The Health of Our Hearts

The Health of Our Hearts

Shaykh Sulaiman Moola | Pearls of Faith

Opening of the Khutbah

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

All praise is due to Allah, the All-Knowing, the All-Aware, the One Who perfected the system of the world without any hinderer or helper. Glory be to Allah, whose wisdom is vast and whose knowledge is abundant, and whose blessings are continuous to all, small and large.

And we bear witness that there is no god but Allah, and that there is no partner for Him in creation or destruction. And we bear witness that our Master and Protector is Muhammad, His servant and Messenger, who guided us with an enlightening Book, and invited us to Allah by warning and glad tidings. May Allah's peace and blessings be upon him and his family and companions, as long as the planets move.

Quranic Recitation

Allah the Exalted said in the Glorious Quran and the Praiseworthy Quran. I seek refuge with Allah from the accursed Satan. In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

"Those who are arrogant with it, staying up late at night, talking nonsense." (Quran 23:67)

Allah Almighty has spoken the truth.

Introduction: The Neglect of the Soul

Respected scholars, brothers, sisters, we live in a world which is very much dominated by the concern of the wellbeing of our physical bodies. If you look at one of the industries that are ever thriving, it is the cosmetic industry.

The whole world focuses on the upliftment and the advancement of the external body and rightfully so. In fact, we've become slaves to our desires to the extent, someone said in the English language, eat your food like medication, or else you will have to eat your medication like food. And today that's not the case.

My wife is a very health-conscious person, and she's on this alternative medication, and even the kids you take this year, and natural, and probiotic, and all these extra things to vitamins to boost you, and not the conventional drugs, and the side effects, and detoxing, and the rest of it. But it's a meaningful statement, eat your food like medication, otherwise you will eat your medication like food, and that's precisely where the world is. So, there's very little or no focus on the soul.

And the actual human is the soul. The real human, because the external body is ever-changing and evolving. So many of us, if we look at our image and photo when we were kids, then you're like, ah, those days the cameras were not good, man.

No, that's you. That's you, right? Like it or not, whether you blame it, it wasn't a good image, wasn't a good camera, wasn't this pixel, didn't have that ability, but that is precisely how we look. So we are evolving in our external appearance, and this will continue.

The thing that remains with us, and will move on, and will not change is the soul. And it is the soul today that has become restless. And we are treating the external body to suppress the restlessness and the anxiety of the soul.

The Arabic Poetry: The Soul's Malady

Arabic Poetry:

English Translation of the Poetry:

I came to the doctor to show him my condition

And did the doctor know what happened to me?

I sat and he said, what is your complaint?

Describe it to me

So I said, the condition is worse than what he said

I came to you, O doctor, with certainty

That you do not have what is in my mind

I do not complain about the fever

But the fever that complains about my condition

I opened my throat for you to see it

So tell me, did I eat halal?

Do you know, O doctor, the medicine of my heart?

The medicine of the heart is greater than that

I revealed to you my chest

Do you hear in it the recitation of the Quran?

It says that there is a fever and a fever

You did not answer my question

And you put a measure on my mouth

Tell me, is the fever of faith high?

I am cured of many sins

And I am not of the common people, nor am I of the rich

So if you are the doctor

What is the cure for a sin above my head like the mountains?

We ask, what is the cure when we are ill?

And the cure of the heart is more important than the question

The Focus: Spiritual Maladies

The focus of my talk is the restlessness, the depression, the anxiety is because we've neglected the soul. So in essence, if I could capture the sentiments and give you a synopsis of the multiple stanzas that I presented before you and just walk you through it briefly and progress into my talk what I want to, although time is quite limited.

So he says, I presented myself at a surgeon and I said to him, you know, showing him my condition. The doctor said to me, what are your grievances? What are your pain? What is your agony? So I said, my condition speaks louder than what I could express myself. I haven't come to complain about the regular flu and the regular fever and the body aches. That's not what I'm here.

On the reverse, my fever is astonished at my levels of tolerance. I've opened my mouth, not for you to examine my tonsillitis or my laryngitis, but I want you to look deep down and check and examine me. Have you seen anything other than a halal morsel in my body? Have you seen anything else?

