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For those unfamiliar with the format of the sermon at a Friday prayer, it is traditionally broken into two parts, with the first being more open in its thematic approach, often related specifically to matters of the day, and then the second part usually around a theme more specifically related to the Prophet, although the two parts don't have to be equal in length. I also used to make a long recitation for the first rakah and a short one for the second - to give latecomers the best chance to make a full prayer. But whatever I was doing wrong, the numbers turning up on a Friday just trailed away, until eventually I decided that rather than talk to myself I would let them find an imam with a voice that they preferred.
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