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Prayer & worshipFrom the masjid's own video, Sep 3, 2025.

Mindful prayer can transform our relationships

ISNA Canada (ICC) · AbdulNasir Jangda

“It has the power to completely change us and transform us into the best version of ourselves.”

The khateeb, at 16:21

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In one sentence

Salah is not only an obligation but a transformative practice that cultivates qualities strengthening our relationship with Allah, our families, and everyone around us.

The khutbah in 5 steps

  1. Explains how Quranic wording and placement convey meaning beyond the surface content.
  2. Examines the divorce passage in Surah al-Baqarah and its central command to safeguard prayer.
  3. Shows how prayer provides connection to Allah during loneliness and hardship.
  4. Explains how salah develops selflessness, responsibility, humility, forgiveness, and mercy.
  5. Reframes prayer as transformative worship that can repair and sustain relationships.
Try this week
Safeguard all five daily prayers and build the day around them.
Prioritize prayer even when tired, busy, hungry, commuting, or managing family responsibilities.
Pray with greater mindfulness, reflection, and attentiveness.
Carry selflessness, responsibility, humility, mercy, and forgiveness from prayer into relationships.
Sources the khateeb cited
Surah 2The command to safeguard the prayers, especially the middle prayer, anchors the khutbah’s central reflection.
Surah 2The extended divorce passage provides the context for examining why the prayer command appears in its middle.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“Prayer is a ritual. It is an act of worship, but it's transformative, or at least it's supposed to be.”
ISNA Canada (ICC) · Sheridan, ON
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“The best way to attract the mercy of Allah is by extending that mercy to other people.”
ISNA Canada (ICC) · Sheridan, ON
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“if we gave it a little bit more of our heart, in our mind, in our soul, that it has the power to completely change us and transform us into the best version of ourselves.”
ISNA Canada (ICC) · Sheridan, ON
Play from 16:21
Where it was given

The masjid

ISNA Canada, Islamic Centre of Canada2200 South Sheridan Way, Mississauga, ON L5J 2M4Jumu'ah Two services · 1:00 PM, 3:00 PMKhateebAbdulNasir JangdaMore khutbahsArchiveAll khutbahs at ISNA Canada (ICC)124 khutbahs
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