Sheikh Uthman Hadi - Returning to Salah Before It’s Too Late | Friday Khutbah

Episode Date: May 22, 2026

We are living in the blessed days of Dhul Hijjah. Days that Allah loves. Days where good deeds are multiplied. Days where hearts are supposed to return back to Allah.But today I want to ask you a serious question:What if these are your last Dhul Hijjah days?What if this is the last time you hear the Adhan?The last Jumu’ah?The last chance Allah is giving you to return to Salah?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/sheikh-uthman-hadi--6689369/support.

In the name of the Allah, the Almighty, and alh Allah, and Allah, and all the Ruhlidl and on His and Aalih and alhah

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and I ask Allah, Sufana and Heiata to be as far as sins our shortcomings and grants a special mercy not only in this life and meaning the next. But brothers and sisters, we are halfway through these five days of Dula Hidja and we are halfway through the best of the ten days of Duhlijja.

And a question I want to propose to all of us and I want to ask for all of us, of us is what if these are our last days of the year? What if these are our last days of our life? What if these are the last days of the hijjah that we actually get a chance to witness? How would you want to spend them? How would you want to spend these days in closeness to Allah and remembrance of Allah in Ibadah in worship? And what if this was the last time you heard the a'an? What if this was the last Juma? What if this was the last chance? Allah, Sufano, His-a-a-a-a-da is giving, you to return to your Salah, because one day the Adlan will be called and we will not answer it.

Someone will be carrying us to our graves, and then the dunya that we pushed so hard to stay, and we tried our absolute hardest to stay and we chose over our Salah will be the day, will stay behind us. So many brothers and sisters, the Prophet of Allah al-a-a-a-a-u-salam told us that the first thing that we will be questioned about on the day of resurrection is our Salah, and to sake our sala very mindfully and to be very mindful of our sala. And like he mentioned, he says that if the sala is good, then all of your deeds will be good. But if your sala is corrupt, then the rest of your deeds will be corrupt. Not your money, not your followers, not your business, not your reputation, your sala. So nothing else in this dunya matters except for your sala.

None of the other good deeds you put forth matter except for your sala. If you take your sala seriously and you do it just for Allah and you work, worship and you properly obey your sala and you observe the times, not obey your sala, but observe the times of your sala, and you worship on time and you worship fully engaged in your sala and you worship for Allah, Supperu, Hisp.r.a. Then this is when it comes to the point of your good deeds will be accepted. But if you follow the shaitan and what he wants you to think and when he has convinced many of us to believe that we have sin too much, that you've gone too far, that you can start later and there will still be time. Then you will be among us. those whom your deeds will be done in void. Because you wasted your time. And while we have time, use that time to gain closeness to Allah, supranahua'ad. Use that time to build a better life and build a better achera. Not just in this dunya, but in your aqra.

Many of us focus on the dunya aspect of our lives. And we focus on the money and we focus on the wealth. But if you focus on your ahera, then the dunya will come. If you focus on the dunya, then you will lose out on the ahera. And one of the biggest of things, my brothers and sisters, in these 10 days of Dhu'll Hijja is sacrifice. And I've mentioned this before, as I've done many talks about Duhl Hijja so far, but when it comes to sacrifice, you have to sacrifice the love of this Dunya for the love of the Aikara. If you truly want Allah, Suhpano, Hewet a to accept your Salah,

if you truly want Allah, Sufanao Tala to accept your Ibadah, if you truly want Allah, Suhpanihāsa'Aa to accept anything that you do in any of your good deeds, you have to put away the dunya and bring forth the aqra you have to focus on the ahera because we always want risk we always want money and provision in this dunya but we never think about the ahera and we never think about the provisions of the a achara and we ask allah saffaniahua ta'a to grant us all dinah for d'aaaa aeneen and we ask allah sa'u pana hua taaa to remove the love of this dunya from our heart and we ask allah safana huaaaaaaa to replace it with the love of the a achara amin one of the biggest things my dear brothers and sisters is that every single a a a a la'an like we mentioned in our Salah of Everything series is that Allah supranahua'u T'a'a is inviting us. When Allah, Sapa'u'u'u'a says, Haya'i'a'a'a'a'a'a, he is saying, come to prayer. What Allah, S'pana'u'u'a says, hai'a'al, he's saying come to success.

