The Islamic calendarFrom the masjid's own video, Oct 27, 2025.
Honor Muharram through fasting and worship
In one sentence
Muharram is a specially sacred month, so believers should honor it through fasting, prayer, righteous conduct, and avoidance of sin and unprescribed mourning practices.
The khutbah in 7 steps
- Muharram is presented as Allah’s specially honored month, and every moment is described as sacred.
- Hadith are used to establish the exceptional virtue of fasting Muharram and praying late at night.
- The Ashura fast is explained through Musa’s rescue and recommended ninth, tenth, and eleventh-day fasting options.
- The sacred month calls for avoiding sins, increasing righteous deeds, and avoiding wasted time.
- The Hijrah is connected to Muharram and the beginning of the Islamic calendar.
- The sermon rejects wailing, chest-beating, and related mourning practices associated with grief for Husayn.
- The khutbah concludes with practical fasting guidance, supplications, and Quran recitation.
Try this week
Fast during Muharram, especially on the ninth and tenth, the tenth and eleventh, or ideally the ninth through eleventh.
Increase voluntary fasting, including Mondays and Thursdays and the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth lunar days.
Pray during the last part of the night.
Avoid sins, disobedience, wasted time, superstition, shirk, and other prohibited practices.
Avoid wailing, chest-beating, and related mourning rituals criticized in the sermon.
Increase righteous deeds throughout the month.
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“even a minute and second of your life is a sacred and we must respect it and honor it and never waste it”
“the fasting of the muharram ul haram are the greatest fasting after the month of ramadan”
Talk about it at home
For the dinner table
Muharram is a sacred month, and the khutbah reminded us to treat our time as a trust from Allah. The clearest way to honor it is to fast, especially around Ashura, and to increase prayer and good deeds. We were encouraged to avoid sin, disobedience, wasted time, and mourning practices the speaker described as un-Islamic. The month also marks the beginning of the Islamic year and recalls the Hijrah, so we can use it to start fresh with worship and better habits. Even a small, sincere step can help our family enter the year with faith.
- What is one way we can protect our time this week?
- Which good deed would you like to increase during Muharram?
- What does starting the Islamic year with worship mean to you?
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