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Vocabulary of a Narcissist | 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

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
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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

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

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Khutbahs

Vocabulary of a Narcissist | Khutbah

What words does Allah attribute to narcissists in the Quran? What traits do those words uncover, and what do those narcissists have in common?

In this khutbah, Dr. Omar Suleiman shares a powerful reflection from Ibn Al Qayyim (RA) on avoiding these terms and the tyranny they represent.

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We begin by praising Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and 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. Allahuma ameen.
Dear brothers and sisters, typically when you speak about negative traits that are found in the Qur'an about the tyrants of the past and in general when you speak about negative traits today,
you're often talking about how to deal with someone else who has those traits. And so many times if you were to go into Google, for example, and search a negative trait, it's going to be how to deal with someone who has this trait.
Rather than how to deal with yourself potentially developing this trait. And of course the Qur'an in its very nature calls upon us to be very, very introspective. When you read even the story of Fir'aun,
instead of thinking about the pharaohs of the world as they exist today, you actually ask yourself, do I have some of the traits of Fir'aun? It's very hard for a person to actually have that conversation with themselves, but that's actually what tadabur is.
That's what reflection on the Qur'an is, that you find everything. Whether Allah is talking about Bani Israel or Fir'aun, or if Allah is talking about the devil himself, are there traits that are developing within me? Are there signs of that trait?
Why do I need to be that introspective? Because the Qur'an recognizes that sometimes you can have a proportion of something without it being the whole thing. And it's better for you to undercut it early on so that it does not become to your detriment,
not in this life and more importantly not in the hereafter. If I have an arrogance problem, even if it's a small problem, but I'm starting to become more arrogant, more entitled, my tongue is starting to get a little bit looser.
I might not be a liar or a backbiter or a tyrant, but there is enough there that let me try to undercut that early on before anybody else even notices it. Before someone else comes up to me and says, you know, I think you're starting to have this problem,
as a Muslim who wants to have the most favorable position with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, you want to identify those traits in proportion and be deeply interrogating of yourself. Not to a point that you shut yourself off,
but to a point that you take necessary corrective measures. That's taskiyatun nafs. Why this whole introduction? The topic of narcissism is a very interesting one.
Because as an imam, most of the time when someone asks me about the topic of narcissism, I can't recall a single time, and this is very anecdotal, but I can't recall someone coming up to me and saying, I think I might be a narcissist.
Or I think I'm starting to develop narcissism. I can recall multiple times over the years, in fact, rarely a week goes by when someone says, I think my spouse is a narcissist.
I think my parents are narcissists. I think my children are narcissists. And sometimes, they're at least surface level, they're right. But very few people will actually say, you know what,
I think I might have a problem here that I need to actually work on. And subhanAllah, Imam al-Ghazali says very beautifully, if you learn to diagnose the spiritual ills within yourself,
if you become hyper vigilant with diagnosing spiritual flaws and diseases within yourself, then you'll also necessarily become better at identifying them in others.
But you would have been so humbled by the process of constantly holding yourself to those spiritual ills, that you won't write people off when you start to identify them in others. Narcissism. Go to Google right now.
Well, not now in the khutbah. If you go, how to deal with narcissism, it's going to be about someone else. As believers, we want to make sure we don't have qualities that will ultimately ruin us in the hereafter.
And so I want you for this khutbah to be introspective for a bit. Now, narcissism in the technical definition is a condition in which a people have an inflated sense of their own importance,
a deep need for excessive attention and admiration, troubled relationships, and a lack of empathy for others. That's the textbook definition. What does this have to do with the khutbah?
Because this is not a psychiatry session. This is a tazkiyah reminder. Ibn al-Qayyim, rahimahullah, has this powerful reflection about the words that a narcissist is likely to start to utter,
in which they have to interrogate themselves. Qala rahimahullah ta'ala, wal yahzhar kullal hadhru min tughyani ana walee wa'indi.
He said a person should be extremely careful if they find themselves starting to utter, ana walee wa'indi, three words, he said if you start to utter them.
