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Patience & trialsFrom the masjid's own video, Nov 3, 2025.

Patience helps Muslims obey and endure

Masjid ‘Eesa · Abu Ehsaan

“Patience is the key to success in the dunya and in the akhira.”

The khateeb, at 11:55

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In one sentence

Sabr is a cultivated spiritual strength that enables Muslims to obey Allah, avoid sin, endure hardship, and respond to calamity with gratitude.

The khutbah in 7 steps

  1. Modern impatience and the desire for instant gratification
  2. Patience and delayed gratification illustrated through research and the marshmallow experiment
  3. Quranic examples of patience, certainty, leadership, and victory
  4. Sabr defined through obedience, avoiding sin, and accepting Allah's decree
  5. Four responses to calamity, culminating in gratitude
  6. Examples from Ibn Taymiyyah and Ayyub demonstrating grateful patience
  7. Closing supplications, Quran recitation, and prayer
Try this week
Persist through difficulty and delay immediate gratification instead of seeking quick results.
Fulfill obligations such as salah, fasting, zakah, honoring parents and elders, and fulfilling family and neighbors' rights.
Avoid haram such as alcohol, smoking, backbiting, and riba.
When calamity strikes, control the heart, tongue, and limbs and avoid sinful anger, aggression, and complaint.
Take only what is necessary from worldly life rather than indulging excessively.
Say alhamdulillah during hardship and seek Allah's help while practicing patience.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“patience is the key to success in the dunya and in the akhira whoever has been given sabr patience is truly blessed”
Masjid ‘Eesa · Hollis, NY
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“the first part of sabr is having sabr upon the obedience of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that fulfilling the obligations fulfilling salah fasting paying zakah obeying your parents respecting your elders”
Masjid ‘Eesa · Hollis, NY
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“the individual who is missing any of these parts is an individual whose sabr is incomplete inefficient insufficient we need to have all three parts”
Masjid ‘Eesa · Hollis, NY
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Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

Today’s khutbah reminded us that sabr, or patience, matters in everyday moments as well as during serious difficulties. The khateeb described three parts of patience: carrying out our duties to Allah, staying away from what He forbids, and being patient with what befalls us. Patience means both pushing ourselves to do good and holding ourselves back from harmful choices. We may dislike something painful while still responding patiently, controlling our words and actions, and thinking well of Allah. The khateeb encouraged us to grow in patience through steady effort and Allah’s help, and described gratitude during hardship as its highest response.

  1. When was waiting difficult for you today, and what helped you handle it?
  2. What takes more patience for you: starting something good or stopping yourself from doing something wrong?
  3. How could our family help each other practice patience this week?
Where it was given

The masjid

Masjid ‘Eesa ibn Maryam90-20 191st St, Hollis, NY 11423Jumu'ah 1:15 PMKhateebAbu EhsaanMore khutbahsArchiveAll khutbahs at Masjid ‘Eesa62 khutbahs
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