Narration from Sayyidina Ali

There's this long narration where Sayyidina Ali went to the Prophet and said, this is the chapter of Mujadala, the chapter of argument, where a woman by the name of Khawla bint Tha'laba came and she argued respectfully to the Prophet and she said, my husband, I married him, I was young, I gave birth to his kids, and when I aged, he divorced me. O Nabi of Allah, you need to create an opening for me. This is just beyond me. This is the eloquence of Quran.

I don't want to go into the details of it. In a nutshell, in the verse I recited, the hypocrites used to come to the Prophet and they would sit close up and claim proximity and nobility and piety. So Allah then restricted their attendance by saying, before coming to the Prophet, give charity.

And they were not those who could spend. So as soon as the Quran said, spend and you must come, then like, okay, you know, brother, you know there's a good friend of mine, so he sells his chocolates, so he says, I tell the people I'm selling chocolates, and they're like, oh, brother, I would have supported you, but I'm diabetic. So then I say to them, no, it's fine, you don't have to pay, it's on the house.

They say, okay, it's fine, I'll have one. It's like, what happened to your diabetes? So it looks like your pocket is diabetic. So I'm like, brother, I'm selling, oh, brother, I would have supported you, wallahi, you know, I'm diabetic, brother, and I got to monitor my sugar and my insulin and I got to take care of it.

Okay, brother, it's on the house, and it's popping one after the other. And then he says, I realized, you know what, it's not diabetic, his pocket is diabetic. May Allah make us generous by nature and generous to spend.

Hadith of Sayyidina Ali on Charity Before Meeting the Prophet

Sayyidina Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "This is a verse in the Book of Allah that no one acted upon before me, and nobody after me."

Reference: Related to Quran 58:12-13 (the verse about giving charity before private consultation with the Prophet)

Context: When Allah said that you have to attend by giving charity, the hypocrites did not come. Sayyidina Ali said this verse—no one acted upon it before me, and nobody after that had the opportunity to practice, because post me practicing upon it, the injunction was abrogated. I don't want to go into the academics, what we say, التّلَاوَةُ بَاقِيَةُ وَالْحُكْمُ مَنْسُوحٌ )the verse remains part of the Quran, but the injunction was abrogated(.

And I had a dinar in my hand, and I made it into charity and I discharged it. And I came straight to the Prophet, and then I sat and I spoke with him. And once upon a time, the ummah was aspiring to these goals.

I'm the first to practice on the ayah. I'm the first to do this, I'm the first to do that. And today I often say, people are so desperate for fame and recognition, and to have their names engraved in the books, it's like, I'm the fattest man in the world.

And he's got the longest mustache. And he's got the longest nails. And like, people don't mind being infamous to be famous. If you know what I'm saying. People don't mind to be infamous to be famous. Just so that, you know what, people know who I am. And that's how people have become desperate for fame, to be recognized, to be acknowledged. And they exhaust different options. May Allah guide us and inspire us.

Hadith: Eat Pure and Speak Truth

So I came and I sat down with the Prophet. And then I asked him a few questions. And then amongst them, I asked him, O Prophet what can I do for the salvation of my soul?

He said: "Eat that which is pure, and utter that which is true."

Main Body: Three Spiritual Maladies

So anyway, I want to focus on three maladies. I haven't started as yet. But let's hope we can get somewhere. Three maladies. We're talking about spiritual maladies. And I promise you, this is where we are grappling. And this is what we've neglected. And this is what governs the body. If these internal spiritual maladies are taken care of, everything will be in order.

Like I often say to prospective couples, the Quran speaks about three types of beauty. Generally when a bride and a groom or a boy and a girl or prospective couples, they speak about every type of beauty in going into the marriage ahead. But about the beauty which Allah identifies as beauty.

So it's a beautiful wife, it's a beautiful man, it's a beautiful house, it's a beautiful income, it's a beautiful community. Everything beautiful. But have you spoken about the beauty which Allah spoke about? And what is that?

"Pardon with beautiful pardon"

"And leave them with gracious avoidance"

English Translation:

Allah speaks about beautiful patience. Allah speaks about beautiful tolerance. And Allah also speaks about some people in life, you need to just move on with and not stagnate. And just ignore them beautifully.

References:

• Quran 15:85 - Beautiful pardon
• Quran 73:10 - Beautiful avoidance
• Quran 70:5 - Beautiful patience

Just move on.

