Repentance & taqwaFrom the masjid's own video, Jun 27, 2026.
Hold fast to the Sunnah in Muharram
“Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reveals today your religion is complete.”
In one sentence
The month of Muharram calls Muslims to renew taqwa, recognize the perfection and completion of Islam through the final prophet, and hold fast to the authentic Sunnah while avoiding innovations and sectarian divisions.
The khutbah in 7 steps
- The khutbah opens by stressing taqwa and the sacredness of Muharram as one of the four sacred months ordained by Allah.
- It recounts prophetic victories in Muharram, Noah's ark landing and Moses's rescue at the sea, to show the month as a time of divine rescue.
- It explains the continuity of prophethood through Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, culminating in the completion of religion.
- It cites the hadith of Irbad ibn Sariyah, warning that future generations will face many differences and must cling to the Sunnah and the rightly guided caliphs.
- It details the 30-year period of the Rightly Guided Caliphate as a miraculous fulfillment of the Prophet's prophecy.
- It warns against innovations, self-harm in mourning, and elevating later figures above the companions, urging return to the authentic Sunnah.
- It closes with prayers for Muslim unity, righteous leadership, and the spread of Islam.
Try this week
Fast the 9th and 10th of Muharram (and the 11th if possible) in the Sunnah of Ashura.
Study and follow the authentic Sunnah and the way of the rightly guided caliphs.
Reject newly invented religious practices and self-harming rituals.
Drive carefully and look out for others on the road.
Sources the khateeb cited
Surah 9Used to establish that the year has twelve months, four of which are sacred, and to command believers not to wrong themselves during them.
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“And so the prophets are a great building. The last prophet comes, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reveals today your religion is complete. It is perfected.”
“Don't harm anybody and do not harm your own body. This is not from the Sunnah.”
Where it was given
The masjid
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