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May 24, 2024·Dhuʻl-Qiʻdah 16, 1445 AH·12:52 PM·45m·May 2024

Summer Break: Build Your Quran Habit Now

Summer Break: A Time to Increase Knowledge and Gratitude to Allah - Jumu'ah Sermon

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Summary

This is a Friday Jumu'ah sermon (Khutbah) delivered at the Muslim Community Center of Tucson. The imam begins with traditional Islamic greetings and Quranic recitations, then addresses students and parents finishing the school year in Arizona. The central theme focuses on gratitude to Allah and the importance of recognizing His signs (ayat) in creation. The sermon emphasizes why Muslims should worship Allah, presenting evidence from nature such as hearing, sight, sleep, rain, and the creation of spouses with love and mercy. The imam encourages the congregation, particularly young people, to use the summer break to increase their Islamic knowledge by memorizing Quran, reading Hadith, and studying Islamic sciences.

Transcript

Note: This transcript was generated using YouTube's automatic captioning, with AI-assisted cleanup for readability. It may contain inaccuracies due to background noise, audio quality, or limitations of the transcription software — particularly during Arabic recitation. Listener discretion is advised; please refer to the original video for precise wording.

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السلام عليكم رحمه ورحمه الله وبركاته وبك الله اكبر الله اكبر الله اكبر الله اكبر اشهد ان لا اله الا الله اشهد لا اله الا الله اشهد ان محمدا رسول الله اشهد ان محمدا رسول الله حي على الصلاه حي على.

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الصلاه حي على الفلا حي على الفلاح الله اكبر الله اكبر لا اله الا الله.

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الحمد لله ثم الحمد لله نحمده ونشكره ونستغفره ونستعين به ونعوذ بالله من شرور انفسنا ومن سيئات اعمالنا من يهدي الله فلا مضل له ومن يضلل فلا هادي له واشهد ان لا اله الا الله وحده لا شريك له له الملك وله الحمد يحيي ويميت وهو على كل شيء قدير واشهد ان محمدا عبده ورسوله اللهم صل وسلم على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين وعلى من تبعهم باحسان الى يوم الدين اما بعد قال الله تعالى في كتابه المبين بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم يا ايها الذين امنوا اتقوا الله حق تقاته ولا تمتن الا وانتم مسلمون صد الله العظ mer bl تالى as bl day.

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They قذ ص والافئده قليلا ما تشكرون سبحان الله الله تعالى تالى تالى hows ‏not too late day is young these are things take for grant unless laken over time these are incredible gifts allah us ears our eyes and our hearts and instead of allah saying explicit thank me what does say says little thanks do you give what does that me little thanks impc we الله تالى الله تالى قل هو الذي راكم في الارض ويه تحشرون الله تالى anding us all back ‏res he human beings are spre across the mus spr acr are there muslims country people and in future we allat isam ويقولون متى هذا الوعد ان كنتم صادق tru res صلى الله عليه وسلم قل ان العلم عن وانما انا نذير مبين صدق الله العظم الله تعالى صلى الله عليه وسلم الله تعالى علس.

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الله تعالى فل را زلفه سيئه وجوه الذين كفوا وقيل هذا الذي كنتم به تدعون صدق الله العظيم سهى ‏when they see it meaning the punishment when it comes judgment day and the consequences those the faces of those who disbelieve will be a they'll be very distra they will be freaking out as we might say in more modern english right when they see what has been pred and will be said to them this is what you used to claim mean is you told the propet صل الله عليه وسم bring this forth if truthful very flipp right subhan how could one talk that way صل الله علسلم so butful for eyes hearts many today the heart isn't just what's beating and circulating the blood which is of course very important it's also where the soul is where the mind is so also ‏worship and i encourage week have a chance the 30th holy raning translation interpretation us a very powerful incredible ins.

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الله تالى الله الرحمن اليم ومن اياته خلقكم تراب ثم اذام ترون صظ الله تالى created you from natural matal made natural matal and.

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الله تعالى بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ومن اياته ان خلق لكم من انفسكم ازواجا لتسكنوا اليها وجعل بينكم موده ورحمه ان في ذلك لايات لقوم يتفكرون صق العظ الله تال our own type mean our right partners spes infor and love and mercy between.

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ومن اياته خلق السماوات والارض واختلاف السنتكم والوانكم ان في ذلك لاي للعالمين صدق الله العظيم الله تعالى ‏and and the diversity among humans in languages and in colors do all humans look the same no do we all have the same skin col we says is amongs of تعالى we don't all look the we don't all speak english or one language.

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ومن اياته منامكم بالليل والنهار وابغاكم من فضله ان في ذكي لقوم يسمعون صدق my fait is sleep sleep is aming gift right maybe some of you if you have school today you slept in little later and you really for the gift sleep the might come parents take you schooling the year sleeping the day and is sign.

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‏these are all sign like take اياته يريكم البرق خوفا وطمعا وينل من السماء ايحي به الارض بعدض موتها ان في ذلك لايات لقوم يق صدق العظ الله تعالالى.

