The Khat?b should also avoid using strange or foreign terms of which people have no knowledge nor could understand for doing so will not avail them in aught and this is of the most detested Bida‘, All?h ( - عز وجل -) knows what is best’. (1)

Describing the prophet’s ( - ) manner regarding the Friday Khutbah, Ibn Al-Qayyim said: ‘While delivering the Khutbah, he ( - ) used to teach his Sah?bah the principles of Isl?m and its rulings, enjoin [on] them [what is good] and forbid them [from that which is evil] whenever the need arises’. (2)

To conclude, the good exhortation exemplified in reciting Qur’?n or other Shar?‘ah texts in a way easy to be understood, free from affected rhetoric and mysterious symbols, is the soul of the Khutbah.

Following the prophet’s ( - ) manner in delivering the Khutbah is an obligation [on every Khat?b] for it is an explanation for the general ‘?yah in S?rah Al-Jumu‘ah and his had?th which states: ‘Perform Sal?t as you have seen me performing it’. This view was held by Ash-Sh?fi‘?.

Some scholars, such as Al-Maghrib? in his “Al-Badrut Tam?m” and many others, held that the prophet’s ( - ) repeated practice is in itself a proof on the discussed obligation and it is an apparent indication of the evidences [discussed earlier]. All?h ( - عز وجل -) knows best. (3)

J?bir Ibn Samurah described the prophet’s ( - ) Khutbah briefly saying: ‘He ( - ) used to deliver two Khutbas having a rest in between, reciting the Qur’?n and admonishing people’. (4)

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