{"id":116288,"date":"2025-11-18T21:14:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/?p=116288"},"modified":"2025-11-18T21:14:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:14:25","slug":"the-blessing-of-time-and-the-power-of-good-companionship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/2025\/11\/18\/the-blessing-of-time-and-the-power-of-good-companionship\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blessing of Time and the Power of Good Companionship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/choose-your-friends-wisely-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-116291\" src=\"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/choose-your-friends-wisely-2-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/choose-your-friends-wisely-2-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/choose-your-friends-wisely-2-768x498.jpg 768w, https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/choose-your-friends-wisely-2-700x454.jpg 700w, https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/choose-your-friends-wisely-2-332x215.jpg 332w, https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/choose-your-friends-wisely-2.jpg 1007w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Blessing of Time and the Power of Good Companionship<\/p>\n<p>By Ibrahim Hussain<\/p>\n<p>In this Friday khutbah, Imam Ibrahim Hussain emphasises two critical aspects of a Muslim\u2019s life: valuing time as a divine gift and choosing righteous companionship. He begins by reminding the congregation of the Qur\u2019anic command to maintain taqwa and the prophetic teaching that actions are judged by intentions.<\/p>\n<p>To listen to this khutbah on YouTube, please click here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Blessing of Time and the Power of Good Companionship\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f2LESCTLfKY?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 Ibrahim Hussain<\/p>\n<p>In this Friday khutbah, Imam Ibrahim Hussain emphasises two critical aspects of a Muslim\u2019s life: valuing time as a divine gift and choosing righteous companionship. He begins by reminding the congregation of the Qur\u2019anic command to maintain taqwa and the prophetic teaching that actions are judged by intentions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":116291,"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":[42,41,46,11,49,218],"tags":[1527,1514],"class_list":["post-116288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beliefs-and-practices-of-islam","category-building-good-character","category-inspiring-feel-good-khutbahs","category-khutbah-type","category-knowing-allah","category-video-khutbah","tag-ebrahim-hussain","tag-ibrahim-hussain","column","twocol","has-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116288","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=116288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116292,"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116288\/revisions\/116292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khutbahbank.org.uk\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}