Ramadan & fastingFrom the masjid's own video, Mar 13, 2026.
Let Ramadan change your habits
“Did the month of Ramadan change me?”
In one sentence
The last days of Ramadan should be used for honest self-assessment, Quran-centered growth, compassion, repentance, and worship that continues beyond Ramadan.
The khutbah in 6 steps
- Urges listeners to assess whether Ramadan changed their habits, prayer, and conduct.
- Examines four dimensions of a stronger Quran relationship: recitation, tajweed, review, and understanding and action.
- Calls for a softer heart and greater compassion toward people suffering from hunger, homelessness, persecution, and genocide.
- Uses Ibn Rajab and the example of the early pious to stress fearing whether deeds were accepted.
- Encourages dua for acceptance and forgiveness, increased istighfar, and pursuing Laylatul Qadr through worship and congregational Isha and Fajr.
- Closes by framing Ramadan as training whose prayer, compassion, and good habits must continue afterward.
Try this week
Assess whether Ramadan changed your habits, prayer, and behavior.
Increase Quran recitation, improve tajweed, review memorized passages, study meanings, reflect, and act on the verses.
Recite Rabbana taqabbal minna and increase istighfar during the remaining nights.
Pray Isha and Fajr in congregation; if unable to attend the masjid, pray jama'ah at home with another person.
Recite Allahumma innaka afuwwun tuhibbul afwa fa'fu anni and continue Ramadan’s good habits after the month ends.
Sources the khateeb cited
Jami` at-TirmidhiExplains that those who pray, fast, and give charity may still fear non-acceptance.
Sahih al-BukhariPresents Ramadan as a season of forgiveness with Paradise opened, Hell closed, and devils chained.
Jami` at-TirmidhiProvides the supplication asking Allah for pardon.
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“Did the month of Ramadan change me? Was it that I had certain habits before? And now I've completely changed those habits”
“If I'm more compassionate If I'm more loving Towards people If I care more about people Right Then I'm hoping that that continues After the month of Ramadan As well”
Talk about it at home
For the dinner table
Ramadan is ending, so we should honestly ask whether it changed our prayers, habits, relationship with the Quran, and compassion. The speaker reminded us that the Quran deserves recitation, better pronunciation, review, understanding, reflection, and action. We should ask Allah to accept what we did, seek forgiveness in the remaining nights, pray Isha and Fajr in congregation when possible, and make the Laylatul Qadr dua. Most importantly, Ramadan is training for the rest of the year, so our good habits and softer hearts should continue after Eid.
- What is one good Ramadan habit you want to keep?
- How can we show compassion to someone who is struggling?
- What does it mean to make the Quran part of our daily life?
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