{"id":116136,"date":"2025-06-15T00:18:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T23:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/?p=116136"},"modified":"2025-08-08T23:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T22:58:12","slug":"be-the-light-a-message-to-young-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/2025\/06\/15\/be-the-light-a-message-to-young-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Be the light: a message to young Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/lamp-with-Quran-and-tasbih.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-116137\" src=\"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/lamp-with-Quran-and-tasbih-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/lamp-with-Quran-and-tasbih-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/lamp-with-Quran-and-tasbih-700x501.jpg 700w, https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/lamp-with-Quran-and-tasbih-332x238.jpg 332w, https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/lamp-with-Quran-and-tasbih.jpg 745w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Arshad Gamiet<\/p>\n<h5>Our world today is loud. It\u2019s judgmental. It\u2019s fast. And everywhere you look, someone is trying to tell you who to hate, who to fear, who to cancel. Social media has made anger and outrage a sport. Everyone wants to be right. No one wants to listen. But Allah gave you a mind. Allah gave you a heart. He gave you His Noble Qur\u2019an\u2014not to memorize and forget\u2014but to live.<\/h5>\n<p>To read this khutbah in full: please download the document below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Khutbah-Be-a-Light.pdf\">Khutbah Be a Light<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Khutbah-Be-a-Light.docx\">Khutbah Be a Light<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To view this khutbah on our YouTube Channel, please click on the link below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Be the Light! !, Mercy, Tolerance, and the Legacy of Islam\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FpYTn49IOT0?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Arshad Gamiet<\/p>\n<p>Our world today is loud. It\u2019s judgmental. It\u2019s fast. And everywhere you look, someone is trying to tell you who to hate, who to fear, who to cancel. Social media has made anger and outrage a sport. Everyone wants to be right. No one wants to listen. But Allah gave you a mind. Allah gave you a heart. He gave you His Noble Qur\u2019an\u2014not to memorize and forget\u2014but to live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":116137,"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":[42,41,22,46,11,12],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-116136","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-text-khutbah","tag-arshad-gamiet","column","twocol","has-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116136","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=116136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116193,"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116136\/revisions\/116193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}