Mirch

I used to go to a little mosque on the prairie . The khutba used to be so boring and so lengthy that it was hard to keep your eyes open during khutba.
Once about the whole congregation was sleeping and the khateeb had to wake all of them up by raising his voice and by asking are we all sleeping and then everybody woke up and felt ashamed.

There are many many good Islamic Scholars and orator , they choose good topics handle them brilliantly and deliver them very eloquently but most just think that they are doing their job , their heart and should will not be in choosing a topic , preparing for it and and then their delivery is very poor too.

Then there are some more of my rants , the schedule is not followed ever , the khutba is prolonged and the namaz is delayed . There is nobody to direct the traffic and take care of the parking arrangements . You come out after namaz to rush back to your office and someone would be blocking your car . They would be taking their time to pray their sunnat and nafil namaz and chit chat with people inside the prayer hall.

How many here relate to my experiences ?

I sent this training course for khatteb to my masjid's committee to hand it over to every khateeb before they prepare a khutba , but I am sorry to say it hardly is followed:
Jumaa Khutba Training

But I will keep trying . You can do so too.Print it or email it to all the khateebs of your masjid.

psyah

May Allah (SWT) reward you bro ...

Mirch bro ... have you ever done a khutbah?

Mirch

Ameen.
I am just a student of deen and also suffer from stage fright.

psyah

hehehe

It is really difficult ... I have only done so twice. But I made it a mission to prepare. The second topic was about facing the media hype in a positive manner and not letting us be drawn into a state of negativity as a result of slanderous antics. To show that we are not like what we are said to be like in the papers but to add with concerted effort to be better.

Alhumdulillah I think the topic did me justice and the people were listening without falling asleep. I did not do the khutbah longer than 15 minutes. I tried to use an array of references starting with an article from a newspaper.

The first topic was about the etiquettes of Islam and learning, which was a hard topic made easy because I took most of the material from a single book. On that occasion however, the ameer of the Islamic society complained that I did not read Surah Fatihah properly in jammat so it was read again by someone else. Embarassing ... later he listened to me again and took back his statement.

Mirch

Jazzak Allah for sharing.
I would be curious to know what was his argument about the way you recited sura a fateha ?
I have noted that since there various ways of recitation of Quran so to the ear which is used to one way , the other way seems wrong.
For example in sura a fateha malik a youm ud deen will be recited differently by a reciter from Moroco or from Saudi Arabia.