General remindersFrom the masjid's own video, Aug 1, 2026.
Time is the believer's true capital
“Time is the true capital of man, not money or wealth.”
In one sentence
Time is the believer's true capital, and because Allah swore by it and its barakah is being withdrawn as a sign of the approaching Hour, Muslims must stop wasting it on idle entertainment and fill it with prayer, Quran, knowledge, and good deeds before youth, health, and life are gone.
The khutbah in 6 steps
- Opening: Allah created man and gave him a lifespan as a test (al-Mulk 67:2); time is man's real capital
- Barakah in time defined: accomplishing in an hour what others cannot in a day
- Warning against wasting hours on phones, idle gatherings, backbiting, movies, and games while neglecting prayer, Quran, masjid, and knowledge
- Hadith of the two wasted blessings (health and free time, al-Bukhari) plus the poet's lines on life being minutes and seconds
- Everything passes: youth, health, wealth, free time; the hadith 'seize five before five' and the saying 'time is like a sword'
- Second khutbah: contraction of time as a sign of the Hour (hadith of Anas ibn Malik), interpreted as sensory shortening or loss of barakah
Try this week
Stop wasting hours on the phone without purpose and on idle gatherings involving backbiting and talk about people's honor
Give prayer, Quran recitation, the masjid and its service, seeking beneficial knowledge, and striving for good a real place in your daily time
Do not sleep through the day and stay up at night watching movies, matches, and trivial videos
Ask the elderly how quickly their youth passed to internalize the shortness of life
Seize your youth, health, wealth, free time, and life before their opposites arrive
Sources the khateeb cited
Quran 67:2'Who created death and life to test which of you is best in deeds', life is a timed test, so time is man's capital
Surah 103Allah swore by time that mankind is in loss except those with the four qualities; recited again in the prayer
Quran 25:62Night and day made successive for whoever wants remembrance or gratitude, Allah alone grants and blesses time
Sahih al-Bukhari'Two blessings are cheated by many people: health and free time', defines the truly cheated person
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“As we know that time is the true capital of man, not money or wealth.”
“And the poet spoke the truth when he said that the beats of man's heart tell him that life is but minutes and seconds.”
“He says. Seize your youth. Before your age. Your health. Before your illness.”
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