March 2011 - Nationwide drive for all Khuddam to attend Jumma Prayer.
Dear Brothers! Attending Friday prayers in congregation is the religious obligation of every Muslim. Lets try to take time off for Jumma and decorate our mosques. Holy Prophet (saw) said, Allah Talah puts a seal on a person's heart who misses three consecutive Friday prayers without any genuine reason. To obtain  an official letter from Sadr MKA to take time off for Jumma, please see detailed instructions on the Tarbiyyat homepage.

Importance of Jumma according to the Holy Quran
O ye who believe! When the call is made for Prayers on Firday, hasten to the remembrance of Allah, and leave off all business. That is better for you, if you only knew. [62:10]



WHY attend Jumma Prayers?



                                       

 

 

 

    

Importance of Jumma according to Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa (saw)

  

“Let my people beware of neglecting the Friday prayer, Allah will set a seal upon their hearts and they will be counted among the negligent one’s”

 

 "Anyone who thoughtlessly missed three Friday prayers consecutively, has his heart sealed by Allah”

“If you are in a village and the Adhan is pronounced for the Friday prayer, it is obligatory for you to present yourself for the Friday prayer wether you hear the Adhan or not”  

Importance of Jumma according to Hazrat Masih Maud (as) 

 

“Of all the obligations of a Muslim, the most important is prayer, and of all the prayers, none is so essential to be recited in congregation as the Friday service prayer. The Friday is in fact the greatest Muslim festival. The Holy Qur’an regards it as a holiday. A whole chapter of the holy book entitled "the Friday" has been devoted to it. In that chapter Almighty God commands Muslims to quit all their worldly affairs when they are summoned to prayer of Friday, to assemble in mosques and to say the Friday prayers with due observance of all the requirements of the Law. The person who does not act in obedience of these injunctions is regarded by the Holy Qur’an as guilty of a deadly sin and almost outside the circle of Islam. Far more stress has been laid upon attendance at the Friday Sermon and prayers than upon Eid. It is on the account of this importance of the Friday in the Muslim faith that Friday has universally been observed as a holiday among the Muslims from the very earliest time that Islam took its rise”

 

Day Off on Friday - Announcement published by Hadhrat Massih e Maud on January 1st 1896

 

Friday Sermons of Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (aba) on Importance of Jumma

  

Friday Sermon Nov 2, 2003

Friday Sermon Nov 12, 2004

Friday Sermon Oct 20, 2006  

Friday Sermon Oct 12, 2007

Friday Sermon Sep 26, 2008 

 

 

 

 

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 What is Jumma to Me. (By Rizwan Malik- Laurel)

Jum’aa is the day I pray to Allah

When I kneel beside my brothers

And pray for many others

That is the day called Jum’aa.

Before the eyes of God I lay

My worries and my sorrows

And hope for many good tomorrows;

My heart is not betrayed.

We travel many miles,

We bear adverse conditions,

The fog of doubt, the raining repetitions,

Could fill many a Nile.

Though we cover our heads,

To protects us from this downpour,

When we pray upon the floor

As the Qur’an has said.

As I hear the call,

The call for prayer.

The sound is so fair,

Before Allah I fall.