May Allah reward Imam suhaib webb and make you steadfastness in the deen and make us steadfastness in the deen all of us ameen.
Great khutba very nice one
i have question when doing khutba are we allowed to say the topic that we want to discuss? i have seen many duat who mentions the topic of the khutba and many dont. I was told prophet did not mention the tittle of his khutba to the people which he made them figure out.
I missed hearing your Khutba from the past few years. Thank you for posting your blogs. May Allah continue to bless you and make you more successful in reaching out to even a larger audience.
Stating the title of the Khutbah is not mentioned in the books of Fiqh as something that violates the khutbah or is considered an innovation. The Prophet’s silence on a matter does not make it forbideen as the compliation of the Qur’an was not done by him (sa) either. However, a clear prohibition, censure or agreement of the scholars is needed when declaring something clearly an innovation of haram.
Alhamdullilah it is good to always remember or be reminded of the mercy of Allah swt.
Listening to this audio and the previous one regarding tawbah .Alhamdullilah puts my heart at ease. Knowing that, I have made mistakes in the past. Even though I now try my best to even do better. I still look back and feel ashamed and ask myself what was I thinking or if am going to be punished for my mistakes.
I used to skip my prayers, fajr used to be out of question. I was good at Isha and zuhr. I even went to the extent of taking off my hijab And Allah swt knows what else I did. Also, I was good at other things like my fasting, respecting others, helping others, having the nia to be a better Muslim always and to increase my Ibadah.
During that time when I think of my bad actions some days I would tell myself .What are you thinking? Yet! Some days I dint feel like I was doing anything wrong. My family/friends would come to me each with different advice. Some will tell me “how dare you skip your prayers or not wear your headscarf or why is you pants/skirt too tight?” others would tell me “Pray to Allah swt and inshallah, he will make It easy for you and inshallah we will keep you in our prayers too”. Some would even tell me “you are better of not praying at all cause praying one or two salah’s is worst than not praying at all”. Others would look back and instead of accusing me, they would remind me to look back at the days I was so good at my prayers and all dressed up in my headscarf and loose dresses. The days that when someone tells me. “You better take off your Hijab or else you will not get that JOB” and I would refuse to listen to them instead think to myself. “With or without Hijab if you where meant to get something, Nothing will stop you from getting it, remember Allah swt is the only provider”.
Alhamdullilah for all the advice I got. I learnt so much, it helped me improve and be better than I ever used to be and continue to try harder to be better. However, I still look back and worry about my mistakes.
Looking back at my mistakes. I ask myself how it all started. Was it the prayers or the dress code that I neglected first, what else did I do? What was I thinking? How did I change (from good to bad, bad to good)? Alhamdullilah am glad that I changed for the better and even though I cannot figure out what lead me to those failures. I know for sure that PRAYERS IS THE KEY .Asking Allah swt to guide us and protect us is the best we could all do for ourselves. With prayers, you can move from not praying fajr to being able to set your alarm to wake you up and with time, you will find yourself not worrying about the alarm clock anymore. Somehow, you will manage to wake up without that alarm. (This is exactly what happened to me Alhamdulillah).
The sheikh earlier mentioned that one sister said (the last place I would go to is the mosque or to her family). One would wonder is not that what family and friends are all about a shoulder to lean / cry on. Why is it so hard for some of us to turn to our own friends and family? I personally lived with my relatives (not my parents) but people that I considered as my real family and friends. I remember when I changed (to be so called a bad person) the reaction from the ones that knew me caught me by surprise. See before they used to tell me “manshallah you have such a strong iman”. Then when things turned sour, the same group completely changed and started to say bad things like (look at her, shame on her). Yet wallahi we all know that nobody knows whats in the other person’s heart. All I changed from the face of this people is my outfit. I was still the same person with almost the same characters that they used to see except that today my dress code changed. What is even more when I changed back to my proper Islamic dress code (Hijab). everybody was back to “manshallah see she always had a strong Iman”.
