Role of Friday Prayer in the Muslims' Unity and Sustainable Development of Islamic World

The title is a Research Paper by Sayyed Reza Mosavi[1] and Mohammad Ali Riahi[2] published in “Journal of Islamic Denominations, 3(6), 150-162. The following is an excerpt from its abstract.[3]

Cooperation from the viewpoint of Islam

The development of science, culture, economics and other matters of any community depends on cooperation and utilizing the full potential of its human resources. Hence Islam has a special look towards cooperation and community involvement and development and has designed manners to the sympathy of thoughts and Muslims’ active presence in social assemblies.

Friday Prayer and Unity

Friday Prayer is one of the special plots in Islam for fulfilling social unity. It is a ritual that indicates cooperation and causes consolidation of communications. It also has the ability to unite Islamic Ummah like rosary beans and results in their progress and development.

Objective of the article

This paper aims at increasing insight and knowledge about the social impacts of Friday Prayer and Increasing the improvement of this ritual. It attempts to answer this main question: what role does Friday prayer does have in the unity and development of an Islamic society?

Methodology

The method in this article is descriptive-analytical, and the method of data collection is using libraries.

Notes

  1. Assistant Professor, Faculty of Maaref, Azad University of Baft, (Correspondent Author)
  2. Faculty member and director of Islamic Education Department of Bam Institute of Higher Education
  3. http://mazaheb.urd.ac.ir/&url=http://mazaheb.urd.ac.ir/article_111352.html?lang=en