Question
Since allowing the pupils to go to Musjid for Jumuah Salaat, interferes with the school curriculum, the Muslim principal wants to organize Jumuah at the school premises. It interferes with a double period. Is this permissible?
Answer
The proposed second jumuah for school children is not permissible. It will be a new innovation – a bid'ah which is not permissible. The children have to proceed to the Musjid for Jumuah – the first Jumuah, not the second mock 'jumuah'. They have to learn and understand the vital importance of performing Jumuah in a proper Musjid – the nearby Musjid. A school building is a spiritually napaak (impure) abode of shayaateen, fussaaq and fujjaar. It is not a befitting venue for Jumuah Salaat. The importance of the Musjid is such that according to Imaam Maalik (rahmatullah alayh), a proper Musjid is a condition for the validity of Jumuah. It is indeed lamentable that such an important and vital Ibaadat as Jumuah is being made the maid-servant of kuffaar secular education which the school authorities believe to have greater relevance than Jumuah Salaat. Confound the two school periods which are being elevated higher than Jumuah. All the wealth of the entire earth is not the equivalent of even one Subhaanallaah tasbeeh.
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- themajlis.co.za
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- The Majlis Vol 22 No 07
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