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Wealth & charityFrom the masjid's own video, Jul 18, 2026.

Wealth and children test our faith

IECOC · Moustafa Al-Qazwini
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In one sentence

Wealth and children are divine tests requiring gratitude, lawful conduct, generosity, moral education, balanced love, and patience, while tyrants who take pride in destruction will ultimately face God’s judgment.

The khutbah in 7 steps

  1. The khutbah introduces wealth and children as tests rather than inherently good or evil things.
  2. Wealth tests gratitude, honesty, lawful earning, generosity, zakat, khums, and concern for the poor.
  3. Children test parental responsibility, especially moral and Islamic education and consistent mosque involvement.
  4. Parents must balance affection with faith, teach independence and patience, and avoid enabling irresponsible behavior.
  5. The second khutbah condemns leaders who boast about destroying civilian communities and stresses that oppression cannot destroy truth, faith, or resistance.
  6. Stories of Pharaoh and Nimrod illustrate that arrogant tyrants eventually suffer humiliation and downfall.
  7. The sermon closes with prayers, an announcement about Imam Hasan’s commemoration, and a brief Arbaeen food fundraising appeal.
Try this week
Remember God, continue attending the mosque, and maintain religious service despite financial success.
Earn through lawful means and avoid lucrative businesses or products the speaker identifies as prohibited, including liquor stores.
Pay khums and zakat, give generously, help others, and notice people facing hunger or homelessness.
Provide children with moral and Islamic education, enroll them in weekend or Islamic school, and bring them to the mosque.
Balance affection with religious values, teach children independence and patience, and stop financially enabling irresponsible conduct.
Sources the khateeb cited
Surah 64Used to establish that wealth and children are tests and can lead to success or failure.
Surah 9Used through the story of Tha'laba to show how wealth can produce hypocrisy and ingratitude.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“This is a 24-7 job to inspire them, to encourage them, to teach them, to bring them with you to the mosque.”
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“what is worse than this destruction worse than this act of aggression and war and wrongdoing and injustice is when you brag about it”
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Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

The sermon taught that wealth and children are not automatically good or bad; they are tests of how we live. Wealth should lead us toward gratitude, honest work, generosity, zakat, and care for people in need. Parents must give children more than food and shelter by teaching faith, character, responsibility, and independence. Love should be patient and caring without becoming unhealthy indulgence or support for wrongdoing. In its second half, the sermon condemned taking pride in destroying homes and communities, reminding listeners that tyranny cannot defeat truth and that God sees every injustice.

  1. What is one way money can help someone, and one way it can become a test?
  2. What could bringing children to the mosque or teaching values look like in our family?
  3. Why do you think pride in hurting people is worse than the destruction itself?
Where it was given

The masjid

Islamic Educational Center of Orange County3194-B Airport Loop Dr, Costa Mesa, CA 92626KhateebMoustafa Al-QazwiniMore khutbahsArchiveAll khutbahs at IECOC44 khutbahs
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