4:33 you have to apply that…7:16 what was written for…
Character & conductFrom the masjid's own video, Sep 24, 2025.

Truthfulness brings blessing and lasting benefit

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In one sentence

Truthfulness is a comprehensive way of life involving sincere intentions, honest dealings, and careful speech, while lying removes blessing and spreading unverified religious claims is especially dangerous.

The khutbah in 7 steps

  1. Introduces a hadith from Riyadh al-Salihin about honesty and blessing in business transactions.
  2. Expands truthfulness beyond speech to intentions, dealings, advice, and self-accountability.
  3. Warns that lies and false oaths remove blessing and cannot secure lasting benefit.
  4. Explains exceptions involving marital kindness, reconciliation, and protecting innocent people.
  5. Uses Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal as an example of steadfast truthfulness under coercion.
  6. Identifies lying about the Prophet and forwarding unverified hadith as especially serious.
  7. Closes with a prayer for knowledge, remembrance, and understanding.
Try this week
Apply honesty first to your own intentions and conduct before demanding it from others.
Avoid lies and false oaths in sales or attempts to obtain profit.
Use kind speech to bring happiness to a spouse and reconcile estranged people.
Protect innocent people when truthful disclosure would enable oppression or killing.
Verify hadith and religious messages before sharing them.
Sources the khateeb cited
Sahih al-BukhariUsed to show that honest disclosure brings blessing to transactions, while concealment and lying remove it.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“you have to apply that first on yourself before even asking others”
London Muslim Mosque · London, ON
Play from 4:33
“what was written for you is not gonna miss you and what was written to others will never come to you even if you try to find it in a crooked way”
London Muslim Mosque · London, ON
Play from 7:16
Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

Today’s khutbah reminds us that truthfulness is more than saying accurate words. It includes sincere intentions, honest dealings, and advice that remains clear even when honesty is difficult. Lies and false oaths can remove blessing, while the speaker described narrow situations where words may serve reconciliation, marital kindness, or the protection of innocent people. We should be especially careful not to forward religious sayings until we have checked that they are authentic.

  1. When is it hard to tell the truth, and what could you do then?
  2. How can we check a hadith before sharing it?
  3. What does honesty look like in a purchase, friendship, or family conversation?
Where it was given

The masjid

London Muslim Mosque151 Oxford St W, London, ON N6H 1S3Jumu'ah First prayer 12:00 PM · second prayer 1:15 PMArchiveAll khutbahs at London Muslim Mosque193 khutbahs
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