in the UK, it goes something like this:
1pm - speech in Urdu or English
1.25 - announcements
1.30 - first adhan and 4 Sunnah
1.40 - second adhan and Arabic khutbah, which isn't extempore. It is like the one posted above.
1.45 - jumuah jamaat
sans timing and announcements, this is pretty much the pattern in north america too. we can have announcements before bayan or before first adhan or after namaz, especially if they're fundraisers, for mosques or gaza or community services of course.
in fact this is a non-Arab Hanafi staple in most of what i've seen. turkiye, north cyprus too follow this pattern mostly. if i'm not mistaken, bosnians and albanians, who follow turks, do the same. the bayan is on one side of the mihrab, the actual khutbah on the minbar on the other side. even devbandis do the same.
with turks, the bayan may even be more distinctly different than our case, like a study halaqa, with the speaker delivering the talk being seated on an elevated platform. then after the sunnah, he/imam will ascend the minbar for the khutbah.
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with Arabs in Arab lands, the bayan IS the khutbah and the khutbah IS the bayan, and is extempore, or pre-prepared at home and bullet points noted on paper, and/or handed over by authorities - on any pertinent topic
- respect of parents
- prohibition of intermingling & drugs
- if you're lucky, ineptitude of the current "system"; if you're not so lucky, sycophantic support of the "system"
- etc.
with references from Quran, hadith, sayings of scholars etc. and of course salawat 3ala Nabi 3alaihis salam - thereby fulfilling the requirements of the khutbah.
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non-Hanafis in the west
hybrid khutbahs/bayans - Arabic ayahs, ahadith, salawat 3ala Nabi wa alihi wa ashabihi ajma3een along with english explanations etc.
You should speak the language prevalent in that country. It should rather be that all Desi Ulama learn english and have conversing capabilities at the least to deliver the true Islamic message in order for the awaam to understand.
Imagine speaking arabic in a jummah bayaan and the public looks at the speaker dumbfounded.
agree re learning the local language/english of course
point taken re considering the audience and their attention spans, Arabic language skills, temperaments etc. many people make it a point to come only at the khutbah time.
perhaps i jumped the gun to make this point you articulated below:
However I do agree that at minimum ulama should narrate the matn of the Hadith shareef and quranic aayat and then translate it closest possible. This methodology of narrating the summary (mafhūm) of a hadith in a local language should stop. I personally feel this stems from the syllabus designed to teach hadith works in the last year of study therefore students become lax as they almost there. They don't need to completely byheart Bukhari shareef et al and like that just graduate. Therefore maybe a period or daily hifz of ahadith with its meaning needs to be included possibly after you have completed sarf and nahw.
This also bring up the point of laziness. Graduates in most cases (and in recent times) are more focussed on social media and building up the image as an aalim rather than spending a lot of their time reading books like in most cases that i have seen they will share book haul pics and flex how big their libraries are meanwhile cant even read most of the books that are shown, they will then buy translations of those books copy and past the matn then 'retranslate' those text using better vocab, all this to flex their 'scholarly' capabilities. Therefore over time they get lazy and even stop preparing for speeches and regurgitate the same old speeches that they have heard from their teachers or narrations they studied during their education phase.
In this day and age it easy for you to sort of 'enhance' your Arabic. Numerous books have been published in Arabic that teach conversational Arabic. Lectures from Arab ulama are widespread on youtube. Even dunyawi books are now translated into Arabic (e.g. rich dad poor dad) and many others.
jazak Allah khayr
Hence to use jummah day to practise Arabic isn't a good idea.
which is what i alluded to here:
maybe we can let the khutbah templates stay, but we certainly need to have extempore Arabic oratory as a mandatory requirement for the new mufti/ mawlana/ aalim/ peer/ Darse Nizami etc syllabi!
to address the dismal state of speakers' knowledge in our times.
come on! if an influencer like nouman ali khan, who started as an english-speaking youtube comedian (for the community of course), can continuously "upgrade" himself and learn to speak conversational Arabic and cite Arabic textual sources (and can be called "mufassir" - by others, or perhaps himself), Sunni mawlanas, muftis and peers should be doing better! (disclaimer: i don't endorse the guy or believe he is knowledgeable or has understanding of the topics he addresses, even from a wahabi or any standpoint that he supposedly represents. however, it IS cool that he developed himself inasmuch as learning Arabic is concerned)
