Am I Sinful for Not Praying Jumu’a Prayer, If My Parents Will Not Take Me and Walking Is Not Possible Due to Distance?

Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Weltch

Question

My parents will not take me to the Jumu‘a salah. I can’t walk to the masjid because it is far. Is there any way I can still pray the Jumu‘a salah and avoid sin?

Answer

In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate

If you are not able to get to the Jumu’a prayer, you are not sinful for missing Jumu’a. If you can find at least three more mature Muslim men in your area who are willing to establish a Jumu’a, this would be a sufficient number. [Tahtawi/Shurunbulali, Hashiyat Maraqi al-Falah]

A basic sermon can be done by any one of them, and a two-unit prayer. This will fulfill the minimum requirements of the Jumu’a sermon/prayer. [Ibid.]

Hope this helps
Allah knows best
[Shaykh] Yusuf Weltch
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Shaykh Yusuf Weltch teaches Arabic, Islamic law, and spirituality. After accepting Islam in 2008, he completed four years at the Darul Uloom Seminary in New York, where he studied Arabic and the traditional sciences.

He then traveled to Tarim, Yemen, where he studied for three years in Dar al-Mustafa under some of the most outstanding scholars of our time, including Habib Umar Bin Hafiz, Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf, and Shaykh Umar al-Khatib.

In Tarim, Shaykh Yusuf completed the memorization of the Quran and studied beliefs, legal methodology, hadith methodology, Quranic exegesis, Islamic history, and several texts on spirituality. He joined the SeekersGuidance faculty in the summer of 2019.