quick links - all khutbahs
Modeling the Love of the Prophet
Vote: The Inability to Address Genocide
Desecrating the House of the Prophet
The American, Israeli, Arab Axis
The Muslim Cause: Working Hard or Hardly Working?
5 Steps to Reconnecting with God
Hamim: Friendship as Decolonial Praxis
Living in The Now: The Paradox of Obeying Parents
What Do I Do Now? On Smoke & Clarity
Genocide, Tyranny & Trauma: Where is God's Mercy?
Bangladesh: Governance & Integrity
With Whom Does Your Loyalty Lie? Lessons from Surah Al-Zukhruf
Why We Have the Leaders We Deserve: Diagnosing the Muslim Psychosis
The Imperative of Intervention: Lessons from Surah Al-A'raf
Forming Foundations & The Sands of Time: Lessons from Surah Al-Ahqaf
Protest or Perish: Lessons from The Ant Colony
The Anatomy of Empathy: An Encampment Testimony
Maryam's Lessons: Resistance, Devotion, & Revival
How to fix an Ummah: Hurriyah (Freedom) and ‘Izzah
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Sulaiman and The Esteemed Camel
Turning Faith Into Superstition: God is Not Responsible for Gaza - We are.
Taqwa: The Front Door to Guidance
Rethinking and Reimagining Dignity for 1/4 of the Population
Taking an Ethical Stand on the System That Led to A Genocide
Something is very, very wrong...And the Islamic heritage for sale on Ebay
A Pivotal Moment in History and the Hashish Sellers in Morocco
The Power of Moral Unison: Confronting the Bid'ah of Despotism
Donkeys Carrying Books or Just Donkeys?
The Cure to the "Cancer" of Islam
Nothing Matters, Because After Gaza, Everything Matters
When the House is on Fire, Do We Worry About the Furniture?
The Moment of Truth is Upon Us
Calamity: The Great Moral Criterion
Parable of the Palm Tree: Morality as the Language of Deceit
The Debasement of Shari'a and the State of Muslims
Built on Racism: Modern Institutions and the Path to Liberation
Emancipation from "Colonial Islam" and the Uselessness of Muslim Leaders
The Biblical Narrative on Wicked People and the Paradox of the West
When Goliath Wants to Nuke David and David's Brothers Help Goliath
The Logic of Terrorism and What Can We Do About Palestine
The Logic of Total Victory, Israeli Exceptionalism, and Muslims
The Truth About Palestine and I Will Testify Against You If...
When Scholars Stop Testifying for God's Truth
On Banning Women's Voices While Living in the Modern World
The Delusion of Fear and the Power of Being Human
The Warning, the Blame, and the Prescription: 'Ilm, Amal, and Hawl
When Water Shares Space with Poison and the Myth of Public Neutrality
The Logic of Evil and Trying to Get What You Haven't Earned or Deserve
On Music and the School of Reason, Rationality, and Beauty
The Case Study of Nahed Metwaly and the False Dignity of Victimhood
Luqman, His Son, and The True Parent
On "Global Boiling," Murdering Mother Earth, and The Greatest Tragedy of All
The Lifeline of "Current Events" and the Myth of Ijtihad
The Jazz of Islam and Gender Identity Debates
What Happened to Muslims? And What To Do About It
The Myth of the Post-Racial World v. The Reality of the Post-Muslim World
The Covenant of Light and the Imams of Darkness
When #HajjIsNotSafe and the Jihad (Hard Work) of Moral Deliberation
Do We Offer A Car or A Camel? And the Racism of Human Rights
Weaponizing the Language of Human Rights, The Secular Religion of Our Age
The "Argument" Your Life Represents and The Palestine Industry
The Human Instinct for Beauty: Nurtured or Suppressed?
Muslim Exceptionalism and the Individual as Ummah
God's Covenant of Love and The People of Qur'an
The Theatrics of Piety and the Exoticization of Islam
"'Eid Mubarak Everyone, But I Don't See How"
God's Invitation to Dignity and Liberation, NOT Blind Submission to Power
The Manipulation of Muslim Consciousness and the Art of Subordination
The Dirty Secrets of a Smear Campaign and A Predator Leading Prayer
Rethinking "How to Address Islamophobia" as Worship during Ramadan
The Wellsprings of Islamophobia: It's Not Where You Think
When the Lands of Islam Are No Longer Safe for Muslims
Where is the Love? Where is the Justice? Where is the Ihsan?
From Kaaba to Mukaab, the "Abrahamic Faith," and Our Virtual Reality
How NOT to Become So Attractive that Shaytan Wants to Follow You
Zelzalahs (Earthquakes) and the Moral (and Amoral) Choices We Make
The Arc of the Qur'an and the Failure of Muslim Capital
What Do You Do When You Learn the Prophet's Gravesite will be Desecrated?
The Garb of Truth and the Courthouse of the Self
Slave Ship Headed to a Penal Colony
Is Your Peace Real or Fake? On the Lightness of Treading
Want the Path of the Divine? Don't Follow the Demonic
Don't Be Stupid About Your Package, and What About Gaza?
