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False Hopes in Allah and Other Things That Won’t Help | Khutbah by Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy
Becoming a Friend of Allah - Sh. Omar Suleiman | Khutbah

Becoming a Friend of Allah - Sh. Omar Suleiman | Khutbah

Overcoming Compassion Fatigue, Numbness, and Burnout - Sh. Omar Suleiman | Khutbah

Overcoming Compassion Fatigue, Numbness, and Burnout - Sh. Omar Suleiman | Khutbah

Speaking a Word of Truth to a Tyrant - Sh. Omar Suleiman | Khutbah

Speaking a Word of Truth to a Tyrant - Sh. Omar Suleiman | Khutbah

What Do You “Smell” Like? - Sh. Omar Suleiman | Khutbah

What Do You “Smell” Like? - Sh. Omar Suleiman | Khutbah

A Living Heart Under Siege | Khutbah

A Living Heart Under Siege | Khutbah

Don't Forget Your Mistakes, Learn From Them | Khutbah

Don't Forget Your Mistakes, Learn From Them | Khutbah

Repentance Delayed and Denied: Learning from a Dying Pharoah | Khutbah

Repentance Delayed and Denied: Learning from a Dying Pharoah | Khutbah

“There is no refuge or escape from you, except to you...” | Khutbah

“There is no refuge or escape from you, except to you...” | Khutbah

How Istighfar Clears the Fog | Khutbah

How Istighfar Clears the Fog | Khutbah

Don't Minimize Your Pain, Seek its Reward | Khutbah

Don't Minimize Your Pain, Seek its Reward | Khutbah

How Aisha (ra) Became a Doctor | Khutbah

How Aisha (ra) Became a Doctor | Khutbah

Stop Trying To Escape Death. Just Make The Most of Life | Khutbah

Stop Trying To Escape Death. Just Make The Most of Life | Khutbah

You Will Never Be As Alone Or Desperate As Yunus (as) | Khutbah

You Will Never Be As Alone Or Desperate As Yunus (as) | Khutbah

Do You Think You Will Enter Jannah? | Khutbah

Do You Think You Will Enter Jannah? | Khutbah

A Message Regarding the Muslims in France | Khutbah

A Message Regarding the Muslims in France | Khutbah

“Indeed, Your Enemy is The One Cut Off” | Khutbah

“Indeed, Your Enemy is The One Cut Off” | Khutbah

Maintaining Character in Chaos and Confusion | Khutbah

Maintaining Character in Chaos and Confusion | Khutbah

Allah Spared Me, Why Would I Dip my Tongue in it?  | Khutbah

Allah Spared Me, Why Would I Dip my Tongue in it? | Khutbah

Allah Laughs at This Awkward Meeting | Khutbah

Allah Laughs at This Awkward Meeting | Khutbah

Black Friday: Fear of Missing Out on Good Deals or Deeds | Khutbah

Black Friday: Fear of Missing Out on Good Deals or Deeds | Khutbah

Don’t Wait For Others To Ask | Khutbah

Don’t Wait For Others To Ask | Khutbah

Your Father: The Middle Gate to Jannah | Khutbah

Your Father: The Middle Gate to Jannah | Khutbah

Do Not Curse Time: What A New Year Really Means | Khutbah

Do Not Curse Time: What A New Year Really Means | Khutbah

Three Moments That Lead to Paradise | Khutbah

Three Moments That Lead to Paradise | Khutbah

Owning Our Mistakes | Khutbah

Owning Our Mistakes | Khutbah

Serving the “Undeserving” | Khutbah

Serving the “Undeserving” | Khutbah

“A Life Cut Short...” | Khutbah

“A Life Cut Short...” | Khutbah

Before Our Hearts Were Hardened | Khutbah

Before Our Hearts Were Hardened | Khutbah

Wash Our Hearts With Water, Snow, and Hail | Khutbah

Wash Our Hearts With Water, Snow, and Hail | Khutbah

Let Your Water Flow To Your Neighbor | Khutbah

Let Your Water Flow To Your Neighbor | Khutbah

The Blessing You Won't Forget Next Time | Khutbah

The Blessing You Won't Forget Next Time | Khutbah

"Am I Really Sincere?" | Khutbah

"Am I Really Sincere?" | Khutbah

Forbidden From Qiyam For Questioning His Sincerity | Khutbah

Forbidden From Qiyam For Questioning His Sincerity | Khutbah

Am I Accountable for My Thoughts? | Khutbah

Am I Accountable for My Thoughts? | Khutbah

Two Conditions For Forgiveness in Sha'aban | Khutbah

Two Conditions For Forgiveness in Sha'aban | Khutbah

The Knots, Whispers, Sticks & Stones of Shaytan | Khutbah

The Knots, Whispers, Sticks & Stones of Shaytan | Khutbah

From Bad To Better & Good To Great | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

From Bad To Better & Good To Great | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

