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The Prophets & seerahFrom the masjid's own video, Sep 3, 2025.

Honor Isa through love and action

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“Our Islam is not complete unless we believe in Christ.”

The khateeb, at 4:16

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In one sentence

Muslims should use the Christmas season to renew their love and belief in Prophet Isa, honor his message through ethical action and generosity, and stand with those preserving that message amid injustice.

The khutbah in 6 steps

  1. Introduces the Christmas season as an opportunity to explain Islamic belief in Isa and the necessity of believing in all prophets.
  2. Describes the Quranic honor given to Isa and Maryam, including Isa’s miraculous birth and Maryam’s purity.
  3. Uses hadith about intercession and Isa’s return to emphasize his unique reverence and peaceful defeat of falsehood.
  4. Highlights Imam al-Ghazali’s use of traditions attributed to Christ in developing an Islamic ethical map.
  5. Reframes celebration as spiritual remembrance and generosity toward family rather than trees, presents, or carols.
  6. Calls listeners to be helpers of God and links this responsibility to Christians suffering in Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and Gaza.
Try this week
Spend a little more and do something special for family and children.
Create happiness for others and ask children to make sincere du'a.
Remember Isa’s teachings and act as helpers of truth.
Keep love and respect for all prophets active in daily life.
Sources the khateeb cited
Sahih al-BukhariUsed to describe humanity seeking intercession and Isa directing them to Muhammad.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“I'm talking about the spiritual value of Jesus, alayhi salam, who we have an unbelievable amount of respect and love for.”
ICCP · Potomac, MD
Play from 6:47
“for us celebration is not about presence and it's not about the carols and it's not about the tree”
ICCP · Potomac, MD
Play from 23:26
“because when you have form without function when you have a concept and a celebration and you don't know what it means you lose your connection with the heart of that celebration”
ICCP · Potomac, MD
Play from 26:15
Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

This khutbah teaches that Muslims honor Prophet Isa and Maryam and cannot separate faith in Muhammad from faith in the earlier prophets. The Christmas season can be a time to remember Isa’s message, not to copy every cultural symbol associated with Christmas. The speaker encourages families to create happiness and generosity for one another, especially by doing something special for children. He also asks believers to become helpers of truth and remember Christians in Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and Gaza who are suffering.

  1. What does it mean to honor Isa through our actions, not only our words?
  2. How could we make someone in our family happy this week?
  3. Where do we see a need to be helpers of truth?
Where it was given

The masjid

Islamic Community Center of Potomac10601 River Rd, Potomac, MD 20854Jumu'ah Adhan 1:15 PMArchiveAll khutbahs at ICCP96 khutbahs
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