The Islamic calendarFrom the masjid's own video, May 15, 2026.
Use summer before your time is lost
“You have to be proactive; you have to make a schedule.”
In one sentence
Because time is continuously being lost, Muslims should treat health and free time as accountable blessings and deliberately fill the coming summer with faith, learning, useful skills, healthy habits, and productive companionship.
The khutbah in 5 steps
- Fakhr al-Razi’s ice-selling marketplace story illustrates how time melts away and creates continuous loss.
- Examples from years, months, weeks, days, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds show time’s practical importance.
- Modern technology saves time, but scrolling and constant messaging often consume it instead.
- Listeners are urged to plan summer around learning, religious growth, physical health, organization, and beneficial relationships.
- The khutbah closes by urging proactive goals, community mentorship, and protection from distracting devices.
Try this week
Make a schedule for the coming summer and set specific goals.
Learn a new academic, religious, career, or practical life skill.
Set a Quran, seerah, Arabic, or religious-study goal and work on it regularly.
Exercise through walking, running, biking, hiking, or home workouts, and reduce junk food.
Keep a written list of tasks and organize unfinished responsibilities.
Spend time with productive people and seek mentors, volunteering, internships, or observerships.
Reduce doom-scrolling and keep phones and laptops out of bedrooms.
Use a separate alarm clock instead of keeping a phone in the bedroom.
Sources the khateeb cited
Surah 103Used to teach that people remain in loss unless they believe, do righteous deeds, uphold truth, and encourage patience.
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“we are continuously losing that if you are not benefiting just like this man who is not making a profit if he does not sell he's in a state of loss”
“what did we do with that time? where is that time? what do we do with that time?”
“you have to be proactive you have to make a schedule you have to know what you want you have to look at look and search out the resources in your community”
Keep listening
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