COVID-19 PHENOMENON ON PERFORMING JUMU’AH PRAYERS THROUGH BROADCAST AND LIVE STREAMING: AN ANALYSIS

Authors

  • Hudzaifah Achmad University of Malaya
  • Adang Darmawan Achmad Universitas Muhammadiyah Cirebon

Keywords:

: COVID-19, Friday Prayer, Virtual

Abstract

Jumu’ah is the holiest day of the week when Muslims are required to take a bath, dress in their best clean clothes, and assemble in the mosque for Friday Prayer. Unfortunately, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Muslims are likely unable to conduct Friday prayer in the mosque and are advised to do otherwise virtually following the recommendations of state governments and health authorities, as well as to minimize the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Virtual or online prayer is one of several controversies which have recently been brought to the fore as a result of the recent pandemic, COVID-19. Hence, the primary objective of this research is to analyze the ruling on virtual Friday prayer. The research employed a full qualitative, which will be analyzed descriptively. The result of the study concludes that virtual Friday prayer is still debatable among Muslim scholars around the world, including in Indonesia, where some of them argue that it is not acceptable to pray Jumu’ah distantly, in a virtual manner, behind a remote Imam by broadcast and live streaming according to any madhhab for the gap between the rows to be miles long, with tens of buildings and roads as dividers between them. Others, on the other hand, argue that in these unprecedented times, maslahatshould be used to prevent Muslims from frequently missing Friday prayers.

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2021-07-31