In most Musjids there is a new trend on the Day of Jumuah.

Answer

Undoubtedly, it is a bid'ah. It is a new-fangled bid'ah. The primary objective for attending the Musjid on Jumuah and for the daily Salaat, is to perform Salaat. The bayaan is secondary. It is not permissible to interfere with the Sunnah method of performing the acts of ibaadat. When a person arrives at the Musjid, his first Waajib duty is to perform two raka'ts Tahyatul Musjid. Thereafter he has to engage in the four raka'ts Sunnatul Muakkadah.

The practice which you have explained has displaced this Sunnah. Furthermore, after the bayaan, everyone rushes through the four raka'ts Sunnatul Muakkadah. In most Musjids, the Imaam makes haste to proceed to the mimbar even while many musallis are engaged in Salaat. Those responsible for this custom bear the sin of the calamity of preventing people from the primary ibaadat of Salaat, and the Sunnatul Muakkadah of Tahyatul Musjid. They further, are guilty of preventing people from performing the four raka'ts Sunnatul Muakkadah in its proper time, and the proper time is not an orchestrated time - a time which has become fixed after the bayaan. With the passing of time, the next generation will believe that it is compulsory to delay the four raka'ts and perform it after the talk which itself has attained bid'ah proportions by virtue of it being regarded to be incumbent. Nowadays the talk too is considered to be a constituent of the Jumuah Salaat proceedings.

Due to this custom, people feel pressurized to forgo Tahyatul Musjid and to delay the Sunnatul Muakkadah unnecessarily. Even the bid'ah practices of the Ahl-e-Barelwi sect had begun innocently and with good intentions. But all acts initiated in conflict with the Sunnah develop into hardcore bid'ah irrespective of sincere and good intentions.

People should not feel obliged to sit and listen to the talk on Jumuah. They should not abandon Tahyatul Musjid nor delay the four Raka'ts Sunnatul Muakkadah. The Ulama and Imaams of the Musaajid should take heed and refrain from initiating practices which will most assuredly develop into bid'ah. The argument of benefits should not be presented when the practice has neither origin nor sanction in the Sunnah. There are benefits in everything in this dunyah, good or bad. Nothing is devoid of benefit, even major sins have worldly benefits. The criterion is the Shariah. Its letter, form and spirit have to be zealously guarded by the Ulama.