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Repentance & taqwaFrom the masjid's own video, Oct 24, 2025.

Good goals never justify forbidden means

FMCCNJ · Omar Alsaidi

“Even if the process or the end goal is good, we don't do it by a mean of haram.”

The khateeb, at 14:09

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In one sentence

Muslims attain true success by embracing Islam fully, resisting Satan's gradual temptations, avoiding forbidden means even for good ends, and applying these principles to their own lives.

The khutbah in 6 steps

  1. Calls listeners to taqwa, unity, and enjoining good by personal example.
  2. Warns that Satan gradually leads people away from faith and morality.
  3. Argues that good goals never justify haram methods.
  4. Explains prohibitions including shirk, disobedience to parents, killing children, and immorality.
  5. Applies moral protection to social media, lowering the gaze, modesty, and interactions for both genders.
  6. Closes by urging self-accountability, consistency with Qur'an and Sunnah, and prayer.
Try this week
Enter Islam fully instead of selectively accepting only the teachings that feel easy.
Identify and stop small steps leading toward prayerlessness, zina, immorality, or disobedience to parents.
Pursue good goals only through halal means, including lawful income and methods.
Honor living parents and make dua for parents who have died.
Lower the gaze, guard private parts, and be cautious about social media.
Observe modesty and appropriate boundaries in dress, perfume, and mixed-gender interactions, for both men and women.
Check yourself first and lead by example when calling others to good.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“You do not just advise and don't do, you advise and lead by example.”
FMCCNJ · Paramus, NJ
Play from 6:45
“You won't wake up one day and say there is no Allah. You won't wake up one day and say, you know what? Prayer, it's nonsense. Islam is nonsense.”
FMCCNJ · Paramus, NJ
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“Even if the process or the end goal is good, we don't do it by a mean of haram.”
FMCCNJ · Paramus, NJ
Play from 14:09
Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

The khutbah reminds us that Allah calls us to live Islam fully and to stay united as one community. It explains that harmful choices often begin with small steps, so we should notice temptations early and avoid paths that lead to sin. A good goal does not make a forbidden method acceptable; we should seek halal ways to do good. We are encouraged to guard our eyes, hearts, private lives, and interactions, including online and in public, while remembering that modesty applies to both men and women. Most of all, we should check ourselves first, practice what we encourage, and help one another toward what is right.

  1. What small habit can we change before it leads us somewhere harmful?
  2. How can we pursue something good in a halal way?
  3. Where can we lead by example this week?
Where it was given

The masjid

Fusion Muslim Community Center of North Jersey650 Pascack Rd, Paramus, NJ 07652Jumu'ah 1:10 PM & 2:30 PMKhateebOmar AlsaidiMore khutbahsArchiveAll khutbahs at FMCCNJ70 khutbahs
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