Towards avoiding mistakes in oration

The melody has spread on pulpits in a terrible, frightening way that calls for seeking help and relying on Allah, the Most High, as well as calling for alarm, announcing warnings, and re-evaluating many who ascend the pulpits without their rightful place. It was a good initiative that I was invited to — with awareness to be thankful for and zeal to be praised — by the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs of the State of Kuwait, to hold a course in skills to overcome mistakes in preaching. It was attended by a select group of preachers, imams, and muezzins. I prepared a memorandum to help achieve the goal for which the course was held. Then many friends — and brothers who missed the course — asked me about that memorandum. I sent it to them and decided to publish it so that the benefit would be widespread. I revisited it, refined it, edited it, and added more exercises, especially those related to avoiding mistakes. I also added two chapters: the first on Arabic phonetic system and reading rules, and the second on the literature of preaching, to be published in this book.