"Judeo-Christian Values" and the Road to Moral Bankruptcy
The Art of Gratitude and Embodying Beauty as Islam
Choosing Death over Life and The Illusion of Liberty
The Moral Potential of Shariah: How Are We Faring?
Alcohol, Gambling, Self-Loathing, and the Demonic Instrumentalities of Hate
The Seeds of Sacred Beauty: To Be Nurtured or Neutralized?
What Happens When You Silence the Birds?
The U.S. Government is the Most Influential Imam in the World Today
How Many Uncovered Women's Heads Are Worth A Single Life Taken?
Duties Before Rights: Are You Complicit in the Genocide of Muslims?
The Pulpit of Truth and the Battle over Women's Hair
The Word of Power in A World of Disempowerment
On Diversity and Inheriting Gold: Will The Qur'an Testify For or Against Us?
From Where and From Whom Do You Get Your Islam?
Measuring One's Moral Illness: The Devil is in the Details
The Sunni, The Shi'i, and The Gift of Consciousness
It's a Dog's Life: Reflecting on Rights to Life and Mercy
Murder, Suicide and Death by Abrahamic Accords
The Trust: When You Put Your Hand in the Hands of the Indecent
The Muslim Cost of SCOTUS and the Dawning of the New Colonizer
The Myth of the Decent Person and the Sin of Hajj
The Calculus of A Moral Decision and the Tapestry of Morality
Applying The Parable of Light Upon Light
On the Engineering of Faith and Being Worthy of God’s Aid
The Lessons of God The Teacher and Muhammad The Student
What Happens When Muslims Allow the Demolition of Al Aqsa Mosque?
And What Should Be Noted of Shireen Abu Akleh, Jared Kushner and Al Aqsa?
The Power of the Collective and a Highly Relevant God
Is Your Dignity Founded in God? Or is it Founded in Your Ego?
It All Comes Down to Your Individual Choices and The State of Al Aqsa
Dreaming in Darkness and The Plight of Modern Day Israelites
Fasting, the Art of Closeness to God Through Denial
If You Journey Towards the Lord, Your Shaytan Can’t Come Along
The Open Book Test That is The Quran & Testifying Against The Ego
Are You Alive? Justice, Necropolitics and The Living Dead
The Elixir of Faith and How to Change the World
Intimacy With God and the Truth of the World Laid Bare
The Plight of the Individual and the Sunnah of the Maker
The Hardest Tests of Apathy, Consuming and Being Consumed, and Not Giving Up
Learning Not to be Selfish and the Legacy of Killing the Prophet's Grandson
The Commercialization of Targeting Muslims and Imprisoning Enlightenment
How Do Our Youth Make Sense of This World?
God Talks. If Only We Would Listen
The Parable of the Doctor, the Patient, and the Illness
Addiction, Suicide, Identity and the Real Costs of Islamophobia
The Prophet's Last Words and the Christian New Year 2022
Banning Critical Race Theory: A Bellwether for Muslims?
On the American Islamophobia Industry and UAE’s new ‘Islam’
Muslims v. Supreme Court and Colonizing the Muslim Mind - UAE Version
What is Your Contribution to The Muslim Consciousness?
The ‘Angry’ Muslim Intellectual & Commercializing Muslim Murder
Trafficking 'Halal' Organs and Other Symbolic Signs of Our State
On Climate Catastrophe, Facebook's Secret Blacklist and the "Love Jihad"
What Happens When Artificial Intelligence (AI) Turns Islamophobic?
What Occupies Your Heart? And More On Wolves in Shaykh's Clothing
The Unspoken Truth (Haqq) About Sexual Abuse and the Rights of Victims
Hypocrisy, Schizophrenia and the Value of Muslim Life
The Other Afghan Women and the American Liberation of the Taliban
"Who Is More Deserving of Safety?"
How Islam Is Supposed to Take People From Darkness to Light
Afghanistan, Self-determination and the Heartbreak of Hajj
The Wisdom of Illness and the State of Muslim Instagram
The Meaning of Hajj and the Uyghur Holocaust
The Butterfly Effect: Choosing the Divine or the Demonic
Bill Cosby, Britney Spears and The Gift of Light
The Cost of Speaking Truth and True Feminists
The Challenge of The Quran and Losing Our Sense of the Obvious
The Tyranny of the Nervous System & The Muslim Betrayal of Uyghur Muslims
The Quranic Impulse and The Fallacy of Political Islam
Speaking the Unspoken Truth About Israel and Palestine
Noor Cultural Center Hosts the Eid Khutbah by Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl
Habermas and the Immorality of Muslims
The Last 10 Days of Ramadan and Bearing Witness for Shaytan
Are Muslims a Countermeasure to Racism or Part of the Problem?
Where Will You Be Next Ramadan? And the Pain of Racism
Pathologies of A Defeated People and Aiding Muslim Prisoners
The Journey to God and Empowering Women
On Nawal al Saadawi, Alhurra Channel and the Limits of Free Thinking
Surah Al-Najm and the Idols Within
The Unshackling of Human Beings
What Does Your Iman Amount To?
