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They Are Allah's Wake-Up Call to You | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman
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

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

Are You a Mediocre Muslim? | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Are You a Mediocre Muslim? | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

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They Are Allah's Wake-Up Call to You | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

What's happening to people around you is not background noise. It's Allah calling your name.

Allah doesn't just send reminders. He sends wake-up calls. And there's a difference. A reminder is general. But a wake-up call is what happens when Allah puts someone else's story directly in your path and says: look closely, because this is meant for you.

The people around you who are struggling, the communities you're watching suffer, the histories you've learned. They aren't just tragedies to feel bad about and scroll past. They are Allah's direct address to you. A wake-up call with your name on it.

In this khutbah, Dr. Omar Suleiman unpacks one of the Quran's most overlooked distinctions. How Allah specifically calls you to take heed of what's happened to others, and what it means that you were put in a position to witness it. Because the question isn't whether Allah has been sending you wake-up calls.

The question is how many you've already slept through.

This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings.
We begin by praising Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, by bearing witness that none has the right to be worshipped or unconditionally obeyed except for Him. And we bear witness that Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is His final messenger.
We ask Allah to send His peace and blessings upon him, the prophets and messengers that came before him, his family and companions that served alongside him, and those that follow in his blessed path until the Day of Judgment, and we ask Allah to make us amongst them. Allahumma ameen.
Brothers and sisters, if I was to ask you what is the word for wake-up call in the Qur'an, you might say various things that come straight to mind because Allah 'azzawajal speaks of
this idea of the ayat of Allah through the stories and the verses and the lessons in the Qur'an as being meant to inject into us a sense of urgency.
And Allah uses different words to describe the nature of different wake-up calls. And I was reading in Surah Ali 'Imran and what caught my attention was the way that
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala uses almost two identical words to what are situations that
Allah 'azzawajal is telling us to wake up and to ponder deeply on either what we are perceiving or what we are seeing. On the first page of Surah Ali 'Imran, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, وَمَا يَذَّكَّرُوا
إِلَّا أُولُوا الْأَلْبَابِ And no one is able to remember properly except for أُولُوا الْأَلْبَابِ—people who have this deep sense of perception, they're people of deep remembrance.
They're people who clear their minds, and so when they hear any reminder, they immediately connect it to their own lives and they reconnect to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and the nature
of a tathkirah, the nature of something that reminds is that it's something you already know, but it reminds you of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and it brings you back to your core
over and over and over again to put you in a state of remembrance constantly. On the next page, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions, لَقَدْ كَانَ لَكُمْ That He has given to you an example, في فِئَتَيْنِ الْتَقَتَا When
two armies met one another, فِئَةٌ تُقَاتِلُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَأُخْرَى كَافِرَةٌ يَرَوْنَهُمْ مِثْلَيْهِمْ رَأْيَ الْعَيْنِ One group was fighting in the path of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and another group was
fighting and they appeared to be double in number, and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said وَاللَّهُ يُؤَيِّدُ بِنَصْرِهِ مَنْ يَشَاءُ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَعِبْرَةً لِأُولِي الْأَبْصَارِ Allah gives victory to whom He wills and
in that is عِبْرَة—a wake-up call for people who have deep insight. And so the word that's used is عِبْرَة. And I want you to think about this insha'Allah
ta'ala every time you now hear this word being used in the Qur'an, عِبْرَة—wake-up call, wake-up call, wake-up call—and how specific it actually is.
Allah 'azzawajal mentions ذِكْرَى—remembrance in the general sense—and things are meant to bring us back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. But there are things that happen in front of you, things that you can see.
