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| YOUR Friday Khutbah |
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| bhaloo |
| 11/10/05 at 09:54:06 |
| [slm] I think it would be good if people put up their Friday khutbah here. No, it's not a way for me to see who was paying attention on Friday. ;) And most importantly make sure it's the khutbah that YOU attended and not someone else's khutbah or some khutbah you read on the net. :) |
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| bhaloo |
| 11/12/05 at 17:04:10 |
| [slm] So did anyone go to jumah? ??? *ahem* Dr. Ahmad Sakhr gave the khutbah yesterday at the place I went. By the time I arrived there the 1st hall was filled and the 2nd hall was pretty much empty so I found a place there in the 1st row. I was shocked to see that people were actually talking during the khutbah. Dr. Sakhr talked about the importance of performing Islamic duties as soon as possible and not delaying it. He mentioned how some people say, we'll wait till we are much older and/or richer, and talked about how we don't know how long we have to live. This was the jist of his khutbah. There wasn't really anything new in his material, but it was an honor to be in his company and hear him speak. He's a well respected members of the Islamic community in north America and has been someone that has taken a very positive role in spreading Islam to others. He also talked about the Jordan bombings and how the film maker, a friend of his, of the Message, died in the bombing. He was telling us that this man wanted to make a movie about Sahluddin but people weren't willing to help. That this man had done a lot for Islam, and he had died. One more thing Dr. Sakhr said was that we should send some baklava and the message of Islam (maybe a Quran or other Islamic information) to our neighbors. Give them something sweet with the message of Islam. |
| Re: YOUR Friday Khutbah |
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| AbdulBasir |
| 11/15/05 at 15:58:05 |
| [slm] Mashallah bro, you have always had a passion for this thread about our jummah experiences. How many times over the years have we had this thread or a variation of it? :) Permit me to mention a few things about a jummah I attended two weeks ago. It was the day after Eid, and of course the masjid was packed. The khateeb discussed the topic of voluntary fasting, and encouraged the fasting of the six days of Shawwal. He also reiterated a point which he had mentioned the week before, which was an echo of what Abu Bakr RA had said after the death of the Prophet [saw], replacing the Prophet's name with Ramadan, e.g "If you have been worshiping Ramadan, then know that Ramadan is over, but if you have been worshiping Allah, know that Allah is alive and never dies". What was more memorable however, was what happened after the khutbah and jummah salah was over. Before the usual masjid announcements, our visiting shaykh from abroad, who had led us in Taraweeh throughout Ramadan, wanted to say a few things to the community before he left to go back overseas. Alhamduillah the shaykh has good recitation, but what is more special about him was that he is very simple and humble, in no way acting like a celebrity like some visiting recitors sometimes do. For example, he would come to the masjid on his own in the middle of the night and help the brothers out doing 'itikaf and so on. The shaykh stands up at the mihrab and thanks the masjid and the community for hosting him and remarks about how he has enjoyed coming here yet again (he had been with us before in prior Ramadans). Then, as his eyes began to well up, he said, using an Arabic expression, that if he had harmed anyone, or transgressed against anyone, then "here is my head (e.g to take your right back or to take retaliation)", and while he said this, he removed his kufi and lowered his exposed head. It's hard to describe how emotional this was, and many of us began to cry. It just became overwhelming, even more so after his sincerity and humility reminded me of this other shaykh in a class who begged his students to please grab his hand if he faltered on the sirat, and to grab his hand if they passed the Fire and saw him in it. When people of such caliber say such things, it makes your own state seem so much lowlier and lost in comparison. I thought about the end of the du'a in the Qur'an in surah Naml, where it says "admit me (O Lord), by your Grace, to the ranks of the righteous servants", and I couldn't get past the image of seeing all those ranks of saaliheen, all those righteous scholars and ibaad, all those beloved people in my life, all my brothers and sisters being greeted lovingly at the gates of Jannah, entering paradise... And I was left behind... :( [slm] |
| Re: YOUR Friday Khutbah |
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| amatullah |
| 11/19/05 at 10:54:24 |