And the problem is that sometimes they don't have an exact equivalent language-wise. It's actually not a, you know, these are not words that necessarily translate well into English.
But basically if you start saying me, myself, I, I, me, you know, to me, belongs to me, this is for me, I did, I did this, I did that.
If you start using I and me and my too frequently, then you need to be very, very careful. Ana is very clearly I. Lee and indi, both of them would mean to me, to me.
So basically I, myself, me. He said be careful if you start to find yourself using these letters and these words too frequently.
I, myself, me, and he says, fa inna hadhi al-alfad al-thalatha, obtulia biha iblees wa fir'oon wa qaaroon. He said these three words were used by three.
The devil, iblees, fir'oon, the greatest tyrant of all time, and qaaroon, who was a very proud king, also a tyrant. Both of them, of course, in the time of Musa alayhi salam.
He said these three words, ana, wa lee, wa indi, I, myself, me, were the words, were the vocabulary of these three individuals.
He says, as for iblees, qaala ana khayroon minhoo. Iblees said, I am better than him. I am better than him.
And he said, as for fir'oon, he said, wa lee mulku misr. I possess the entire kingdom of Egypt. Wa lee, to me, belongs the entire kingdom of Egypt.
And as for qaaroon, he said, innama ootituhu ala ilmin indi. He said, I earned all of this because of knowledge that I have. I got this.
It was me. It was my intelligence that got me to this place that you see me. So, of course, I'm going to boast because I'm the one that made this happen. So he said, these three words are very dangerous.
And he said, if a person starts to find themselves saying these words frequently in their life, then they need to go back and they need to examine if behind the vocabulary are some of the traits of these individuals.
Now, let's break this down a bit, insha'Allah ta'ala, and the differences and the nuances and the subtleties in brief. Iblees, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, qaala ya iblees, maa manaka an tasjud limaa khalaqtuhu biyaday.
O Iblees, what stopped you from prostrating to what I created with my own two hands? What stopped you, O Iblees? And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, astakbarta am kunta minal aleem.
This is very powerful. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is helping him to actually think a bit. What made you have this reaction that you just had? You have a moment here where you could repent, where you could think for a moment, take a step back and say,
you know, this was really bad. Why didn't I obey the command of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? Astakbarta am kunta minal aleem. There's rich tafsir here, but I'll just give a brief summary here to what some of the scholars have said.
Astakbarta, was it like a moment of pride? Did you just become prideful? Did you just have like a, you know, visceral reaction, something? Sometimes we make a mistake in the beginning, right?
There's an initial reaction, and it's not necessarily indicative of something that's been there for a long time. Am kunta minal aleem. Some of the scholars say, have you always been this way? Has there always been an arrogance inside of you, a pride inside of you,
you know, a sense of entitlement inside of you, and now it's just finally coming to light. Now you got put to the test and it came to light. Subhanallah. Iblis could have said, astaghfirullah wa atubu ilayh. I seek your forgiveness, oh Allah. It was a moment.
Maybe there's something I need to work on. I will go back. I will accept whatever the consequences are, and I'll work on this within myself. Instead, he completely deflects.
Subhanallah, when you read about narcissism, and I went down that rabbit hole, deflection is the first reaction of every narcissist. They always deflect. Why? Because deflection is the opposite of responsibility.
A narcissist never takes ownership. They never actually own up. They never take responsibility. They immediately deflect. Deflection is the defense mechanism. So that's when he says, ana khayru min, I'm actually better than him.
khalaqtani min naar wa khalaqtahu min teen. I'm better than him. You made me from fire and you made him from dirt. That's the deflection. It has nothing to do with the way Allah created him. Allah could have made him from gold. Allah could have made him from bronze or silver.
Allah could have made him from grapes and leaves. Your problem is that he's taking a position you feel like belongs to you. Right? It's a new flavor of pride.
But at the end of the day, Iblis, think about what's wrong with you for a moment and why you reacted that way. You didn't sit there and think Allah preferred me, inna Allaha istafaani ala alam al-jinn. That Allah preferred me to all of the jinn.
I have a position that no jinn has ever had. I'm with the angels. What business do I have here? Instead you went to, why is he in my spot? Why is he getting all this respect? I'm better than him. He deflected.
He didn't even try to answer the question from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala if it was kibir or if it was aloo, if it was a sense of pride and arrogance that he wasn't rectifying an entitlement. Because that's a spiritual disease.
So Ibn al-Qayyim rahimahullah ta'ala says, when you start to say I, I, and you start to see someone as inherently less than you, for whatever the reason is, take a step back.
