People who neglect the Friday prayer without excuse have been dismissed from God's grace, and when the call to Friday prayer comes one must drop all business.1, 2
The Friday prayer is extremely important; believers must leave all business for it, even a ten million dollar deal, and God will give them more.1, 2, 3, 4
The purpose of the Friday prayer is to commemorate God, not to settle personal problems.1
Missing a prayer or a Friday prayer because circumstances force it need not cause guilt, since God knows what is in your heart and gives excuses.1, 2, 3
The 17 daily units of contact prayer are significant, matching the Fatehah's sura number and verse count, and with Friday's two units the total becomes 19.1, 2, 3
The command to attend the Friday prayer addresses all believers, not only men, so forbidding women from it through hadith keeps women and their children ignorant.1, 2, 3
Each Friday sermon must begin with Alhamdulillah la ilaha illallah, not with Bismillah, greetings, or anything else.1, 2, 3
The first sermon ends with tubu ila Allah, after which the Imam and everyone sit for about one minute, no more, asking God's forgiveness and sincerely repenting.1, 2, 3
The Friday congregational prayer is an obligatory duty on every Muslim man and woman, a social function decreed by God for Muslims to know each other and their problems and joys.1, 2, 3
The Friday prayer consists of two units instead of the usual four at noon because the two sermons compensate for two units.1, 2
The second sermon may continue the first subject or take a new one, and ends with Aqim as-salah, after which the call is made and the Imam leads two units like the morning prayer.1, 2, 3
The sermon is given in a language the people understand, Quran recited in Arabic must be translated, and it may address local conditions or a general Quranic or religious lesson.1, 2, 3
Verse 62:9 commands believers to go to the Friday prayer and drop all business, and God, the only provider, will make up any lost business.1, 2, 3
One purpose of the Friday sermon is to study the community's affairs and see what is going on.1
Every Friday it is a commandment to drop all business and attend the Friday prayer, and God will see to it that you earn more profit when you do.1, 2, 3
The Friday prayer weekly and the five daily contact prayers are means of feeding the soul.1, 2, 3
The Friday prayer is a commandment from God, and if one drops all business to attend it, God promises to provide more and better in this world.1, 2
During the Friday sermon the congregation should face the prayer direction as if in prayer, and one may stay on a chair as long as one faces that direction.1
God requires believers to drop all business and come to the Friday prayer, and this requirement is mathematically coded.1, 2
The two sermons of the Friday prayer are part of the prayer and, together with the two units, complete the four units.1, 2
Believers who follow the Quran alone must gather, know each other, and be united, which is why God instituted the weekly Friday prayer; their leader and imam is the Quran.1, 2, 3, 4