And every friday when I listen to the khutbahs , I can't help but feel annoyed at the level of 'maturity' and 'intelligence' the content of the khutbahs and the way the khatib/imam delivers it. To put it simpley, it is outright patronising.
Let us first look at the topics of the khutbah delivered.
More often than not, the content of the khutbah itself are an insult to our intelligence because it usually concerns of issues so minute and insignificant, that members of the audience couldn't be bothered with.
Take this week. Bapa mithali. I assume this is because father s day is not many days away from now.
But what is so significant about bapa mithali??
How many of the audience are interested to listen to a lecture abt bapa mithali??
Islamist has to be real and updated to world challenges, and so does the khutbah s delivered every week.
Shouldn't we be talking abt the challenges of a world facing with energy crisis? Shoudlt we be questioning why is the muslim world, who owns almost 60percent of the known oil reserves, are the worst affected by the current energy crisis? And shouldn't we be talking abt how islam itself is a religion which speaks of a world that is too consumed by worldly matters, that it is a reminder for us all that there is a limit to everything?
And we want to talk abt bapa mithali?
How stupid we malaysian islamist are sometimes.
The problem is, how can we have a khutbah speech which is more updated to the current issues, when the very people who writes those khutbah's are the very islamist who are katak di bawah tempurung that even though they studied overseas (read al azhar) they only mix with malaysians, and they don't even have friends, who are not malaysians. Pi mai pi mai, tang tu jugak.
To make it even worse, more often than not we get really old imams, who reads the sermon, word by word.no intonation whatsoever. Well not that our national leader don't do the same.
We should send this imams to the toastmasters club or something!!
At least, have some energy lah in delivering the khutbah.khutbah are suppose to be fiery and motivating, not a sleeping pill!
With this kind of topics and this kind of imams, they expect us, the mamums not to fall asleep during the khutbahs?
I think I'm gonna fall asleep now..
ZzzzZzzz.....
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Ifell asleep..yet again :(
Blame the khutbahs!
reminds me of funny things people do during jummah...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vCsmN-_VJGc
Salam,
Having read your post could not resist to reply and see if my experience of similar issue would help in your local mosque.
Having studied at Al-Azhar does not mean one is capable of getting people interested.
Some (perhaps very few if I may say) khatibs of our time do not have the skills to address their audience in a insightful and invigorating ways.
My best advice is that you seat with them and rather then blaming them for such a boring khutbahs, you start teaching them how they can address the people in different ways and make it more interesting and relevant.
If we don't tell them they'll never know about it. Showing respect for them is good but same time you should tell them where they can improve. If the khatib is sincere in pleasing Allah then very likely he'll come and ask you after the next khutbah about his performance.
Khatibs should speak to the people after the khutbahs so that he gets an understanding of what people understood from the khutbah on the day.
I have tried it and it has worked, Alhamdulliah. Some time you may have to challenge them on some topic with your views so that they understand where you are coming from. But always keep your professional relationships with them and speak to them with respect, always seek a ways to build good relation with them so that they will listen to you.
After all he is the one given privileged of addressing the people and not you.
Hope I hear a positive things in future. Insha-allah.
The system in this country is that you have to be 'bertauliah' before you can actually 'read' the khutbah text. Bloody hell, you need to get certified before you can read. Even then, many of the khatibs stutter when reading the khutbah.
The tauliah thing is wrong in the first place, where those who tend to support other than UMNO would not get the tauliah.
The khutbah text is another way of the BN government to memperbodohkan rakyat. Why? Because they are shit scared to talk about other stuff.
Missing those days in the Uni, when people just stood up and deliver the khutbah passionately.
Couple of months ago, I was on my way from PD to nilai. I stopped at masjid sepang. And surprisingly, I did not fall asleep during the khutbah, because it was quite interesting. Then I realised, Sepang is in selangor, which is a PR government. No wonder the khutbah was more interesting.
And firdaus, don't blame the islamist. It was not the islamist who set up the khutbah. It was some people trying to please their UMNO bosses, cari makan maa
yeah.. i thought the text was standardized somehow bukey? Donno lah tok rajing dengar tu gak. Heh.
Hey!! Dont tel me you sent this entry when you were listening to khutbah at the Masjid near my office after you saw me hari tu!!!!
i couldn't agree more with firdaus. last's friday's sermon was a lullaby for me as it titled khurafat and the khatib touches on nombor ekor, etc. i guess this is bcos the mentality of the malays who couldn't leave the nombor ekor mentality. could'nt blame the khatib much cos the jabatan agama who prepared the text.however, you must distiguish constructive critism with outright finger-pointing. i think wht firdaus wrote was nothing short of constructive critism. and we should learn to take critism, not just being defensive.
well, the best mosque to sleep thru the khutbah is still the Masjid Negeri Pulau Pinang... ZZZZ..zzz...ZZZ..zz... sometimes i'd rather listen to my mp3 player. heh.
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Googling for khutbah malaysia, found dis blog, quite interesting. I dnt know whethr ni dauh yg kukenali or not. Wish him yg tbaik
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