And since AIIah has forbidden these, jurists of Islam are agreed that after the call has been sounded for the Friday Prayer aII forms of trade, business and worldly occupation become forbidden | Note it well: the Prayer of such a one will be no, prayer at all, his zakat will be no zakat at aII, his Hajj no Hajj, his fasting no fasting, and no good done by him will be good, until he repents |
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Bukhari, Abu Da'ud, Nasa'i, Tabarani | 5 The time appointed by the Holy Prophet upon whom be Allah's peace for this Prayer was after the declining of the sun, the same time which is for the Zuhr Prayer |
This Command absolutely confirms the obligatory nature of the Friday Prayer.
In the tradition of Hadrat Jabir bin 'Abdullah, his words arc to the effect: "Friday Prayer is obligatory on the person who believes in AIlah and the Last Day unless it is a woman, or a traveller, or a slave, or a sick man | The call to the Prayer is the same adhan which is being called the world over five times daily in every mosque |
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In the pre-Islamic days of ignorance the Arabs called it the 'Arabah Day | In spite of this express argument anyone who claims that the Shari ah commandments are only those which have been stated in the Qur'an, is not in fact a denier of the Sunnah but of the Qur'an itself |
This me hod too was prescribed by' the Holy Prophet upon whom be peace , and this verse of the Qur'an was sent down only to stress its importance and obligatory nature.
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