Ramadan opens doors to good deeds
“Let us find what we're good at.”
Ramadan is a limited opportunity in which the doors of good deeds are open, so believers should assess their progress, pursue their strongest forms of obedience, compete in good works, and seek forgiveness.
The khutbah in 4 steps
- Urges worshippers to identify and excel in their strongest acts of obedience, including Quran, charity, and helping others.
- Calls listeners to assess what has changed by the third day of Ramadan and improve before the month ends.
- Emphasizes that people are freed from Hellfire each night and warns against completing Ramadan without forgiveness.
- Concludes with supplications, blessings upon the Prophet, remembrance of Allah, the call to prayer, and Quran recitation.
In the khateeb's words
“each and every one of us let us find what we're good at let us find what obedience that we're good at”
“take account today how are you so far on the third day of Ramadan what has changed”
“the most deprived of us is the one that has not taken anything of this month”
“there are amongst us those that have already been listed as those that are freed from the fire”
For the dinner table
Ramadan is a special month when opportunities for good deeds are wide open. The khateeb encouraged each person to find the acts of worship they can do well, such as Quran, charity, or helping others, and to grow in them. He asked everyone to look honestly at what has changed since Ramadan began because the month will pass quickly. The sermon also reminded us that people are freed from the Fire each night, so we should keep striving and ask Allah for forgiveness. Our family can use this month to build one good habit and help someone else.
- What is one “door of good” you want to practice this week?
- What change have you noticed since Ramadan began?
- How can our family help someone or do a good deed before the month ends?
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