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Today, I talked to a friend about Khutbah during Jummah. He insists that it should be done in Arabic, as this was the way it was done during the Prophet's (SAW) time. He sent me this link: http://books.themajlis.net/node/45
I asked several others about their opinions and basically, there are more people who believe that it is not a MUST to do it in Arabic because it would be pointless if noone in the masjid understood a word that was being said.
What language is your Jummah Khutbah delivered in?
Do you feel that having the khutbah in Arabic is a must/ provide both Arabic & native language/ any language is OKAY?
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15 comments:
In my Masjid it's Arabic, Urdu and English...However, it would be awesome if it were in Swahili and Arabiya
Jazaka'Allah Khair
personally i think that it's stupid that he'd say it MUST be done in arabic. The point of jumuah is to learn something and that's not possible if you don't understand what the khateeb/imam is saying so, if they do wanna do it in arabic then the should go ahead and translate everything they say into english or whatever language people most understand
Well, sometimes khutbah is done in two languages at the same time. Arabic of course, and another language. I believe that should be the case when there is a large proportion of listeners who don't understand Arabic.
@ Saafir: Does that mean that muslims sit through the khutbah 3 times? Or, do they just hand out the week's khutbah in the 2 other languages on paper?
@ Malekat: Exactly! In some mosques that I go to, the khutbah is not done in Arabic. Only words from the Quran/ praising Allah/ quoting from a hadith are done in Arabic. This person's argument was that everything was done in Arabic during the prophet's time and thus, it is not right for us to NOT do it in Arabic.
@ Anonymous: You share my opinion then. (:
Jazak Allah Khair.
but the only thing wrong with this person's argument is OFCOURSE the khutba's were done arabic during the prophet's time because that's the language that everyone spoke where they were. So it's not like the khutbas would have been in englsih :P
I meant it's three languages at a go...the speakers shift from one language to another
@ Malekat: exactly dear, you spotted the flaw in his argument as well.
@ Saafir: That's brilliant. I don't mind sitting through that though it might get quite confusing? If the masjids could also print out the week's jummah khutbah, it'd be awesome.
I don't go for Jumah but once in an Eid sermon, the khutbah was in three different languages like Saafir said. There was the actual khutbah in Arabic and translators in the other two languages. A bit confusing but then you get the hang of it. :)
@ Asmi's Journal: That's great. Everyone should understand what is being said because the khutbahs are really important.
I have never prayed in a mosque.
I have prayed in a congregation only twice in my life. . . . The last two eids. . . The khutbah was in the local language, i sat thru it without understanding anything other than "S.A.W" after Huzur's name each time. .
in all the mosques here khutbah is in the local language, same goes for my home state, its in the local language of that state, Urdu.
In Chennai, (which is a metropol), there are mosques with tamil khutbah, and some other mosques with Urdu khutbah and some others with English, for those who are non-tamils and non-tamil-non-urdus , respectively.
i think its best done this way.
i know how it hurts not to understand the khutbah. . . I dont think God would ever want it that way. :(
@ Almas: that's true. Sometimes when my brothers come home from Jummah, I will ask them what the khutbah was about. They don't go into details, just giving me the main idea but it would be terrible if they came home saying "You know what? I have absolutely no idea."
It really depends on the community. Albeit most mosques here deliver in Malay, there are mosques that uses English and Arabic languages or Chinese and Indian dialects.
I'd much prefer the khutbah to be in a common language understood by the vast majority i.e. English as the purpose is to propagate the knowledge. There really isn't any point in conducting using a language foreign to the mass.
@ Hajar: That's right. If the congregation is mostly an English speaking one then it'd be good to cater to them by delivering the Khutbah in English.
i think it should be in th elanguage of the land. there is no use having a speech done in arabic when only 20 ppl in the room understand arabic and the other 100 people, although from diff backgrounds, all have english as a common language.
whats the use of having a speech no one understands? isnt the point of the khutbah to gain meaning from it? to apply it to our lives? how can we do that if we dont have a clue whats going on?
@ Ange: Jazak Allah Khair for sharing this! There is indeed one common language in most places and this language should be the one adopted for Khutbah. Unless the masjids are exclusive...catering only for certain races but then, masjids arent supposed to be exclusive.
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