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Qur'an & tafsirFrom the masjid's own video, Jul 25, 2025.

How ingratitude can destroy prosperity

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“Everything was destroyed within the blink of an eye because they turned away.”

The khateeb, at 6:41

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In one sentence

Allah's story of the people of Saba teaches that believers must respond to worldly blessings with worship, gratitude, patience, and avoidance of haram, because ingratitude and disobedience can turn prosperity into ruin.

The khutbah in 5 steps

  1. Introduces Saba in Yemen and their extraordinary blessings, resources, and security.
  2. Explains Allah's command to worship, enjoy lawful provision, and give thanks.
  3. Describes their turn to disobedience and the flood that destroyed their prosperity.
  4. Connects their boredom with blessings to modern temptations involving marriage and income.
  5. Calls listeners to patience and gratitude, then closes with supplications.
Try this week
Worship Allah and thank Him for the blessings already present in your life.
Enjoy lawful provision while staying away from haram.
Be patient with comfort and resist seeking forbidden relationships or income.
Examine yourself before being held accountable.
Sources the khateeb cited
Surah 34The story of Saba's gardens, safe travel, rejection of blessings, flood, and dispersal warns against ingratitude and disobedience.
Surah 18Mentioned as another Quranic example involving wealth, blessings, and disobedience.
Surah 68Mentioned alongside al-Kahf as another story of people who disobeyed Allah.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“a land that wants to give and give and you have a Lord that wants to forgive and forgive”
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“everything was destroyed within the blink of an eye because they turned away”
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“they wanted it to be longer and harder they said Ya Allah we want to get tired”
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Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

Allah blessed the people of Saba with fertile gardens, clean water, safety, and easy travel. They were asked to worship Him, enjoy His lawful gifts, and remain grateful, but over time they became ungrateful and turned toward disobedience. Their prosperity was destroyed, teaching us that comfort should lead to thankfulness rather than boredom or pursuit of haram. The khateeb applied this lesson to marriage, income, and the temptation to seek more through forbidden choices. He ended by asking Allah to make us patient and grateful and by praying for Muslims suffering in Palestine.

  1. What blessing did you notice today that you usually overlook?
  2. Where can our family choose patience or halal contentment this week?
  3. How can we turn gratitude into an action, not only words?
Where it was given

The masjid

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