The Best Forms Of Dhikr In Ramadan | Khutbah

The Best Forms Of Dhikr In Ramadan | Khutbah

What Are You Willing To Give Up For Allah? | Khutbah

What Are You Willing To Give Up For Allah? | Khutbah

5 Best Things To Do On Laylatul Qadr | Khutbah

5 Best Things To Do On Laylatul Qadr | Khutbah

The Effect Of Laylatul Qadr On The Heart | Khutbah

The Effect Of Laylatul Qadr On The Heart | Khutbah

Al Aqsa Will Always Matter To Us | Khutbah

Al Aqsa Will Always Matter To Us | Khutbah

Learning Courage from Palestine & Our Predecessors | Khutbah

Learning Courage from Palestine & Our Predecessors | Khutbah

David and Goliath in Islam | Khutbah

David and Goliath in Islam | Khutbah

Dua to Overcome Feeling Helpless | Khutbah

Dua to Overcome Feeling Helpless | Khutbah

Sins We Commit When We’re Scared and Vulnerable | Khutbah

Sins We Commit When We’re Scared and Vulnerable | Khutbah

How Paradise Keeps Us Patient | Khutbah

How Paradise Keeps Us Patient | Khutbah

The Du’a Taught to Only 1 Prophet | Khutbah

The Du’a Taught to Only 1 Prophet | Khutbah

How Allah sends Salah upon you | Khutbah

How Allah sends Salah upon you | Khutbah

One Ummah, One Body | Khutbah

One Ummah, One Body | Khutbah

When Your True Colors Show | Khutbah

When Your True Colors Show | Khutbah

The First Footstep Of Shaytan | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

The First Footstep Of Shaytan | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Virtues of Ashura and How to Observe It | Khutbah

Virtues of Ashura and How to Observe It | Khutbah

When You Hit Your Lowest Point | Khutbah

When You Hit Your Lowest Point | Khutbah

The Highest Degree of Love for Allah | Khutbah

The Highest Degree of Love for Allah | Khutbah

Friends That Hold You Back | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Friends That Hold You Back | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

When People Keep Letting You Down | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

When People Keep Letting You Down | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

How Tahajjud Removes Stress and Sins | Khutbah

How Tahajjud Removes Stress and Sins | Khutbah

How Would The Prophet ﷺ Advise You? | Khutbah

How Would The Prophet ﷺ Advise You? | Khutbah

Inscribed on the Sword of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ | Khutbah

Inscribed on the Sword of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ | Khutbah

