Friday, November 16, 2012

Friday Prayer, It’s Virtues, Rulings, etc

Bismillah Assalamualikum warahma tullahiwabaraka tuhu

Because my dear near lovely sisters wanted to know about Friday and why we have friday prayer etc, i have gathered for them what i could at this moment, and i hope it would be MORE than enough inshaaAllah. 

So # 1: http://ar.scribd.com/doc/113481192/Friday-Prayer - from the book of Shaykh Saleh al-Fawzan called: A Summary of Islamic Jurisprudence (Vol 1) - PDF of the books are found HERE
     # 2: http://ar.scribd.com/doc/113484702/Friday-Prayer-Chap-Bulug-Al-Maram - This is one of the hadith book by Imam Ibn Hajr where he gathers hadith from major six books of hadith [Bukhari, Muslim, an-nasaee, Tirmidhi, Sunan Abi Dawud, and sunan ibn majah] in terms of the fiqh topics, book is called: Bulugh al-maram. [MSO library has this book, so if you want, borrow it from the library and benefit inshaaAllah.]
    # 3: http://ar.scribd.com/doc/113485056/8-Friday-Prayer-Recitation - from the book of Imam Nasir-uddin Al-Albanee called: Prophet's Prayer Described - Free download here: http://fatwa-online.com/downloads/dow004/index.htm - in the software named: The Prophet's Prayer - v3.21

Fatawa from the Major Scholars are found here: 

Fatwas of Ibn Baz
Browse by Volume Number > Volume 30 > Book on Mulhaqat Al-Salah (2) > Book on Jumu`ah Prayer

Fatwas of the Permanent Committee
Browse by Volume Number > Group 1 > Volume 8: Salah 3 > Jumu`ah Prayer

And now one beneficial point to remember 

if someone asks you as to why we have friday as a day to pray specifically, then 
# 1 Answer is: Allah has chosen this for us an honor to us to worship Him. Allah ordered us to do it and thus we follow and comply that's it. 

Because Islam means submission in literal sense of this single word in Arabic to English translation, and Muslim is one who submits and surrenders to the Will of Allah.
Therefore, our response always with the orders of Allah is: We hear and we obey, not like the JEWS who said, we hear and disobey. 

The companions of the Prophets sallallahu alayhe wa sallam were like this. Alhamdulillah. 

However, there are wisdoms and benefits that Allah and His Messengers informed us and we are happy to know them, if there was none, then we say, we hear and we obey because our belief is that Allah is MOST WISE thus out of His infinite Wisdom He ordered the matter for us, and we believe and submit to that.

I am sure you will agree with me, that how many trails that hit us, if we know nothing about the benefits and harms of them at the on going moments, then certainly we come to know many benefits and harms after the trail was lifted from us. alhamdulillah. You can think and ponder on this and you will know the reality better.

Jazakumul Allahu khayran.
wassalamualikum.

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   لاَ تَعْمَلْ للِنَّاسِ شَيْئاً Don't do anything for the sake of people!
وَ لاَ تَتْرُكْ لَهُمْ شَيْئاً And don't stop doing things because of them!
وَ لاَ تُغَطِّ لَهُمْ شَيْئاً And don't hide anything from them! 
وَ لاَ تَكْشِفْ لَهُمْ شَيْئاً And don't reveal anything to them!


Success is failure turned inside out; 
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt;
And you never can tell how close you are, 
It may be near when it seems afar; 
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit; 
It's when things seem worst that you mustn't quit.