{"id":113731,"date":"2020-05-26T06:29:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T05:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/?p=113731"},"modified":"2020-05-26T06:32:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T05:32:20","slug":"lockdown-no-more-excuses-for-missing-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/2020\/05\/26\/lockdown-no-more-excuses-for-missing-prayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown: no more excuses for missing prayers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gPMvdsb-ZWs\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-113732\" src=\"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Eid-Mubarak-card-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"777\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Eid-Mubarak-card-1.jpg 777w, https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Eid-Mubarak-card-1-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Eid-Mubarak-card-1-768x495.jpg 768w, https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Eid-Mubarak-card-1-700x451.jpg 700w, https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Eid-Mubarak-card-1-332x214.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Essam Mahgoub<\/p>\n<p>One of the hidden blessings of Lockdown is that we must now take a long, hard look at ourselves. No more excuses! We have the golden opportunity to keep our 5 daily appointments with Allah. Our one-to-one consultations with our generous Life Giver cannot be, should not be neglected. Our self-isolation exposes our sincerity. Let&#8217;s no longer fool ourselves. Now is the time to take corrective action, to seek nearness to Allah&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eid Al-Fitr Khutbah 2020 \/ 1441 Hijri\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gPMvdsb-ZWs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Essam Mahgoub<br \/>\n&#8220;One of the hidden blessings of Lockdown is that we must now take a long, hard look at ourselves. No more excuses! We have the golden opportunity to keep our 5 daily appointments with Allah. Our one-to-one consultations with our generous Life Giver cannot be, should not be neglected. Our self-isolation exposes our sincerity. Let&#8217;s no longer fool ourselves. Now is the time to take corrective action, to seek nearness to Allah&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":113732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,41,22,46,11,49,47,291,358,218],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-113731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beliefs-and-practices-of-islam","category-building-good-character","category-history-of-islam","category-inspiring-feel-good-khutbahs","category-khutbah-type","category-knowing-allah","category-noble-companions-and-muslim-heroes","category-prophets-of-allah","category-ramadan","category-video-khutbah","tag-essam-mahgoub","column","twocol","has-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113735,"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113731\/revisions\/113735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}