Book of Namaz

that is, admonishes about things that bring rewards and torment,
and then recites âyat-i kerîmas. He sits down and stands up again.
After saying the second khutba, he invokes benedictions on the
Believers instead of preaching. It is necessary (mustahab) for him
to mention the names of the four Khalîfas (Hadrat Abû Bakr,
Hadrat ’Umar, Hadrat ’Uthmân, Hadrat Alî). It is harâm to insert
a worldly speech into the khutba. The khutba must not be turned
into a speech, a conference. It is sunnat to make a short khutba,
and it is makrûh to make a long one.]
5- To say the khutba before the namâz.
6- To perform the Friday prayer in jamâ’at.
7- For the mosque to be open for the public.
There are nine conditions of wujûb for Friday prayer. That is,
for it to be fard for a person requires the existence of the nine
conditions that follow:
1- To live in a city or town. It is not fard for musâfirs (travelers).
2- To be healthy. It is not fard for an invalid person, for a
person who looks after an invalid whom he cannot leave alone, or
for a very old person.
3- To be free.
4- To be a man. Friday prayer is not fard for women.
5- To be discreet and at the age of puberty. That is to be
(Mukallaf).
6- Not to be blind. It is not fard for a blind person even if he has
someone to lead him.
7- To be able to walk. Even if there are vehicles, it is not fard
for a paralyzed person or for a person without feet.
8- Not to be in prison, not to have fear of an enemy, the
government, or of evildoers.
9- There must not to be too much rain, snow, or mud. The
weather must not to be too cold.
How to Perform Friday Prayer?
On Fridays, when the adhân of the early afternoon prayer is
recited, Friday prayer is performed as sixteen rak'ats. These are
respectively as follows:
1- First, the first sunnat of Friday prayer, which contains four
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