My big question is why do we always focus on the negative side of people rather than the good sides? Instead of telling someone “oh am seeing you at the mosque for the first time” How about you tell him or her “it’s good to see you”.
To hear and listen to our imans and sheikhs reminding us that we are all human and we make mistakes and that there is always room for tawbah.Gives us all more courage to try harder. Last week I attended a session and the Sheikh reminded us even the children of some of the prophets made mistakes. Therefore, you can imagine us. Another Iman told us we should ask his family about his mistakes (cause according to him he does have failures). When the iman mentioned this, the sister next to me looked at me and said, “See even the good sheikhs with such a strong Iman make mistakes. So you can imagine us”. I also noticed when I tell my dear sisters that there was time I was not wearing my Hijab.They would look at me and tell me “you without Hijab? And I thought I was the worst person”.
There is no such thing as 100 % perfection. But we all can try. If one is good at prayers and not good at wearing that headscarf or going to mosque .Well keep up with the prayers and the rest will came along one day. If you miss, fajr try to be on time for zuhr and inshallah the rest will straighten out slowly and if our friends and family are not being supportive, let us just pray for them. May be they say all that they say cause they are lacking good communication skills. (You never know what their intentions are).
When I was young, I remember my mother helping me tie my headscarf and she will tell me. “Hijab is not just your headscarf or that loose skirt you are wearing.Hijab is a package. meaning it comes with good actions i.e. praying,fasting,respecting others, being at the right place, at the right time doing the right things etc” .What she was trying to teach me is that its not just the cloth we wear but our character is also included In so called Hijab. Therefore, one could be wearing proper outfits or going to the mosque everyday doing many good, deeds at the same time have some failures and the same goes to others.Wallahi one of my best friends she does not wear a headscarf but when I was not praying she used to tell me. “Home girl! Salah is wajib; you better clean up you act”.
We make mistakes, we learn, and we all want to be better because we all know there is the hereafter. So let us all pray for each other and help each other and most of all let us pray for our imams and sheikhs for reminding us the mercy of Allah swt.
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May Allah reward Imam suhaib webb and make you steadfastness in the deen and make us steadfastness in the deen all of us ameen.
Great khutba very nice one
i have question when doing khutba are we allowed to say the topic that we want to discuss? i have seen many duat who mentions the topic of the khutba and many dont. I was told prophet did not mention the tittle of his khutba to the people which he made them figure out.
Sohaib,
I missed hearing your Khutba from the past few years. Thank you for posting your blogs. May Allah continue to bless you and make you more successful in reaching out to even a larger audience.
Asalamu alaykum,
Stating the title of the Khutbah is not mentioned in the books of Fiqh as something that violates the khutbah or is considered an innovation. The Prophet’s silence on a matter does not make it forbideen as the compliation of the Qur’an was not done by him (sa) either. However, a clear prohibition, censure or agreement of the scholars is needed when declaring something clearly an innovation of haram.
We ask Allah for tawfiq
Alhamdullilah it is good to always remember or be reminded of the mercy of Allah swt.
Listening to this audio and the previous one regarding tawbah .Alhamdullilah puts my heart at ease. Knowing that, I have made mistakes in the past. Even though I now try my best to even do better. I still look back and feel ashamed and ask myself what was I thinking or if am going to be punished for my mistakes.
I used to skip my prayers, fajr used to be out of question. I was good at Isha and zuhr. I even went to the extent of taking off my hijab And Allah swt knows what else I did. Also, I was good at other things like my fasting, respecting others, helping others, having the nia to be a better Muslim always and to increase my Ibadah.
During that time when I think of my bad actions some days I would tell myself .What are you thinking? Yet! Some days I dint feel like I was doing anything wrong. My family/friends would come to me each with different advice. Some will tell me “how dare you skip your prayers or not wear your headscarf or why is you pants/skirt too tight?” others would tell me “Pray to Allah swt and inshallah, he will make It easy for you and inshallah we will keep you in our prayers too”. Some would even tell me “you are better of not praying at all cause praying one or two salah’s is worst than not praying at all”. Others would look back and instead of accusing me, they would remind me to look back at the days I was so good at my prayers and all dressed up in my headscarf and loose dresses. The days that when someone tells me. “You better take off your Hijab or else you will not get that JOB” and I would refuse to listen to them instead think to myself. “With or without Hijab if you where meant to get something, Nothing will stop you from getting it, remember Allah swt is the only provider”.
