Chapter Six

Mistakes regarding Friday Sal?t and

the threat against abandoning it

* Prelude.

* Abandoning Friday Sal?t by thousands of football-matches fans.

* Abandoning Friday Sal?t by the guards of kings and Sultans and standing at the mosque entrances holding weapons instead.

* Abandoning the Friday Sal?t and other congregational Sal?t by the bridegroom.

* Going on picnics instead of attending Friday Sal?t.

* Mistakes that diminish or cause to loss the reward of doing the Friday Sal?t such as: attending the Sal?t so late, not applying perfume and using the siw?k, talking when the khat?b is delivering the speech, busing one self with: ﴿providing people with water, raising funds, talking to others, reciting Tasbih or Qur’an, returning greetings back to others and asking Allah’s ( - عز وجل -) bless for those who sneeze﴾, sleeping during the khutbah [speech], turning one’s back to the Im?m or the Qiblah, playing with pebbles or the rosary or walking between other sitting people and hence causing inconvenience.

* Performing Sunnah - Sal?t before performing Friday Sal?t.

* Mistakes regarding Tahiyyatul Masjid:-

(Leaving it when the Imam is delivering his speech, the khat?b’s order to those who come late not to do it, doing it when the khat?b sits between the two khutbahs, and delaying