It's Friday and for Muslims it's a day of joy, celebration and goodness. Reminders of goodness should be descending from every pulpit, shouldn't they? Sometimes, it seems like very few of us are actually listening (or able to understand) what's being said. Are we actually listening the Friday sermon and are those delivering the sermons doing justice to a tradition that is at the very heart of a believer's spiritual week? In this incisive iKhutbah, Shaykh Umar al-Khatib - himself a trained sermon-giver and caller to the way of God's mercy - makes it plain: the sermon is important and both listener and Imam must make each Friday sermon count. After all, the Prophet gave sermons with vigour, passion, awareness and concern for his community and humanity. We ought to aspire for the same.