A Believer Cannot Be A Liar | Khutbah

A Believer Cannot Be A Liar | Khutbah

'I guarantee Jannah for the one who…' | Khutbah

'I guarantee Jannah for the one who…' | Khutbah

Quenching Our Humanity | Khutbah

Quenching Our Humanity | Khutbah

What Makes You Cry |  Khutbah

What Makes You Cry | Khutbah

7 Ways To Increase Baraka In Your Time | Khutbah

7 Ways To Increase Baraka In Your Time | Khutbah

Do Not Aid an Oppressor | Khutbah

Do Not Aid an Oppressor | Khutbah

Virtual Reality & the Fitna of Dajjal | Khutbah

Virtual Reality & the Fitna of Dajjal | Khutbah

Seeing With The Light of Allah | Khutbah

Seeing With The Light of Allah | Khutbah

Allah’s Name: At Tawwab - The One Who Accepts Repentance | Khutbah

Allah’s Name: At Tawwab - The One Who Accepts Repentance | Khutbah

Gems from the Miracles and Manners of Jesus (as) | Khutbah

Gems from the Miracles and Manners of Jesus (as) | Khutbah

But You Want Something Else From Allah | Khutbah

But You Want Something Else From Allah | Khutbah

Allah’s Guidance | Khutbah

Allah’s Guidance | Khutbah

Do Not Belittle the Efforts of Others | Khutbah

Do Not Belittle the Efforts of Others | Khutbah

Don’t be Hasty | Khutbah by Sh. Ibrahim Hindy

Don’t be Hasty | Khutbah by Sh. Ibrahim Hindy

Is Allah Punishing Me? | Khutbah

Is Allah Punishing Me? | Khutbah

Turning Your "Waste" Into Rewards | Khutbah

Turning Your "Waste" Into Rewards | Khutbah

New Beginnings with the Messenger ﷺ | Khutbah

New Beginnings with the Messenger ﷺ | Khutbah

To Truly be Free | Khutbah

To Truly be Free | Khutbah

Dangerous Assumptions | Khutbah

Dangerous Assumptions | Khutbah

Resting the Soul and Avoiding Burnout | Khutbah

Resting the Soul and Avoiding Burnout | Khutbah

The Day of Judgement as if You Can See it | Khutbah

The Day of Judgement as if You Can See it | Khutbah

Let's Let Go of Our Ego  | Khutbah

Let's Let Go of Our Ego | Khutbah

How To Start Ramadan Right  | Khutbah

How To Start Ramadan Right | Khutbah

Fasting is a Shield  | Khutbah

Fasting is a Shield | Khutbah

Al-Aqsa, Indian Muslims and Ramadan Silence  | Khutbah

Al-Aqsa, Indian Muslims and Ramadan Silence | Khutbah

What Allah Decides for you on Laylatul Qadr  | Khutbah

What Allah Decides for you on Laylatul Qadr | Khutbah

Was my Ramadan Accepted?  | Khutbah

Was my Ramadan Accepted? | Khutbah

Fighting the Ramadan Blues  | Khutbah

Fighting the Ramadan Blues | Khutbah

Our Priorities as an Ummah  | Khutbah

Our Priorities as an Ummah | Khutbah

3 Ways to Save Yourself from Fitna  | Khutbah

3 Ways to Save Yourself from Fitna | Khutbah

Social Media, Misinformation, And The Assassination of Uthman (ra)  | Khutbah

Social Media, Misinformation, And The Assassination of Uthman (ra) | Khutbah

Do Not Compromise Your Deen  | Khutbah

Do Not Compromise Your Deen | Khutbah

Why the Shaheed would want to come back  | Khutbah

Why the Shaheed would want to come back | Khutbah

The Benefits of Hasbunallahu Wa Ni'mal Wakeel | Khutbah

The Benefits of Hasbunallahu Wa Ni'mal Wakeel | Khutbah

Our Father Ibrahim (as) Still Cares About Us | Khutbah

Our Father Ibrahim (as) Still Cares About Us | Khutbah

What to do on 'Arafah | Khutbah

What to do on 'Arafah | Khutbah

The Du'as of the Salaf on Arafah | Khutbah

The Du'as of the Salaf on Arafah | Khutbah

Uniting Our Ummah When Politics Divide | Khutbah

Uniting Our Ummah When Politics Divide | Khutbah

Your Image of Allah and Attachment to Him | Khutbah

Your Image of Allah and Attachment to Him | Khutbah

The 3 Keys to Human Excellence | Khutbah

The 3 Keys to Human Excellence | Khutbah

Life Only Starts When You Die | Khutbah

Life Only Starts When You Die | Khutbah

Why Ashura is so important | Khutbah

Why Ashura is so important | Khutbah

Will Anyone Remember Me? | Khutbah

Will Anyone Remember Me? | Khutbah

Learning to Trust Allah’s Timing | Khutbah

Learning to Trust Allah’s Timing | Khutbah

Defining Masculinity Through Qur’an | Khutbah

Defining Masculinity Through Qur’an | Khutbah

Vocabulary of a Narcissist | Khutbah

Vocabulary of a Narcissist | Khutbah

The Sin of Using People | Khutbah

The Sin of Using People | Khutbah

Think Well of Allah | Khutbah

Think Well of Allah | Khutbah

O Allah, I Love You Even Though I Disobey You | Khutbah

O Allah, I Love You Even Though I Disobey You | Khutbah

Why Don't We All Have the Same Blessings? | Khutbah

Why Don't We All Have the Same Blessings? | Khutbah

A World Without Muhammad ﷺ | Khutbah

A World Without Muhammad ﷺ | Khutbah

The Advice You Need to Hear | Khutbah

The Advice You Need to Hear | Khutbah

The Pursuit of Balance | Khutbah

The Pursuit of Balance | Khutbah

The Good Deed That Ruins You | Khutbah

The Good Deed That Ruins You | Khutbah

A Summary of Islam by the Prophet ﷺ | Khutbah

A Summary of Islam by the Prophet ﷺ | Khutbah

Tired of Being Taken Advantage Of | Khutbah

Tired of Being Taken Advantage Of | Khutbah

Lost Without Allah | Khutbah

Lost Without Allah | Khutbah

How To Diagnose Your Heart | Khutbah

How To Diagnose Your Heart | Khutbah

The Fear of Living an “Ordinary” Life | Khutbah

The Fear of Living an “Ordinary” Life | Khutbah

How To Change Your Desires | Khutbah

How To Change Your Desires | Khutbah

Is All Knowledge Good? | Khutbah

Is All Knowledge Good? | Khutbah

What Causes Du‘as to Be Unheard? | Khutbah

What Causes Du‘as to Be Unheard? | Khutbah

What the Prophet ﷺ Wished He Hadn't Asked | Khutbah

What the Prophet ﷺ Wished He Hadn't Asked | Khutbah

Negative Speaking and Belittling Blessings | Khutbah

Negative Speaking and Belittling Blessings | Khutbah

When Forgiving Is Complicated | Khutbah

When Forgiving Is Complicated | Khutbah

When Parents Beg Their Kids To Believe | Khutbah

When Parents Beg Their Kids To Believe | Khutbah

Why Allah Allows Earthquakes and Suffering | Khutbah

Why Allah Allows Earthquakes and Suffering | Khutbah

Would You Pass This Test | Khutbah

Would You Pass This Test | Khutbah

Your Time to Shine #Sha'ban | Khutbah

Your Time to Shine #Sha'ban | Khutbah

Your Heart Isn’t Ready for Ramadan Unless… | Khutbah

Your Heart Isn’t Ready for Ramadan Unless… | Khutbah

A Jannah Worth Chasing | Khutbah

A Jannah Worth Chasing | Khutbah

Your Ramadan Uniform | Khutbah

Your Ramadan Uniform | Khutbah

