Have We Reduced Jumu’ah To A Few Minutes Of Prayer?

Today, when I look around, I cannot help feeling that something fundamental has changed. In many mosques, worshippers remain absent during the sermon only to arrive in large numbers just before the prayer begins. Some appear to calculate their arrival according to the expected time of Salah rather than the beginning of the Khutbah.
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