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To Truly be Free | Khutbah
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
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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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To Truly be Free | Khutbah

How do we attain freedom from our desires? A moving story of Ibn Taymiyyah (ra) in prison highlighting the liberation of the self in servitude to Allah.

This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings.
Promise of freedom is a promise that is often sold to actually enslave you to something
else that will make you dependent upon something that allows you to be manipulated, exploited, and abused. And it's a promise that many political leaders have tried to sell. It's a promise
that social movements sell, this idea of freedom. And subhanAllah, it's not all without merit, this idea of what it means to be free. However, the Islamic conception of what it means to
be free is not to be free in a way that you live out your most animalistic desires and do that to the detriment of yourself, in the process corrupt your spiritual being, in the
process corrupt your emotional well-being, in the process leads to the deterioration of both the individual and the society, but it's something so much more. And I want to
go to that early promise of Islam and then break it out into something else. It's a famous narration that I'll start with, one that's actually known to many people. The narration
of Rabi'i Ibn Amir radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, when he walks into the palace of Rustum in Persia, Rabi'i Ibn Amir being a person who came from very humble circumstances, who did
not have the wealth of this world, who did not have the power and name and stature of this world. And when he walks into the most pompous palace in the world at the time, belonging
to a pompous leader, he's riding a donkey. He's not wearing the best of clothes. He's not as presentable as even the guards in the palace from a physical perspective. And when
he walks in dragging his spear down the red carpet and doing so with full confidence and
unfazed, Rustum looks at him and says to him, what is it with you people? Who are you? Who are you desert folk that we had abandoned and that we didn't think much of and now you're
walking with such pride? What is that? And he said, InnaAllaha bta'atanaa li nukhrijal ibad min ibadatil ibad ila ibadati rabbil ibad. First and foremost, Allah has sent us
to take people from being enslaved to other slaves, to being enslaved to the Lord of all slaves, Allah subhana wa ta'ala. Waman liq al dunya ila sa'at al dunya wal akhirah, from
the constriction of this world to the expansion of this life and the hereafter. Waman jawr al adhyan ila abd al islam and from the injustice of all other systems to the justice of Islam.
When he's saying that, he recognizes that he's not just making a statement in front of Rustum, but that all these guards, all of these people that are serving in the palace
that have been put down and enslaved and treated in certain ways and told that their ceiling
is a certain height. All of them are listening to this and they're seeing this man and they might think to themselves, what is this deen that is provoking that type of confidence
in a person? We've never seen that before. What is it that he has inside of him? Because whatever he has inside of him, I want that too. I want to at least understand what it
is. You can imagine when Bilal radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu was dragged out and tortured and there were others that were tortured as well in certain fashion. Sumayya radiyaAllahu ta'ala
anhu of course, well known, Khabab radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, Abu Fukaiha, others that were tortured in these fashions. And the people that were watching this, thinking to themselves,
what is it about these men? What is it about these women that causes them to insist on
a certain way? And why is it that they seem unfazed by the harm? Remember when Fir'aun
took out his own wife Asiya radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu and tortured her? Because Fir'aun worships his own self, his own power. And when his wife dare challenge that, he wants to make an example out of his own wife. SubhanAllah after all these years of being together, he's
bringing these strange men to humiliate his wife in public. Fadahika. And she's laughing during the torture and Fir'aun is saying, look at this mad woman, majnoona. She must
be crazy. She's not crazy. She's a mu'mina. She's a believer. And Allah showed her certain things with her eyes. And before he showed her certain things with her eyes, he put certain
things in her heart to where she was untorturable in the true sense, uncaptured. You cannot capture a person like that. You cannot torture a person like that. You cannot own a person
like that. And that frustrates oppressors who depend upon certain devices of power to try to break you. And there's no greater example than the Prophet ﷺ himself. All of the breaking
or the attempted breaking of the companions around the Prophet ﷺ was really to get to him. They wanted him to hear the children crying at night out of hunger and out of thirst during the boycott of bin al-Hashim bin al-Mutalib so that it could be said to him, they know
the empathy of the Prophet ﷺ. This is because of you. Your uncle who took care of you, Abu Talib dying in the fashion that he died. This is because of you. So may Allah and her family
as you walk by them and the only thing you can say is sabran ya al-Yasir. Be patient O family of Yasir. You have an appointment with Allah in Jannah. Your place is Jannah, is paradise. They wanted to tell the Prophet ﷺ this is because of you. So they tried
to break him through that. They tried to emotionally manipulate him. They tried to break him by calling into question his loyalty to his people. They tried to break him with riches then.