If you're someone that's plugged in to what is pleasing to Allah, then anything that you hear of Allah 'azzawajal immediately puts you in the zone and causes you to go into a state of deep reflection.
But when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala points out people that you can see or nations that came to pass or different examples that are so obvious to the eye...
But if someone is blinded from their spiritual reality of their existence, they won't be able to see. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala uses this word عِبْرَة. And I was thinking about how Allah 'azzawajal says فَاعْتَبِرُوا يَا أُولِي الْأَبْصَارِ
So wake up, O people of al-basira. Al-basira is that when you look at something you see its deeper reality, right? Al-basar is your sight; basira is deeper insight.
You can look at something and you can derive more from it because you're paying deeper attention. So two people can be reading the same book, one of them can take no lesson from it whatsoever, the other one can see something.
Two people can be looking at what's happening in Gaza and walk away with completely different conclusions or completely different reflections. You could see someone who has fallen from grace, someone that is away from Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala and one person walks away mocking, the other person walks away reflecting. They're looking at the same thing. But the difference is whether or not they're from أُولِي الْأَبْصَارِ—
they're people of deeper insight—and Allah 'azzawajal connects this idea of a wake-up call to people of deeper insight. And how does Allah 'azzawajal invoke this concept of عِبْرَة in the Qur'an?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala invokes it when He talks about nations before you that were destroyed. After Allah 'azzawajal tells us in Surah al-Nazi'at about the destruction of Fir'awn,
that's a wake-up call for a person who's paying attention, for a person who's in awe of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. That Fir'awn, while he was a man in a very particular time—a tyrant
in a particular time—there are Fir'awns in every nation. And there are people that display Fir'aunic behavior in every single context.
And beware of having Fir'aunic behavior and being dealt with by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the same way Fir'awn was dealt with. Allah 'azzawajal mentions لَقَدْ كَانَ فِي قَصَصِهِمْ عِبْرَةٌ
That in the stories of the prophets that came before you, there's a عِبْرَة—there's a wake-up call, there's a wisdom, there's something you should be paying attention to. And I'll give you just one more layer to this definition insha'Allah ta'ala, then I want to bring it to our reality.
One layer of this definition is that عِبْرَة, the scholars of the Arabic language say, is when you see something that happens, and it causes you الانتِقَال مِنْ حَالٍ إِلَى حَالٍ. It causes you to move from one state to another.
It's not just مُشَاهَدَة; it is تَغَيُّر. You go from observation to transformation, to actually changing yourself. So you didn't just witness something, but you witnessed something in a way that made
you wake up to your own reality, and you said, "Wait, this is actually talking to me. Allah is not just talking about past nations, Allah is not just talking about past prophets, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is not just talking about people in the past or things that happened
in the past. Allah is talking to me about me." So it takes you from المُشَاهَدَة—you're just seeing something—to التَّغَيُّر, to transforming yourself. And that's why some of the scholars of the language, they say if you look at the word
"bridge," مَعْبَر, it comes from the same root. You go from one place to another. So these are stories not to entertain you when you're talking about the past, but also in your present reality.
And this is where I really want us to pay attention. In the people that Allah 'azzawajal puts around us, and the multiple stories that Allah puts around us.
You know, subhan'Allah, social media today is filled with the أَخْبَار of others, the news of others. So even if you are locked up in a home, even if you have no social life, you're constantly
exposed to everybody's relationship difficulties, to everybody's recent change in their lives, to entire populations that are wiped out, to victims and villains.
You're constantly exposed to other people's news. Now your algorithm will give you what it thinks you're interested in.
And there's something terrifying about that, because the things that tend to drive our reactions tend to be things that are far less significant than things that actually matter in the world.
