The Salat on Friday As per Quran

The Salat on Friday

O you who believe, when the call for the Salat is announced on Friday, you shall hasten to the commemoration of God and drop all business. This is better for you if you only knew. Once the Salat is completed, you shall spread out through the land and seek God's favour and remember God frequently so that you may succeed. 62:9-10

When should this prayer be observed? Is it a congregational prayer? Is it different from other prayers? To analyse the Quranic input and reply to the above questions it is necessary to split the reply into three sections:

First: Is the Salat on Friday congregational?

God always gives us key words in various verses when it is necessary to establish a specific meaning. This is the case regarding the Salat mentioned in 62:9.
The purpose of this research is to present to the reader the three key words in 62:9-10 which answer the questions above.

In addition to the fact that the word Jummah means congregation, we come across the first key word which confirms that the Salat in 62:9 is a congregational Salat. The word is "intashiru" in 62:10. This word means 'you shall spread out':

Once the Salat is completed, you shall spread out through the land and seek God's favour and remember God frequently so that you may succeed. 62:10

The words "spread out" imply that there is a congregation or group of people that will disperse or spread out. A single person, on his own, cannot spread out.

Second: Is the Salat in 62:9 an extra Salat, or one of the three Quranic Salat?

Once again, key words in 62:9 show us how accurate and meticulous God's words are and how they always indicate a very specific meaning.
To demonstrate the key words related to this issue, let us first look at the following phrase in 62:9

a- "....... when the call for the Salat is announced on Friday"

Now let us look at the following words, which are not Quranic, but are only used to make a comparison:

b- "when the call for the Friday Salat is announced"

God was very careful to use the words "the Salat on Friday" as opposed to (the Friday Salat). This variation in phrasing may not seem significant, but it is. As worded by God, there is no separate prayer called the 'Friday Salat', rather, the Salat spoken of in 62:9 is one of the already authorised Salat and the day referred to is Friday, i.e. it is one of the three Salat that are observed every day.

Third: Which of the three Salat is the congregational Salat in 62:9?

Further key words confirm that the Salat mentioned in 62:9 is the Wusta Salat (clk.📱) and not Fajr or Isha.

1- The words "drop all business" eliminate the Fajr Salat since no one is likely to be dropping work at the onset of the Fajr Salat.

2- At the completion of this prayer, God invites us to "spread out through the land and seek God's favour". These words eliminate the spoken of Salat being the Isha Salat because these words invite people to return to their work seeking God’s favour. Once again, the majority of people do not go back to work and business after the end of Isha.

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To conclude, the Salat spoken of in 62:9 is a congregational Wusta Salat  (clk.📱) that is to be observed on Friday.
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Fb comment...
By Adil khan..
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The fact that Jumu'a is a well known day of the week is well supported by the classical Arabic lexicons. I know of no convincing proof that would indicate that this day refers to another day(Saturday)...