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Is it permissible to talk about politics and 'big things' in a friday khutbah? (the shar`ee khutbah that is part of jum`ah).

Khilafat is a part of Islam. Islam encompass every aspect of our lives. I don't think what the Imam said will come under vain talk about petty politics. Establishing Khilafat is Fard Kifaya.

You see brother, that is the WHOLE POINT of having a caliphate!!!

If people are not spritually strong, we need a caliph to establish a framework that would guide people towards that end.

Of course, a caliph is not charged with washing everyone's hearts, but not even the ambiyaa were ordered to do so. They invited, and it was up to people to accept.

Plus, a caliph has been empowered with amr bil ma'foof wa nahy anil munkar of the HAND. So he is allowed - rather, commanded - to destroy evil - music, movies etc. physically. We can sit down and complain, that there is too much fitnah nowadays, but a caliph can actually go out and change things, bi iznillah.

Now, whether people accept his deeds and become spiritually strong or try to find loopholes and circumvent the laws, that's not directly the caliph's problem. Of course, he should have ways to deal with these recalcitrants, but he has fulfilled the first obligation of "forbidding evil by the hand."

Of not, a BIG problem, a deadly vicious cycle will engulf us.

No caliph => too much fitnah

Too much fitnah => People say, "What's the use of a caliph if people are so corrupt?"

Result => futher away from a caliphate and fitnah worsens

What happens? Double trouble! A never-ending game which plays DIRECTLY into the hands of the orientalists/secularists/modernists who ACTIVELY SEEK to preserve the status quo.

It is to break this cycle that the sheik delivered such a khutbah (like many, many others - including Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai rah. with his famous bayaanat)

Jazakallah khair

Well said Akhi. Its indeed has become a viscous cycle.