The Impact of Time on the Provisions and Virtues of Friday

Abstract

    The study aims to introduce the provisions related to time on Friday, and to highlight the impact of time on legal adjudications. It shows a number of legal adjudications that help those the adult believers to worship Allah with insight. It has followed both, the inductive approach and the descriptive approach. The study consists of an introduction, two chapters, and findings.      The first chapter dealt with the impact of time on the adjudications for which the Islamic Laws set a specific time on Friday. The second chapter has discussed the impact of time on adjudications prescribed in general on Friday. The study has concluded that time is important in the provisions of Sharia law in general and acts of worship in particular, as it is considered a condition for the validity of a number of great rituals, such as: prayer, fasting and hajj. It has also concluded that Friday has a great virtue, and it is the best day of the week. It has shown that many issues have been associated with Friday that embody some of its virtues like the desirability of doing the marriage contract on Friday afternoon. The issue of choosing Friday to visit the graves lacks convincing evidence from Quran and Sunna.