Relevance of Friday Sermons at Mosques

Your concerns are legitimate, yes, many of the Khutbas (sermons) are irrelevant, and have nothing to do with my day to day life.

Some of them are downright stupid, as a Muslim, I don’t want to mince the words; A Khateeb was telling in a mosque that Aids is not a Muslim issue, because we are so pious we don’t get Aids – there were several medical doctors in the congregation… I don’t know if they dove into the cell phone or did not have the courage to speak up, but I went to read stuff in my cell phone instead of listening to the Imam.  I communicated that in my note a few weeks later, and guess what happened – well of course, Imam is more believable.