Your Greatest Motivation | Khutbah

Your Greatest Motivation | Khutbah

Getting Past the Mid-Ramadan Dip | Khutbah

Getting Past the Mid-Ramadan Dip | Khutbah

When Allah Gifts You With Tranquility | Khutbah

When Allah Gifts You With Tranquility | Khutbah

The New You | Eid Khutbah

The New You | Eid Khutbah

AI and ChatGPT: Spiritual Resilience and Ethics | Khutbah

AI and ChatGPT: Spiritual Resilience and Ethics | Khutbah

Feeling Paralyzed by Stress and Fitna? | Khutbah

Feeling Paralyzed by Stress and Fitna? | Khutbah

The Qur’an and Intellectual Humility | Khutbah

The Qur’an and Intellectual Humility | Khutbah

Wasted Potential | Khutbah

Wasted Potential | Khutbah

Your Lord Doesn’t Forget | Khutbah

Your Lord Doesn’t Forget | Khutbah

Who Should You Really Care About? | Khutbah

Who Should You Really Care About? | Khutbah

Where Has Your Tongue Taken You? | Khutbah

Where Has Your Tongue Taken You? | Khutbah

Why Would A Man Sacrifice His Son? | Khutbah

Why Would A Man Sacrifice His Son? | Khutbah

How To Make Du'a For Barakah | Khutbah

How To Make Du'a For Barakah | Khutbah

Do You Love To Argue? | Khutbah

Do You Love To Argue? | Khutbah

Missed Opportunities | Khutbah

Missed Opportunities | Khutbah

When Allah Guides Through You | Khutbah

When Allah Guides Through You | Khutbah

The Ashura Within | Khutbah

The Ashura Within | Khutbah

Allah Appreciates Your Smallest Deeds | Khutbah

Allah Appreciates Your Smallest Deeds | Khutbah

Islam's Cure for Depression | Khutbah

Islam's Cure for Depression | Khutbah

Conquering Your Insecurities | Khutbah

Conquering Your Insecurities | Khutbah

Allah Will Honor You | Khutbah

Allah Will Honor You | Khutbah

How Allah Uses “Tomorrow” in the Qur’an | Khutbah

How Allah Uses “Tomorrow” in the Qur’an | Khutbah

When Love Makes You Crazy | Khutbah

When Love Makes You Crazy | Khutbah

Natural Disasters & The Day of Judgment | Khutbah

Natural Disasters & The Day of Judgment | Khutbah

What Are Your Real Intentions? | Khutbah

What Are Your Real Intentions? | Khutbah

How to Make The Most of your Salah | Khutbah

How to Make The Most of your Salah | Khutbah

Palestine Khutbah Outside the White House | Dr. Omar Suleiman

Palestine Khutbah Outside the White House | Dr. Omar Suleiman

"What's the Point?" | Khutbah

"What's the Point?" | Khutbah

How Palestine Exposes Hypocrisy | Khutbah

How Palestine Exposes Hypocrisy | Khutbah

Feeling Helpless While Watching Oppression | Khutbah

Feeling Helpless While Watching Oppression | Khutbah

Palestine Awakens the Ummah | Khutbah

Palestine Awakens the Ummah | Khutbah

What Does Islam Say About War and Justice? | Khutbah

What Does Islam Say About War and Justice? | Khutbah

Your Leg is Already in Paradise | Khutbah

Your Leg is Already in Paradise | Khutbah

The Value of Just One Righteous Life | Khutbah

The Value of Just One Righteous Life | Khutbah

Media Martyrs and Symbolic Resistance | Khutbah

Media Martyrs and Symbolic Resistance | Khutbah

Staying Sincere for the Cause | Khutbah

Staying Sincere for the Cause | Khutbah

Do You Doubt the Return? | Khutbah

Do You Doubt the Return? | Khutbah

When Laws are Held Hostage | Khutbah

When Laws are Held Hostage | Khutbah

It Actually Starts with Tahajjud | Khutbah

It Actually Starts with Tahajjud | Khutbah

The Most Underestimated Major Sin | Khutbah

The Most Underestimated Major Sin | Khutbah

How Allah will Mock Them | Khutbah

How Allah will Mock Them | Khutbah

Is It All Our Fault? | Khutbah

Is It All Our Fault? | Khutbah

Why this Sha'aban is so Important | Khutbah

Why this Sha'aban is so Important | Khutbah

What Happens on the 15th of Sha'aban? | Khutbah

What Happens on the 15th of Sha'aban? | Khutbah

Ramadan Joy and Gaza Depression | Khutbah

Ramadan Joy and Gaza Depression | Khutbah

How to Make this Your Best Ramadan | Khutbah

How to Make this Your Best Ramadan | Khutbah

Setting Character Goals in Ramadan | Khutbah

Setting Character Goals in Ramadan | Khutbah

When Your Heart is On Empty | Khutbah

When Your Heart is On Empty | Khutbah

Those Who are Deprived on Laylatul Qadr | Khutbah

Those Who are Deprived on Laylatul Qadr | Khutbah

When the Decree Shocks Everyone on Laylatul Qadr | Khutbah

When the Decree Shocks Everyone on Laylatul Qadr | Khutbah

A Night Even Better than Laylatul Qadr | Khutbah

A Night Even Better than Laylatul Qadr | Khutbah

Is the End Near? | Khutbah

Is the End Near? | Khutbah

"Don't Move!" - Gaza Encampment at Northwestern University | Khutbah

"Don't Move!" - Gaza Encampment at Northwestern University | Khutbah

Act and Allah Will Unlock Success | Khutbah

Act and Allah Will Unlock Success | Khutbah

Overcoming Despair When We See Mutilated Bodies | Khutbah

Overcoming Despair When We See Mutilated Bodies | Khutbah

Resistance in Exile: from Hijra to Nakba | Khutbah

Resistance in Exile: from Hijra to Nakba | Khutbah

The Inner Strength to Keep Fighting | Khutbah

The Inner Strength to Keep Fighting | Khutbah

Will Gaza be Israel's Downfall? | Khutbah

Will Gaza be Israel's Downfall? | Khutbah

When Allah Tests You with the Truth | Khutbah

When Allah Tests You with the Truth | Khutbah

Hidden Causes of Disconnect from Allah | Khutbah

Hidden Causes of Disconnect from Allah | Khutbah

How Close Are You to the Prophet (as)? | Khutbah

How Close Are You to the Prophet (as)? | Khutbah

The Most Important Ashura of Our Lives? | Khutbah

The Most Important Ashura of Our Lives? | Khutbah

Is Allah Really with Us? | Khutbah

Is Allah Really with Us? | Khutbah

The Real History of Palestine in the Qur'an | Khutbah

The Real History of Palestine in the Qur'an | Khutbah

The One Child Pharoah Didn't Kill | Khutbah

The One Child Pharoah Didn't Kill | Khutbah

The Art of Finding Closure | Khutbah

The Art of Finding Closure | Khutbah

Don't Let them Steal your Revolution | Khutbah

Don't Let them Steal your Revolution | Khutbah

Thank God We're Not Them | Khutbah

Thank God We're Not Them | Khutbah

What If I Can't Look Anymore? | Khutbah

What If I Can't Look Anymore? | Khutbah

Wounds That Aren't Meant To Heal | Khutbah

Wounds That Aren't Meant To Heal | Khutbah

Your False Sense of Security: From Gaza and Beyond | Khutbah

Your False Sense of Security: From Gaza and Beyond | Khutbah

