You will notice that Mufti Taqi Sahib has classed a non-Arabic Khutbah as Gumraahi, i.e. We edited and reworded certain areas of the fatwa for the sake of brevity. We have extracted excerpts from his fatwa which you may read below. In order to fully understand the matter, we suggest you read Mufti Taqi Usmani’s book ‘The Language of The Friday Khutbah’. The issue of offering the khutbah in English has become a very contentious one. Shaykh is this right or wrong and he also said where is the ‘daleel’ to say you can only do it in Arabic? I follow the Hanafi madhab and I enquired with the head of the Islamic society regarding the khutbah in English and he said that it is allowed in the Hanafi madhab as his teachers were Hanafis and they said it is allowed. I am from a university and they do their khutbah in English.
