اسم الکتاب : مسائل المنتخبه (Articles Of Islamic Acts) المؤلف : الخوئي، السيد أبوالقاسم الجزء : 1 صفحة : 168
prerequisites for presence in it being obligatory; such as:
(i) The person concerned should be a man. Presence in Friday prayers is not obligatory for women.
(ii) Freedom. Hence it is not obligatory for the salves to be present in Friday prayers.
(iii) Being present. Hence Friday prayers is not obligatory for a
traveller.And it makes no difference whether the legal obligation of the
traveller is shortened prayers or complete prayers as in the case of a
traveller who intends to stay for 10days or more.
(iv) Being free from ailment and blindness. Hence it is not obligatory for a sick or a blind man to offer Friday prayers.
(v) Not being old. Hence Fridayprayers is not obligatory for old men.
(vi) That the distance between the place where the person concerned is
and the place where Friday prayers is going to be offered should not be
more f 2 farsakh (11 Km) and itis obligatory for a person who is at the
end to 2 farsakh to be present in the prayers. And similarly
participation in Friday prayers is not obligatory for a person for
whomit is difficult to participate in the prayers. Rather it is not
unlikely that it may not be obligatory to be present in Friday prayers
if it is raining although onespresence may not involve any inconvenience
or hardship. 742.A few orders which relate to Friday prayers areas follows:
(i) It is permissible for a person, who is excused from offering Friday
prayers, and whose presencein this prayers is not obligatory, to make
haste to offer midday prayers in the early part of the time prescribed
for it.
(ii) If Friday prayers fulfilling all the necessaryconditions is offered
in the town of a person it is not permissible for him, on the basis of
precaution, to undertake a journey after the declining of the sun.
(iii) It is not permissible to talk while the Imam is busy delivering the sermon.
اسم الکتاب : مسائل المنتخبه (Articles Of Islamic Acts) المؤلف : الخوئي، السيد أبوالقاسم الجزء : 1 صفحة : 168