General remindersFrom the masjid's own video, Dec 12, 2025.
Use your time before it is gone
“There is no greater loss for human than the loss of time.”
The khutbah in 6 steps
- The khateeb frames the end of 2025 as a personal assessment of one's relationship with Allah, parents, and creation.
- He explains that time, health, youth, and free hours are blessings that cannot be recovered.
- He contrasts purposeful living with excessive screen use, sleep, and aimless leisure.
- He presents the five daily prayers as the organizing structure for a disciplined life.
- He urges listeners to spend meaningful time with aging parents and earn their prayers through service.
- He closes by asking forgiveness for wasted time and praying for a more structured 2026.
Try this week
Assess how you spent the past year.
Pray the five daily prayers on time.
Sleep earlier and use the morning productively.
Reduce aimless screen time and leisure.
Learn, read, write, volunteer, or help others.
Spend meaningful time with parents and serve them respectfully.
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“There is no greater loss for human than the loss of time. If we look back and say, "We lost money, our stocks dropped, this happened here," but the year will never come back, money will always come back.”
“Every time, every single day, the human does not know the value of these two things. Number one is health. We're so lucky that we have health.”
“If you don't know why your life is so unorganized, go back to your salah. That's it. There's no other question.”
“Everything, every minute, extra minute you have, sit with your mother.”
Talk about it at home
For the dinner table
The khateeb asks us to look back on 2025 honestly and ask how we used the time Allah gave us. Time, health, youth, and free hours are blessings that do not return, so our days should be shaped by prayer and purposeful work rather than endless screens or aimless sleep. He reminds us that rest is part of life, but wasting our days weakens both personal growth and the future of the community. Most tenderly, he urges children to sit with their parents, earn their du'as, and serve them while they are still here. We can enter 2026 by asking forgiveness, praying on time, using our mornings well, and making loving time for our families.
- What is one way we can use our time better this week?
- How can we make more meaningful time for our parents?
- What good activity could replace some of our screen time?
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