Emerging Jurisprudential Issues Regarding Friday and Congregational Prayers During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Al-Masa'il al-Mustajaddah fi al-Jumu'ah wa al-Jama'ah fi Zaman Ja'ihat Kuruna al-Mustajadd)

Abstract

This study discusses issues related to Friday and Congregational Prayers that emerged at the time of COVID -19, and these issues are:

1.  Performing the Friday Prayer at home during the time of COVID -19.

2.  Performing prayers by following Imam through live broadcasts.

Inductive, analytical, applied and comparative approaches were used. The study concluded the following results: performing Friday prayers at home is not permissible, and considered invalid, and whoever prays it at home, loses its reward. It is not permissible to follow the imam through live broadcasts, and whoever does that his prayer is invalid because there is no spatial and temporal

communication between the imam and the congregation.