Hind Rajab to Aafia Siddiqui: Re-humanizing the De-humanized | Khutbah

Hind Rajab to Aafia Siddiqui: Re-humanizing the De-humanized | Khutbah

When It’s Hard to say Alhamdulilah | Khutbah

When It’s Hard to say Alhamdulilah | Khutbah

Israel Has the Right to Defend Itself? | Khutbah

Israel Has the Right to Defend Itself? | Khutbah

Is Revenge Worth it? It Hurts You More Than You Think | Khutbah

Is Revenge Worth it? It Hurts You More Than You Think | Khutbah

Earning Jannah While Watching a Genocide | Khutbah

Earning Jannah While Watching a Genocide | Khutbah

What if Oppression is Our Destiny? | Khutbah

What if Oppression is Our Destiny? | Khutbah

Who Do I Vote For? A message to American Muslims | Khutbah

Who Do I Vote For? A message to American Muslims | Khutbah

What are Your True Intentions? Goodwill VS Ego | Khutbah

What are Your True Intentions? Goodwill VS Ego | Khutbah

Allah Will Surprise You - Embracing the Unknown | Khutbah

Allah Will Surprise You - Embracing the Unknown | Khutbah

Allah WILL Test You With Your Words | Khutbah

Allah WILL Test You With Your Words | Khutbah

Just When You Thought It Was Over | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Just When You Thought It Was Over | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

You Need to Love Allah More | Ramadan Prep Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

You Need to Love Allah More | Ramadan Prep Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Beyond Halal & Haram: Are You Numbing Your Heart? | Ramadan Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Beyond Halal & Haram: Are You Numbing Your Heart? | Ramadan Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Who are the human devils amongst us? | Ramadan Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Who are the human devils amongst us? | Ramadan Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

The Amazing Connections Between Jumah and Laylatul Qadr | Ramadan Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

The Amazing Connections Between Jumah and Laylatul Qadr | Ramadan Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Do Not Abandon the Masjid After Ramadan | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Do Not Abandon the Masjid After Ramadan | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

What is your biggest fear? A wake up call amidst collapse | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

What is your biggest fear? A wake up call amidst collapse | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Your Future Self Is Not Who You Think It Is | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Your Future Self Is Not Who You Think It Is | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

How to Deal With Angry People | Khutbah by Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy

How to Deal With Angry People | Khutbah by Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy

"If Only I Had the Strength…" | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

"If Only I Had the Strength…" | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

How Allah Defends Those Who Believe | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

How Allah Defends Those Who Believe | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

India VS Pakistan: The Deadly Cost of Nationalism | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

India VS Pakistan: The Deadly Cost of Nationalism | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

How the Plot of Israel Will Backfire | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

How the Plot of Israel Will Backfire | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Are You Waiting to Become a Victim? | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Are You Waiting to Become a Victim? | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Why is the World Falling Apart? | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Why is the World Falling Apart? | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Ashura is Not Nostalgia | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Ashura is Not Nostalgia | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

"What I Saw in Bosnia." 30 Years After the Genocide | Lecture by Dr. Omar Suleiman

"What I Saw in Bosnia." 30 Years After the Genocide | Lecture by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Are You Willing to Truly Sacrifice for Allah? | Lecture by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Are You Willing to Truly Sacrifice for Allah? | Lecture by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Practicing Detachment: A Daily Guide to Freeing Your Heart for Allah | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Practicing Detachment: A Daily Guide to Freeing Your Heart for Allah | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

The Crime of Hunger | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

The Crime of Hunger | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Don’t Just Exist—Live for What Allah Created You For | Lecture by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Don’t Just Exist—Live for What Allah Created You For | Lecture by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Gaza Is Starving — But Allah’s Promise Has Not Failed | Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy

Gaza Is Starving — But Allah’s Promise Has Not Failed | Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy

The Qur’an They Can’t Bomb: Stories from Gaza | Dr. Omar Suleiman

The Qur’an They Can’t Bomb: Stories from Gaza | Dr. Omar Suleiman

Do People Have Hope In You? | Dr. Omar Suleiman

Do People Have Hope In You? | Dr. Omar Suleiman

How You Should Eat While Gaza Starves | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

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False Hopes in Allah and Other Things That Won’t Help | Khutbah by Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy

Thirty Companions of the Prophet ﷺ each feared they might be a hypocrite. Not one of them dared say their faith matched the angels’. In this khutbah, Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy asks the question most people never ask themselves, and then shows why that righteous fear itself was the thing protecting them.

