{"id":6179,"date":"2024-07-10T07:42:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/language-of-friday-sermon\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:24:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:24:14","slug":"language-of-friday-sermon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/language-of-friday-sermon\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Of Friday Sermon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>Has the second  portion of Friday Congregation Sermon to be in Arabic or can it be said  in English or any other language? I ask this because in Atlanta USA  some new Mufti&#8217;s say your Friday Prayer is not complete if the second  portion of the sermon is said in a language other than Arabic.<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>Mr Ghamidi believes that the problem you are confronting is  because of the Hanafi understanding about Friday Sermon. Their opinion  is that it should all be in Arabic. The rest understand that the sermon  is meant to deliver a message to the participants and therefore it  should be in the language they understand.<\/p>\n<p>There is no problem whatsoever in delivering sermon in English or  any other language. Even the prayers in the sermon can be in a language  other than Arabic. In Malysia, which is a predominantly Shaf&#8217;i country  with state-controlled Masajid, the sermon is in the local language. Only  the prayer for the king is in Arabic. That too is because of their  tradition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Dr. Khalid Zaheer<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2014-12-09<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6179\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has the second  portion of Friday Congregation Sermon to be in Arabic or can it be said  in English or any other language? 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