Farewell Friday And Ramadan

other days. Therefore, his prayer comes from a place of sincerity, and such heartfelt prayer is surely accepted. On Friday, a person takes a bath and wears clean clothes. He performs ablution and actively walks to the mosque. There, he offers the Sunnah prayers and sits quietly to listen to the sermon of the imam. If all of this is done with sincere intention, it becomes a source of great reward, as mentioned in Hadith. All things that go against the spirit of Friday have been clearly prohibited in Islam. Guidance about this has been given in both the Quran and the Hadith. The Quran says that when people gather in the mosque for prayer, they should not be distracted by any unrelated engagement. In the time of the Prophet, once during the Friday prayer, some people became occupied with buying and selling. The Quran strongly warned against this and instructed that during prayer; one should avoid all irrelevant activities. (62:9-11) It is mentioned in Hadith that if a person enters the mosque and begins stepping over people to reach the front rows, he is doing something sinful. (Sunan Abu Dawud, Hadith No. 1118) People should sit wherever they find space after entering. No worshipper should cause trouble to another worshipper. In another Hadith, it is mentioned that when the imam is delivering the sermon, people should sit quietly and