There is a kind of hope in Allah that has no actions behind it, and the Qur’an gives it a name: amaniyy. False hopes. Wishful thinking. It is the counterfeit of husn al-dhann billah, thinking well of Allah, and it is convincing precisely because it wears the same face.

Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy walks through Surah Al-Hadid verse by verse to trace four steps of this delusion: you tempted yourself, you kept delaying, you began to doubt, and your false hopes deceived you.

If you have ever told yourself Allah is the Most Merciful and then quietly stopped obeying Him, this khutbah is a very urgent reminder.

This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings.
00:00Brothers and sisters, has any one of you ever asked themselves, not accused others of being—we've probably all done that—asked ourselves,
00:14is it possible that I could be, I just might be a munafiq, a hypocrite? It's a very bold question
00:22and that is why most people don't dare to ask it. But others simply may not think to ask it because they think you're either a believer or you're not. You're either a hypocrite or you're
00:34a Muslim. And this is not exactly true. Ibn Abi Mulaika, rahimahullah, he says,
00:41I have gotten to meet, I encountered 30 different companions of the Prophet ﷺ,
00:55and they knew they were Muslim, yet all feared hypocrisy for themselves. Ma minhum ahadun yaqulu innahu 'ala imani Jibra'il wa Mika'il. Not a single one of them ever dared
01:09to say that I have faith in the same way that the Archangel Gabriel or the Angel Michael have faith. There are levels to this. And one of those companions, Abdullah ibn Mas'ud, radiyallahu anhu,
01:22was once asked by a man for counsel. He said to him, "I fear that I'm a hypocrite." So Ibn Mas'ud said to him, "In kunta munafiqan lam takhshadhalik." If you were actually
01:35a full-blown hypocrite, you would not fear that. That's what separates you. That's what separated them. The fear of hypocrisy is what protected them from hypocrisy. But to ask yourself that
01:48question is to hold the cold scalpel to yourself, to search inside of yourself. Is my faith critical?
01:56Is it dimming? Is nifaq, hypocrisy, looming? And what helps you perform this surgery, the spiritual surgery on yourself, is to remember why it's worth it. In Surah al-Hadid, Allah, the Most High, says,
02:11"Yawma tara al-mu'mineena wal-mu'minati yas'a nooruhum bayni aydihim wa bi aymanihim." The day that the believing men and believing women, you will see them when the lights go dark
02:24and they have to traverse that bridge across the fires of Hell, you will see them with light emanating from their chests and in their right hands.
02:36The next verse then goes on to say, "Yawma yaqulul-munafiquna wal-munafiqatu lillatheena amanu unthuroona naqtabis min noorikum." On that same day, you will see the
02:49hypocrites falling behind. The hypocrite men and hypocrite women, it says, saying to the believers,
02:56those enlightened, illuminated believers, wait for us so we can take from some of your light,
03:04so we can light our torch from yours. "Qeela irji'u waraakum fal tamisu noora." They will say, "We're not going to slow down." They'll tell them, "Go back,
03:15meaning here to this world. This is a mockery of them, right? A chastisement of them. Go back, see if you can find some light back there, because this is where you pick up light. Over there, it's either you have it or you don't. You had secured it or you didn't.
03:30Go back and check for some light back there." Allah then says, "Faduriba baynahum bi surun lahu bab." And then at that moment, as the believers
03:40illuminated rush ahead, and those afraid were to step, tell them, slow down and wait for us, a gate is struck between them that has a door. "Ba'tinuhu feehi ar-rahma." On the inside,
03:52the side that's heading towards paradise, is mercy. "Wa dahiruhu min qibalihi al-'adhab." And on the other side of it will be the torment. They'll be swept away into the fire.
04:04"Yunadoonahum." Now there's a wall, a gate. They will call out to them from behind the gate. "Alamnakum maakum." Weren't we with you? Weren't we Muslim like you?
04:17And the believers will say to them, "Bala," of course you were with us, physically speaking. Claim-wise you were. "Wa lakinnakum." But here's where you went wrong. And this is where I want
04:27you to pay attention. Here's where you went wrong. "Wa lakinnakum fatantum anfusakum." But you
04:33subjected yourself to temptations. You did it to yourself. You acted like you could ignore Allah's
04:44guardrails and still be able to not swerve off the path. You could get as close as you wanted to zina and you wouldn't fall in. Kept looking, kept looking, started talking, right? Those are all
04:56Allah's guardrails. You decided to tempt yourself by being in the company of those who smoke, perhaps. And you're swearing you'll never do that. That's disgusting. And then one day you did.
05:09You swore you would never listen to that trash music that plays with the strings of your heart and turns you into a different person altogether. And one day you tempted yourself.
05:18"Fatantum anfusakum." Then it says, "Wa tarabbastum." Tarabbastum means to lie in wait, to keep putting things off, to get complacent. So you kept delaying, delaying, delaying. Next week,
05:33next Ramadan, and so on and so forth. Then it says, "Wa ratabtum." Not just that you delay, then you doubt it. And you don't doubt immediately that there's going to be a day of judgment.
05:47That will come, may Allah forbid. But it starts with first doubting that the sin is that big anyway. Maybe you'll employ the law of relativity. "I didn't pray, but some people only pray Jumu'ah.
06:01It's okay if I miss today's prayers." Then you miss Jumu'ah and say some people only pray Eid. I'll catch the next Jumu'ah. Then you miss Eid one year, right? And you say, "At least I don't kill anyone.
06:13I don't cheat and steal, right? I'm a good person." And so you start doubting the magnitude or the gravity of the crime. And as al-Fudayl ibn Ayyad, rahimahullah, would tell the people: to the extent