Because the bad behavior towards them is often an indication of the way that you see them. And you wouldn't see them as lower if you didn't see yourself as higher. That's why when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says mockery,
la yaskhar qawmun min qawm, asaa an yakoonu khayran minhum. Don't mock people because they might be better than you. You mock someone because you think that they've inherently fallen in value
or that you have a greater value than them. So you start to mock them. They might actually be better than you. So take a step back and don't say ana frequently, I. You know, ditch the I statement.
A'oozu billah min kalimat ana. I don't want to say ana, ana, ana, ana. And Ibn al-Qayyim rahimahullah ta'ala said, instead replace it with ana al-abdul muznib, ana al-abdul muqtid, ana al-abdul mustaghfir. I am the one who sins. I am the one who seeks forgiveness.
I am the one in need of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. But take away I if it's coming in the capacity of reflecting some sort of, you know, superiority in your mind. Then he looks at Fir'aun.
Fir'aun is an interesting tyrant because almost every tyrant in history, you know, at least at that scale, follows somewhat of the mold of Fir'aun. Fir'aun would gather his people randomly to declare his superiority.
Let me stop the workday to just tell people how awesome I am. Okay, one of the things, when Fir'aun called out to his people, qal ya qawm, he said, oh my people, alaysa li mulku masr?
Don't I have the kingdom of Egypt? wa hadhihi al-anhar tajri min tahdi? You see these rivers flowing beneath my feet? afala tubusirun? Can't you see? Don't you all see what I have?
How great I am? How amazing this all is? am ana khayrun min hadha allathi huwa muheen? wala yakadu yubeen? SubhanAllah, he says, don't you think I'm better than this nobody?
He's talking about Musa alayhi salam. wala yakadu yubeen means, look, he can't even talk properly. The guy can't even express himself. You know, are you really going to listen to him and compare me to him?
When I have all of these things, look at what I possess and look at what he possesses. He's a nobody and I am somebody. Why? Because I have mulku masr. Look at all that I own and look at the rivers flowing beneath me. That guy can't even talk.
He can't even explain himself. He stutters. He looks like this. He looks like that. He's mocking Musa alayhi salam. And subhanAllah, you know, as Ibn al-Jawzi rahim Allah says in one of his tangents,
he says, Firaun was looking with pride at the anhar, the rivers beneath his feet,
not realizing that one day Allah would drown him under an immediately initiated, right, sea on top of him. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would drown him. And he was looking and said, look at these rivers beneath my feet.
And so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala put the water on top of him and drowned him in it. He said, look at me. I have, therefore I am better. So he took his sense of pride in what? In what he possessed.
And then he says about Qarun, Innama oteetuhu ala ilmin indi. I have been granted all of this because of the knowledge that I have, because of my intelligence.
What's the difference between the two? If you look at the words of Qarun and you look at the words of Firaun, Qarun took more pride in the process than the possession.
Firaun took more pride in the possession than the process. I'm going to explain this again. Qarun took more pride in the process than the possession. Firaun took more pride in the possession than the process.
What do I mean by that? Qarun is like, I've worked to get here. I did this. I earned this. Sometimes that sense of entitlement comes from the process, right? Especially someone who comes from a tough upbringing and then Allah blesses them.
Allah bestows his fadl upon them and they get out of a tough, a tough setting. Your parents come from a country. You come from a country. You know, your parents come from a neighborhood. You come from a neighborhood. There are certain means and now you have those means.
And you can start to fool yourself into thinking that you did something right and they did something wrong. It happens all the time. So Qarun's arrogance, his self-importance here comes from what?
I earned this. Dear brother or sister, when you see people under floods in Pakistan or Afghanistan or Bangladesh or bombs in Yemen and Palestine
or people that are struggling to make ends meet a few miles away from you, don't you dare think for a moment you're here because you deserve it and they're there because they deserve it.
Don't you dare think for a moment. It could have easily been that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala switched you out. But a person could start to think what? Come on, I went to school. I earned. I worked this much. I did this much.
All of that was just a test of Allah upon you. All of it. Allah is testing them differently than he's testing you. But it's at the end of the day, it's a test. It's a test. You didn't get there because of your own courage, your own intelligence.
And even if Allah gave you some quality of intelligence and some quality of courage and a work ethic, that's Allah's gift upon you. You didn't earn that yourself. So Ibn al-Qayyim rahimullah is saying take a step back.
And if you start to find yourself inflating your self-importance either because of the way that you're made or because of what you have or because of how you think you got there, take your step back.
