Mockery and wealth can ruin the soul
“Mockery, brothers and sisters and belittering others is a great demise of the tongue.”
The khutbah warns that mocking others and becoming consumed by wealth lead to spiritual ruin, urging listeners to guard their tongues, avoid arrogance, and use wealth according to Allah’s guidance.
The khutbah in 5 steps
- Emphasizes attentive listening and avoiding phones or conversation during the Friday khutbah.
- Explains mockery, slander, and belittling others as the first condemned trait.
- Warns against mocking appearances or sinners and judging who Allah will forgive.
- Explains how excessive love of wealth leads to arrogance, stinginess, unlawful earnings, and forgetfulness of the Hereafter.
- Concludes with warnings about Hellfire, supplications, remembrance, and congregational prayer.
In the khateeb's words
“mockery, brothers and sisters and belittering others is a great demise of the tongue. It is something that will bring the doom and the destruction of the person or the Muslim in this world and also in the hereafter”
“the reason that we have not fallen to that is not out of only individual will it's not out of intelligence that we had but rather it's from guidance of Allah azza wa jalla”
For the dinner table
Today’s khutbah teaches that two habits can quietly ruin a person: mocking others and becoming consumed by wealth. We should be careful with our words, gestures, and jokes, especially about someone’s appearance or sins, because the person we look down on may be better in Allah’s sight. We can dislike wrongdoing without deciding that Allah will never forgive the person, and we should ask Allah to protect us from the same mistakes. Wealth is a blessing when it is earned lawfully and used generously, but it becomes dangerous when it makes us arrogant, stingy, or forget the Hereafter. During Jumu’ah, we should listen attentively and put away our phones.
- What is one kind way to respond when people start mocking someone?
- How can we use money without letting money control our hearts?
- Why should we hope for a sinner’s guidance instead of giving up on them?
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