Patience & trialsFrom the masjid's own video, Aug 8, 2025.
Trust Allah and take the means
“You have to take an action.”
In one sentence
Muslims should trust Allah’s promised help while taking every available means, reforming themselves, supporting oppressed believers, making sincere dua, and refusing despair.
The khutbah in 6 steps
- Uses Musa’s crisis at the sea to introduce trust in Allah before rescue is visible.
- Uses Musa’s staff and Maryam’s palm tree to teach taking practical means.
- Contrasts tyrants’ apparent power with the sudden defeat of Pharaoh and earlier peoples.
- Recalls Qarmatian and Tatar atrocities to show that Muslim communities have endured severe crises.
- Interprets Surah Muhammad’s call to support Allah as loving and practicing revelation personally.
- Calls for sincere dua, principled boycotts, solidarity with suffering Muslims, and persistent hope.
Try this week
Take whatever lawful means and actions are available instead of waiting passively for victory.
Study, love, and practice the Quran, Sunnah, and sharia beginning with personal and family life.
Make sincere dua for suffering Muslims, including them as personally as one’s own family.
Boycott businesses that harass, abuse, or racially mistreat Muslim family members.
Keep hope in Allah despite oppression, hardship, and delayed relief.
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“You have to take an action. You have to do something. Do not be like the Darawish and sit and lay your back and say, Allah would give us victory.”
“When we have that mentality. When Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, That the sympathy and the mercy and supporting one another, caring for one another between the Muslims is like the one body.”
“The dua is the least minimum that every single one of us could do.”
Talk about it at home
For the dinner table
Today’s khutbah reminded us to trust Allah even when we cannot see how a difficult situation will turn out. Through the stories of Musa and Maryam, the khateeb explained that trust goes together with taking whatever action we can. He urged us to care about Muslims who are suffering far away as we would care about our own family. He also asked us to look at our own habits and how we respond to Allah’s guidance. He encouraged sincere dua, boycott as a practical response, and holding on to hope in Allah.
- What small helpful action could you take this week, remembering the lesson of Musa’s stick?
- Who could we remember in our family dua tonight, and what could we ask Allah to give them?
- What would treating someone else’s hurt like our own look like at school or at home?
Where it was given
The masjid
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