Civic engagementFrom the masjid's own video, Aug 23, 2025.
Every Muslim can serve the wider ummah
In one sentence
Muslims should serve their families and communities with justice, excellence, compassion, and collective responsibility, leaving a legacy that uplifts others.
The khutbah in 7 steps
- Recites Qur'anic passages about repentance, taqwa, worship, accountability, and Allah's mercy.
- Frames Friday gathering as an opportunity to learn the Qur'an and Prophetic Sunnah.
- Uses Umar ibn Abdul Aziz as an example of honest, humble, and just leadership.
- Argues that a meaningful legacy comes from principles and actions that improve people's lives.
- Urges Muslims in the United States to serve their families, neighbors, poor people, and wider ummah.
- Announces Medina Academy and calls for collective support for its construction and future expansion.
- Concludes with supplication, the adhan, and congregational prayer.
Try this week
Serve and care for family members, children, parents, neighbors, and people in need.
Use your home, workplace, and daily position to benefit the wider ummah.
Practice honesty, integrity, justice, humility, compassion, and excellence in your work.
Support Medina Academy and its planned construction and educational expansion.
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“each one of us has a responsibility living here in United States you are not here only to collect money you have a great responsibility”
“from this masjid where you at from your home where you work what you do in your life you can change the whole world from where you are right now”
“Science and Deen and our daily life cannot be separated. They have to learn.”
Talk about it at home
For the dinner table
The khutbah reminded us that Muslims are responsible for serving their families, neighbors, and wider community. It presented Umar ibn Abdul Aziz as an example of leadership built on justice, honesty, humility, and care for the vulnerable. The speaker emphasized that our greatest legacy is not wealth, but actions and principles that improve people's lives. The masjid has opened Medina Academy to combine Islamic values with science and is seeking community support for future construction and growth.
- What is one way we can serve someone outside our immediate family this week?
- What kind of legacy would you like your actions to leave?
- How can faith and learning work together in your life?
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