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Youth & educationFrom the masjid's own video, May 3, 2026.

Protect children from sexual abuse

DarusSalam · Minhajuddin Ahmed

“If the aggressor is an adult they need to be reported.”

The khateeb, at 28:10

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In one sentence

Muslim families and communities must break cultural silence and proactively protect children from sexual abuse through education, supervision, recognition of warning signs, reporting, and faith-based responsibility.

The khutbah in 5 steps

  1. Establishes the religious duty to discuss sensitive truths and protect children despite modesty.
  2. Explains the prevalence, lifelong harm, underreporting, and communal denial surrounding child sexual abuse.
  3. Highlights risks involving trusted adults, online pornography, puberty, grooming, and warning signs.
  4. Urges calm conversations about body autonomy, consent, safe touch, supervision, and reporting.
  5. Concludes with prophetic preventive guidance, dua, sadaqa, and family responsibility.
Try this week
Have calm, frank, repeated conversations with children about body parts, safe and unsafe touch, permission, and consent.
Keep communication open and supervise gatherings, sleepovers, internet access, and gaming chats.
Watch for grooming behaviors and warning signs such as fear, withdrawal, sleep disturbances, sexualized behavior, self-harm, or declining school performance.
Respond promptly to disclosures; involve parents when the aggressor is a child and report adult aggressors.
Discuss prevention plans with spouses and use dua and sadaqa as additional spiritual practices.
Sources the khateeb cited
Surah 24Used to discuss privacy and the age when children understand adults' private matters.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“our primary first reaction should be how do we protect this child”
DarusSalam · Lombard, IL
Play from 9:32
“your body belongs to you it's an amana from Allah nobody should be touching you”
DarusSalam · Lombard, IL
Play from 25:59
“if the aggressor is a child we need to speak to their parents right away and make sure that they get help and if the aggressor is an adult they need to be reported”
DarusSalam · Lombard, IL
Play from 28:10
Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

The khutbah reminds us that children are an amanah, or trust, from Allah, and protecting them requires honest conversation rather than silence. Abuse can happen through trusted adults, family members, peers, or online strangers, so families should not rely only on stranger-danger warnings. Parents should teach body boundaries, consent, safe and unsafe touch, and keep communication open. They should supervise gatherings and internet use, take warning signs seriously, and report adult perpetrators. Alongside these practical steps, the speaker encouraged families to make dua and give sadaqa for protection.

  1. What would you do if someone asked you to keep a secret about touching or pictures?
  2. Who are two adults you could talk to if something made you uncomfortable?
  3. How can our family help make gatherings and online spaces safer for younger children?
Where it was given

The masjid

Masjid DarusSalam21W525 North Avenue, Lombard, IL 60148KhateebMinhajuddin AhmedMore khutbahsArchiveAll khutbahs at DarusSalam150 khutbahs
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