Community & unityFrom the masjid's own video, Oct 3, 2026.
Help one another and stop wrongdoing
“Cooperate with each other upon al-birri wa taqwa.”
In one sentence
Muslims should cooperate in righteousness and piety by helping one another, preventing wrongdoing, and advising each other with truth and patience.
The khutbah in 6 steps
- Introduces the Quranic command to cooperate in righteousness and avoid cooperation in sin and transgression.
- Defines righteousness, piety, sin, and transgression through Quranic explanation and hadith.
- Distinguishes concealing personal faults from intervening to stop active wrongdoing and oppression.
- Uses hadith to encourage sharing surplus resources, easing hardship, supporting others, and interceding for those in need.
- Connects Muslim cooperation to faith, righteous deeds, truth, patience, and communal responsibility.
- Applies the message to the local mosque, school, city, and wider Muslim community before closing with supplications.
Try this week
Read and reflect on the Quran.
Cooperate with others in righteousness and piety, while refusing cooperation in sin and transgression.
Share surplus food, resources, time, or assistance with people who lack them.
Conceal personal faults while privately praying for and helping someone, but intervene when someone is actively harming others.
Connect people in need with someone who can help when you cannot help directly.
Advise one another with truth and patience while practicing Islam and avoiding sin.
Sources the khateeb cited
Surah 5Commands cooperation in righteousness and piety, and forbids cooperation in sin and transgression.
Sahih MuslimDefines righteousness as good character and sin as what troubles the conscience.
Musnad AhmadDescribes righteousness as what brings inner comfort and sin as what unsettles the soul.
Sahih al-BukhariTeaches Muslims not to wrong or abandon one another and to relieve each other's difficulties.
Sahih MuslimEncourages sharing surplus provisions and wealth with those who lack them.
Sahih al-BukhariExplains that helping a wrongdoer means preventing him from wrongdoing.
Sahih al-BukhariCompares believers to a structure whose parts support one another and encourages intercession.
Surah 103Frames salvation around faith, righteous deeds, mutual counsel in truth, and mutual counsel in patience.
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“And I command you to cooperate with each other upon al-birri wa taqwa. And I forbid you to cooperate with each other upon al-ithmi wa al-udwan.”
“the Muslim is the brother of a Muslim he does not wrong and oppress him and he does not abandon him or turn him over to the disbelievers”
“whoever makes it easy for someone who's having difficult times then Allah would make it easy for him in this world and in the hereafter”
“help your brother whether he's being wronged or he's the one wronging somebody else”
Talk about it at home
For the dinner table
Today's khutbah taught that Muslims should work together for goodness and piety. We should help people who are struggling, share what we have, and connect them with others who can help. We should protect people's private faults, but we must also stop active wrongdoing when someone is being harmed. Faith becomes stronger when we advise one another with truth and patience.
- What is one helpful thing you could share with someone this week?
- How can you correct a wrong without humiliating the person?
- Who could you connect to help if you cannot solve their problem yourself?
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