Use what Allah gives to serve others
“We are required to worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala through other human beings by giving them from what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has given us.”
Because Allah entrusts people with wealth, strength, status, and other resources as stewards, true worship requires using them to serve others with generosity, balance, and sound Sunnah rather than selfishness or invented rituals.
The khutbah in 6 steps
- Human beings are Allah’s stewards, so spending and serving others are forms of worship.
- Wealth includes money, transportation, strength, status, and influence, all of which carry responsibilities.
- The poor and wealthy depend on one another, including through charity, intercession, and visiting the sick.
- Spending should be balanced, avoiding both extravagance and withholding.
- Quranic stories about the garden owners, the two gardens, and the preserved treasure warn against arrogance and selfishness.
- The khutbah closes by rejecting unsupported claims about special worship on the 27th night of Rajab or Isra’ al-Mi‘raj.
In the khateeb's words
“there is a close link between stewardship and spending and spending is one form of worship as I mentioned that comes from being a successor on earth”
“we are required to worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala through other human beings by giving them from what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has given us”
“you're supposed to do everything in moderation we thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that He's given us our islam the deen which is the deen al-wasat”
“when we're reading the Quran we have to make sure that we're reflecting upon it we're we're trying to understand why was this revealed”
For the dinner table
Allah gives us many kinds of blessings, including money, strength, transportation, influence, and status. These blessings are trusts, so worship includes using them to help people, visit the sick, support those in need, and make good things easier for others. We should be generous without wasting and careful without becoming miserly. The Quranic stories warn us not to believe that our success belongs to us alone. The imam also reminded us to follow authentic Sunnah and not assign special rituals to dates without reliable evidence.
- What is one blessing you could use to help someone this week?
- How can our family be generous without being wasteful?
- Which Quranic story from the khutbah would you like to learn more about, and why?
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