And that's a sign of what your algorithm thinks is for you. Your algorithm thinks you have a عِبْرَة—you have a particular thing to change your behavior—and it wants to feed that behavior and give you something.
But you're constantly exposed to, "Did you hear what happened to this person? Did you hear what happened to this person?" You don't even need someone else to tell you, "Did you hear what happened to this person" anymore? You already see it. It shows up on your newsfeed constantly.
And even if you're not someone on social media, the gossip in our communities is non-stop. Did you hear what happened to this person's marriage? Did you hear what happened to this person's job? Did you hear what happened? Did you hear that this person did this and this person did that?
We're constantly exposed to other people in their lowest states, correct? You constantly see someone else and their fall. The عِبْرَة is for you, though.
When Allah 'azza wa jall shows you what's happening to other people, the عِبْرَة is for you. The wake-up call is for you. And you're supposed to be a person of بَصِيرَة—you're supposed to be a person who's deriving
insight from everything that's happening around you. Someone might say, "Well, that means like if I'm looking at someone that went astray, I'm going to be very judgmental of that person. If I'm looking at someone who got caught up in the money and they started to slowly relinquish
their deen or they sold their principles for a meager profit, then I'm going to start judging that person. Or if I'm talking about someone that stopped coming to the masjid, I'm going to start judging that person. I don't want to look too deeply at what's happening to other people." And there's a difference.
There's a difference. When you look at people that have fallen or people that have ended up in present negative
outcomes, you're looking at them not to evaluate them but to actually evaluate yourself. You're looking at them not to pass a judgment on their outcome but to study their trajectory
of how they got there and then ask yourself, "Am I following the same trajectory?" So if someone else followed this trajectory as an individual or as a family or as a community,
you know, masha'Allah, everyone talks about Valley Ranch Islamic Center, our community is this, our community is that, may Allah protect it, may Allah protect all of the communities that are out there. When you hear something that happened to another community, you could mock it or you could
study the trajectory and you could say, how do we make sure our masjid never becomes that way? When you hear something, because we're all in each other's business constantly, when you hear something that happened to someone else's family, a marriage fell apart, a parent
and a child fell apart, something happened in a household, someone else's household, you don't study it to mock it. You don't look at it and say, well, that's just terrible and, you know, I always knew something was off about this person and that person.
You look at it and you look at the trajectory and you take the 'ibra—what's something I can take from that and look at my household and make sure it doesn't become that household. What's the 'ibra that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala is giving to me?
When you look at the individual that has, at least in the present tense, seemingly gone astray or done something very harmful
or fallen into a state of oppressing someone else, you don't look at them to say that that person is less than you and that person is going to Hell and you're, you know, you're going to Heaven because you're not that person.
You look at that and you say, how did that person get there? There's a trajectory. There's something that happened. And I want to know how I can make sure it doesn't happen to me.
I don't know that person's state. And subhanallah, when it comes to how you look at other people, you don't know—as the scholars mentioned—you don't know their tawbah. You don't know whether they've repented or whether they will repent. You don't know their nihaya, you don't know their ending.
They might end up dying as the most pious of people and using what has happened as a catalyst to bring them back to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
And third, you don't even know their hal, you don't know their present state—what Allah sees in them now that you can't see in them because even the angels can't see certain things about us.
Perhaps Allah saw something in that woman of Bani Isra'il that was an adulteress to inspire her towards tawbah, to inspire her towards repentance because there was something inside of her that would click at the right moment.
So you're not looking at someone else and saying that happened to them and this person is done or this person even now is worse than me. There might be something about that person right now that makes them better in the sight of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