Arabic:

Arabic Proverb:

قَالُوا قَدْ صَكَكْتَ وَقَدْ تَخُوصِمُ قُلْ إِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا فِي الْبَابِ الشَّرِّ مِفْتَاحُ الْجَوَابِ

Beneath a tree, and yet it's been barking. So silence is not a form of weakness, and barking is not a form of strength.

First Spiritual Malady: Arrogance (Mustakbirin)

Anyway, three spiritual weaknesses that I want to speak on briefly, which the Quran focuses on, and that's what I'm trying to draw my analogy on. Allah speaks about the pagan Arab, and this is the verse of the 18th Juz.

Arabic:

مُسْتَكْبِرِينَ بِهِ

English Translation:

"Being arrogant about it"

Reference: Quran 23:67

Allah says they were arrogant, and haughty, and proud about it. So in basic grammatic Arabic context, the "بِهِ" (with it) needs a referent. It needs to refer to something. But the scholars of Tafsir tell us from the context and

the background, the association and the affiliation that the Arabs had with the Ka'bah was such, that it could be referenced and understood and implied without a categoric mention. So I don't want to go into too much academic language. Suffice to say, "بِهِ" is referring to the sanctuary of the Ka'bah.

The first evil of the pagan Arab that the Quran highlights—three spiritual maladies. So my foreword, my preamble was just to outline that we need to start taking care of our spiritual body. And that's our soul.

We make so much focus on the external, and we go through extra miles. A little scar pigmentation, one dermatologist to another dermatologist. I keep on saying to my kids, and I say in my talks, back in the days, people were born with straight teeth. Not born with teeth, but what I mean, the teeth when they developed it was straight, and their speech was straight.

Now you go to the orthodontist, it will cost you an arm and a leg to get those dentures and teeth straight, and the speech still remains crooked. Right? So you'll spend an arm and a leg, if not few legs, to get that teeth straight for your son, and that same boy will throw back at you something like, Dad, you did nothing for me. And like, you know what? It's with my teeth, if you know what I mean. Where is it? And before the speech was straight, the teeth were straight. Now neither of the two is in order.

So we need to focus on the soul. So I'm saying the first weakness of the Arab that the Quran speaks about was arrogance over the service they offered to the deen. And that was their association with the Ka'bah. They were proud about this. They were haughty. They were arrogant.

Now something that Allah dislikes and despises and is deplorable and detestable and despicable to the Almighty is that when we become arrogant on any act of worship. And I promise you, the arrogance on piety is worse than the arrogance on affluence. While both is repugnant and disliked by the Almighty, but arrogance over piety is worse.

Statement of Mutarrif ibn Abdullah

Arabic:

: قَالَ مُطَرِّفُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ

لَأَنْ أَبِيتَ نَائِمًا وَأُصْبِحَ نَادِمًا أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ أَبِيتَ قَائِمًا وَأُصْبِحَ مُعْجَبًا»

English Translation:

Mutarrif ibn Abdullah used to say: "If I spend the entire night sleeping and wake up in the morning lamenting the fact that my night passed without prayer, that is more beloved to me than spending the whole night in worship and waking up in the morning arrogant and proud that I'm better than others."

Reference: Recorded in various books of Islamic spirituality and character

And we're not talking of the obligatory prayer, we're talking of the optional, the nocturnal, the tahajjud prayer, which is meritorious and has great virtue. But if by chance my night went and I slept away and I didn't engage

and I get up in the morning regretting, that's more beloved to me than spending the whole night in worship and getting up in the morning arrogant and proud that I'm better than others.

You know Imam Ghazali's words? Oh, it just gives me a shiver in my back.

