A khutbah serves as the primary formal occasion for public preaching in the Islamic tradition. Someone who gives the khutbah is referred to as a khatib.
Abbasid Qadi delivers Khutbah in Mosque on the Minbar. (Khutbah was practiced by Caliphate, later it was also adopted by other Muslim rulers)
Worshipers listening to a sermon at the National Mosque of Malaysia
Muslim males can be seen attending khutbah as part of the Eid-al-Adha prayers. Photo taken at Barashalghar union of Comilla's Debidwar Upazila.
Shia khatib Abbas Ali Akhtari giving a sermon in his first Friday prayer in Semnan, 1981.