Trust Allah while guarding your faith
“Protect yourself first, protect your families, protect your children.”
Eid al-Adha should lead believers to obey and trust Allah, keep learning, protect their faith, repent, remain accountable, and treat others with patience and principled kindness.
The khutbah in 6 steps
- Introduces Eid al-Adha through Prophet Ibrahim’s obedience and willingness to sacrifice what he loved.
- Offers reminders to trust Allah, remain a lifelong student, protect one’s deen and family, and stay focused in study and worship.
- Lists five ways to defeat Shaytan: sincere intention, remembrance, fairness, patience and gratitude, and contentment with Allah’s decisions.
- Calls for daily repentance, unity, avoiding harm, and accountability for actions, speech, messages, and social media.
- Shares eight lessons attributed to Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq concerning death, good deeds, piety, desire-control, charity, trust, balance, and obedience.
- Concludes by emphasizing forgiveness, principled treatment of Muslim and non-Muslim coworkers, and avoiding exposure of others’ faults.
In the khateeb's words
“Become the student of life, meaning wherever you go, you are willing to learn.”
“Protect yourself first, protect your families, protect your children. There should never come a time, a day, or a moment in your life in which you are not protecting your Deen.”
“Every single place you go to, every single call you make, every single text. Every single social media post. you are accountable for it.”
“Make sure you live a lifestyle in which you are doing Tawbat al-Nasoha on a daily base.”
For the dinner table
The khutbah says Eid al-Adha recalls Prophet Ibrahim’s obedience and willingness to sacrifice what he loved for Allah. It asks us to trust Allah’s plan, keep learning, guard our faith and families, focus in worship, and resist Shaytan through sincere intention, remembrance, patience, gratitude, and contentment. Daily repentance, accountability for our actions, and unity are central. The lessons attributed to Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq emphasize good deeds, controlling desires, charity, trust in Allah, and balancing deen with worldly responsibilities. Finally, we should forgive, treat coworkers, including non-Muslims, with principle, and avoid pointing out other people’s faults.
- Where do you most need to trust Allah when your plans change?
- What is one way our family can turn an ordinary task or commute into dhikr?
- How can we show principled kindness to someone at school or work this week?
The masjid
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