Character & conductFrom the masjid's own video, Sep 3, 2025.
Ramadan should reform our speech
“An effective method of controlling our speech is simply limiting our speech.”
In one sentence
Ramadan should reform the heart by disciplining the tongue through purposeful silence, humility, gratitude, truthful speech, and rejection of deception.
The khutbah in 6 steps
- Ramadan should produce growth in knowledge, ethics, devotion, and taqwa.
- Guarding speech protects the spiritual heart and supports salvation.
- The Prophet and earlier Muslims modeled silence, concise speech, and meaningful words.
- Excessive talking, argumentation, fame-seeking, and judging others damage spiritual character.
- Believers must reject lying, cheating, deception, and cultural practices that conflict with Islam.
- The khutbah closes with prayers, communal supplications, and Ramadan community announcements.
Try this week
Limit unnecessary conversation, banter, texting, gossip, vulgarity, and argumentation.
When speaking, choose beneficial and truthful words; otherwise remain silent.
Examine your own faults instead of exposing or judging the faults of others.
Reject lying, cheating, deception, and dishonest shortcuts at school, work, and in daily life.
Attend the Quran completion gathering after Taraweeh and follow the announced alternate location if the facility is full.
Support the community's zakat and operations goals if able.
Sources the khateeb cited
Surah 1Recited in the opening and prayer as a framework of worship and seeking guidance.
Sahih al-BukhariUsed the warning about ingratitude toward husbands to emphasize the danger of ungrateful speech.
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“The overall purpose is disciplining the lower self, riyadatun nafs. And by the end of the program... We should be more knowledgeable. We should be more ethical. We should be more devout.”
“An effective method of controlling our speech is simply limiting our speech. limiting our conversations, our chatting, our banter, even our texting”
“When someone talks a lot, People just tune him out. His words lose weight. His speech becomes devalued.”
“We must shun lying, deception. dishonesty, cheating. This is a big one. cheating in school, cheating at work, cheating the system, cheating each other.”
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