Youth & educationFrom the masjid's own video, Oct 10, 2026.
Raise boys to respect women
“The way they treat women tomorrow is being formed today.”
In one sentence
Parents must raise boys to honor women by modeling respect at home and explicitly teaching boundaries, desire, relationships, and dignity.
The khutbah in 5 steps
- Child-rearing is presented as a blessing and responsibility, especially in shaping boys’ future treatment of women.
- Adults should directly teach boys about attraction, desire, relationships, and boundaries instead of leaving media or peers to teach them.
- Friendliness, clothing, fear, impairment, or pressure never permit boundary-crossing, and a clear no must be respected.
- Qur’anic guidance and prophetic examples teach men to lower their gaze and recognize women as honored human beings.
- The khutbah connects these lessons to a Cornell University incident and closes with prayers for families, the ill, the deceased, and Gaza.
Try this week
Model kindness, gentleness, fairness, and respect toward spouses, daughters, and other family members.
Have direct, age-appropriate conversations with sons about attraction, desire, relationships, boundaries, and chastity.
Teach boys that friendliness, clothing, fear, impairment, or pressure never grant permission to cross boundaries.
Teach boys to lower their gaze and treat women as honored human beings.
Respect a clear no, move on, and do not harass or pursue someone who declines interest.
Do not leave the internet, pornography, social media, movies, or peers to define women and relationships.
Sources the khateeb cited
Sahih al-BukhariUsed to demonstrate compassionate, direct teaching without humiliation, followed by prayer for repentance and chastity.
Sahih al-BukhariUsed to show that managing one’s gaze and desire remains a personal responsibility.
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“the way they treat women tomorrow is being formed today”
“women are not an object for us to stare at they are human beings just like you and I”
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