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Community & unityFrom the masjid's own video, Mar 5, 2022.

Righteous cooperation strengthens the Muslim community

JIAR Fayetteville St, JIAR Parkwood

“We have to be like the one body.”

The khateeb, at 13:27

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In one sentence

Muslims preserve their faith and strengthen their community by cooperating in righteousness, supporting one another, and refusing to enable wrongdoing.

The khutbah in 6 steps

  1. The Quran commands cooperation in righteousness and piety, especially among Muslims living away from their homelands.
  2. Unity protects the faith of families and children and is reflected in collective worship.
  3. Quranic and prophetic examples present believers as one body and mutually strengthening community.
  4. Believers should support the oppressed and restrain the oppressor.
  5. The khutbah warns against enabling theft, disputes, usury, bribery, and other unlawful acts.
  6. The sermon closes with repentance, prayer, and a call to cooperate in goodness.
Try this week
Attend the mosque and actively interact with fellow Muslims.
Sit with others, share experiences, and seek solutions to community problems.
Help and support people who are suffering.
Support oppressed people and advise or stop those committing oppression.
Refuse to facilitate theft, bribery, usury, disputes, or other unlawful acts.
Give sincere advice to someone doing wrong.
Sources the khateeb cited
Surah 103Used to argue that people avoid loss through faith, righteous deeds, truth, and patience.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“If we don't sit together and we talk to each other, and we try to share the experience of each other, and to try to find a solution for our problems, for sure, we will still suffering until we die.”
JIAR Fayetteville St · South Durham, NC
Play from 7:57
“if one part of this body suffers from anything the whole body feels the pain the whole body feels the pain and we have to be like the one body”
JIAR Fayetteville St · South Durham, NC
Play from 13:27
Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

The khutbah's main message is that Muslims should cooperate in righteousness and piety. We are not meant to live our religious lives alone: we should know one another, come to the mosque, share our struggles, and protect the faith of our families and children. The speaker uses examples from the Prophet, Musa and Harun, and Ibrahim and Ismail to show that good work is strengthened by partnership. Helping someone who is suffering is part of being one community, while helping with theft, bribery, usury, or other wrongdoing is not. We should support the oppressed, stop oppression with sincere advice, and choose the kind of cooperation that brings us closer to Allah.

  1. What does it mean to stop someone from doing wrong while still caring about them?
  2. How can our family cooperate in doing something good?
Where it was given

The masjids

Jamaat Ibad Ar-Rahman, Fayetteville St Masjid3034 Fayetteville St, Durham, NC 27707Jumu'ah One shift 1:00 PMJamaat Ibad Ar-Rahman, Parkwood Masjid5122 Revere Rd, Durham, NC 27713Jumu'ah 1st shift 12:10 PM · 2nd shift 1:10 PM · 3rd shift 2:10 PM
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