All praise is due to Allah, and may peace and salutations be upon the Prophet \ufdfa.<\/p>\n
In light of the mas\u0101sjid being shut down due to the COVID-19 crisis and the upcoming Eid prayers, the Fiqh Council encourages that Muslims pray \u1e62al\u0101t al-Eid \u00a0in their homes with their \u00a0own families (or individually in case one is living by onself), and there is no need for a khu\u1e6dbah.<\/p>\n
The Eid prayer is not the same as the Friday prayer, as Friday has different conditions and rulings. Scholars have differed over whether attending the Eid is obligatory upon the individual or whether it is a communal obligation. The Fiqh Council follows the view that it is a communal obligation in normal circumstances but that one is strongly encouraged to pray Eid. While the general rule is that Eid \u1e63alat should be prayed in a large congregation, it is permissible even in regular circumstances for the one who missed Eid to make it up at home. Anas b. M\u0101lik (RA ) once missed the Eid prayer in Basrah, so he gathered his family and had one of his household lead them in two rak\u2019ats. And A\u1e6d\u0101\u02bf b. Ab\u012b Rab\u0101\u1e25 (d. 114 AH) said regarding one who missed the Eid prayer, \u201cLet him pray two rak\u2019ats and say the takb\u012brs\u201d; as well Hamm\u0101d b. Ab\u012b Sulayman (d. 120 AH), the famous scholar of Kufa and teacher of Imam Abu \u1e24an\u012bfa, said when asked the same question, \u201cHe should pray as they prayed, and do the takb\u012brat as they did.\u201d [Mu\u1e63annaf of Ibn Ab\u012b Shaybah, 2\/4-5]. All of these reports are regarding those who missed Eid for any reason.<\/p>\n
Given our current situation, we advise families to observe all of the Sunnahs of Eid (of taking a ghusl, eating a breakfast, wearing one\u2019s best garments, saying the general\u00a0takb\u012brat<\/em>\u00a0after Fajr, etc.) and then praying a congregational prayer at home with \u00a0their own families, with the special takb\u012brat of Eid. \u00a0(The\u00a0takbir\u0101t\u00a0<\/em>of the Eid prayer vary between the legal schools \u2013 each family may follow their own school preferred school.)<\/p>\n All our four schools of law state that attending the khu\u1e6dbah of Eid is not obligatory, nor is the khu\u1e6dbah a requirement of the Eid prayer, it is not required to give Khutbah in every home. The Fiqh Council encourages masjids to live broadcast Eid khu\u1e6dbahs, and all families pray their individual congregational prayers at a given time, and then, after they finish their own Eid prayers, they can listen to the live khutbah as a general reminder.<\/p>\n And Allah knows best.<\/p>\n Prepared by Dr. Yasir Qadhi and adopted by the Fiqh Council in May of 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All praise is due to Allah, and may peace and salutations be upon the Prophet \ufdfa. In light of the mas\u0101sjid being shut down due to the COVID-19 crisis and the upcoming Eid prayers, the Fiqh Council encourages that Muslims pray \u1e62al\u0101t al-Eid \u00a0in their homes with their \u00a0own families (or individually in case one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1764,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[514273,524999,32713,514261],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1688,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}