Legal miday means passing away of half the day.

Legal miday means passing away of half the day. For example if the day consists of 12 hours it will be legal midday when 6 hours pass away after sunrise. And if the day consists of 13 hours legal midday will be 6h hours after sunrise. And if the day consists of 11 hours legal midday will be 5h hours after sunrise.

And the legal midday, which consists of the middle of sunrise and sunset, is on certain occasions in a year a few minutes more than 12 O'clock and any other occasions less than 12 O'clock by a watch. 739. If a person begins offering afternoon prayers in advertently before midday prayers and during the prayers he realizes that he has committed a mistake he should turn his intention towards midday prayers i.e.

he should make intention that what he has offered already and in what he is engaged and what he is going to offer thereafter is entirely midday prayers and after completing the prayers he should offer afternoon prayers. Friday Prayers 740. Friday prayers consist of 2 units like dawn prayers. The difference between these two prayers is, however, that two sermons are also to be delivered before Friday prayers. The offering of midday prayers is an optional obligation.

It means that we have the option to offer Friday prayers, if the necessary conditions for the performance of the same are present, or to perform midday (Zuhr) prayers. Hence, if Friday prayers are offered they suffice for midday prayers (viz. it is not then necessary to offer midday prayers). The following conditions must be fulfilled for Friday prayers becoming obligatory (i) The time for Friday prayers (which commences with the decline of the sun) should set in.

And the apparent position is that it continues till the shade of the indicator becomes equal to it. For this purpose an indicator is used (a stick is usually stuck in the ground). Hence if offering of Friday prayers is delayed till the shade of indicator equals its length the time prescribed for it expires one should offer midday prayers. (ii) The number of persons (including the imam) who intend offering Friday prayers should be at least seven.

Hence, unless at least seven Muslims come together, offering of Friday prayers does not become obligatory. However, performance of Friday prayers by five persons including the Imam is in order. (iii) The Imam should fulfil the necessary conditions for leading the prayers.