What is the ruling on one who abandons the Friday prayer because he is at work and is not permitted to go to perform the prayer?
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Question:
I work in my country, and my manager does not allow me to go to the Friday prayer. He tells me, "It is on your conscience on the Day of Resurrection," or "It is on your responsibility on the Day of Resurrection." And if I disobey him, he may fire me from the job. What should I do?
Answer:
Praise be to Allah, and Allah has made provision ample. Seek your provision in another place. It is not permissible for you to abandon the Friday prayer. The times of the five daily prayers and the time of the Friday prayer are exceptions; no one interferes with them?
Work does not prevent the obligatory prayers in the mosque or the Friday prayer. This is an exception; it is not included in the work, nor in the lease. It is an exception that is not the right of the employer, but rather it is the right of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). [The Qur'an says:] "Trade or commerce does not divert them from the remembrance of Allah, or the establishment of prayer, or the giving of zakah"[Al-Jumu'ah 62:9]. This is general, applying to wage earners and others who go to the Friday prayer. No one has the authority to prevent them, except in the matter of the slave; the master of the slave has the right to prevent him. As for the free man, no one can prevent him. Yes.
I work in my country, and my manager does not allow me to go to the Friday prayer. He tells me, "It is on your conscience on the Day of Resurrection," or "It is on your responsibility on the Day of Resurrection." And if I disobey him, he may fire me from the job. What should I do?
Answer:
Praise be to Allah, and Allah has made provision ample. Seek your provision in another place. It is not permissible for you to abandon the Friday prayer. The times of the five daily prayers and the time of the Friday prayer are exceptions; no one interferes with them?
Work does not prevent the obligatory prayers in the mosque or the Friday prayer. This is an exception; it is not included in the work, nor in the lease. It is an exception that is not the right of the employer, but rather it is the right of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). [The Qur'an says:] "Trade or commerce does not divert them from the remembrance of Allah, or the establishment of prayer, or the giving of zakah"
O you who have believed, when [the adhan] is called for the prayer on the day of Jumu'ah [Friday], then proceed to the remembrance of Allah and leave trade.
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِذَا نُودِيَ لِلصَّلَاةِ مِن يَوْمِ الْجُمُعَةِ فَاسْعَوْا إِلَىٰ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ وَذَرُوا الْبَيْعَ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم من ترك صلاة الجمعة؛ لوجوده في العمل وعدم السماح له بالذهاب لأداء الصلاة؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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