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[quote]Asalaamu Alaykum brother Usmani. I am grateful for your very detailed and sound explanation of your points.No doubt your depth and grasp of knowledge of religion is much stronger. Jaza'akallah

My understanding of religion is perhaps more simple.I am happy for any of our learned moderators or other forum collegues to give an explanation and help me improve my understanding.

I am giving you my personal opinion and this is not the opinion of any patricular school of thought.If it is unworthy please ignore it.

As I understand Islam is a religion that addresses the logic.The issue is created because Islam commenced in Arabia and their language is Arabic.

Firstly we ask ourselves. Does the Qur'an state that the friday khutbah must be in Arabic?

Secondly, I am strongly in favour that particularly in muslim countries, Arabic and I mean Qur'anic arabic should be taught as a second language.In UK , French is taught as a second language in schools and we should make efforts to learn arabic. Then we will have no problem in having Khutbah in arabic.Parents in non muslim countries should also encourgae their children and themselves too, to learn arabic.

Thirdly, the issue of namaz and Azaan is in my opinion(and this is still my opinion brother).The essentials are the same, we learn the meaning over the period of time. Majority of muslims recite from the last 20-25 surahs of the Qur'an.If we recite them regualrly we undertsand and learn the meaning. essentially we do know the translation of what we say in namaz and Azaan.

Fourthly. we must ask what is the purpose of khutbah. If it is to teach or educate the audiance then what will be the point of telling them in a language the majority may not understand.

Fifthly.We must ask ourselves what is Waaz and khutbah. Did the prophet pbuh say a seperate waaz and then khutbah or just khutbah. What we are doing is to have a waaz in local language and then khutbah in arabic. is this not because we feel the need of using friday sermon to communicate with our community in some shape or form. We are adding something ie waaz to fulfill it. The question is why not give khutbah in the local language and that will include recitation of Quranic verses with translation, supplications and also advice about issues of the day that we need to know about.

Forgive me if I transgress because of my lack of understanding.As I understand religion, it is the ethos behind the message that is most important to me. To make people undertsand , to deliver knowledge, to answer queries. The current khutbah in our mosque is read from a book of khutbahs that no one can understand.

As I understand that in every act of Islam their is a reason. Fasting is not starvation. Namaz in essence is not exercise but a way to remember Allah. The important thing is why we do it keeping the essentials in mind. does it matter whether the hands are above or below the waist line or whether the rightt foot is straight or flat.

For a very limited period of time, in our mosque ,our imam said that instead of giving a prepared waaz, he will answer queries from the audiance about quetsions they have about Islam.Believe you me it became so enjoyable and interesting, becasue we began to hear the issues and questions of common men, sometimes we are reluctant to ask ourselves.The number in the mosque multiplied by 2 and more importantly people began coming 15-20 minutes early rather than 30 seconds before jammat.

My respected brother, I again stress these are my personal views,please ignore if they are unworthy.If I have transgressed teh limits of religion then I apologise.

Allah knows best[/quote]

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