Talk:Khutbah

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A fact from Khutbah appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 15 May 2008.

needs citations, especially for the last sentence

[edit] Peace be upon him?

Is the phrase following Muhammeds name in this article ("peace be upon him") really NPOV?

• I have now removed them

[edit] Rewrite/expansion

I'm doing a re-write/expansion of this article here. Anyone interested can contribute.Bless sins (talk) 02:45, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

I've moved the following unsourced content from the article.Bless sins (talk) 04:06, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

The khutba is usually delivered inside a mosque, from a pulpit, as Muhammad, the last prophet of Islam, did when delivering a khutba. The audience is expected to quietly and attentively listen, and refrain from distractions.

There are many forms and modes of delivery of the khutba. While the vast majority of Muslims agree that the khutba should be delivered in the most widely understood language in locality, many deliver it in Arabic, sometimes the exact words said by Muhammad.

The Friday khutba generally consists of two parts, separated by minutes of silence in reflection. The content of the parts and their length is solely at the discretion of the khatib, although it is estimated that the entire khutba of Muhammad never exceeded 15 minutes. At the end of the khutba, and before the Salah the khatib along with the audience make supplications out loud.

The Eid khutba consists is much longer and provides Muslims with a holistic perspective of their community. During the second Eid the khutba is delivered from Arafat to the entire Islamic world.

[edit] Issues from DYK

• Use of "k̲h̲aṭīb" appears to be a completely different transliteration system--why not standardize? Also, if we use a proper transliteration for khaṭīb, why not use khuṭbah throughout since I don't believe there is a standard anglicization (unlike with Qur'an). Of course, mixed transliteration is an issue on almost every Islam-related page.
• "masjid jami�" seems to have an invalid character (although, I thought this university computer had most fonts)--we could use ʿ for the ʿayn?

All in all, good job expanding this article. gren グレン 15:02, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Any accents here were copied by myself from the Encyclopaedia of Islam. I'm not an Arabic speaker, nor an expert, and thus very unsure of the above discussion.Bless sins (talk) 04:38, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Although WP:MOS-AR is quite esoteric, I believe the standard transliteration (without the accents and dots) is preferred. -- tariqabjotu 18:42, 15 May 2008 (UTC)