superior than doing it in my mosque [at Mad?nah] unless it is the obligatory one’. (1)

The aforementioned Ah?d?th clearly state that it is of the prophet’s ( - ) Sunnah to do N?filah Sal?t at home.

Regarding this point, Shaikhul Isl?m Ibn Taymiyyah said: ‘The Sunnah is to separate between performing the obligatory and optional Sal?t in Jumu‘ah Sal?t and other Salaw?t as was narrated in the “Sah?h” that he ( - ) prohibited that any [obligatory] Sal?t be followed immediately by [optional] one; one should separate between them with speech or changing one’s place.

Accordingly, one must not do what most people do nowadays; i.e. as soon as they finish the first Sal?t they start another. This indeed contradicts the prophet’s ( - ) order. The rationale behind such a ruling is to distinguish between the N?filah and Fard Salaw?t and between the act of worship and other ordinary acts. That is why muslims are recommended to haste in breaking their fast, delay their Suh?r and to have something on the Day of Eidul Fitr before going to the Sal?t and they are prohibited to perform Siy?m a day or two prior to Ramad?n.

The aim of this all is to separate beween what is legal of Siy?m and what is not and to distinguish between the acts of worship and other acts. So is the case with the Jumu‘ah Sal?t which All?h ( - عز وجل -) enjoined on muslims; it should be distinguished from other [N?filah] Salaw?t.

Many of the Mubtai‘ah -such as the R?fidah and others- bear the Niyyah of doing Thuhr Sal?t instead of Jumu‘ah Sal?t, they pretend to do Tasl?m, but actually they have not done it, then they complete their Thuhr Sal?t. Whoever watches them thinks that they are doing the Sunnah. So, when the obligatory Sal?t is distinguished from the Sunnah Sal?t, this would block off the way