Because prayer brings success. And Allah does, Allah, Sapaan'u'u'u'a does not call us because he needs us. He calls us because we need him. And some people think that I need to fix my life before I get a chance to fix my prayer. But no, you need to fix your prayer. in order to fix your life. Because when you pray your sala properly, everything else flows the proper way it's supposed to.

So focus on your sara. And you don't need to wait to become the most perfect being ever because it's not possible. It's become the most perfect to return to Allah supranahua'u'u'adha. Because you need to return to Allah suhpanao'uata in any state that you're in. Because the more time that you waste waiting that, oh, this is going to be the perfect moment now

or that's going to be a perfect moment when I hit this much money and when I hit this big job promotion, And then when I do this and when I do that, that's when I'm going to be able to finally come back to my psalah. My brothers and sisters, your abad al-rahman, do not forget that Allah, Sufranahua-ta-a is Ar-Rahman, and he is among the most merciful. He is merciful enough to allow for us to see this day of Jumra. Imagine all the people who saw last Ull-Hijja, but they did not see this to al-Hijja. Imagine if this was your last-Dul-Hijja. Imagine that you did not get the chance to see next Ramadan, which we ask Allah-Supon-Hu-A-Wat-A to allow for us to see.

But imagine we didn't get a church to see it, because then. Death does not wait for the next Ramadan. It does not wait for old age. And death ultimately does not wait for your plans. Oh, I'm planning to do this. I'm planning to do this. I'm planning to start this business. I'm planning to do this.

Allah, Sophan, Herod, Allah commends the angel of death to come whenever he pleases. And your date of death is already written. But if it were to be today, do you think you have prepared your sala enough? Do you think you are prepared to come back to Allah, supran, with the sala that you have already prayed? Focus on your sada. As we are about to pray and hear it. Inshallah, baha'ar sara after this, remember, one of the most important things is that

Allah, subhanna-ho-ta-a-ta-a-a-a accepts sincerity. He accepts the true intention and the true sincerity within that intention. If your intention is just so you can get it over with, then it will not be accepted by Allah, Sufano-Hu-Ta-a-a-a. If the sincerity is not there in your heart for your sala, it will not be accepted by Allah, subhanna-haw-ta-a-a. So remember, my dear brothers and sisters, that this sala is the main fundamental of a believer, And the Prophet of Allah a He was Sala also taught us and also said to us that if a person were not to establish sala, then they were not among the true Moukmin.

Because a true moukman is one who establishes a sala, even if it is difficult. And even if you don't feel motivated to pray, you still pray for Allah, suhannahu, with sincerity in your heart, I'm going to pray because I know I need to pray. Not want to, not have to, but I know I need to pray. I need to connect back to Allah, suhbanao, then this is when Allah, Svana, His Allah. will accept it from you. Remember, my dear brothers and sisters, that is going to be difficult sometimes. You're going to have moments in which you don't want to pray.

You're going to have moments in which the dunya is going to take over and you're going to feel as though I'm not ready to pray right now. I don't want to pray right now. But remember, it's not about wanting. It's about needing to. It's about needing and wanting to pray for Allah, suhpanoho, and God. And start small as well.

Do not always try to rush in and try to do your best all at once, my dear brothers and sisters. If you struggle with one part of your sala, fix that part of your sada. Don't try to fix all of it at once because sometimes it can become a little overwhelming. You might get a little frustrated, let's just say that. But sometimes, my dear brothers and sisters, even if you fall, you have to come back. Because the shatana, what does he want? He wants when you fall, he wants to keep you down.

He wants you to stay down like him. My dear brothers and sisters, if you ever sin again, if you sin again, come back to Allah, to Allah, Sufana, Rahwit aah. If your heart feels distant, come back to Allah, Sufana-a-a-a-a-a-a- If you make mistakes, come back to Allah-supana-hu-ta-a-a-a-a-law, because Allah-suphanah-ha-loves the servant who keeps returning.

And maybe one sujude, maybe one tear in sada, maybe one moment of repentance during these blessed 10 days of duil-hijah could be the reason that Allah-Suphan-h-h-a-h-h-a-ffffis your entire life. May Allah-S-Supan-a-a-a-a-a-make us

among the people of the sadaa. May Allah-Supan-a-a-a-a-a-al allow for us to repent sincerely before death reaches us. May Allah, Supperanahua-a-a-ma, make our hearts attached to the mashtid and attached to our sala. And may Allah, Supperu, Allah, allow for us to meet him while he is pleased with us in among the most pleased of positions in Situid. And I'mhulah, al-hambhali-Ali-Lahraim.

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