Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah (may Allaah have
mercy on him) said:
Friday is a day on which it is recommended to dedicate
oneself exclusively to worship. It holds exclusive virtues of various forms of
compulsory and voluntary acts of worship over others days. Allah – blessed and
exalted be He - has set aside a day for the adherents of every religion on
which they devote themselves to worship and abandon preoccupation with the
world; hence, Friday is a day of worship and its correlation to other days is
like the relationship of Ramadan to other months. The hour of acceptance of
supplications therein is like the Night of Decree in the month of Ramadan.
Hence, anyone whose Friday is sound and free,
his remaining days of the week will be sound and safe as the remaining year
will be safe and sound for anyone whose Ramadan is sound and safe. Anyone whose
pilgrimage to the House is complete and free from harm, his remaining life span
will be complete and free from harm. Therefore, Friday is the scale of the
week, Ramadan is the scale of the year and Hajj is the scale of life span.
Source: Zaad
al-Ma’aad fee Hady Khayr al-Ibaad, by Imaam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah; translated
by Abdus-Samee’ Abdus-Salaam.
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