Is it permissible to be absent from the Friday Khutbah for the sake of volunteer work?
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Attending the Friday sermon and listening attentively to it are obligatory. It is forbidden to be preoccupied with other matters such as buying, selling, or engaging in supererogatory acts, based on the Almighty's saying: (O YOU WHO HAVE BELIEVED, WHEN [THE ] IS PROCLAIMED FOR THE PRAYER ON THE DAY OF JUMU'AH [FRIDAY], THEN HASTEN TO THE REMEMBRANCE OF ALLAH AND LEAVE TRADE...) [Al-Jumu'ah:9]. A group of the Salaf interpreted "remembrance of Allah" as the sermon. The obligation of the sermon is indicated by the fact that it prohibits trade, and everything that distracts from it is like trade, and on this, the majority of scholars agree.
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