How to do Friday prayers

Friday prayer is a collective afternoon cathedral prayer of Muslims that takes place on Fridays. It is a must for all men. Women, children and infirm people are not required to attend. Friday is considered the holy day of the week, a holiday for Muslims.

Instruction manual

Get ready for Friday with the pre- sunset prayer on Thursday. At night it is advisable to bless the Prophet at least 300 times. Keep fasting on Thursday and Friday. Give out voluntary donations, try to please loved ones, visit relatives, especially parents, visit patients, go to the graves of loved ones, and prepare delicious food for guests and relatives.

At dawn on Friday, take care of personal hygiene - complete a ritual bath, cut your hair and nails, scent perfumes and put on clean formal clothes. If possible, go to a meeting and listen to scholars-theologians.

Go to the Friday prayer early. According to the hadith, the one who comes early is given a much greater retribution. Try to take a seat in the forefront. The Friday collective prayer contributes to the unity and unification of Muslims, strengthening the bonds of brotherhood. It also serves as the atonement for the sins of a Muslim committed by him during the week.

Try not to step over other people as you walk into the front rows. It is undesirable to talk, eat and drink in the mosque. During Friday prayers, Muslims are forbidden to engage in trade or other business until after the prayer.

The form of the Friday prayer: - performance of the fourfold Sunnat prayer; - listening to a sermon and awareness of actions and actions that are beneficial in this and the next world; - performance of two rakahats; - the performance of the fourfold Sunnat prayer. Rakaat is the order of words and actions that make up Muslim prayer. Each rak'ah includes one waist bow and two earthly nods. Each of the 5 required prayers of Friday prayers consists of a different number of rak'ahs.

Namaz is entrusted only to adult, healthy men. Weak, sick, elderly, disabled people can not come to prayer. Mandatory presence of the main imam of the mosque or his deputies. Namaz should be performed in the largest mosque in the city, where everyone has enough space.