RULING ON EMPLOYEES’ WORK ON FRIDAY AND ITS JURISPRUDENTIAL IMPLICATIONS: A JURISPRUDENTIAL STUDY

Abstract

This research deals with a contemporary jurisprudential issue, namely: the legal ruling on the work of employees on Friday and its related jurisprudence implications; including the time an employee has to leave work and perform the Friday prayer, the legal value of performing the Friday prayer at the workplace and performing Friday prayer in the prayer hall at work; while being led by an imam (prayer leader) performing Friday prayer in another mosque. The researcher has come up with a number of findings; most importantly of all is that it is better to stop working on Friday, but if there is a specific interest to work on Friday, then that is permissible and there is nothing wrong with it. It is permissible to hold Friday prayer at the workplace when needed and upon permission of the ruler. However, employees may not perform Friday prayer following an Imam in another mosque. The researcher adopted the inductive, comparative, analytical and deductive approach.