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Repentance & taqwaFrom the masjid's own video, Sep 11, 2026.

Protect your faith by obeying Allah

Ibn Baaz

“The greatest of what Allah will protect is your religion.”

The khateeb, at 11:13

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In one sentence

True protection comes from faithfully upholding Allah’s commands and avoiding His prohibitions, preserving a believer’s religion and steadiness through life’s hardships.

The khutbah in 6 steps

  1. Introduces the Prophet’s counsel to a young person: protect Allah, and Allah will protect you.
  2. Explains protecting Allah as obeying His commands, avoiding prohibitions, and relying on Him.
  3. Applies the principle to prayer, lowering the gaze, guarding speech, honoring trusts, and family conduct.
  4. Argues that Allah’s greatest protection is preserving religion and iman despite worldly losses.
  5. Calls for self-accountability regarding private sins, phones, computers, music, images, and promiscuity.
  6. Urges youth religious education and concludes with community-event, marital-support, building, and donation announcements.
Try this week
Uphold the prayers at their proper times with concentration and focus.
Abstain from usury and other forbidden acts.
Lower the gaze from forbidden people, images, videos, and material.
Guard the tongue from backbiting, tale-carrying, lying, deceit, and two-facedness.
Honor trusts and act uprightly toward parents and children.
Leave polytheism, magic, innovations, sinful desires, and misleading doubts.
Practice self-accountability about private behavior, especially phone and computer use.
Encourage youth to attend religious learning.
Attend the announced Sunday event addressing marital problems.
Donate, if able, to the building project through the displayed payment methods.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“the greatest of what Allah will protect is your religion.”
Ibn Baaz · Point Breeze, PA
Play from 11:13
“Because you can lose Everything in this dunya But the greatest of ni'mah Those blessings Is that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Protects your haqeedah”
Ibn Baaz · Point Breeze, PA
Play from 14:35
“One should have more fear of their own sins than the people in the creation.”
Ibn Baaz · Point Breeze, PA
Play from 28:21
Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

The khutbah centers on the Prophet’s advice to protect Allah so that Allah protects us. Protecting Allah means obeying His commands, avoiding what He has forbidden, and keeping our hearts connected to Him. The speaker says the greatest protection is preserving our faith, even when money, health, or other worldly blessings change. He encourages us to examine our private choices honestly and correct our relationship with Allah. Families are also urged to help young people learn their religion and benefit from community programs.

  1. What is one part of your life where you would like Allah’s protection?
  2. Which habit could you examine more honestly this week?
  3. How can our family make learning about Islam more welcoming for younger people?
Where it was given

The masjid

Masjid Ibn Baaz1741 Point Breeze Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19145Jumu'ah 1:15 PMArchiveAll khutbahs at Ibn Baaz6 khutbahs
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