In the Musjids in Natal which I visited, the English lecture begins immediately after the first Athaan of Jumuah.

Answer

This is a new bid'ah. Bid'ah is not confined to meelad, qiyaam and urs. In our circles (Ahl-e-Deoband) too, acts of bid'ah are perpetrated. The lecture beginning immediately after the Athaan prevents people for engaging in Tahyatul Musjid and the Sunnatul Muakkadah Salaat. Custom constrains the arriving musallis to forego Tahyatul Musjid, and to delay the Sunnatul Muakkadah until after the lecture or the Nikah. This is a despicable bid'ah which interferes with the Salaat and its proper sequence. It disturbs many musallis who are forced to listen to the lecture when it is actually time for the Sunnat Salaat, and to sit through the Nikah ceremony against their wishes. This is not the time for the nikah ceremony which should be performed after the Sunnat and Nafl Salaat. Furthermore, we too have noticed the evil of this bid'ah. After the lecture, the four raka'ts Sunnatul Muakkadah are performed with haste. While many people are still engaging in the Sunnats, the Imaam Sahib hastily mounts the mimbar for the khutbah. The khushu' of musallis is ruined by the haste and the Imaam beginning the khutbah before they have completed. Their minds do not fully concentrate on the Salaat. Part of their mind is focused on hastily completing the Salaat before the Imaam mounts the mimbar. This bid'ah trend should be incumbently abandoned. In many places it has assumed the form of hardcore bid'ah. The next generation will believe that this bid'ah order from the Athaan onwards is Waajib. In fact, even presently if someone performs Tahyatul Musjid or the Sunnatul Muakkadah while the lecture is being delivered, there are unfriendly frowns and glances. Everyone feels constrained by custom to abandon the Masnoon Salaat until the lecture has ended.