Is the Friday bath obligatory or not? And does a person sin if he leaves it off for an excuse?
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The questioner : Is the Friday bath obligatory or not?
The Shaykh : Obligatory.
The questioner : Okay; I have a question.
The Shaykh : Prepare your case. Bring it so we can see.
The questioner : We had agreed, me and some young men, that we would come at a specific time to come to the gathering here.
The Shaykh : You had agreed with a group.
The questioner : So that at a specific time, say seven o'clock, we would come to the gathering and meet so we could come here by car.
The Shaykh : For the sake of your attendance at this meeting.
The questioner : And we had agreed that the bath would be done beforehand so that the person would make it in time, but sleep overtook me and I did not wake up, so I woke up late.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : So I got up and performed wudu, and I said: better not to miss the prayer so I can pray the Fajr prayer; because the prayer in its time, if... I saw the group was about to leave, and they meant to say if you are late, we will go and catch up with you, so I said: it is better that the session of knowledge, if Allah wills, be blessed, so that I come before I bathe; so what is obligatory for me now?
The Shaykh : Since you were in this specific matter that happened to you and you exerted your own effort in it, you are rewarded in any case; either two rewards or one reward; so the matter is easy. But if you had not exerted this effort that is obligatory for every Muslim to exert for his own specific case where there is no one to ask, and let no one understand from my answer that it is permissible to exert effort in every issue? No.
The questioner : ... the effort.
The Shaykh : [The Shaykh laughs].
The questioner : My Shaykh, a person who is in a state of wudu from the Fajr of Friday, is wudu obligatory for him or does he remain in the state of the Friday bath with the wudu of the Fajr of Friday?
The Shaykh : No, and he prays Asr, Maghrib, and Isha with the same wudu.
The questioner : Without...
The Shaykh : Obligatory.
The questioner : Okay; I have a question.
The Shaykh : Prepare your case. Bring it so we can see.
The questioner : We had agreed, me and some young men, that we would come at a specific time to come to the gathering here.
The Shaykh : You had agreed with a group.
The questioner : So that at a specific time, say seven o'clock, we would come to the gathering and meet so we could come here by car.
The Shaykh : For the sake of your attendance at this meeting.
The questioner : And we had agreed that the bath would be done beforehand so that the person would make it in time, but sleep overtook me and I did not wake up, so I woke up late.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : So I got up and performed wudu, and I said: better not to miss the prayer so I can pray the Fajr prayer; because the prayer in its time, if... I saw the group was about to leave, and they meant to say if you are late, we will go and catch up with you, so I said: it is better that the session of knowledge, if Allah wills, be blessed, so that I come before I bathe; so what is obligatory for me now?
The Shaykh : Since you were in this specific matter that happened to you and you exerted your own effort in it, you are rewarded in any case; either two rewards or one reward; so the matter is easy. But if you had not exerted this effort that is obligatory for every Muslim to exert for his own specific case where there is no one to ask, and let no one understand from my answer that it is permissible to exert effort in every issue? No.
The questioner : ... the effort.
The Shaykh : [The Shaykh laughs].
The questioner : My Shaykh, a person who is in a state of wudu from the Fajr of Friday, is wudu obligatory for him or does he remain in the state of the Friday bath with the wudu of the Fajr of Friday?
The Shaykh : No, and he prays Asr, Maghrib, and Isha with the same wudu.
The questioner : Without...
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