one sentence

Worship extends beyond formal rituals into every intentional, ethical action throughout the day, and the Hijrah should be studied for its lessons rather than merely its historical details.

The khutbah in 5 steps

  1. Distinguishes ritual worship from continuous worship through intentions, manners, work, relationships, hygiene, and daily routines.
  2. Emphasizes honesty, fair dealing, halal earnings, fulfilling trusts, and avoiding harm to others.
  3. Applies the principle to students’ education and parents’ responsibility to teach Islam, right and wrong, halal and haram.
  4. Reaffirms prayer, fasting, zakah, and hajj as foundational obligations within the broader meaning of worship.
  5. Introduces the Hijrah as a historical event whose lessons should be understood beyond simply knowing the story.
Try this week
Make sincere intentions before sleeping, eating, working, and performing ordinary tasks.
Earn halal income, avoid deception and cheating, deal honestly, and give workers what they deserve.
Keep entrusted items safe and return them to their owners.
Use phones and time for beneficial, halal activities, and avoid harmful content.
Students should focus on school, higher education, and gaining knowledge while remaining conscious of Allah.
Parents should teach children Islam, right and wrong, and halal and haram from age five onward.
Maintain prayer, Ramadan fasting, zakah when due, and hajj when physically and financially able.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“when you have your niya to relax all the time when you are asleep is count for your worship”
YIC · Yonkers, NY
Play from 8:40
“when you're not deceiving anyone when you're not cheating anyone that's worship when you make your money from halal way that's worship”
YIC · Yonkers, NY
Play from 9:40
“when someone trusts you with something you keep it and you bring it back to him that's worship”
YIC · Yonkers, NY
Play from 10:28
“when you use your time and the right thing that's worship when you use your time for a bad thing that's committed sins disobedience”
YIC · Yonkers, NY
Play from 14:23
Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

The khateeb teaches that worship is not limited to prayer, fasting, zakah, and hajj. With the right intention, sleep, work, eating, studying, cleanliness, honesty, and helping others can all become worship. He warns that cheating, dishonesty, and betraying trust can erase a person’s good deeds. He encourages students to pursue education with faith and parents to teach children halal, haram, and awareness of Allah. He then turns to the Hijrah and says its lessons matter more than simply knowing its story.

  1. What ordinary activity could you turn into worship by changing your intention?
  2. Where do honesty and fairness matter most in your school, work, or friendships?
  3. What is one lesson about Islam you would want every child to learn early?
Where it was given

The masjid

Yonkers Islamic Center100 Riverdale Ave Apartment 1A, Yonkers, NY 10701Jumu'ah Jumu'ah 1:00 PMKhateebNabil Al gazaliMore khutbahsArchiveAll khutbahs at YIC138 khutbahs
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