What is the ruling on listening to the Friday sermon? Is it obligatory or recommended?
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The Shaykh : What is the ruling on listening to the Friday sermon? Is it obligatory or recommended?
The apparent meaning of His saying—Blessed and Exalted is He—:[Al-Jumu'ah 62:9]; that is, to His sermon and the prayer . The apparent meaning of this is that the intended act is attending the sermon. However, attending the sermon is not a condition for the validity of the Friday prayer. Whoever attends has fulfilled this obligation. If he misses part of this sermon, or misses the entire sermon, his prayer is valid, based on what is established: .
The apparent meaning of His saying—Blessed and Exalted is He—:
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
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِذَا نُودِيَ لِلصَّلَاةِ مِنْ يَوْمِ الْجُمُعَةِ فَاسْعَوْا إِلَى ذِكْرِ اللَّهِAnd leave off selling
وَذَرُوا الْبَيْعَThat whoever catches one unit of the Friday prayer has caught the Friday prayer, and whoever misses one unit should pray it as the midday prayer
أنَّ مَن أدرك ركعةً من صلاة الجمعة فقد أدرك الجمعة ، ومن فاتَتْه ركعة فليصلِّها ظهرًا
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