Imam Ghazali's Teachings on Humility

Arabic:

: قَالَ الْإِمَامُ الْغَزَالِيُّ

«إِذَا رَأَيْتَ صَغِيرًا فَقُلْ: «هَذَا لَمْ يَعْصِ اللَّهَ وَأَنَا عَصَيْتُهُ فَلَا شَكٌّ أَنَّهُ خَيْرٌ مِنِّي

«وَإِذَا رَأَيْتَ كَبِيرًا فَقُلْ: «هَذَا عَبَدَ اللهَ قَبْلِي فَلَا شَكٌّ أَنَّهُ خَيْرٌ مِنِّي

«وَإِذَا رَأَيْتَ جَاهِلًا يَعْصِي: «هَذَا عَصَى اللَّهَ بِجَهْلٍ وَأَنَا عَصَيْتُ بِعِلْمٍ فَحُجَّةُ اللَّهِ عَلَيَّ أَكْبَرُ

«وَإِذَا رَأَيْتَ عَالِمًا فَقُلْ: «هَذَا عَلِمَ مَا لَمْ أَعْلَمْ وَبَلَغَ مَا لَمْ أَبْلُغْ فَكَيْفَ أَكُونُ مِثْلَهُ

«وَإِذَا رَأَيْتَ كَافِرًا فَقُلْ عَسَى أَنْ يُظِلَّنِي اللهُ وَأَنَا الْيَوْمَ مِنَ الْمُقَرَّبِينَ فَيَكُونُ غَدًا هُوَ مِنَ الْمُقَرَّبِينَ وَأَنَا أَكُونُ مِنَ الْبَاعِدِينَ

English Translation:

Imam Ghazali said, and to move you swiftly through the discussion, he said:

When you see a small child, then you must say to yourself: "This child has not disobeyed Allah, so this child is better than me because I have sins and this child has no sins."

And when you see a senior, you say to yourself: "This person is worshiping Allah before I was born, so how dare I assume I am superior and I have excelled him or her."

When you see an ignorant person, a foolish person, who is committing sins, you say to yourself: "This person has disobeyed Allah out of ignorance, but I have disobeyed Allah despite my knowledge, so Allah's argument against me is greater, so he is better than me."

And when you see a learned scholar, you say: "This man has committed the Quran to heart, he's committed the hadith. How can I even dare equate myself to this person, he has so much knowledge."

And when you see a disbeliever, you say: "That it is highly possible that Allah will guide him or her prior to his or her demise. It's possible that Allah can change the life of a person prior to their death and they become closer to Allah. And Allah can cause my heart to deviate before my death. And then I will be distant from Allah."

Reference: Imam al-Ghazali, Ihya Ulum al-Din (Revival of Religious Sciences)

Quranic Verses on Misguided Knowledge

Arabic:

English Translation:

"Have you seen the one who takes as his god his own desire? Allah has sent him astray despite his knowledge and has set a seal upon his hearing and his heart and put over his vision a veil."

Reference: Quran 45:23

Allah gives two examples of those who have knowledge, and yet they do not execute their knowledge, they do not walk the talk. In one place Allah equates them to a dog, in one place Allah equates them to a mule.

Arabic:

English Translation:

"The example of those who were entrusted with the Torah and then did not take it on is like that of a donkey who carries volumes of books."

Reference: Quran 62:5

I'm just passing on, my time doesn't allow.

Anecdote: The Revert and the Apostate

I was in the Caribbean on a lecture tour. Just when I wrapped up, a brother came and he said, Sheikh, I need you to meet a particular brother. I'm like, okay, let me juggle my commitments and see how we can, you know what, make this happen.

The next day I had other engagements, I couldn't. He came back, he's like, please Sheikh, you gotta meet this brother. I'm like, okay, what's so pressing about it? He breaks down, he's emotional, he tears. I said, brother, are you fine? He's like, I'm a revert to Islam. The man who brought me into the fold of Islam has left Islam.

Wow. My words. That gives me a shiver in my back. What did Imam Ghazali say? That even if you see a disbeliever, don't feel great about yourself. You don't know. We have no guarantee how life will pan out and how things will change.

So can you imagine, and just to move on from this here, one of the great scholars said, oh, this is so amazing. I'm just going to give you the translation because time is short. He said, it's mandatory to aspire to become pious. Like I always say in my lectures, aspire to inspire before you expire. Aspire to inspire before you expire.

So it's mandatory, it's obligatory, it's compulsory to try to become pious, but it's forbidden to consider yourself pious. So I've got to get on, and I've got to push myself, I've got to do something. I've got to exert myself. That's the way I've got to go. But to claim it, that's forbidden.

We move on to the next thing. Mustakbirin, that was the first spiritual malady. May Allah protect us.