06:24that the sin is great in your eyes, it's small in the sight of Allah. And to the extent that the sin is small in your eyes, it is great in the sight of Allah. Because it's not about the greatness of
06:35the sin. The sin is the sin. Its size is the size. But it's about you belittling whom you sinned against at that point. And then Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, says the believers tell them: you
06:48subjected yourself to temptations and you kept waiting, delayed. Then you doubted. Then they told them the fourth quality, which is the bottom line, which explains why all of this happened.
06:59It says, "Wa gharratakum al-amaniyy." And you were deluded by your false hopes. You were deluded by your wishful thinking. "Hatta ja'a amr Allah." Until the affair of
07:12Allah, the command of Allah came about, meaning until death arrived. "Wa gharrakum billahi al-gharur." And in that way, they're going to be told, and in that way you were deceived by
07:22the great deceiver. You were deceived about Allah. Deluded about God and His mercy. Even though it is unlimited, He is not limited by His mercy. He's also the Most Just.
07:34You were deceived about Allah by the great deceiver, Shaytan. You were duped by the devil. You know what these ayat do? They give you an opportunity, and that is from the mercy of Allah,
07:45to find yourself. This is what you do with these verses. You find yourself on this spectrum, on this trajectory, right? That's from Allah's mercy to find yourself there.
07:56Is my faith flickering? How bad is it before you hit the crisis point? And in that sense, this is a reason for you to fall in love with Allah, that He spelled it out like this for you.
08:07And also, you will find in the verses right after it, on the same page in Surah Al-Hadid, that I pray you go back to, you will find all the hope that you need in the next two verses.
08:17Where Allah says, "Alam ya'in lillatheena amanu," Has the time not come yet? Meaning so long as you have a moment left, I'll accept it from you. I'll reverse it all. Has the
08:28time not come yet? That those who believed allow their hearts to melt, to become soft from the remembrance of Allah. "Wa ma nazala min al-haq." And what came down of the truth.
08:39"Wa la yakunu ka-allatheena utul-kitab min qablu." And not be like those who received scriptures before them. "Fatala alayihim al-amad." And then a long time passed. They kept procrastinating. That's what happens with most people, by the way.
08:53The number one snare that Shaytan snatches people with is what putting things off. Tomorrow is always the busiest day of the week, they say. Because you always say tomorrow and
09:06then again tomorrow. Procrastinate. How many people said they would repent and they never found the time? How many people were convinced Islam was true and they said next year or once
09:17my spouse becomes [Muslim], and they never did, right? And so Allah says, "Haven't you found the time yet? Will you have tomorrow? The present is all you have. The tomorrow is not guaranteed.
09:29Take a minute. Change course just now. Just do it." And then the verse says, "And not be like those who received the book before you and a long time passed over them so their hearts became so hard and they became rebellious."
09:49And then saying, "Even if your heart has died," that's the implication of this verse. He says, "Right after he says what? And know that Allah gives life over and over again to the earth after it has died. Every springtime He brings life out of the dead earth.
10:03Meaning even if your heart is dead, dead, I'll replace you with a brand new heart. Just don't delay any longer. Don't get deluded by wishful thinking and false hopes.
10:34Brothers and sisters, I'm insisting on focusing on this notion of amaniyy, delusion,
10:43self-deceit, false hopes, wishful thinking, procrastinating. Why? Because you know, the early Muslims were so close to the Qur'an that they knew this is what can get anyone.
10:56No matter where you've gone, how far you've climbed, this is the one. The tears would stream down their cheeks at night for a lifetime out of fear of falling into amaniyy, false hopes.
11:11You know why? Because amaniyy, it is like the imposter. Like it impersonates good assumptions of God. You tell yourself that I'm actually having... I have good hopes of God. No way God's
11:25going to punish me no matter what I... You think you have good hopes of God. You think it falls under Allah's statement, "I am whatever my servant expects of me." And we said, you know,
11:38you have good assumptions of God no matter what. We use the example with finances and otherwise. But does it apply to your religion when you're not putting effort, when you're not putting
11:49sincere dedication towards your religious development? Does it apply there? Is it included
11:56there? Look, what do you call a man who plants watermelon seeds and expects to see a mango tree?
12:07This person is deluded, right? They are out of their mind. Not just that, this person is indirectly, unintentionally insulting Allah's system, insulting Allah's wisdom that He built
12:19a system where whatever you plant you get. So likewise with your deen, when we with our actions plant the seeds of the Hellfire and expect to harvest from them the fruits of Paradise,
12:31this is called what? False hopes. You know, to think that you'll do no work whatsoever and be like those who put in the work and then tell yourself that's good hopes of Allah—
12:44you're crazy. This is not positivity, this is stupidity. You know, your grandmother worked harder than you, so she gets farther than you. What do you think you're going to get to the
12:56level of the Companions? And the Sahaba, radiyallahu anhum, when you think of the incident of Ubayy ibn Bishr—you know, he's scouting at night, standing guard, the Muslim army is getting some
13:07rest on their travel home. A pagan man spots them from a distance. He sees that this scout put his guard down and he said, "You know, it's a quiet night, nothing's happening here, no one in sight."