That didn't work out. So they tried the negotiation tactics, right? After you break someone down, then bring them not just a restoration package, bring them the sweetest package that they
could ever think of. You want the riches of Mecca? You want the women of Mecca? You want the keys to the Kaaba? All of it. That's fine. We'll give it to you. وَدُّوا لَوْ تُدْهِنُوا فَيُدْهِنُوا
And they're like if only you would compromise, we would happily compromise. Give us something so that we can say we won. We got something out of you, right? But the Prophet ﷺ was
unconquerable because he was the greatest abid of all times as well. The greatest worshipper of Allah ﷻ. He understood the nature of that relationship with Allah ﷻ. So you couldn't
break him ﷺ. You couldn't buy him either ﷺ. You could neither break nor buy a man who has that type of connection to Allah ﷻ. Now where do I bring this all back to for
us? Sometimes it's the examples that inspire in a people the resilience that they themselves don't even really know that they have. And you look at the famous story of Imam bin Taymiyyah
ﷺ when he was being thrown into the prison and being threatened with all of these different types of things and he doesn't seem to be bothered by this. And he says, what are they
going to do to me? My paradise is in my heart. You can't access my jannah. So what are they going to do to me? You kill me? You make me a martyr. You send me to Allah ﷻ. I'm okay
with that. If you imprison me, it's seclusion with Allah ﷻ. I still get to be with my
Lord. You can't seclude me from my Lord. You can't take him away from me. And if you deport me, then I'll just contemplate the signs of Allah ﷻ. I'll still be connected to my Lord.
Do what you want to me. Paradise is here in my heart. We read that and we think, wow, what was he really saying here? He was saying that you can't use worldly devices of power
to disconnect me from one who is not subjected to your limitations. You're not going to be able to disconnect me from him because he's not subjected to your power and therefore
I'm free. I'm free. I'm a free man. Do what you want to me. Kill me in any way that you want. Harass me in any way that you want. But I'm free because I have Allah ﷻ who
is free from all of your limitations. SubhanAllah. Free from imperfections, free from your limitations. So I'm free because I'm connected to him. You know it's really interesting. I was reading
in Al-Wabil As-Sayyib, Imam Al-Qayyim, who's a student of Ibn Taymiyyah. He says something really interesting because this is where you take inspiration from people. He says that
كُنَّ إِذَا ضَاقَتْ بِنَ الدُّنْيَا When we used to feel like the world was
getting tough, life was getting really hard, he said that we used to go, ذهبنا لزيارته فى السجن. We used to go visit Ibn Taymiyyah in prison. Just think about this for a moment.
When we felt like things were getting tough on us outside of prison, we would go visit him in prison in Damascus. Because when we saw him in Damascus, may Allah ﷻ liberate
and make easy the affairs of the people of the Sham. Allahumma ameen. When we saw him in prison, our hearts were expanded, our chests were expanded. Like everything that we were going through on the outside, we went and we saw him in prison. And suddenly we felt
like we were the ones in prison and he was the one that was free. He's the free man. We're the ones that feel like we're in prison. And then he said these words, he says وَكَانَ
يَقُولُ الْمَسْجُونَ مَنْ سَجَنَهُ هَوَاهُ وَالْمَأْسُورَ مَنْ أُسِرَ عَن مَوْلَهُ Beautiful words. Beautiful words. He said the prisoner
is the one who is in prison by his desires. And the captive is the one who is taken captive
from his Lord. By what? By disobedience to his Lord. The true prisoner is the one who is a prisoner either to his desires or to his disobedience of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
If a person breaks himself free from those shackles of shahwa, of desire, disobedience to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, they're free. They're free. You can't conquer a person like
that. You can't capture a person like that. We're coming up on Monday on the 57th anniversary of the assassination of Al-Hajj Malik al-Shabazz Malcolm X rahimahullah ta'ala. May Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala grant him shahada. Allahumma ameen. It drove people crazy how fearless he was. It drove people crazy how fearless Muhammad Ali was. You threaten him with his
career, it doesn't work. Threaten him with prison, it's not working. It frustrates oppressors when they can't conquer you. And sometimes, like Ibn al-Qayyim rahimahullah saying, you
know, sometimes we need to go see Ibn Taymiyyah to refresh that concept in ourselves, to remind ourselves what true freedom really looks like, seeing a man in prison who seems completely
unconquered, unfazed. And yes, there are tough times. Sometimes we also need to look at the brothers and sisters around the world that continue to inspire that within us. Watching
the images of that sister Muska and Khan in India. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala liberate our brothers and sisters living under the fascism of the regime in India, walking with
her hijab through these mobs saying Allahu Akbar with her fist up. Of course, that's not popular to the American freedom movement, and so it didn't make the rounds here, except
in the Muslim community. But putting that fist of power up, but the power was not that, the power was not in her fist, it was in her voice, Allahu Akbar. I'm not afraid of you.