Second Spiritual Malady: Wasting Time at Night (Samiran)

The second one, Samiran. Now if you linguistically dissect this word, Samir in Arabic refers to moonlit night. It was a favorite time for the Arabs to chit-chat and sit and talk and pass time. When it was a bright moonlit night, they would sit outside, and they would just gossip away and speak away. Allah said this was the second evil that was found amongst them.

And trust me, this has paralyzed our youth. The night is young, and the day has no direction. They'll spend the night hours upon hours chit-chatting, talking, killing time, and time is just going by.

Statement of Imam Shafi'i on Time

Arabic:

English Translation:

Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i said: "I accompanied the Sufis, and I did not benefit from them except with two words: Time is a sword—if you do not cut through it, it will cut through you."

(Various books on Imam Shafi'i's biography and sayings)

And then it's your nafs. Either you dictate to yourself and say, I'm going to read Quran, or your ego will dictate to you and say, you're going to peruse porn and unsavory material.

The analogy of the ego, the scholars say is like a person on the back of a horse. So when you get on the back of a horse, the animal examines the confidence levels of the rider. You'll find that the horse will move around, it will jostle, it will turn. If you show firmness, and you show authority, and you hold the reins firmly, then you ride the horse, you gallop the horse, you trot the horse, and it's an amazing animal.

Hadith on Horses

Arabic:

English Translation:

The Prophet ﷺ said: "Allah has attached goodness to the forelock of a horse."

(Sahih al-Bukhari, Hadith 2850; Sahih Muslim, Hadith 1871)

But if you show weakness, and you succumb, and you buckle under the pressure of that animal, then you're a dummy on the back of that animal. The horse rides you. You're a dummy. There are millions of people that today their ego is riding them. They are a dummy on the back of this ego.

And what can you say about the ego? Allah says, the recipe for destruction is when you subject the truth to base desires.

So the second thing briefly is, look at the words of the Prophet ﷺ: Don't get into chit-chatting. Don't get into social discussions. Because when you sleep late, you are inevitably going to compromise standing up early. And study the greats of the entire world. Religious or otherwise, they would rise early.

What do they say in English? The early morning breeze has a secret to share with you. Be sure you're up to listen to it. The early morning breeze. I'm ending shortly. I know it's the time of Maghrib. I'm wrapping up.

Anecdote: The Kruger National Park Sign

I was for a program locally. So I took a flight to the Kruger National Park. Many people know about it. It gets tourists from around the world. And you get on YouTube Kruger sightings if you're into wildlife and safari, etc.

So I was there for a program recently. I took a domestic hop. I had a lecture and I was flying back. As I was flying, my mind kind of alerts to all these things and I bring it into my talks.

So just before boarding this domestic airport, I see a sign there because it's at the National Safari Park. It's a nice sign that reads there and it got me thinking:

Every morning a gazelle gets up in Africa and it knows it has to run faster than the fastest lion or else it will be killed. Every morning a lion gets up in Africa and it knows it has to outrun the slowest gazelle or else it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle. When the sun rises, you better be running.

When the sun rises, you better be running. Samiran. The most dangerous thing in life is to do nothing. And it gets more dangerous when you have plenty of time to do nothing. And that's where we are today.

So the second evil of the pagan Arab, which was a spiritual malady, was the nights which has been dragged on. They would talk, they would gossip, they would chitchat, and they would just drag. And the Prophet ﷺ just put an end to it. No chitchatting, no social discussions, no engagements after Isha. Retire to bed early, rise early, be productive in society.

Third Spiritual Malady: Speaking Nonsense (Tahjurun)

And the last thing, and time is against us, tahjurun. One is hajara yahjuru, that means to migrate and to relocate. While hujra, what the dhamma on the ha refers to blurred things that are nonsensical, incoherent, obscured.

So when you sit and you chitchat, then inevitably what are you going to talk? It's not going to be structured, it's not going to be calculated, you're going to be talking obscene, vulgar, immoral. These are the kind of talks that you are going to utter, and you speak to the average, and you just happen to overhear the kind of vulgarity that today is being spoken about.

I was in London for a program, and then this youngster was in the car, and he was taking me, so he had his, you know, GPS on, and he had it in youth mode. So I'm like, brother, no, relax. So this is like a provocative language, it's a daring, you take a right now, and then I'm omitting, but it's vulgar all along.

