Fiqhul Jumu'ah: Early Goer to Jumu'ah Yet Back Row in Jannah

Friday 21-Dec-2018, 12:54AM / 1352

Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem

The great rewards attached to getting to masjid on time on the day of Jumu'ah for the Jumu'ah Prayer has been earlier shown. 

However a person may take a proper bath, walk to the masjid, apply some perfume (if a man), all in its earlier time, yet he may find himself at the back in Jannah on the Day of Resurrection. 

The Messenger of Allaah - sallallaahu alahyi wa sallam - said: 

فإن الرجل لا يزال يتباعد حتى يؤخر في الجنة، وإن دخلها
'A man will not cease to sit far away (from the first rows in masjid) until he will be made to be at the rear in Jannah even if he enters it.'

Al-Qaul Al-Mubeen, p.348

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