الخطبة الأولى (The First Khutbah) By Ibrahim Aweda Abdulrahmon As-salamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh. الحمد لله رب العالمين، والصلاة والسلام على أشرف الأنبياء المرسلين، نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين. أما بعد: My dear brothers and sisters, look around you today at the global marketplace of ideas. We live in a world where humanity is constantly trying to reinvent the wheel of morality. Every generation, every culture, and every new wave of political thinkers tries to write their own version of ultimate truth. We see laws changing every few years based on the shifting emotions of society. What was considered completely unacceptable yesterday is celebrated today, and what is praised today will likely be thrown into the garbage bin of history tomorrow. We are wandering through an endless maze of human opinions, chasing systems created by weak minds that fail us time and time again. The tragedy of the modern era is that we have become infatuated with human intellect while t...

  الخطبة الأولى (The First Khutbah) By Ibrahim Aweda Abdulrahmon As-salamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh. الحمد لله رب العالمين، والصلاة والسلام على أشرف الأنبياء المرسلين، نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين. أما بعد: My dear brothers and sisters, let us stand face-to-face today and examine an unsettling flaw that corrupts the interactions of our modern global Ummah. We live in a world that has completely commercialized the concept of righteousness. We treat faith as if it were a checklist of external performances. We measure a person’s status with Allah by how long their beard is, how perfectly they wrap their hijab, how many times they have traveled for Umrah, or how eloquently they can debate religious history on social media platforms. We have become masters at dressing up our bodies for the gaze of people, but we are completely blind to the rot settling deep within our character. The tragedy of our time is that we have separated ritual worship from everyday moral executio...

  الخطبة الأولى (The First Khutbah) By Ibrahim Aweda Abdulrahmon As-salamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh. الحمد لله رب العالمين، والصلاة والسلام على أشرف الأنبياء المرسلين، نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين. أما بعد: My dear brothers and sisters, look closely at how we move through this world every single day. We live in an era of terrifying blindness. We walk through life with our eyes wide open, yet our hearts are completely asleep. We wake up, grab our phones, check the weather, look at the time, rush to our offices, navigate through traffic, and return home—completely running on mechanical autopilot. We treat the physical universe around us as a dead, silent backdrop to our busy careers and personal dramas. When you look at the brilliant light of the morning sun hitting your face, you think of solar energy or the start of a workday. When you look up at the night sky and watch the moon transition smoothly through its crescent phases, you think of calendar dates or a beauti...