Rulings Related to Friday Prayers in Times of the Epidemic – A Comparative Jurisprudential study

Abstract

This research coincided with what the world is going through now of a pandemic - Corona - in which it prevented people from practicing a normal life, and the preventive and precautionary measures that followed which included all aspects of life: religious, economic, social, etc. This research is a comparative jurisprudence study between the jurisprudential schools of thought which aims to remove the people's confusion about the provisions of Friday prayer and what is associated with it such as holding and attending Friday prayers and the provisions that follow in light of the Corona pandemic. And by extrapolating the texts of the law and its purposes, we find that self-preservation is one of the necessities that the Islamic Sharia enjoins to preserve. Therefore, God has permitted the types of acts of worship that He enjoins on the types of legal permits, such as abrogation, reduction, presentation, delay, substitution, and so on, to preserve this soul. If the impact of the pandemic changes, it is necessary to perform the Friday prayer ritual as being one of the bone rituals, taking into account the instructions announced by the competent authorities, and following preventive measures from spacing and wearing masks.