What are you going to do? What are you going to do to me? You watch that and you could say share, retweet, forward. But like take a moment and put yourself in that situation
and be like, do I have that inside of me too? If I was placed in the same situation, do I have that freedom inside of me? That certainty inside of me? Abdullah ibn Abbas radiAllahu
ta'ala anhuma, he says that leadership is given in the Quran when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala talks about the imma of Bani Israel, the righteous ones from Bani Israel, the righteous
leaders. He says it was given to them, lamma sabaru wa kanu bi-ayatina yuqinoon. They're described with two qualities. They had an exemplary patience and they had certainty
in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Those two things can't be disconnected from each other because the patience translated itself into courage and resilience and that came out of their
yaqeen, their certainty in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The certainty generated the courage. And so was this young woman passing through thinking this is a chance to go viral on social
media? Or was it a natural reaction, Allahu Akbar, what are you going to do to me? The
same way we see the ahrar, the free people of Gaza, living under that barricade. But they're free. You can't conquer people like that. You can't conquer people that will go
to Masjid al-Aqsa despite all of the tactics of terror at the hands of the occupation. You can't conquer people like that. Where is that in us? And what I'm saying here to
start is don't just look at those people. Do what Ibn al-Qayyim said we were doing when we'd go and we'd look at Ibn Taymiyyah. Renew that inside of yourself. Say you know what, I need to find that inside of myself. And you know what's very beautiful is that Imam
bin Taymiyyah rahim Allah ta'ala as he answered that question to his students and said, المسجون من سجنه هواهو والمأسور من أسر عن مولاه That the one who's truly in prison is the one who's imprisoned by his desires. Ibn Taymiyyah
was saying look this is not some sort of like macho strength that you're seeing that I garnered by watching a motivational video on YouTube or something like that. This comes from what?
This comes from what? Break free of your desires. What does it mean to break free of your desires? It means to not be imprisoned by them. If you look at the world today, where do people run from a shahwa when the shahwa goes wrong? They run to the next shahwa. They run to the
next desire. Bad relationship? Let me go to another relationship really really really quickly. Life is getting tough? Let me jump into this drug. So I'll go from enslaving
myself to this to enslaving myself to a drug. This master, that drug, this master is no longer giving me what I need. Let me go enslave myself to another one and another one and
keep on enslaving myself to this and this and that. Bird to bird picks a person up. It's like a person in the air getting picked up from bird to bird and the wind taking him
to far away places and he doesn't know where he is anymore. And so what's the solution? Just like when we talk about wealth, that az-zuhd, lay says zuhd, al la tamliku shayya
kama qala Ali radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, zuhd, asceticism is not that you own nothing. It is al la yamliku kashayya. It's that nothing owns you. So if the wealth is in your hand
and not in your heart, a person could have a million dollars, a person could have ten million dollars and be a zahid and be an ascetic and another person could have ten thousand
dollars and be a complete slave to their wealth. Just like we talk about sadaqa, charity, charity is not about the quantity of charity, it's about the quality of that charity. The same thing is true when we talk about zuhd, asceticism. Suleiman alayhi salam was a zahid. He was
an ascetic despite having a kingdom that was unrivaled in this world because the kingdom never detracted from the glorification of Allah subhana wa ta'ala in his heart. It never
got in there. It stayed here. As long as it stays here, you're okay. The same thing is true with our shahawat, with our desires. Allah did not create us to be a form of creation
without desire. We have desires and Allah did not give us a deen, a religion that is unreasonable with those desires. We have permissible outlets for our desires. We don't have a
difficult religion. We have a religion that requires sacrifice. We have a religion that requires commitment. We have a religion with rules and restrictions. We have a religion
that gives us discipline through the Quran and the sunnah in every way in our lives. But it's not a hard religion in the sense that it's not haraj. It is not overbearing.
