Light Upon Light
🕌 Khuṭbah Date: 26th December 2025
🎙️ Speaker: Qari Armaan
📍 Location: Islamic Academy & Dawah Centre (IADC)
Action Points
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Take time this week to deliberately guard your heart. Be mindful of what you constantly watch, listen to, scroll through, and joke about. Ask yourself honestly: “Is this strengthening my light, or slowly suffocating it?”
📅 [Add to Calendar]Make istighfār a regular habit this week, not just a reaction to major mistakes. Ask Allah to clean the glass of your heart so His light is not distorted by sin or heedlessness.
📅 [Add to Calendar]- Refill the oil of your heart with something small but consistent: maybe a few verses of Qur’an, extra moments in sujūd, or a quiet du‘ā’ before sleep. Small refills prevent total darkness.
📅 [Add to Calendar] - Ask Allah sincerely for light and guidance. Never assume īmān is guaranteed. Beg Allah to ignite the light within your heart and to never take it away after He has guided you.
- Be intentional about how your light affects others this week. Let your words, character, and actions illuminate without overwhelming, harm, or harshness. Be a source of calm, clarity, and warmth.
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Video Recording
Summarised Points
📌 Main Message:
Allah teaches us that guidance is not just information, but light placed within the heart. Every human being carries the capacity for that light (a niche, a lamp, glass, and pure fuel), but light only appears when it is protected, maintained, and ignited by revelation. Potential alone does not illuminate a life; only Allah grants true light. When the light of the Qur’an meets a heart prepared for it, guidance becomes light upon light.
🔑 Key Themes:
💡 Guidance is light not knowledge alone, but illumination that brings clarity, direction, and life.
🫀 The heart is a lamp that must be protected: exposed hearts are easily damaged, misused, or extinguished.
🪟 Sins cloud the glass: they distort light even if they do not fully extinguish it.
🛢️ Potential is not enough: oil without fire remains dark; knowledge without divine light does not guide.
🌍 Believers are meant to illuminate, not overwhelm: light should be warm, focused, and beneficial.
🤲 Guidance is ultimately a gift: after all effort, Allah alone places light in the heart.
💡 Five Reflections from Āyat An-Nūr:
1. Protect the Niche
- Not everything deserves access to your heart. What you consume daily either shields the light or suffocates it.
2. Clean the Glass Regularly
A soft heart is not a sinless heart, but one that is constantly washed with istighfār.
3. Refill the Oil Consistently
- Small, sincere acts of Qur’an, du‘ā’, and ṣalāh keep the lamp alive.
4. Seek the Divine Spark
- Guidance is not earned mechanically. Ask Allah sincerely to ignite the light within you.
5. Be Light for Others
The believer’s role is to illuminate darkness gently, with wisdom, mercy, and balance.
🤲 Final Du‘ā:
May Allah place light in our hearts, our actions, our homes, and our paths.
May He protect the lamps within our chests, cleanse the glass of our hearts, and never take our light away after He has guided us.
And may He make us a source of warmth, clarity, and goodness wherever we go.
Āmīn.