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

Use Ramadan to purify your heart

Dar-us-Salaam · Abdussamad Madad

“The chance is ours, the time is now, the opportunity is here and the time is now in this blessed month of Ramadan.”

The khateeb, at 15:15

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In one sentence

Ramadan is a gift and urgent opportunity to purify the heart, seek forgiveness, strengthen worship, give generously, and finish with steadfast devotion before life ends.

The khutbah in 6 steps

  1. Fasting is meant to cultivate God-consciousness and soften the heart.
  2. Ramadan offers repeated opportunities for forgiveness through sincere dua and repentance.
  3. Worship should continue steadfastly throughout life because death may come at any time.
  4. Small sincere charity can bring salvation, while worldly wealth cannot redeem a person.
  5. The remaining days should be used for Quran, last-third-of-the-night dua, and increased effort.
  6. Sadaqah, zakah, and accountable use of time and wealth prepare believers for judgment.
Try this week
Repeat a sincere forgiveness dua in every sajdah.
Ask Allah for forgiveness and salvation every night of Ramadan.
Use suhoor and the last third of the night for repentance and dua.
Read or listen to more Quran, especially during the remaining days.
Give sadaqah and zakah from wealth and possessions that you love.
Finish Ramadan with greater effort in worship and obedience.
Sources the khateeb cited
Quran 2:183Fasting is prescribed to cultivate taqwa, or God-consciousness.
Quran 57:16Calls believers to humble their hearts through Allah's remembrance.
Quran 26:88-89Teaches that salvation depends on arriving with a sound heart, not wealth or children.
Quran 15:99Commands worship and steadfastness until certainty, understood here as death.
Quran 3:185Defines success as being kept away from Hell and admitted to Paradise.
Quran 3:92Connects righteousness with spending from what one loves.
Quran 7:156Urges sinners not to despair because Allah's mercy encompasses everything.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“the chance is ours the time is now the opportunity is here and the time is now in this blessed month of Ramadan”
Dar-us-Salaam · College Park, MD
Play from 15:15
“You will not achieve righteousness until you spend from that which you love. You don't hold on to it. You give it away.”
Dar-us-Salaam · College Park, MD
Play from 21:51
Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

Ramadan is a gift meant to soften and repair our hearts, not merely a month of hunger and tiredness. We are encouraged to ask Allah for forgiveness, read the Quran, make dua, and use the quiet time before Fajr wisely. Giving from what we love, through sadaqah and zakah, shows that our hearts belong to Allah rather than to possessions. The sermon reminds us that our time, wealth, knowledge, and life will all be questioned. Since the best part of Ramadan is still ahead, we should finish with sincere and steady effort.

  1. What is one way Ramadan has changed your heart this year?
  2. What could you give this Ramadan that would be difficult but meaningful?
  3. How can we make the last days of Ramadan our strongest days?
Where it was given

The masjid

Dar-us-Salaam (Al-Huda Inc.)5301 Edgewood Road, College Park, MD 20740Jumu'ah 12:15 PM & 1:15 PM · held off-site at Knights of ColumbusKhateebAbdussamad MadadMore khutbahsArchiveAll khutbahs at Dar-us-Salaam48 khutbahs
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