The 'ibra is to study the trajectory. Why are they in that behavior or in that state right now?
Allah is sending you the sign. Allah is sending me the sign. The 'ibra is for us. The lesson is for us. Some of the ulama even comment on:
"Wa la tattabi'u khutuwat al-shaitan"—do not follow the footsteps of shaitan. It doesn't just mean that the traps have been laid. It means that someone else has walked that trap before you.
So there are observable footsteps to not follow, to not end up in the same place. How did this person fall into zina? How did this person fall into infidelity? Well, there is a trajectory.
And if you are observing the same trajectory, then don't be surprised when you end up in the same outcome. How did that person become addicted to money and a slave to their wealth? "'Abd al-dirham wa 'abd al-dinar"—as it appears.
Well, there's a trajectory. Am I acting in the exact same way in my own business practices? How did that community get to this? How did that family get to this? Study trajectories and take the 'ibrah.
The fact that Allah 'Azza wa Jall gave you the eyes to see it means that He's also given you the potential to truly perceive it so that you take the lesson. And you don't fall. And so the Qur'an constantly says:
"Fa'atabiru fa'atabiru inna fi thalik al-'ibrah" Take the lesson. You don't want to be like Bani Isra'il. You don't want to be like Fir'awn. You don't want to be like 'Ad and Thamud.
You want to be like Nuh. You want to be like Musa. You want to be like these prophets. You want to be like Ashab al-Ukhdud. You want to be like Ashab al-Kahf. Constantly Allah 'Azza wa Jall is saying: Pay attention to the 'ibrah.
The Qur'an is not a book about the stories of other people. It's a book about what your story could end up looking like. Depending on how you respond to the revelation
and how you end up defining your future trajectory. Now I want to say one last thing here. You know, when Ibrahim 'alayhi al-salam taught us the du'a, or Allah 'Azza wa Jall teaches us this idea of:
"Rabbana la taj'alna fitna" O Allah, don't make us a fitna. O Allah, don't make us a trial "lil-ladhina kafaru" to those who disbelieve— there's a very specific manifestation of that.
That because of our own states, we end up being defeated by those who disbelieve and they would think that they are upon the truth because of how easily victory is coming to them. "Rabbana la taj'alna fitna"
And "Rabbana la taj'alna fitna li-l-ladhina amanu" Don't let my behavior end up leading someone else to negative behavior. Don't let my behavior end up leading someone else to negative behavior.
That means setting the trend. And when the Prophet (peace be upon him) says that every single murder goes back to Qabil and Habil, the share of the sin goes back to the original murderer
because he was "awwal man sanna al-qatl" he was the first one to set the trend. That's one way of being a fitna. Someone follows your behavior. There's a third thing here:
O Allah, don't make me the 'ibra for someone else in the negative sense. You know, subhanallah, you hear stories about people in "su' al-khatam" stories of people who had evil endings.
And we hear them in the "maw'iz" in the lessons of mashayikh and people of da'wah and people that have dealt with communities that will tell you the stories of people who had "su' al-khatam" who had evil endings. May Allah protect us.
People who wronged and people who did this and people who refused to listen to rightful guidance. O Allah, don't make me that type of 'ibra. Instead, you want to be what Ibrahim 'alayhi al-salam taught us:
"Wa ja'alna li-l-muttaqin imama" Let us instead be leaders of khayr, leaders of good. Stories of what it looks like
to grab on to the rope of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and to pull yourself up to the salvation that He has made possible for all of us if we listen. Instead, be imama, not 'ibra.
Be someone who is actually going to be a feel-good story, a success story. Now, in order for us to not become that 'ibra, we kind of need both in our lives. Subhanallah, I don't remember who said this and where I heard this,
but it was something very insightful: that imagine if all of the seminars and master classes and webinars and whatever else you want to call them— like where we study the lives of people— imagine if we had people that failed,
people whose lives were ruined, teaching those seminars. Seminars on how I failed. Master classes on everything not to do. We don't do that. We always have the success stories, and people, you know, they give you
the celebrated and decorated resume of everything that they've accomplished in life. Alright, there's some good in that. There's some good in that to study success. There's also good in studying failure
