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[quote]Brother Usmani Asalaamu Alaykum.

In my humble opinion and with my very limited knowledge. I totally agree with the argument. I strongly believe that Islam addresses the logic of mind.

My experience of different mosques in UK is that the Wa'az ie the talk before the khutbah is in urdu, english, Bengali and gujraati depending on the location of mosque. I stand to be corrected , but personally I have not been to any mosque in UK where the khutbaah was in the local language.

As explained  by brother Ibrahim, logically there should not be any Wa'az. but khutbah in the local language. From what I can undertsand , in the time of Holy Prophet pbuh, as we do today, the khutbaah had two parts seperated by sitting down. In the first part he would address the people and instruct them about the relevant issues and in the second part he would end by saying prayers. As I understand there was no concept of saying Dua or prayers at the end of the salaat as they were offered during the khutbah.The namaz itself is also a dua or prayer as we look at the tarnslation of Fatiha

One other issue which was very important was who recites the khutbah of friday prayers.My limited understanding is that it used to be the head of State and head of local government in other areas who were instructed to deliver the khutbah and lead the friday prayers.

Furthermore, we take the issue of reciting the Qur'an in arabic without knowing the language. The Qur'an is the Book of Guidance, the purpose of this Book is to Guide us.How can we gain guidance if we cannot understand it. Thus it is essential that we either learn arabic and I mean the Qur'anic arabic or a translation/tafseer in the language that we can understand. I feel that listening to the Khutbah , which is in arabic and it seems in some cases read and repeated from a Book defeats the whole object of khutbah.

It has to be in the language of the people and it should address the issues of the day, rather than a repitition.

I would be grateful for you or any other collegue on the forum to improve my understanding.

Allah knows best

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