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Yasir Qadhi

Ask Shaykh YQ #110 - Can I Accept a Job In a Town Where There is no Jumuah being held

Yasir Qadhi

Muslim Central

Society & Culture, Islam, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:04.0

Our first question from brother Ahmed in Malaysia.

0:08.0

He emails and he says that he has gotten a job offer

0:12.0

but the place that he is going to according to his Google

0:15.5

research does not have any mussala or any Masjid and so he is asking is he

0:20.3

allowed to take up a job offer and travel to a location where potentially looks like there might not be any jumah?

0:28.1

And then he asks a broader question that, okay, if I travel for any location, even not for the sake of a job for any

0:34.6

reason and there's no jum-a over there is that permissible or not so the

0:38.9

question is with regards to traveling to a location that there is no jumwa taking place. K I'll Larijalan no he I'll a him fasalu

0:59.0

ahela dikri in

1:02.0

kuntum la tah. The response to this question, Jumuah is of course obligatory on every adult same.

1:07.0

The response to this question, Jumuah is of course obligatory on every adult sane Muslim male who doesn't have an excuse preventing him from attending the Jumwa.

1:19.0

And Jumwa is obligatory if there is a Jumwa that is being held in the place that you are at.

1:26.3

If there is no jumwa and there are not enough Muslims to perform a jumwa,

1:31.0

then you are not obligated to have a jumu a by yourself.

1:34.8

There is no jumu a by yourself.

1:36.7

There must be the bare minimum.

1:37.9

Now what is the bare minimum that depends on, you know, madhab to madhab, some some say three some small minority even said two some said you have to have 40

1:46.4

So you have a different interpretation that's not the question here

1:50.1

Suppose that there is no jum why there's not enough Muslims and there are no

1:55.0

Musalalas or Masjid where Jumwa is being undertaken.

1:59.2

Should you go to such a location?

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