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Ramadan & fastingFrom the masjid's own video, Sep 3, 2025.

Ramadan should transform the rest of the year

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In one sentence

Ramadan is a temporary but transformative guest that repairs the heart and teaches believers to carry worship, self-control, and taqwa into the remaining eleven months.

The khutbah in 6 steps

  1. Ramadan's brief visit highlights the passing of time and the need to repair the heart.
  2. The honeycomb allegory presents worldly pleasure as a distraction from death, the grave, and life's true priority.
  3. Ramadan demonstrates that believers can wake for night worship, suppress desires, make dua, practice patience, and attend congregational prayer.
  4. Fasting is especially rewarded because its sincerity is hidden between the worshipper and Allah, while forgiveness also receives an unspecified divine reward.
  5. A successful Ramadan is measured by abandoning bad habits and continuing its practices through the year with taqwa.
  6. The khutbah concludes with supplications, the prophetic blessing, and the congregational prayer.
Try this week
Wake before Fajr for Qiyam al-Layl or Tahajjud.
Set aside 10, 15 minutes for dua and heartfelt supplication.
Continue attending prayer in jama'ah and add voluntary prayers beyond the regular sunnah.
Carry Ramadan's self-control into the eleven months by abandoning sinful habits and practicing taqwa.
Pause before disobeying Allah and protect the relationship with Him.
Sources the khateeb cited
Quran 2:183Used to explain that fasting is prescribed so believers may attain taqwa.
Quran 2:185Used to describe Ramadan as the month in which the Quran was revealed as guidance.
Quran 42:40Used to encourage pardoning others by emphasizing that the reward for reconciliation is with Allah.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“Time never waits for anybody. It continuously goes and goes and goes. Until we regret ourselves.”
Maryam Islamic Center · Sugar Land (New Territory), TX
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“And that honeycomb is the sweetness of this dunya where they taste it and they forget their main priority.”
Maryam Islamic Center · Sugar Land (New Territory), TX
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Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

Ramadan is like an honored guest and a true friend: it comes briefly, teaches us, and leaves before we are ready. The khateeb reminded us that worldly pleasures can distract us from death, the grave, and our real purpose. Fasting showed us that we can wake for night prayer, control our desires, make dua, be patient, and worship with sincerity. A successful Ramadan is one whose lessons continue through the other eleven months. We carry those habits forward by protecting our relationship with Allah and choosing taqwa when temptation comes.

  1. What Ramadan habit would you most like to keep throughout the year?
  2. What kinds of things can make us forget our real priorities?
  3. How can we show taqwa in a difficult choice this week?
Where it was given

The masjid

Maryam Islamic Center (New Territory Islamic Center)504 Sartartia Rd, Sugar Land, TX 77479Jumu'ah 1:30 PM khutbah / 2:00 PM salah & 3:15 PM khutbah / 3:45 PM salahArchiveAll khutbahs at Maryam Islamic Center63 khutbahs
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