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Community & unityFrom the masjid's own video, Sep 19, 2025.

Four pillars that strengthen Muslim communities

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In one sentence

Muslim communities become strong and authentically Muslim when they cultivate four pillars, good manners and peace, active service, strong families, and personal devotion to Allah, centered through the mosque.

The khutbah in 6 steps

  1. Calls the community to reassess its manners, generosity, family cohesion, and closeness to Allah.
  2. Explains four prophetic pillars: spreading peace, feeding people, maintaining family ties, and praying at night.
  3. Urges listeners to make feeding others a regular form of service and dawah.
  4. Reframes the pillars as manners, activism, family, and personal worship that strengthen society.
  5. Connects the Prophet’s establishment of mosques with the mosque’s role as a community center and lighthouse.
  6. Closes with prayers for oppressed Muslims and announcements about upcoming community and youth programs.
Try this week
Spread peace and improve manners in speech, business, and daily interactions.
Feed neighbors and colleagues, pay for meals, and support or create free food programs for people in need.
Prioritize family relationships and strive to be especially good to family members at home.
Add night prayer when possible and ensure the five daily prayers are not missed or delayed.
Audit the community through manners, activism, family, and personal worship, then work on its weakest area.
Review community announcements and involve yourself and your family in suitable programs.
Sources the khateeb cited
Surah 90Recited to emphasize freeing people and feeding orphans and the needy as demanding moral commitments.
Surah 107Recited to condemn neglecting orphans, failing to feed the poor, performative worship, and withholding aid.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“It is not just a good deed It's not just a sadaqah But he's telling us here It is essential to build a Muslim society or any society”
MASYC · Bath Beach · Bensonhurst, NY
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“These are our manners And these are indicative of where our society will go If it will even have any cohesion to begin with”
MASYC · Bath Beach · Bensonhurst, NY
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Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

The khutbah taught that a strong Muslim community is built on four pillars: good manners and spreading peace, active service to others, strong families, and personal worship. Feeding people, helping neighbors, and caring for those in need are central forms of service, not optional extras. We should be especially good to our families and deepen our private relationship with Allah through prayer, including night prayer when possible. The mosque should help these pillars grow and should be a center of light and community life. This week, we can choose one act of service, one family improvement, and one step toward stronger worship.

  1. Who could we feed or help this week, and how would we begin?
  2. What is one way we can show better manners at home?
  3. What small worship habit could help us become stronger and more consistent?
Where it was given

The masjid

MAS Youth Center1933 Bath Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11214Jumu'ah 1:10 PM & 3:45 PMArchiveAll khutbahs at MASYC14 khutbahs
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