Explaining what the preacher should do if he is compelled to lengthen the sermon

The Shaykh : However, Islam is very broad in addressing certain special or urgent circumstances without exposing ourselves to changing the methodology or the guidance of the Messenger (peace be upon him) in any of the acts of worship. We know that people today do not desire gatherings of knowledge, except for a few of them, but this does not justify adopting a methodology in the sermon that differs from the methodology of the Messenger (peace be upon him) by lengthening it. Rather, we say that the preacher should shorten the sermon and lengthen the prayer. If a general matter arises for the preacher, the sermon may be a quarter of an hour or half an hour. But we say that if a matter arises for the preacher that compels him to elaborate on some of what has come to him in detail, that is not what requires him to lengthen the sermon. Rather, the sermon is not for teaching; here lies the fundamental error in the matter. The Friday sermon is for admonition and reminder, as the Lord of the Worlds said: So strive toward the remembrance of Allah. The sermon is not a place for teaching, especially if the teaching requires that long time. Nevertheless, I say that if the topic the preacher has addressed requires lengthening, let him remind and summarize, and let him postpone the elaboration after the prayer. Let him say, for example, that this research has a continuation that I will deliver after the completion of the Friday prayer and its sunnah. There, people become free; whoever wishes to sit sits, and whoever wishes to leave leaves. And what is the departure that justifies that preacher or anyone else to take offense at him? Rather, he should remind, for Allah (Mighty and Majestic) says in the completion of the previous verse: . If people disperse immediately after the imam's taslim and do not wish to perform the sunnah, even though performing the sunnah in the mosque, or in the home, or in the shop is better than in the mosque—let us assume he wants to restrict himself only to the obligatory Friday prayer and follow the school of that Bedouin or Najdi who asked the Messenger (peace be upon him) about what Allah had obligated upon him, and the hadith is well known. The important point now is: . He said: Is there anything else upon me besides them? He said: . He said: By Allah, O Messenger of Allah, I will not add to them nor subtract from them. He said: . Therefore, the preacher or anyone else should not take offense at the one who does not attend his lesson after the Friday prayer. But his duty is only to convey the message. So if he completes the topic he mentioned during his sermon after his prayer, he stands... to explain, and he is as He (the Exalted) said: . As for taking as an excuse that people do not desire to hear knowledge, so we impose it upon them as an obligation and confine them to the Friday sermon strictly, this does not benefit the people. And so we find many of those sitting in the sermon either fall asleep and are engrossed in their sleep until their wudu is broken by their consensus, or at least drowsiness takes over them and they do not know whether the seal has been lifted from them or not. So this lesson or this sermon that is imposed upon people as an obligation does not benefit these people.
In summary: When the preacher adheres to maintaining the prayer that the Messenger (peace be upon him) used to pray, with its recitation, its glorification, its tranquility in its bowing and prostration, and the remembrances between them, then we look at how many minutes his prayer took. Let us assume a quarter of an hour. We would say to him, a quarter of an hour is fine to lengthen the sermon. But for the sermon to exceed the prayer in length, this is undoubtedly contrary to the guidance of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). This is what can be said regarding the specification you asked about. In summary, it is not possible to specify with extreme precision, but this specification is linked to the prayer. If he lengthens the prayer within the limits of the sunnah, let him lengthen the sermon close to that lengthening. And if he prays it in five minutes, he must make the sermon five minutes and less than that. And how unlikely it is that they will do so. This is all I have.