Alhamdullilah for all the advice I got. I learnt so much, it helped me improve and be better than I ever used to be and continue to try harder to be better. However, I still look back and worry about my mistakes.
Looking back at my mistakes. I ask myself how it all started. Was it the prayers or the dress code that I neglected first, what else did I do? What was I thinking? How did I change (from good to bad, bad to good)? Alhamdullilah am glad that I changed for the better and even though I cannot figure out what lead me to those failures. I know for sure that PRAYERS IS THE KEY .Asking Allah swt to guide us and protect us is the best we could all do for ourselves. With prayers, you can move from not praying fajr to being able to set your alarm to wake you up and with time, you will find yourself not worrying about the alarm clock anymore. Somehow, you will manage to wake up without that alarm. (This is exactly what happened to me Alhamdulillah).
The sheikh earlier mentioned that one sister said (the last place I would go to is the mosque or to her family). One would wonder is not that what family and friends are all about a shoulder to lean / cry on. Why is it so hard for some of us to turn to our own friends and family? I personally lived with my relatives (not my parents) but people that I considered as my real family and friends. I remember when I changed (to be so called a bad person) the reaction from the ones that knew me caught me by surprise. See before they used to tell me “manshallah you have such a strong iman”. Then when things turned sour, the same group completely changed and started to say bad things like (look at her, shame on her). Yet wallahi we all know that nobody knows whats in the other person’s heart. All I changed from the face of this people is my outfit. I was still the same person with almost the same characters that they used to see except that today my dress code changed. What is even more when I changed back to my proper Islamic dress code (Hijab). everybody was back to “manshallah see she always had a strong Iman”.
My big question is why do we always focus on the negative side of people rather than the good sides? Instead of telling someone “oh am seeing you at the mosque for the first time” How about you tell him or her “it’s good to see you”.
To hear and listen to our imans and sheikhs reminding us that we are all human and we make mistakes and that there is always room for tawbah.Gives us all more courage to try harder. Last week I attended a session and the Sheikh reminded us even the children of some of the prophets made mistakes. Therefore, you can imagine us. Another Iman told us we should ask his family about his mistakes (cause according to him he does have failures). When the iman mentioned this, the sister next to me looked at me and said, “See even the good sheikhs with such a strong Iman make mistakes. So you can imagine us”. I also noticed when I tell my dear sisters that there was time I was not wearing my Hijab.They would look at me and tell me “you without Hijab? And I thought I was the worst person”.
There is no such thing as 100 % perfection. But we all can try. If one is good at prayers and not good at wearing that headscarf or going to mosque .Well keep up with the prayers and the rest will came along one day. If you miss, fajr try to be on time for zuhr and inshallah the rest will straighten out slowly and if our friends and family are not being supportive, let us just pray for them. May be they say all that they say cause they are lacking good communication skills. (You never know what their intentions are).
When I was young, I remember my mother helping me tie my headscarf and she will tell me. “Hijab is not just your headscarf or that loose skirt you are wearing.Hijab is a package. meaning it comes with good actions i.e. praying,fasting,respecting others, being at the right place, at the right time doing the right things etc” .What she was trying to teach me is that its not just the cloth we wear but our character is also included In so called Hijab. Therefore, one could be wearing proper outfits or going to the mosque everyday doing many good, deeds at the same time have some failures and the same goes to others.Wallahi one of my best friends she does not wear a headscarf but when I was not praying she used to tell me. “Home girl! Salah is wajib; you better clean up you act”.
We make mistakes, we learn, and we all want to be better because we all know there is the hereafter. So let us all pray for each other and help each other and most of all let us pray for our imams and sheikhs for reminding us the mercy of Allah swt.