Summary: We should appreciate the value of the Friday prayers because Allah(Azawaljal) has dedicated the surahs of the Quran just to this topic .i.e. just to Jumu'ah & the climax of the surah is its conclusion, at the end of the surah the three ayats that are dedicated specifically for the subject matter of the Friday prayer. Surah Jummah is a small surah; in total it has 11 ayahs / verses. It is one speech / khutbaah of Allah (Azawaljal). Allah says towards the end: “those of you who claim to have faith, those of you who believe it is called forth from a part of a day of Friday (you’re NOT asked to give the entire Friday, you are asked to give a PART of it) Allah (Azawaljal) is emphasizing His favours on us because Allah (Azawaljal) says in the same surah: “it is the favour of Allah”, what is the favour of Allah? You DON’T have to give up your whole day, just a small part of the day. Allah emphasizes this Himself & this is a big deal for us, because if you & I start thinking... “coming to the Friday prayer is such a drag man, gota come through the traffic, walk a couple of miles, I am going to get late for work, college & all the other stuff, well Allah is saying am not asking you a lot, because previous nations were asked to do much more, the nation of Bani Israeel were asked the ENTIRE day & it’s no surprise that right before the ayats the passage right before this one is Bani Israeel ; “the example of those who were burden with the responsibility of Torah, the previous revelation and they didn’t carry that responsibility” Allah tells us about the mistake of the Jewish community before we are being given responsibility – Allah talks about the Jews first before talking to us. There is a very interesting transition. Surah Jummah is broken in to 3 parts – 1st section, 2nd sections- taking about the Jews and Bani Israeel & 3rd section – talks about Friday prayers. The 1st passage of the surah Allah says: “All whatever is in the heavens and all whatever is in the earth proclaims the Purity of Allah, the King, the Most Pure, the Most Honourable, the Wise”. This is not the only place in the Qur’an where Allah (Azawaljal) says that everything in the skies & the earth will continue to declare His perfection but usually when Allah ends a surah he ends it with two names. But in this surah He ends it with four of his names, usually you will find in the ayats of the Qur’an (the ayats of praising Allah) ending with: Ghaffur- ur- Rahim, Aziz-zul-Hakim etc. It is making us remember Allah more & guess what? Friday is the day of the week where WE are suppose to remember Allah MORE. From the beginning of the surah it is setting our minds in to remembering Allah more. The first ayah/ verse goes on to praise Allah in four ways; King, Most Pure, Most Honourable One & Wise. Then it says that everyone in the universe understands this but the human beings were heedless & amongst them the most heedless of them are the people who don’t even have access to books / literature, so there was a group of people living in the desert surrounded by the civilisation of literature – the Persians are a civilisation of poetry and literature, the Romans & Greeks are a civilisation of poetry, mythology etc. What do the Arabs have? How are the Arabs going to get enlightened when they don’t even know how to read books? They are unlettered; Allah says He sent the messenger among them with the verses and the ayats. The four names of Allah mentioned in the first ayah: King, Pure, Honourable & Wise sums up the entire strategy of the Prophet (SAW) on how to introduce GOD to humanity. In fact you can summarise the entire seerah in this one ayah of Surah Jummah. When we read the seerah we realise that the society was changed like no other society has ever changed, they changed from the bottom up, down up, middle down anyways you like to look at it, economically, socially, morally, eating habits, waking up,
