Stop wasting time and protect prayer
“Brothers and sisters, time is one currency that you can never earn back, no matter how rich you are.”
Time is a finite trust, so believers must stop wasting it on entertainment and comparison, prioritize prayer, and fill their lives with family, Quran, knowledge, and beneficial work.
The khutbah in 5 steps
- Warns against sports, cafes, gambling, missed prayers, and neglect of religious obligations.
- Urges men to be present with their families and women to resist social-media comparison.
- Advises youth to choose righteous role models and parents to guide them gently.
- Makes the five daily prayers on time the central priority and source of purification.
- Encourages Quran reading, honoring parents, beneficial learning, useful skills, and productive work.
In the khateeb's words
“brothers and sisters time is one currency that you can never earn back no matter how rich you are a lost hour is buried forever”
“you have become a guest into your own household and your children await for an absent father in the daytime”
“someone who is not a Muslim someone who does not pray someone who blatantly sins against Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and then you speak how they speak you enact how they enact and you wear what they wear”
For the dinner table
The khutbah teaches that time is a gift and a responsibility that cannot be recovered once it is gone. Sports, late-night cafes, phones, and social-media comparison can quietly take time away from prayer, family, and remembrance of Allah. Young people are encouraged to admire skill without making sinful celebrities their role models, while parents are urged to teach with gentleness. The central priority is performing the five daily prayers on time, then filling remaining time with Quran, parents, beneficial knowledge, useful skills, and honest work. We should review our priorities now, because lost time and missed family moments do not return.
- What is one activity that sometimes takes too much of your time?
- How can we help one another pray on time at home?
- Who is a role model you admire, and what quality makes them worth following?
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