14:35 We all need to…16:05 arrogance is rejecting…18:34 Our goal should be to…19:42 Maybe that person is…
Character & conductFrom the masjid's own video, Aug 28, 2026.

Arrogance turns blessings into disobedience

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“Arrogance is rejecting the truth and looking down upon other people.”

The khateeb, at 16:05

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In one sentence

Arrogance can quietly turn blessings, knowledge, and ego into disobedience, so believers must cultivate taqwa, gratitude, humility, and openness to truth rather than compare themselves with others.

The khutbah in 6 steps

  1. Retells Iblis’s refusal to prostrate to Adam and identifies pride as its cause.
  2. Explains Iblis’s fire-versus-clay reasoning as forgetting Allah’s creative authority.
  3. Shows how arrogance appears through wealth, appearance, knowledge, rejected advice, and jealousy.
  4. Uses a hadith to distinguish permissible love of beauty from arrogance, defined as rejecting truth and looking down on others.
  5. Redirects listeners from comparison toward taqwa, sincere worship, gratitude, and unseen service.
  6. Calls for self-examination, humility, mercy, and supplication for purified hearts.
Try this week
Notice and challenge thoughts of being better than others, especially around wealth, appearance, knowledge, or status.
Accept sound advice honestly, even when it comes from someone you feel superior to.
When jealousy or comparison arises, ask why you feel that way and redirect yourself toward gratitude.
Build taqwa through sincere private acts such as helping others unseen or praying tahajjud.
Regularly ask whether you look down on others, reject advice, or compare blessings, and make dua for humility.
Sources the khateeb cited
Surah 2Used to show Iblis’s refusal, arrogance, and resulting disobedience.
Surah 7Used to present Iblis’s fire-versus-clay justification.
Surah 25Used to describe the servants of the Most Merciful as humble and peaceful.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“We all need to remember that everything we have is from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.”
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“arrogance is rejecting the truth and looking down upon other people.”
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Play from 16:05
“Our goal should be to strengthen our relationship with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.”
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Play from 18:34
“Maybe that person is someone who helps people when nobody is watching.”
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Play from 19:42
Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

Today’s khutbah taught that arrogance was the reason Iblis refused Allah’s command to bow before Adam. The khateeb reminded us that wealth, beauty, knowledge, and success are gifts from Allah, not reasons to look down on anyone. He explained that arrogance also means rejecting truth or advice and comparing ourselves with others, while true honor comes through taqwa and humble worship. This week, we can notice those feelings, accept good advice, serve people quietly, and ask Allah to purify our hearts.

  1. When have you found it hard to accept advice, and what helped you listen?
  2. How can one of your blessings help another person this week?
  3. What good deed could you do privately, without seeking praise?
Where it was given

The masjid

Masjid Darul Quran1514 East 3rd Avenue, Bay Shore, NY 11706Jumu'ah First Khutbah 1:10 PM; second Khutbah 2:10 PMArchiveAll khutbahs at Darul Quran27 khutbahs
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