Friday prayer lectures routinely take mortality as their theme.

Evidence

In front of me was a whiteboard with a message on it. “Please do not talk during the khutba,” it pleaded. “And do not fall asleep.” After a few minutes, I saw Rami climb the minbar on the TV, and he began his lecture on a topic familiar to religious people everywhere: readying yourself for the end of your days. He spoke into a microphone that, typical of masjid aesthetics, echoed with reverb, making him sound as if he were in a cavernous thousand-person hall. “We will all drink from the cup of death,” Rami warned the assembled Muslims. “Are you prepared?” — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 962