8:44 Right now it's tough.…10:52 As believers we can…28:15 it's important to add…
Prayer & worshipFrom the masjid's own video, Jan 2, 2026.

Use the new year to reset your worship

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“As believers we can bring a positive spin to every negative situation.”

The khateeb, at 10:52

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In one sentence

Believers should use the new year as an opportunity to recalibrate by cultivating gratitude, guarding attention from distraction and envy, and making timely, focused salah a priority.

The khutbah in 6 steps

  1. Reminds worshippers to remain silent and attentive during the khutbah.
  2. Frames the new year as an opportunity for self-accounting and recalibration.
  3. Encourages gratitude and seeking good even in hardship, using snow and rain as examples.
  4. Urges families and communities to reduce phone and social-media distractions.
  5. Advises contentment with what one has rather than desiring others’ possessions.
  6. Emphasizes praying the five daily prayers on time and improving concentration before Ramadan.
Try this week
Remain completely silent and avoid conversations, devices, and other activities once the khutbah begins.
Look for blessings and constructive meaning in inconveniences instead of complaining.
Create boundaries around phones and social media to protect attention and presence.
Pray all five daily prayers within their prescribed time windows.
Ask schools, workplaces, and other institutions for reasonable space and time to pray.
Vary Quran recitation in salah to improve focus and meaningfulness.
Sources the khateeb cited
Sunan Ibn MajahUsed to encourage emptying desire for what other people possess.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“Right now it's tough. Inshallah it will get better. Right now I don't understand why it's happening.”
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Play from 8:44
“As believers we can bring a positive spin to every negative situation. Because we truly believe everything that happens, happens by Allah's permission.”
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Play from 10:52
“it's important to add variant parts of the Quran into the recitation and that will immediately increase the quality and the purposefulness and the meaningfulness of the salah immediately you will notice it”
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Play from 28:15
Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

At the turn of the year, the khateeb invited us to pause, take account of ourselves, and recalibrate as believers. He encouraged us to look for Allah’s goodness even in inconvenience, practice gratitude, and resist constant complaining. He also urged families to put away distractions, especially phones, so we can be present and protect our focus in salah. We should empty our hearts of envy, pray the five daily prayers on time, ask for reasonable space to pray, and improve our concentration by varying Quran recitation. The goal is to make gratitude, attention, contentment, and prayer central habits as Ramadan approaches.

  1. What is one difficult thing where you might look for a hidden blessing?
  2. What phone-free time would help our family talk and listen better?
  3. What can help you make salah more focused and meaningful?
Where it was given

The masjid

London Muslim Mosque151 Oxford St W, London, ON N6H 1S3Jumu'ah First prayer 12:00 PM · second prayer 1:15 PMArchiveAll khutbahs at London Muslim Mosque193 khutbahs
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