and making sure you don't pursue the same process of failure. I don't know what this person's ending will be. I don't know what this family's ending will be. I don't know what this masjid's ending will be.
I don't know what this country's ending will be. I don't know what this ummah's ending will be in the immediate sense. I don't know what it's all going to look like. But I know what it looks like right now. And I know that Allah 'Azza wa Jall is telling me something
by the way that it looks like. "Fa'atabiru"—pay attention. "Inna fi thalik al-'ibrah"—wake up. It's a call for you. The fact that Allah exposed you to it means that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala wants you to take something from it.
The last thing I'll say here, dear brothers and sisters. Just because, let's say that you're like, well, I actually am already that 'ibrah. I've already fallen. I've already been the example of this. I've already been the example of that.
How many people who became imams of good were once 'ibarah of sharr, of evil. There are so many stories throughout our Islamic history
of people that were in impossible states where this was the story that you never wanted to be. But Allah 'azza wa jall inspired them towards better versions of themselves.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala turned them into the complete opposite. And those are the best stories. You open the ayah أَلَمْ يَأْنِ لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَن تَخْشَعَ قُلُوبُهُمْ لِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ وَمَا نَزَلَ مِنَ الْحَقِّ The ayah in Surah Al-Hadid
Is it not time for those who believe to humble their hearts to the remembrance of Allah and what He has revealed of the truth? Read the stories of Abdullah ibn Mubarak رحمه الله of Malik ibn Dinar رحمه الله of Al-Fudayl ibn 'Iyyad رحمه الله تعالى
All these people who were lowly, lowly people, drunks, adulterers, in some cases even murderers, who completely turned their lives around and became the imams for us today.
Not the 'ibrah of sharr, not the example of evil, the wake-up call of evil, but instead stories of salvation because Allah 'azza wa jall has not made us irredeemable so long as we're still alive.
And that's the Rahman behind the 'ibrah. The Rahman behind the 'ibrah. He gives you these wake-up calls out of mercy so that you don't relegate yourself and shut your book and say that it's done. It's not done.
Lastly, don't assign something that happened to you outside of character, just circumstance, as Allah making you a lesson for someone else. Perhaps it's the resilience in that circumstance or that difficulty that was visited upon you.
Despite good behavior that makes you an imam for someone else بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى on how to have patience in difficult moments and how to maintain your faith and your character and your dignity.
Even when things fall apart all around you. May Allah 'azza wa jall allow us to be amongst those who heed the wake-up calls and who wake up others by heeding the wake-up calls. May Allah 'azza wa jall
make us imams in khair, people who lead in good and not make us examples or lessons in evil and punishment. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give us victory over our enemies, victory over our oppressors. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protect our ummah,
protect our communities, protect our families and protect us from the spiritual diseases that erode all good. Allahumma ameen. Aqul qawli hadha wa astaghfiru Allaha li wa lakum wa li sa'ir al-Muslimin. Fa astaghfiru innahu Al-Ghafur Ar-Rahim.
Al-Hamdu lillahi wa As-Salatu wa As-Salam 'ala Rasul Allah wa 'ala alihi wa sahbihi wa man walahu. Allahumma ighfir al-mu'minin wa al-mu'minat wa al-muslimin wa al-muslimat. Al-ahya'u minhum wa al-amwat. Innaka Sami' Qarib Mujeeb ad-du'a'. Allahumma ighfir lana wa rhamna wa 'afu 'anna wa la tu'adhhbna.
Rabbana dhalamna anfusana wa in lam taghfir lana wa tarhamna lana kunna min al-khasirin. Allahumma innaka 'afuwwun Karim wa innaka tuhibb al-'afu fa'fu 'anna. Allahumma ighfir li wa lida'ina. Rabb ir hamhuma kama rabbayani sagira. Rabbana hab lana min azwajina wa dhurriyyatina
qurrata a'yunin. Wa j'alna li al-muttaqin imama. Allahumma insur ikhwanana al-mustadh'afin fi mashariq al-ard wa magharibaha. Allahumma unsuruhum fi Filastin wa fi as-Sudan wa fi Lubnan wa fi kulli makan. Allahumma a'alika bi-a'da'ika a'da' ad-din.
Allahumma arina fi adh-dhalimin 'aja'ib qudratika. Allahumma ahlak adh-dhalimin bi adh-dhalimin. Wa akhraj ikhwanana min baynahum salimin. 'Ibad Allah, inna Allaha ya'mur bi al-'adl wa al-ihsan wa ita' dhi al-qurba wa yanha 'an al-fahsha' wa al-munkar wa al-baghi. Ya'idkum la'allakum tadhkkarun.
Fadhkuru Allah yadhkurkum wa shkuruh 'an an-ni'am yazid lakum. Wa ladhikru Allah akbar. Wa Allahu ya'lam ma tasna'un wa aqim as-salah. Ishtarakoo fi al-qanah
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