Prayer & worshipFrom the masjid's own video, Mar 28, 2026.
Seek acceptance for your good deeds
“You ought to be more concerned with the acceptance of your deed than the deeds themselves.”
In one sentence
A believer should remain concerned about whether Allah accepted their deeds and respond by continuing good works with humility, gratitude, and righteousness.
The khutbah in 5 steps
- Contrasts three post-Ramadan attitudes toward worship and acceptance.
- Uses Qabil and Habil to show that deeds may be rejected despite being performed.
- Highlights the prophets’ and Companions’ fear that their worship might not be accepted.
- Explains that continued good deeds, hastening to righteousness, gratitude, and dutifulness to parents are paths toward acceptance.
- Concludes with a poetic plea for sincere deeds, prayers for the Prophet, and supplications for Muslims, including the oppressed in Gaza and Palestine.
Try this week
Continue praying, reciting the Quran, and giving charity after Ramadan.
Fast voluntary days such as Ashura, Mondays and Thursdays, and the white days.
Hasten toward good deeds and seek opportunities instead of waiting for reminders.
Be grateful to Allah and dutiful to your parents.
Repent, seek forgiveness, and ask Allah to accept your deeds.
Sources the khateeb cited
Surah 23Used to explain that righteous people give worship while fearing it may not be accepted.
Jami` at-TirmidhiUsed to clarify that the fearful people are those who fast, pray, give charity, and fear rejection.
Surah 46Used to connect gratitude, dutifulness to parents, repentance, and righteous deeds with Allah’s acceptance.
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“you ought to be more concerned with the acceptance of your deed than the deeds themselves”
“they are the ones who hasten towards doing good continuously they did not stop they continue doing good”
“try your best to continue doing good for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to accept your deeds try to be the first in doing so”
Talk about it at home
For the dinner table
The khutbah reminds us that Ramadan should not be the finish line for worship. We should remain humble, ask Allah to accept our deeds, and continue praying, fasting, reading Quran, and giving charity. The best response to concern about acceptance is to keep hastening toward good deeds. We are also encouraged to be grateful, repent, and treat our parents well. As a family, we can carry Ramadan forward through small, sincere acts done consistently.
- What is one Ramadan habit you would like to continue?
- What could our family do this week to hasten toward a good deed?
- What does it mean to ask Allah to accept a good deed?
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