Humble yourself to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Say alhamdulillah. I am nothing without Allah. Literally don't exist without Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And every other person who's sharing in this human test and enterprise with me,
whether they're close family or they're someone else, is another abdu of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that has rights upon me for which Allah will ask me.
Take a step back and deflate the self-importance and ask yourself, why do I use these words? Why is it always I, me? When you get into an argument, you immediately go to your rights, what the other person owes you and how you got there and this and this and this and that.
Take a step back. What am I not seeing about the other person? And when it comes to the narcissist, every other person becomes a tool or a threat in their constant battle.
And so every person and relationship is disposable. What do I mean by that? The narcissist and their inflated sense of importance really loses a sense of empathy and care for anyone else
because at the end of the day, your story is the only story that exists in your mind. And anyone who's in your story is either a tool or a threat. You know, I said this before. I'm not Firaun's therapist.
I don't know if Firaun really enjoyed killing kids or if he really enjoyed killing his wife, the way that he killed his wife. Some people get sick and they do that type of stuff.
Or Firaun just saw people as tools or threats. This is my story. I am here. I belong on this throne. Therefore, everybody, everybody is either a tool or a threat.
And so you're all disposable at the end of the day. That's why a person of nafs, of ego, we talk about Abdullah ibn Ubaid bin Sarul, the chief hypocrite in Medina, is willing to burn down the entire city of Medina. Why? Because I'm supposed to be the king.
This is my city. Right? Now, obviously, it's hard for us to think about, you know, ourselves as Firaun and Abdullah ibn Ubaid bin Sarul. But to at least think, you know, when things, when I see people, am I only thinking about my story
or do other people have stories too around me? Perhaps I can be a beneficial part to their story. Perhaps it's not just me that's owed something, but maybe I owe other people too for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Deflate your sense of importance. Bring it down and think through the other person's lens as well. Not just your own. Every single time. Even if you're not a pharaoh. Don't go home and say that I learned that I'm Firaun today. Don't, you know, or I'm Iblis.
No, no, no. These qualities are replaced by the qualities of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasalam. And in the story of Firaun, the quality of Musa alayhi wasalam, the quality of these prophets that were facing these types of things.
The last thing, dear brothers and sisters, what's the difference between us as Muslims when we look at this through the lens of Islam versus, you know, you could have just googled how to not be a narcissist.
The difference is that every single relationship that we have in this world, we see it through our relationship with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Every single existence that exists in parallel with us,
we see it through our ultimate existence as a slave of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And so what that means is three things.
Allah created me, therefore my value is only three. To the extent that He sees me. Allah created me. It doesn't matter what I look like, what I physically possess.
Allah created me, therefore my value is only to the extent that He sees me. How Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sees me. That's number one. Number two, Allah gave me what I possess.
Therefore, those possessions are only blessings to the extent of how I attribute them to Him or use them in ways that are pleasing to Him. Otherwise, my possessions are a curse. Allah gave them to me.
Allah is the source of all those possessions. Number three, I am only a steward of what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala commissioned me to. I don't own anything, even myself.
Again, I steward what Allah commissioned me to. I don't own anything, even my own self. I don't own my body. I don't own my house. I don't own anybody or anything. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has given me responsibilities.
And that's how I see myself to that world around me. And that will make you both grateful and graceful. Grateful to Allah and graceful with the people when you're able to deflate that
and humble yourself constantly attributing it back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and being Allah-centered instead of self-centered. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to protect us from thinking too highly of ourselves and forgetting where we are with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
We ask Allah to humble us, not that we start to hate ourselves, but that we start to use ourselves and beautify ourselves to be most pleasing to Him. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make us the best of His ibad, the best of His servants,
and to make us the best of His khulafa, the best of those who He has entrusted with whatever it is He has entrusted them with. اللهم اغفر المؤمنين والمؤمنات والمسلمين والمسلمات الأحياء منهم والأمات
أقول قولي هذا واستغفر الله لذاكم ورسالة المسلمين فاستغفروه إنه الغفور الرحيم
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