13:19He begins to pray at night, making even more use of his time, doubling his reward. And then that pagan man hits him with an arrow—you know, hits him with an arrow, it goes through flesh, it causes,
13:30you know, hemorrhaging blood. He removes the arrow, drops it and continues praying until the bleeding becomes too much, so he wraps up his prayer and wakes up his partner. They were supposed
13:42to take shifts at night. His partner wakes up, sees all this blood, he says, "What? Why didn't you wake me up earlier?" He said, "I wasn't going to wake you up to begin with, but I feared leaving the Muslims
13:51exposed. If I were to fall unconscious or drop dead, leaving the Muslims exposed to attack after the Messenger of Allah had assigned me at this post. Because I was reading a surah—it's not just
14:03the quantity of what they did, it was the quality of their prayers and everything else. I was reading a surah from the Qur'an that I would have rather finish it or finish my life trying to finish it
14:18than to rush through this prayer, than to abort this surah, even if it would have cost me my life." These were the Sahaba, radiyallahu anhum. Will anyone—you can still get there by asking Allah,
14:29not by your actions, that would be deluded—to ask Allah to give you genuine love of them, so you can be reunited with them. Because he did say, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, "Al-mar'u ma'a man ahab." A person will be with those they love.
14:43But just beware of amaniyy, from slipping in under the premise of just having high hopes of God. You know, amaniyy puts you to sleep, it makes you complacent, it makes you make decisions that are
14:56borderline insane. And people do it all the time, by the way. Like people play lottery. Even if lottery was halal, you would be an idiot for playing lottery. They call it survivor bias:
15:09like one person won, yeah, you have a higher likelihood of winning, of being struck by lightning twice, which is highly unlikely for one, than for you to win the grand lottery.
15:22So what, there's still a chance? This is insanity. Bill Gates didn't go to college, so I don't need to go to college either. It's called survivor bias. Do you have the work ethic? Do you read as many books a week for decades on end as him? Or is that just your
15:37excuse to not go to college, so you can get complacent and you don't do anything else? It's called the survivor bias. I know so and so had a happy marriage, even though they dated before marriage, even though they had a haram relationship. Do you know how many people have
15:50the exact opposite? An ocean of examples to the contrary. You're gonna actually bank on that. You know, at the end of time, the Prophet ﷺ said, the Euphrates will uncover a mountain of gold,
16:02and people will massacre each other for that gold. Out of every hundred that go for it, the gold rush, 99 of them will be killed. But every single one of the hundred, he said,
16:18will say, la'alli akun ana alladhi yanja. Perhaps I'll be the one that comes back. Insanity. Like even if you were the one percent, you're gonna come back to an empty town,
16:29who are you gonna flex your car and your riches with in front of? This is called survivor bias. In Islamic terms, in Qur'anic terms, it's called false wishes. It's called having wrong
16:42assumptions of Allah, that he will equate between people that have nothing to do with each other. Don't ever tell yourself, so and so had a jahiliyyah, had an ugly past.
16:52They were like a rebel without a cause. They were a mischievous person, and then they repented. Most people didn't, brothers and sisters. This is called gambling with your soul. This is not
17:02positive assumptions of Allah ﷻ. And so let that be your marker. As I stand down now,
17:08the counterfeit hope in God, right? Amani. This is when it's not accompanied by actions. Al-Hasan al-Basri said to the people,
17:25if you would have actually assumed good of God, you would have done better actions. You'd have done good, because God will repay me. God will make it worth my while. God's reward is better
17:36and more lasting, and I'm hopeful of it. And he said to the people on another occasion, al-mu'min jama'a bayna ihsan wa shafaqah. The believer is someone that combines between
17:48doing good deeds and being anxious about the acceptance of those good deeds. wal-munafiq jama'a bayna isa'ah wa aman. Whereas the hypocrite, he combines between
17:59evil deeds and a false sense of security. Reassurance, baseless reassurance he gives himself. Why is the believer like this? Because Allah said the chief, most elite,
18:11best believers, the prophets were like this. In Surat al-Anbiya, innahum kanu yusari'un fil khayrat wa yad'unana raghaban wa rahbah. These are a people, the prophets, who used to race
18:25to do good, and call upon us in hope and in fear. You see, they come together. You're fearful of missing out, because you're hopeful in this, it's so valuable to you, and so you're going to rush,
18:37you're going to chase it. Just as the Prophet ﷺ said in the final hadith, man khafa adlaj. It's a beautiful metaphor he gives. He said, whoever is fearful will leave in the middle of
18:50the night. You know, the stakes are too high. I'm not going to wait till the morning to start my journey when everyone else normally does. I'm going to start extra early. I'm going to give myself a buffer. Whoever is fearful will leave in the middle of the night before morning.
19:03Wa man adlaja balagh al-manzil. And whomever leaves extra early, will surely arrive at their destination. And then he explained what he was speaking about with this metaphor, and he said,
19:14ala inna silat Allah ghalia, ala inna silat Allah al-jannah. He said, and the merchandise of Allah is precious, it's expensive. The merchandise of Allah is paradise. So leave extra early,
19:28cover your bases, hope in Allah, show Him your hope in Him by chasing after the heaps of reward He has promised you, and the security and the bliss that cannot exist anywhere but with Him.