43:06 Islam never condemns…48:28 we remind each other…
Qur'an & tafsirFrom the masjid's own video, Sep 18, 2026.

Your time is the capital of life

Rahma Center · Abdeljalil Mezgouri

“You don't have to respond to somebody saying these kind of things unless it becomes physical.”

The khateeb, at 48:28

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In one sentence

Because life is measured in time, true success comes through faith, righteous action, mutual counsel of truth, patience, and communal practice in the masjid.

The khutbah in 5 steps

  1. Warns that wasting time leads to loss, while worldly competition can distract from life's purpose.
  2. Explains salvation through faith, righteous deeds, mutual counsel of truth, and patience.
  3. Applies mutual counsel to Friday prayer, cultural pressure, and responding wisely to hostility.
  4. Presents the masjid as the communal place where these qualities are practiced.
  5. Concludes with prayers for protection, healing, prisoners, debtors, and deceased Muslims.
Try this week
Treat time as a limited form of life capital and avoid wasting it.
Attend Friday prayer and take its reminder seriously.
Use business and wealth without letting them displace worship.
Remind one another of truth and patience.
Respond calmly to verbal hostility and contact security or police if it becomes physical.
Practice faith, good deeds, truth, and patience together in the masjid.
Sources the khateeb cited
Surah 103Frames time as the context of human loss and names faith, righteous deeds, mutual counsel of truth, and patience as salvation.
Surah 102Warns that worldly competition and accumulation can distract people from their purpose.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“Islam never condemns that you make business you make trade no no no what he condemns when this thing takes you away from the purpose behind your existence”
Rahma Center · Lake Forest, CA
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“we remind each other no stand tall you don't have to respond to somebody saying these kind of things unless it becomes physical then you go to the security call the police”
Rahma Center · Lake Forest, CA
Play from 48:28
Where it was given

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