Friday Sermon in a Language Other Than Arabic
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner asks: Is it permissible to deliver the Friday sermon in a language other than Arabic?
Answer:
If the entire audience is non-Arab, he preaches to them in their language. However, if there are Arabs among them, even if only a few, he must preach in Arabic and provide a translation for the non-Arabs. Yes, this can be done either through simultaneous translation or by translating after the sermon is finished. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner asks: Is it permissible to deliver the Friday sermon in a language other than Arabic?
Answer:
If the entire audience is non-Arab, he preaches to them in their language. However, if there are Arabs among them, even if only a few, he must preach in Arabic and provide a translation for the non-Arabs. Yes, this can be done either through simultaneous translation or by translating after the sermon is finished. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 29-04-1435هـ — alfawzan.live (1:07:08)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.