And I'm like, has the world stooped so low that devices have now the option of you have a male speaking, a female speaking. You know, on a lighter side, myself and my wife were driving, and there was another brother as well, and the sat-nav, the GPS was on, and then the brother made a mistake, so the voice on the sat-nav on the GPS says, make a U-turn when possible, make a U-turn when possible.

So the brother says, there's one thing I love about this woman. So I just clinged like this, because his wife in the back and my wife in the back, bold, I love about this woman. So I said, okay, what's it? He said, when you make a mistake, she reroutes you politely.

Wow, but that was a profound message. Imagine if each one of us can help one another, listen my brother, listen my sister, you've made a mistake in life, can let's just reroute. Imagine if that's the way we work together, we reroute one another. Listen, you go on, take a U-turn when possible, take a U-turn.

Arabic:

English Translation:

"Where are you going?"

(Quran 81:26)

Your hearts would burst if you comprehend what Allah says. Where are you going without me?

Qatada says: "Abandoning the Quran, where are you going?"

So this youngster's got this provocative language in it and it's just throwing out obscene language. That's the third malady. Let us learn to speak language that is correct. Use words that are appropriate.

Hadith on the Character of the Prophet

Arabic:

(Sahih al-Bukhari, Hadith 6031; Sahih Muslim, Hadith 2321)

The Prophet's speech was polite. Never heard obscene language, never used obscene language.

Quranic Guidance: Follow Divine Revelation

Arabic:

"Say: I only follow what is revealed to me from my Lord."

In the seventh juz on the last page, Allah is addressing the Prophet ﷺ. Allah says follow the divine guidance of these people. And Allah is addressing the Prophet in what we refer to as a singular form.

Arabic:

English Translation:

"And turn away from the polytheists. Thus We have made pleasing to every community their deeds. Then to their Lord is their return, and He will inform them about what they used to do. And do not insult those they invoke other than Allah, lest they insult Allah in enmity without knowledge."

(Quran 6:106-108)

This shows the pragmatic nature of our faith. And do not slander or use foul language or be abusive to those who worship deities other than Allah. Because then they will be abusive to Allah. And then it will just be a chain reaction. So don't use vulgar. Don't use foul language. Don't slander.

The scholars of tafsir analyze something amazing. They say Allah is referring to the Prophet ﷺ and saying you don't do, you don't do. And then when it comes to:

Arabic:

Allah switches from singular to plural. And what's the reason that Allah changes the format? And they say because the prohibition of using vulgar language applies to everyone but the Prophet of Allah. He never ever used vulgar in any form, shape or size. He was never vulgar in his entire life.

Conclusion: Three Spiritual Maladies

So three spiritual maladies. Let's focus on that here.

First: Freedom from Arrogance

The first thing is may Allah free us from arrogance. Because we don't know what's accepted. See there's two things here. The scholars say it's fine to say, I have done more than you. That's not pride.

One person went for ten hajj, one went for one hajj. You say brother have you been for ten hajj? No, no, no brother. Not really. I mean there's ten stamps in your passport. You went for ten. Be honest and candid. That's fine. It's correct to say.

You've memorized ten juz, he's memorized three juz. So sister you've memorized more. No, well, I don't know. No, of course you've memorized more. That's fine. That's not arrogance.

It's fine to say I have done more. But then to claim because I've done more I am superior. That's problematic.

Because maybe Allah has accepted his three juz and rejected your ten. Maybe Allah has accepted his endeavor for hajj without performing hajj and rejected your ten hajj.

So how can I be proud when we don't know the outcome? You cannot rejoice till the results are not released. And the results will be released in akhira.

Second: Retire Early, Rise Early

And the second thing is let us retire to bed early and rise early. That's the life of a believer.

Third: Guard Your Tongue

And the third thing, let us take care of our tongues. Watch the language at home.

Guard your lips when a child is near, for children repeat the things they hear. Let no ugly tone be heard. No careless talk, no angry word. For it is a gracious sin to mar the innocent. Language, vulgar or unkind, leaves its mark upon the mind. So let your speech be wise and mild in the presence of a child.

Closing

May Allah guide us to take care of our spiritual health, purify our hearts from arrogance, use our time wisely,

and guard our tongues from vulgarity and obscenity. May Allah make us among those whose hearts are filled with faith, whose nights are spent in worship, and whose speech is always pleasing to Him.

End of Khutbah