Khutbah

In ritual acts of worship, too many of us obsess over quantity at the expense of quality, and over form at the expense of substance. These are my lecture notes which represent a study of the important concept of Khushu, or the inner quality of prayer.

Jama’ah Jumat yang dirahmati Allah SWT

Kehidupan sekarang ini, di tengah kota besar dan di daerah-daerah yang sudah mulai berkembang, dalam menata hidup itu semakin agak rumit. Bukan disebabkan sulitnya dalam mencari uang, namun dikerenakan susahnya menemukan uang yang halal. Sebab kondisi dizaman sekarang ini, hampir semuanya dicampur yakni antara yang halal dan yang haram.

This paper aims to introduce children’s khutbah as a new genre in children’s literature. Beginning with the connection of its name with its target group, it gives information about its style and techniques applied in formation of the texts. And its place in children’s literature.

800x600 Friday prayer is indeed a very important weekly occasion because it involves a large section of the Muslim community regardless of their social standing. The sermon (khutbah) is the opportunity to deliver the essential message of Islamand to remind the congregation of their mistakes and shortcomings. Only a right person is appointed for the job . The study used CDA approach by Norman Fairclough. The data taken from youtube that broadcast Friday Khutbah in English. From the study, it is found that in delivering his khutbah , the khatib cited the ayah from the Holy Quran, of course, in Arabic language, to make better understanding. It can be used to convince the jamaah that the khutbah really agree with the content of the Holy book Al Quran, the most comprehensive source book for Muslim. Besides, it was not only the jamaah who should follow the instruction of the khutbah but all people include the khatib , that is why the khatib used the personal pronoun ‘we’ instead of ‘you’ ...

The key idea in this Khutbah is how to do Islamic politics while respecting the commandment "there is no compulsion in religion". This Khutbah was given on August 12, 2016 at the ICC Lancaster, PA.
It crafts a vision for Muslim role in American politics.

Throughout history the skill of public speaking has been of utmost importance for army commanders who intend to be successful on the battlefield. In order to recruit an army, commanders have to convince troops to join their forces. In ancient and medieval times, opposing armies typically encamped in close proximity to one another for long periods of time before engaging in battle, thus the commander's ability either to calm or motivate his troops accordingly was essential during the pre-battle stage. For example, the Byzantine Emperor Maurice (d. 615 CE) stressed the importance of public speaking for his army commanders in his handbook on military strategy. In his section on the things generals must consider before battle, he lists the category, “Using Speeches to Encourage Troops,” under which he states that: "Suitable speeches should be given to encourage [the troops], recalling their former victories, promising rewards from the emperor, and recompense for their loyal service to the state." It is therefore evident that fluency and effectiveness in public oration were key elements in the makeup of a competent and successful general,
and that the skill was highly valued by this Byzantine emperor at the beginning of the seventh-century shortly before the advent of the Islamic conquests.

Despite the importance of oration to successful leadership, Western scholars in the field of Arab-Islamic history and literature have given marginal attention to the literary genre of the khuṭba (oration)—while the sub-genre of battle oration
(al-khuṭab al-ḥarbiyya) has been completely neglected—even though the khuṭba is a ubiquitous feature in the early Arab-Islamic historical sources. In order to address this lacuna in Western scholarship, this paper thematically analyzes a
selection of pre-battle orations that were reportedly given by Arab-Muslim military commanders during the conquests of Syria, Iraq, and Persia (634-646 CE). From this analysis, my paper attempts to set up a basic typology for battle khuṭbas that identifies their primary themes and how these themes relate to the Quran conceptualization of fighting and warfare.