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What is the procedures for prayers when Eid falls on a Friday?

Dated: 05/09/1984

Location: The London Mosque

Language: English

Audience: General

What is the procedures for prayers when Eid falls on a Friday?

First of all, have you heard of the superstitions about this? No. No? Particularly in India and Pakistan, they say it’s a very hard day if Eid falls on a Juma. Because they think it bodes ill of the governments of that country. The governments shatter and fall, and calamities fall sometimes over nations. But it is just a superstition. It has nothing to do with reality.

Now, how that should be done? It is possible to postpone the Eid and bring Juma closer and saying one prayer for both. It is possible to mix Juma with Eid and say the Zohar prayer alone instead of Juma. It is possible also and permissible to perform both Eid and Juma independently as they are, without interfering or changing their character in any way. I have seen all these things happen in my lifetime. Personally, I prefer Juma to be said as Juma and Eid to be said as Eid. But if people from long distances come and it is inconvenience for them to stay that long, then it is not at all in any way, I mean, it’s most welcoming. It shouldn’t be considered as a secondary or a third-rate practice. Because all these are permissible, they are equal in the sense that if you adopt one manner, nobody has a right to censure it. In that, they have an equality.

But normally, if you have the two functions separately performed, I prefer it because you do everything twice before your Lord. And worshipping is a good thing. So, in that sense, it is preferable. Not in the sense that if somebody does not adopt this course, he is condemnable. So, with this clarification, now I go back to this possibility I was going to discuss. If somebody, if in a function people come from countryside and they have to return and the means of communication is such that they cannot wait long and they must return early, they would have to sacrifice their Juma anyway. I can say if Juma is brought earlier and it is mixed with Eid function and Eid is belated slightly, then this can merge into one function.

With the result that Zohar prayer can be said independently or together as the situation may arise. So, this also is a good way because the intention is good. And the third possibility, though from some traditions it is inferred that this also happened, but that is not to be preferred. I think that should be the very rare case where even the Zohar prayer is also brought together and one Juma, one Eid represents both Juma and Zohar prayer and Eid. But in remote, rare cases, this can also happen. I mean, still we have no right to call it something wrong as far as the Sharia goes. This became very controversial once when Hazrat Khalifatul Masih III did it and some people were very critical of it and some people took it as an excuse to spread fitna and trial in the community.

So, that is why I am saying it. It is a very rare thing to do, yet some Ahmadi scholars positively produced evidence that it had happened before during the earlier parts of Islam and it is permissible. But because it happened very rarely, so it is not to be preferred. But if somebody does it, nobody has a right still to censure it.

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Updated on November 11, 2024

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