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‏des those flashes weeks rain andain help may cut d make it eas for us in light is among as act incredible act sending down from sking raining dr ‏down ample to sustain life here in the future so these are just a few from room if you're coming late this is 30 in the holy quran i encourage everyone your homework school is over to look at it to review it to reflect upon it there so many insights and it's so helpful in giving reasons to people if they ask you whether at work or at school why should i worship allah why should i believe what's in it for me what i getting out of it already providing us with so so much.

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تعالى اقولوا قول هذا واستغفر الله لي ولكم عباد الله استغفر ان الله غفور الرحيم.

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الحمد لله ثم الحمد لله اشهد ان لا اله الا الله وحده لا شريك له واشهد ان محمدا عبده ورسوله اللهم صل وسلم على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين بعدد.

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Have ‏for many of us it's summer especially the young folks among us and just because it's summer doesn't mean you can't learn anything or study or or think about things take a little break you're probably a little tired but when you're ready to start learning again i strongly encourage you to try to memorize a s perhaps summer maybe read a maybe read one the longer you haven read in a while maybe read some had if you have never heard of0 might be a good summer to find out what it is there c all over the ‏over commun as well asline and so deve to increasing our relig knowledge can be difficult during the school year we have math we have social studies we have ela we have all sorts of classes we have to take and it's usually not arabic or islamic studies but so summer is a very valuable time to benefit and to take advantage of the fact the schools go all months of the year ‏i was امام الخاري رحمه الله خطتا to say something about which is the word for knowledge usually religious knowledge but can be translated science as well and i was حثم الخاري الله he حث سبحان الله.

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حثه المجادله بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم يرفع الله الذين امنوا منكم والذين العلم درجات بما تون خبير ‏caned eng among who believe gred byes تىى وقال ول.

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حث صلى الله عليه وسلم لا حسد الا في اثنتين حس الا فيت رجل اتاه الله مالا فصلت على حلته في الحال ورجل اتاه الله الحكمه فهو يقضي بها ويعلمها صدق رسول الكريم صلى الله عليه وسل الله case other حرم not given acc teach ‏if are se ربنا اتنا في الدنيا حسنه وفي الاخره حسنه وقنا عذاب النار ربنا اغفر لنا ولاخواننا الذين سبقونا باليمان ولا تجعل في قلوبنا غل الذين امنوا ربنا انك ؤف ال رحيم ربنا لا تؤخذنا ان نسينا واخطانا ربنا ولا تحمل علينا اسرا كما حملته على الذين من قبلنا ربنا ولا تحملنا ما لا طاقه لنا به واعف عنا واغفر لنا وارحمنا انت مولانا فانصرنا على قوم الكافرين سبحان ربك رب العزه عما يصفون والسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين امين عباد الله ان الله يامر بالعدل والحسان وايتاء ذي القربى وينها عن الفحشاء والمنكر والبخ يعذ لعلكم تذكرون اذكروا الله واقم الصلاه الله اكبر الله اكبر اشهد ان لا اله الا الله اشهد ان محمدا رسول الله حي على الصلاه حيا على الفلاح قد قامت الصلاه قد قامت الصلاه الله اكبر الله اكبر لا اله الا الله.

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الله اكبر بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين الرحمن الرحيم مالك يوم الدين اياك نعبد واياك نستعين اهدنا صراط المستقيم صراط الذين انعمت عليهم غير المغضوب عليهم ولا الضالين امين افمن يمشي مكبا على وجهه اهدى ام من يمشي سويا على الصراط مستقيم قل هو الذي انشاكم وجعل لكم السمع والابصار والافئده قلي ما تشكرون قل هو الذي ذراكم في الارض واليه تحشرون ويقولون متى هذا الوعد ان كنتم صادقين قل انما العلم عند الله وانما انا نذير مبين فلما راه زلفه سييت وجوه الذين كفروا وقيل هذا الذي كنم به تدعون الله اك سمع الله لمن حمده الله اكبر الله اكبر الله اكبر الله اكبر بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين الرحمن الرحيم مالك يوم الدين اياك نعبد واياك نستعين اهدنا صراط المستقيم صراط الذين انعمت عليهم غير المغضوب عليهم ولا الض ين امين بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قل يا ايها الكافرون لا اعبد ما تعبدون ولا انتم عابدون ما اعبد ولا انا عابد ما عبدتم ولا انتم عابدون ما اعبد لكم دينكم اليدين الله اكبر سمع سمع الله لمن حمده الله اكبر الله اكبر الله اكبر.

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السلام عليكم ورحمه الله السلام عليكم.

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ورحمه السلام ورحمه الله وبكاته ان شاء الله ‏thank youl hees tri for be answer for growing up you know that was one things i school not america i didn't gr up all the so back home you will weak ‏brother and sch trans announcements beil sch trans ann days الله تالال sch us mct ‏sch transes and anybody.

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