Friday Prayer for Workers in Remote Farms
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Question:
This is a worker on a farm, Shaykh. He sent a question to the program, saying: We are on a farm, and our number is eighteen workers. Most of us cannot read, and some of us are educated. The large mosque is very far away; we do not go to it except by car for a half-hour. Do we pray the Friday prayer in a case like this, or the midday prayer?
Answer:
They pray the midday prayer. They pray the midday prayer because the Friday prayer requires permission and requires a settled population. These people are excused from going to the Friday prayer from a long distance. They pray it in their place as the midday prayer. Yes.
This is a worker on a farm, Shaykh. He sent a question to the program, saying: We are on a farm, and our number is eighteen workers. Most of us cannot read, and some of us are educated. The large mosque is very far away; we do not go to it except by car for a half-hour. Do we pray the Friday prayer in a case like this, or the midday prayer?
Answer:
They pray the midday prayer. They pray the midday prayer because the Friday prayer requires permission and requires a settled population. These people are excused from going to the Friday prayer from a long distance. They pray it in their place as the midday prayer. Yes.
Source
قناة «مكة و المدينة»، 14 / فتاوى على الهواء - 25 05 1438هـ _ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (6:30)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.