Use Sha'ban to prepare for Ramadan
“Increase your Quran in this month, increase your zikr in this month, increase your salah, increase your charity in this month.”
Because Allah has given every moment a sacred purpose, believers should use Sha'ban for mindful worship, self-accounting, forgiveness, and preparation for Ramadan rather than letting time pass heedlessly.
The khutbah in 6 steps
- Opens with taqwa, salawat, and prayers for the Ummah, Gaza, Palestine, and Sudan.
- Uses parents’ careful schedules to illustrate Allah’s purposeful structure of time.
- Explains Sha'ban as a neglected month when deeds are raised and believers prepare for Ramadan.
- Urges believers to live attentively through daily worship, remembrance, and self-accounting.
- Reframes ordinary responsibilities and setbacks as meaningful acts rather than failures of worldly achievement.
- Calls for purification from shirk and grudges, with increased Quran, dhikr, salah, charity, and salawat.
In the khateeb's words
“Allah did not create anything arbitrarily Ya Rabbi how do you want me to be in this moment?”
“never allow yourself to be someone who just lets the days and the weeks and the months just bleed into each other”
“right now every single one of us right now possesses everything they need to live a rich purposeful meaningful life”
“increase your Quran in this month increase your zikr in this month increase your salah increase your charity in this month”
For the dinner table
Allah has given every part of our lives a purpose, so Sha'ban is not a month to sleep through while waiting for Ramadan. The khateeb encouraged us to notice the good already present in our daily prayers, family responsibilities, remembrance, and service instead of measuring our worth only by public success. He reminded us to prepare by increasing Quran, dhikr, salah, charity, and salawat. We should also work to let go of grudges and remove anything that competes with Allah in our hearts. In this way, we enter Ramadan with cleaner hearts, clearer purpose, and a stronger connection to Allah and His Messenger.
- What ordinary part of your day could become an act of worship?
- What makes a day meaningful besides public success or recognition?
- What is one good habit you can increase before Ramadan?
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