{"id":427,"date":"2011-08-20T00:47:25","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T00:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/wp\/?p=427"},"modified":"2011-08-20T00:47:25","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T00:47:25","slug":"how-far-does-the-mosque-have-to-be-for-one-to-be-excused-from-attending-jumma-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/how-far-does-the-mosque-have-to-be-for-one-to-be-excused-from-attending-jumma-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"How far does the mosque have to be for one to be excused from attending Jumma Prayer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Assalaamu alaikum,<\/pre>\n<pre>\u00a0I would like to know how far does the mosque have to be for one to be excused from attending Jumma Prayer?<\/pre>\n<pre>JazakAllah<\/pre>\n<pre><strong>In the name of Allah, the most beneficent, the most merciful.<\/strong><\/pre>\n<pre><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Jumma salah is compulsory upon free, adult, sane and healthy men who reside in a city, town or a big village and are able to participate in the prayer without any difficulty, fear or danger to their lives. (Durrul Mukhtar, Vol 1, P602)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However there are some conditions (pre-requisites), which are required to be met before it will be correct and valid to perform Jumma. These are:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Jumma salah should be performed in a city, town or a large village. It will not be valid if it is held in the jungle, or a small village.<\/li>\n<li>Jumma should be performed at Zuhr time.<\/li>\n<li>Khutbah (sermon by the imam) should be delivered before the prayer.<\/li>\n<li>Jumma should be performed in a congregation which has at least three men besides the imam.<\/li>\n<li>Izne Aam (permission to all to attend).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Another pre-requisite in an Islamic state, is that the Muslim ruler himself or a deputy appointed by him should organize the Friday Prayer.\u00a0(Durrul Mukhtar, Vol 1, P590)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When the above conditions are met then it is compulsory for a person to attend Jumma. Allah states in the Quran<em>: \u201cO believers! When the call for Salah (prayer) is made on Friday (the day of congregational prayers), hasten to the remembrance of Allah <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>and cease your business. That is better for you if you but knew.\u201d<\/em> (Al Jumu\u2019ah: 9)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Imam Qurtubi in commentary of the above verse states that according to the Hanafi School of thought it is compulsory for a resident of a city, (town or a big village) to hasten towards Jumma regardless of distance and whether he can hear the call to prayer or not. However it will not be compulsory for a person residing outside of the city even if he can hear the call to prayer. (Tafsir-e-Qurtubi, Vol 18, P92)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Only Allah knows best<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sayeedur Rahman<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Darul Ifta, Birmingham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assalaamu alaikum, \u00a0I would like to know how far does the mosque have to be for one to be excused from attending Jumma Prayer? JazakAllah&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}