Allah will ask how you used your life
“Spending on your own dependence, children and wife, is one of the best ways you can spend for the sake of Allah.”
Every person will stand before Allah and answer for four things, their time, knowledge, wealth, and body, so believers must live intentionally now to prepare their answers.
The khutbah in 8 steps
- Introduction: the hadith of the four (or five) questions of Judgment Day from Tirmidhi and al-Bayhaqi
- First question: your life and time, how did you spend it?
- Second question: your knowledge, why you sought it and what you did with it
- Third question: your wealth, how you earned it and how you spent it, including spending on family with intention
- Fourth question: your body, how you cared for it and used it, plus the hadith of the martyr and the modest worshipper
- How to succeed: seek guidance from Allah, keep good companionship, and don't follow crowds blindly (World Cup example)
- Quranic contrasts: the heedless in Hellfire versus the muhsinoon who worship at night, and prophets who stood firm
- Conclusion: review your life by the Quran and Sunnah and prepare your answers
In the khateeb's words
“In fact, spending on your own dependence, children and wife, is one of the best ways you can spend for the sake of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.”
“This intention can make the difference between reward and reward just because you intended to please Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala but you're doing the same exact act.”
“What about a long life in the worship of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? It is better. It is the best.”
“You are spending you. You are minutes. You're spending those minutes.”
For the dinner table
Today's khutbah was about four questions every one of us will be asked by Allah on the Day of Judgment: how we spent our time, our knowledge, our wealth, and our bodies. The imam reminded us that our life is really just minutes, and every minute is being spent on something. He taught us a beautiful secret: even ordinary things like providing for our family, playing sports, or going to sleep can become acts of worship if we do them with the intention of pleasing Allah. He warned us not to just follow the crowd without thinking, and encouraged us to keep friends who love the Quran. The message was hopeful: if we start preparing our answers now, we can meet Allah with hearts at peace.
- If your whole life is made of minutes, what is one thing you spent minutes on today that you're glad about?
- What is something normal you do, like eating or sleeping, that could become worship just by changing your intention?
- Why do you think the people in the Quran ended up in trouble just for following what everyone else was doing?
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