6:27 Your mother, it's you.…6:48 That you should not…7:38 You have to choose…
Wealth & charityFrom the masjid's own video, Sep 24, 2026.

Put family needs before optional charity

London Muslim Mosque

“You have to choose where you put your Sadaqah, your Zakat, because it might multiply the reward as the way you are putting it.”

The khateeb, at 7:38

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In one sentence

Muslims should fulfill their financial and moral responsibilities to parents and family first, then thoughtfully direct zakat and sadaqah to needy relatives and others so one act can serve multiple obligations.

The khutbah in 6 steps

  1. Introduces a hadith from Riyadh al-Salihin about charity, fasting, and maintaining kinship.
  2. Explains that helping relatives can combine charity with maintaining family ties.
  3. Emphasizes prioritizing personal, family, and relatives’ needs before others.
  4. Distinguishes obligatory support from optional sadaqah for relatives.
  5. Urges special responsibility for mothers’ daily needs and medications.
  6. Advises carefully selecting zakat and sadaqah recipients to multiply benefit and reward.
Try this week
Prioritize your own family’s needs before optional charity.
Check on needy relatives and support them when they are not already your financial responsibility.
Cover a mother’s daily necessities and medications as an obligation, not merely optional sadaqah.
Investigate recipients’ needs and prioritize aid that also supports relatives, neighbors, students of knowledge, or beneficial use.
Sources the khateeb cited
Jami` at-TirmidhiUsed to argue that charity given to relatives combines sadaqah with maintaining kinship.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“Your mother, it's you. And you should prefer her over yourself and even others if she's in need.”
London Muslim Mosque · London, ON
Play from 6:27
“That you should not offer that. You should insist that you are the one who will take care of that.”
London Muslim Mosque · London, ON
Play from 6:48
“You have to choose where you put your Sadaqah, your Zakat, because it might multiply the reward as the way you are putting it.”
London Muslim Mosque · London, ON
Play from 7:38
Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

Today's khutbah reminded us that helping someone can do good in more than one way. Giving to a relative in need can provide support and strengthen family ties at the same time. The khateeb encouraged us to pay attention to our families, because we may know about needs that others do not see. He distinguished our responsibility to support those in our care from voluntary charity, especially urging us to take care of a mother's necessities and medications. He also encouraged us to choose thoughtfully where we give sadaqah and zakat, doing our best to reach people who need help.

  1. Who in our family could use some extra care this week, and what could we do for them?
  2. How could one kind action help someone and bring you closer together?
Where it was given

The masjid

London Muslim Mosque151 Oxford St W, London, ON N6H 1S3Jumu'ah First prayer 12:00 PM · second prayer 1:15 PMArchiveAll khutbahs at London Muslim Mosque193 khutbahs
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