Friday sermon: Your only concern should be pleasing Allah

Concerns and worries are only temporary, so one should make pleasing Allah their greatest concern, this week's sermon says.

Your concerns and worries are only temporary, so instead your greatest concern should be trying to please Allah, explains this week’s sermon.

One who is suffering from stress or plagued with worry should be patient and seek help from Allah and they will be relieved of their problems and pardoned of their sins, the sermon says,

A hadith by the Prophet Mohammed says: “Never a believer is stricken with a discomfort, an illness, an anxiety, a grief or mental worry or even the pricking of a thorn but Allah will expiate his sins on account of his patience.” “You should go to Allah with dua’a as it erases worries ... and grants requests,” explains the sermon. The sermon will illustrate this with a verse from the Quran: “Is Not [best] He who answereth the wronged one when he crieth unto Him and removeth the evil, and hath made you viceroys of the earth? Is there any God beside Allah? Little do they reflect!” Muslims should follow the example of the Prophet Mohammed whose main concern was pleasing Allah.

As the Quran says: “There hath come unto you a messenger, [one] of yourselves, unto whom aught that ye are overburdened is grievous, full of concern for you, for the believers full of pity, merciful.”