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Obedience and prayer protect your faith

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“The money lives in our hand, not in our hearts.”

The khateeb, at 131:01

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In one sentence

The khutbah teaches that preserving one’s relationship with Allah requires obedience and prayer, then expressing faith through generosity, responsibility, honored commitments, and perseverance.

The khutbah in 5 steps

  1. Explains the hadith “Protect Allah and He will protect you” as obeying commands and avoiding prohibitions.
  2. Prioritizes obligatory worship over optional deeds, especially maintaining the five daily prayers.
  3. Connects independence and personal success with the Quranic reminder that outward identity alone is not righteousness.
  4. Uses ayat al-birr to organize righteousness around faith, generosity to relatives and vulnerable people, prayer, and zakat.
  5. Calls listeners to honor promises, endure hardship, support their communities, and keep wealth from dominating their hearts.
Try this week
Prioritize obligatory worship and avoid Allah’s prohibitions before adding optional practices.
Support relatives financially before widening charity to orphans, people in poverty, travelers, and others in need.
Establish prayer and zakat in the household.
Honor commitments, and communicate promptly when plans must change.
Persevere through poverty, hardship, and adversity while supporting others.
Sources the khateeb cited
Surah 2Presents the Qibla change as a defining moment of Muslim religious independence.
Surah 2Defines righteousness through faith, generosity, prayer, zakat, keeping promises, and patience in hardship.
Surah 103Used alongside ayat al-birr to explain belief, righteous action, truth, and patience.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“the money lives in our hand not in our hearts”
ICCC · Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
Play from 131:01
“when you give your word you make sure you do your absolute best we do our absolute best to honor that word”
ICCC · Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
Play from 131:55
Where it was given

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Islamic Community Cultural Center (ICCC)879 S Beverwyck Rd, Parsippany, NJ 07054ArchiveAll khutbahs at ICCC75 khutbahs
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