Mystifications of Power & The Eradication of the Prophet's Sunnah
The Legacy of Monotheism and the Seat of Power
The Prophet's Du'a and An Usuli Cult?
The Paradigm Shift That is the Quran
What Does Islam Offer? On Taking God Seriously
Truth and Justice, and Hope at Christmas
A Profound Question From His Younger Son
What SubhanAllah Really Means and Which Muslims Orgs to Boycott
'Allahu Akbar,' "Political Islam" and the Radical Liberation of Faith
On the Representation and Perception of Muslims
Godliness, Democracy and The Post Colonial Muslim Super Ego
A Great Prophet and the Racism of France
The Prophet's Pulpit and French Islamophobia
On Preserving Women and Female Reciters of the Quran
The Prophet's Hadith on the Intellect
Death by Doctrine of the 'Legitimacy of the Usurpers'
On Critical Race Studies and What is Point of Religion?
The New Islam of Absolute Silence
On Democracy, Voting and Defending Dictators
All Lives v. Black Lives and the Sin of Holy Rhetoric
When Truth, Principle and Ethics are Trumped by Politics
The State of Jerusalem and the Test of Wealth
The Shame of the 'Commission on Unalienable Rights Report'
On Eid Al Adha and the Prophet's Last Will and Testament
How Are These Things Connected? Mecca and The Plight of the Uyghurs
The Entire Philosophy of Existence in a Paragraph
The Story of Prophet Yunus and Why Despair is Not an Option
Who is the Better Muslim and What Would God Think?
Our Character is Built on Our Stories
The Islam of Dignity: Are You on the Right Side of History?
The Prophet's First Khutbah and the Cornerstone of Faith
Why All Evil is Interconnected and Why Muslims Should Protest
Jahiliyya and the Murder of George Floyd
Narratives of Finding Dignity and Justice with God
What is Your Muslim Spirit? Why Islam was given to the Arabs
Bilal, The Prophet, and Casting Ourselves Unto Ruin
The Power of Ramadan: Fasting, Guidance and The Criterion
When Mecca is Empty, What Remains?
Addressing the Generational Divide Among Younger and Older Muslims (Note Accompanying Addendum)
To God We Belong and To God We Return
More on Virtual Khutbahs and the Personal Nature of a Pandemic
Perhaps You Will Turn To God: On the Coronavirus and God's Love
Trials of a Prophet Loved and The Mirror of the Coronavirus
What Do You Hear When the World Goes Silent?
When the World Goes Silent: Reflecting on Loss
The Theology of Despotism and Reflecting on the Coronavirus
The Higher Aspirations of Justice
Humility, Certitude and "The Deal of the Century"
Reason and Revelation: On Becoming a Moral Human Being
True Monotheism and Returning the Gaze Part II
Resisting the Colonizing of Muslim Minds and Salat al Istisqa'
Tawheed and Trinity: Why Is Monotheism So Hard?"
Liberation from Mythology and the Power of A White Jesus
Returning the Gaze: A Walk Through the Bible
On Knowing the Strength of Your Inner Light
Your Existence is No Coincidence
Parables of Light and Darkness
Cleansing Oneself of the Companionship of Satan
On Asserting the Truth of Al-Haqq
On Internalizing Ayat al Kursi
On Injustice and Muslims Defending the Muslim Ban
On the Definition of a Scholar
On Failing the Inheritance of the Prophets
More Lethal than Islamophobes- the Modern Day Murji'ah
On Reviving the Ideas of the Trash Bin of History
On Asking God for Light Upon Light
On Slavery and a Moral Reading of the Quran
From Bearing Witness to Becoming the Opiate of the Masses
On Fitna, Ethics, and the Modern Day "Marketplace"
On Hajj and the Selling of the Soul of Islam
How to Live the Philosophy of Islam
On Reading and Testing the State of Your Faith
On Muslim Pharoahs, Terrorists and Recognizing the Straight Path
On the Price of Silence, Nicki Minaj, and the US Human Rights Commission
On Logic, Justice, and Obeying Unjust Rulers
On Witnessing, and Closing the ICSC Chapter
On Being Banned: Shaming or Schooling the ICSC?
On Rupert Murdoch, Power and Resisting the Party of the Devil
On Eid, Sudan, and What to Do When the Muslim Body Ails
Which Islam? Dignity or Death?
On Divinity, Justice, and Muslims Murdering Muslims
School of Fasting for the Divine
Why Our Youth Leave Islam; When Moses Will Not Confront the Pharaoh
On Love and a Loving God in Islam
On the Truth of Jumu'a, Orphans and Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem
On the Accountability of Privilege
American Muslims - Moral Pilots or Moral Failures?
Islamophobia, Racism, and the New Zealand Massacre
On Evaluating Moral Character, Trusting Intuition, and Cleaning your Vessel
Recolonization, Racism and the Role of Reason
Thinking Islam Anew Away from the Lands of Despotism and Hypocrisy
The Cycle of Life and Honoring Guido Santi
The Lifeline of Prayer, Perseverance and Patience
Usuli Institute First Virtual Khutbah with Khaled Abou El Fadl
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