U.S. mosques debate the use of English

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aadil77 said:
that was no trick, it was his stupid fantasy to call 500 'beautiful' italian girls and try and do dawah to them, what kind of dawah is it if you discriminate against people who aren't 'beautiful'
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Really? I no hear of this? 500! Dude....i'm sooooo joining the Ummah
 
Karl said:
I think it is best to be authentic, so all sermons and so forth are spoken in Arabic in the mosques. Paper translations could be provided for the non Arabic speaking people to read at attendance. This would preserve the culture of Islam and stop it morphing into something else. If everything is changed to English the next thing you know you would get Pepsi Cola funded Rock bands playing along side Friday prayers. LOL
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That is hardly an analogy :skeleton: Those things are completely opposite of each other.
 
Light of Heaven said:
That is hardly an analogy :skeleton: Those things are completely opposite of each other.
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Don't be so complacent it happened in Christianity, only male voices singing plain chant in Latin was allowed in the old Christian Church. Then later musical instruments were allowed and other languages until today they play rock concerts and make a circus of Christianity. Change is a slippery slope, these changes are done incrementally and insideously, this abomination could happen to Islam also if these kind of changes/reforms are permitted.
 
Excuse me? You don't need to be rude. And frankly I said nothing about whether it could happen or not, that's aside from what I'm talking about.

Allahu Musta'an...
 
Woodrow said:
While there are numerous people here who speak Arabic as a first language, the majority of American Arabs are not Muslim.
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The majority of American Muslims are not Arabs, the majority of American Arabs are not Muslim.

(Source : Newsweek)
 
More than 99.% of Indonesian masjids give khutbah in Indonesian or local/regional language.
 
Light of Heaven said:
Excuse me? You don't need to be rude. And frankly I said nothing about whether it could happen or not, that's aside from what I'm talking about.

Allahu Musta'an...
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Are you talking to me? Sorry to offend if you are, I have just put out my thoughts on the subject. But it really dose not matter. It has been forseen that the Religions will all fall, the people will be seduced by the Anti Christ. Haven't we all become just numbers now not people in our own right. A world of papers and numbers and facsism and fear. Slaves to Godless States?imsad
 
Karl said:
Are you talking to me? Sorry to offend if you are, I have just put out my thoughts on the subject. But it really dose not matter. It has been forseen that the Religions will all fall, the people will be seduced by the Anti Christ. Haven't we all become just numbers now not people in our own right. A world of papers and numbers and facsism and fear. Slaves to Godless States?imsad
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Yea I was, considering what that word means...and I said nothing of the sort that you mentioned...:( Khayr...no big.

Yea sooo I understand all that and know that but that's not what I was talking about bro...and I don't remember anymore now...:/
 
Al-Indunisiy said:
Ditto!
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Ditto ?, he's my friend. ;D

Okay, back to topic. I did not say 100% because there are masjid in Indonesia that give khutbah in Arabic language, but those are rare, less than one for every a hundred masjids.

I remember when I was in high school, I went to rural area in Friday and salah juma'ah in a village masjid. In this masjid, the khatib gave khutbah in Arabic. There was an unique thing. If in other masjids, khatib gives khutbah twice, in this masjid khatib gave khutbah once. The second khutbah was given by 'co-khatib' (also in Arabic) who stood beside the mimbar while his right hand grabbed a spear.
 
Wait.....lol....can someone tell me what this Kaddafi nonesense is about? What did he do?


As for the "issue" I dont get why its being debated, I would imagine that the Sheiks, imams and scholars across the world would want khutbha available in every language as to spread the beliefs further.
 
AlbanianMuslim said:
Wait.....lol....can someone tell me what this Kaddafi nonesense is about? What did he do?
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What did Kaddafi do ?....... Established World Islamic Call Society (WICS).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Islamic_Call_Society



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Qaddafy Islamic Center at Babakan Madang village, Bogor, Indonesia. Funded by WICS.
 
north_malaysian said:
i've heard that we will be having Chinese language mosques in Malaysia for the 200,000 Chinese Muslims here...
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Which Chinese language ?. Mandarin, canton, Hakka, Kek, other ?. :)

Few years ago I read on article, there was salah Taraweeh with khutbah in English at Indonesia. That was because the jama'ah were Muslim expatriates.
 

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