| [wlm] The last khutba I attended was the one after Eid. In it he said a hadeeth that the Winter is the Spring of a Believer. This means true believers enjoy winter for their Ibada. They can sleep a good part of the night because they are so long and still wake up and do a good amount of night prayers. While the days are so short that one can easily do voluntary fasts. He reminded us about 6 of shaw-wal and their reward. He said a sentence that i really liked. He said about how we see lots of people in Ramadan and Eid and not usually. So he said if you worship Ramadan then it is gone. But if you worship the Rab of Ramadan, the Rab of all time and space and creatures , then you need to try a little harder outside of that one month. That is all I remember now. |
| Re: YOUR Friday Khutbah |
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| Mujahideen |
| 11/26/05 at 17:49:32 |
| [slm] Well in my community we hire Imam's for their ability cater to the segment of the community which is in political control - Lebanese Arabs. We don't much care about the majority of the community from Pakistan who do not, generally speaking, know Arabic well; and we don't care at all about the converts who generally know little to none. Thus English speaking abilities is not very high on the list of requirements. Our Khutbahs are generally given by having the first in English followed by the second in Lebanese-Arabic. The English Khutbah is almost always entirely devoid of a thesis - mostly general random ramblings and thoughts communicated in incomplete sentences. They talk about this, and then that, and then back to this, and then bring in something from left field which is totally irrelevant to the rest. They are randomly strung together incomplete thoughts and again don't have much in terms of a thesis or point. After the English Khutbah I look foreword to the Arabic to see what they were trying to communicate – often i am not even certain what the topic was intended to be. The Arabic is a little better - at least in terms of it makes a little more sense (even for those who only know MSA and not Lebanese Arabic); but it still lacks a clear thesis presented in a logical manner. The standard fair is a few Aya's and a few Hadith, devoid of context of course, string them together in a random pattern to provide a very weak thesis. The delivery is very good though – well at least it is very entertaining -- apparently for the Lebanese Arab's in my community the delivery of the khutbah is the only critical element - it is wajib for the Imam to raise and lower his voice as well as yell as much as possible. The yelling is especially important as it keeps them awake because they all sit along and walls of the masjid and doze off. It is also Wajib to make several references to Palestine (other oppressed peoples are not important enough to be mentioned however); Palestine is the only important international issue. So if you don't know Arabic at all you will walk away with basically nothing, and if you know Arabic (especially Lebanese Arabic) you'll walk away with a poorly constructed thesis delivered in a very entertaining manner. The only topic we have had for the last two and a half years is 'Donate to the new school we are building' -- that’s it. They have talked about absolutely nothing else and everyone is pretty much sick of hearing about it. It is actually turning people off from donating more, but they don’t seem to care or realize. And then we all sit around and wonder “Where are the youth – and why is this place so empty” So that’s how smart we are. |
| 11/26/05 at 18:09:58 |
| Mujahideen |
| Re: YOUR Friday Khutbah |
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| amatullah |
| 12/02/05 at 11:05:52 |
| I wish more people would actually write information from the khutba that would benefit the rest of us instead of turning into a complaint thread. I don't like people exposing sins or bad attitudes and attributing them to certain nationalities. And someone else confirming it further. I didn't benefit from reading that. |
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| Mujahideen |
| 12/03/05 at 22:17:29 |
| [slm] Humm…well the thread began by asking people to post the content of their Khutbah’s – it was not seemingly restricted to “beneficial” ones. Perhaps some might benefit from knowing that their Jummah’s were not as bad as ours, no? Good and Bad are after all relative matters. |
| Re: YOUR Friday Khutbah |
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| amatullah |
| 12/04/05 at 17:08:20 |
| [wlm] That is fine. My opinion is that it is still wrong to attribute it to particular groups. May Allah open up the hearts and ears and eyes to Islam. May Allah reward the sister who deleted her post and accepted the naseeha with open heart. I love her for the sake of Allah. I've always known her to be someone who rushes towards the good on this board. I am not saying deny your feelings, or don't try to fix that which is wrong. We should. But I just felt this was not the way and maybe even hurtful to others. |
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