Surah 62. Al-Jamu'a, Ayah 9
| يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِذَا نُودِيَ لِلصَّلَاةِ مِنْ يَوْمِ الْجُمُعَةِ فَاسْعَوْا إِلَىٰ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ وَذَرُوا الْبَيْعَ ۚ ذَٰلِكُمْ خَيْرٌ لَكُمْ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ |
| Transliteration | : | yaa 'ayyuhaa 'alladhena 'aamano 'idhaa nodiya li- as.- s.alaah min yawm al- jumucah fa- iscaw 'ilaa dhikr 'allaah wa- dharo al- bayc dhaalikum khayr la- -kum 'in kuntum taclamon |
| Pickthall | : | O ye who believe! When the call is heard for the prayer of the day of congregation, haste unto remembrance of Allah and leave your trading. That is better for you if ye did but know. |
| Asad | : | O YOU who have attained to faith! When the call to prayer is sounded on the day of congregation,10 hasten to the remembrance of God, and leave all worldly commerce: this is for your own good, if you but knew it. |
| Malik | : | O believers! When the call for Salah (prayer) is made on Friday (the day of congregational prayers), hasten to the remembrance of Allah and cease your business. That is better for you if you but knew. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | O ye who believe! when the call is proclaimed to prayer on Friday (the Day of Assembly) hasten earnestly to the Remembrance of Allah and leave off business (and traffic): that is best for you if ye but knew! 5461 5462 5463 |
Note - 10I.e., on Friday, when the congregational prayer at noon
is obligatory. Nevertheless, as the sequence shows,
Friday is not a day of compulsory rest in Islamic Law.
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Note - 5461Friday, is primarily the Day of Assembly, the weekly
meeting of the Congregation, when we show our unity by
sharing in common public worship, preceded by a Khutba,
in which the Imam (or Leader) reviews the week's fife of
the Community and offers advice and exhortation on good
living. Notice the gradations of social contact for
Muslims if they followed the wise ordinances of their
Faith. (1) Each individual remembers Allah for himself or
herself five or more times every day in the home or place
of business, or local mosque, or open air, as the case
may be. (2) On Friday in every week there is a local
meeting in the central mosque of each local centre,-it
may be a village, or town, or ward of a big city. (3) At
the two 'Ids every year, there is a large local area
meeting in one centre. (4) Once at least in a lifetime,
where possible, a Muslim shares in the vast international
assemblage of the world, in the centre of Islam, at the
Makkan Pilgrimage. A happy combination of
decentralisation and centralisation, of individual
liberty and collective meeting, and contact at various
stages or grades. The mechanical part of this ordinance
is easy to carry out. Are we carrying out the more
difficult part?-the spirit of unity, brotherhood, mutual
consultation, and collective understanding and action?
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Note - 5462The idea behind the Muslim weekly "Day of Assembly" is
different from that behind the Jewish Sabbath (Saturday)
or the Christian Sunday. The Jewish Sabbath is primarily
a commemoration of Allah's ending His work and resting on
the seventh day (Gen. ii. 2; Exod. xx. 11): we are taught
that Allah needs no rest, nor does He feel fatigue (ii.
255). The Jewish command forbids work on that day but
says nothing about worship or prayer (Exod. xx. 10); our
ordinance lays chief stress on the remembrance of Allah.
Jewish formalism went so far as to kill the spirit of the
sabbath, and call forth the protest of Jesus: "the
sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath"
(Mark. ii. 27). But the Christian Church, although it has
changed the day from Saturday to Sunday, has inherited
the Jewish spirit: witness the Scottish Sabbath; except
in so far as it has been secularised. Our teaching says:
'When the time for Jumua Prayer comes, close your
business and answer the summons loyally and earnestly,
meet earnestly, pray, consult and learn by social
contact; when the meeting is over, scatter and go about
your business'.
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Note - 5463The immediate and temporal worldly gain may be the
ultimate and spiritual loss, and vice versa.
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Friday, is primarily the Day of Assembly, the weekly meeting of the Congregation, when we show our unity by sharing in common public worship, preceded by a Khutba, in which the Imam (or Leader) reviews the week's fife of the Community and offers advice and exhortation on good living. Notice the gradations of social contact for Muslims if they followed the wise ordinances of their Faith. (1) Each individual remembers Allah for himself or herself five or more times every day in the home or place of business, or local mosque, or open air, as the case may be. (2) On Friday in every week there is a local meeting in the central mosque of each local centre,-it may be a village, or town, or ward of a big city. (3) At the two 'Ids every year, there is a large local area meeting in one centre. (4) Once at least in a lifetime, where possible, a Muslim shares in the vast international assemblage of the world, in the centre of Islam, at the Makkan Pilgrimage. A happy combination of decentralisation and centralisation, of individual liberty and collective meeting, and contact at various stages or grades. The mechanical part of this ordinance is easy to carry out. Are we carrying out the more difficult part?-the spirit of unity, brotherhood, mutual consultation, and collective understanding and action? |
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The idea behind the Muslim weekly "Day of Assembly" is different from that behind the Jewish Sabbath (Saturday) or the Christian Sunday. The Jewish Sabbath is primarily a commemoration of Allah's ending His work and resting on the seventh day (Gen. ii. 2; Exod. xx. 11): we are taught that Allah needs no rest, nor does He feel fatigue (ii. 255). The Jewish command forbids work on that day but says nothing about worship or prayer (Exod. xx. 10); our ordinance lays chief stress on the remembrance of Allah. Jewish formalism went so far as to kill the spirit of the sabbath, and call forth the protest of Jesus: "the sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath" (Mark. ii. 27). But the Christian Church, although it has changed the day from Saturday to Sunday, has inherited the Jewish spirit: witness the Scottish Sabbath; except in so far as it has been secularised. Our teaching says: 'When the time for Jumua Prayer comes, close your business and answer the summons loyally and earnestly, meet earnestly, pray, consult and learn by social contact; when the meeting is over, scatter and go about your business'. |
