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What is the ruling on Friday prayer in non-Muslim lands, and is one sinful for not performing it there, whether these are original non-Muslim lands or not, with supporting evidence from the Quran and Sunnah?

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Friday prayer is obligatory based on evidence from the Quran, Sunnah, and scholarly consensus. This obligation does not differ between a land of disbelief (dar al-kufr) and a land of Islam (dar al-Islam). Whoever abandons it in a land of disbelief without a valid excuse is sinful.

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