9:23 it's a great blessing…10:35 so if they're still…
Family & marriageFrom the masjid's own video, Sep 12, 2026.

Children must honor their parents

London Muslim Mosque

“It’s a great blessing having both of them or any one of them alive.”

The khateeb, at 9:23

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In one sentence

Children can never fully repay their parents, so they must honor, serve, and avoid harming them while they are alive, and continue kindness and prayer after their death.

The khutbah in 6 steps

  1. Introduces a hadith from Riyadh al-Salihin about kindness toward parents and the impossibility of fully repaying them.
  2. Explains the hadith’s slavery example as illustrating how deeply parents’ favors exceed repayment.
  3. Uses the prohibition against saying “off” to parents and qiyas to extend the rule to greater forms of harm.
  4. Applies the principle to favoritism toward spouses and children over parents.
  5. Recounts a warning story about a dying man whose mother was angered by his favoritism.
  6. Urges listeners to value living parents, continue kindness after death, and make dua for them.
Try this week
Treat parents respectfully and avoid words or behavior that annoy, humiliate, or harm them.
Do not visibly favor a spouse or children over parents in care and kindness.
If parents are alive, use the opportunity to serve them and seek Allah’s forgiveness.
If parents have died, continue kindness toward them and make dua for their forgiveness and mercy.
Sources the khateeb cited
Sahih MuslimUsed to teach that a child cannot fully repay a parent’s kindness.
Quotes

In the khateeb's words

“it's a great blessing having both of them or any one of them alive wallahi it's a na'mah it's a na'mah”
London Muslim Mosque · London, ON
Play from 9:23
“so if they're still alive take the chance do your best”
London Muslim Mosque · London, ON
Play from 10:35
Talk about it at home

For the dinner table

The khateeb taught that a child can never fully repay the kindness and sacrifices of a parent. Even a small expression of annoyance is wrong, and greater harm is clearly forbidden. He warned against making parents feel less important than a spouse or children. Having living parents is a great blessing and an opportunity to serve them. If parents have died, we should continue showing kindness through dua and good deeds.

  1. What is one way we can make our parents feel valued this week?
  2. How can we show love to both our parents and our immediate family?
  3. What dua should we make for our parents?
Where it was given

The masjid

London Muslim Mosque151 Oxford St W, London, ON N6H 1S3Jumu'ah First prayer 12:00 PM · second prayer 1:15 PMArchiveAll khutbahs at London Muslim Mosque193 khutbahs
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