La yukallifu allahu nafsan illa was'aha. Allah is not burdening us beyond our scope. It's there. We have the capacity. Sometimes you don't understand the true nature of your capacity until you stretch it a bit. But it's there. It's there. And so just like when you talk
about wealth not owning you, you talk about no desire owning you. No desire owning you. No disobedience owning you. You can't be owned by a sin. And sometimes you have to ask yourself,
do I really want to be doing this for the rest of my life? Do I really want this to be my source of happiness? Do I really want this to be the relief that I run back to every single time something goes wrong in life? Whatever that drug is for you, drug in the
broader sense, whatever it is for you. Am I really going to continue to allow my apprehension,
my fear to lead me to a place of unprincipled life? Or am I going to let my fear of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala cause me to have no fear of any human being whatsoever? You see, that's the ingredient for the believer of how they break free from fear. It's not that they fear
nothing, it's that they fear Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. They fear Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala more than they fear the creation. So they're free in their ibadah to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. And in the process of that, Allah azawajal opens up this dunya for them. From the constriction of this world. Because when you run from thing to thing to try to free
you and empower you, it's just going to keep on messing you up and it's going to keep on frustrating you and suffocating you. And so you escape that. To the expansion of this
life and the next. You live with Jannah in your heart. You live with Jannah in your heart. No one can buy you, no one can break you. We need that these days, dear brothers and sisters as individuals and as communities. Yes, we look at our brothers and sisters in
India right now and many other places in the world. It's so sad subhanAllah that sometimes I feel guilty if you mention a few places. I can't start with the various places in the
world. But you look at those brothers and sisters, you look at those people and the resilience that they're showing and some of us might feel sorry for them. We look at them and we say, ahl al-ghazal, Allah ya'een hum. And truly may Allah make it easy for them.
That sister, the young sister being harassed, may Allah make it easy for her. But if we as an American Muslim community or wherever we are, sacrifice our deen for the sake of
safety in our dunya, then we're the losers. They should feel sorry for us. They should
feel sorry for us. Can't be bought, can't be broken.
That's the key to freedom. And that freedom is freeing yourself from desire and freeing yourself from disobedience to the one who is not limited, to the one who is not conquered by anyone, to the one who rewards without measure, to the one who enforces eternal justice, to the one in whose mercy we depend.
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala al-jabbar. May Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to be connected to him and allow us to break free of our flesh, free of our lusts, free of our disobedience, free of the worldly promises that only lead to more delusion and disappointment.
And may Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala place that Jannah of certainty in our hearts and may Allah allow us to arrive at the Jannah that he has promised us in the companionship of our beloved Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And may Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala liberate our brothers and sisters from the worldly oppression and liberate ourselves from worldly delusion.
May Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to be truly his ibad and amongst those that are pleasing servants to him. Allahuma ameen.
Allahuma thur al-mu'minina wal-mu'minat, wal-muslimina wal-muslimat, al-ahya'i minhum wal-amwat. Innaka sami'un qareebun mujibu da'wat. Allahuma thur lana warhamna wa'afu anna wa la tu'adhibna. Rabbana zalamna anfusana wa in lam takfir lana watarhamna. Lanakuna minal khasireen. Allahuma innaka afuun kareemun tuhibbu al-afwa fa'afu anna.
Allahuma thur liwalideena rabbir hamwama kama rabbuna sigara. Rabbana hablana min ajwajina wa dhriyatina qurra ta'ayun. Wa ja'alna lilmutaqina imama. Allahumma nsar ikhwanan wa sta'raafina fee masharika al-ardhu magharibiha. Allahuma ahlikil dhalimeena bildhalimeen wa akhrijna wa ikhwanan min baynihim salimeen.
Ibadallah.