Sabbath Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Islam== {{Main article|Friday prayer}} {{See also|Islamic calendar}} The [[Quran]] shares the six-part [[Genesis creation narrative|Abrahamic creation narrative]] (32:4, 50:38) and the Sabbath as the seventh day ({{transl|ar|yaum as-Sabt}}: 2:65, 4:47, 154, 7:163, 16:124), but [[Allah|God's]] mounting the throne after creation is taken in contradistinction to [[Elohim]]'s concluding and resting from his labors. The Quran states that since Sabbath was only for Jews, Muslims replace Sabbath rest with {{transl|ar|[[jumu'ah]]}} ({{lang-ar|Ψ¬Ω ΨΉΨ©}}). Also known as "Friday prayer", {{transl|ar|jumu'ah}} is a congregational prayer ({{transl|ar|[[salat]]}}) held every Friday (the Day of Assembly), just after midday, in place of the otherwise daily {{transl|ar|[[dhuhr]]}} prayer; The Quran states: "When the call is proclaimed to prayer on Friday, hasten earnestly to the Remembrance of Allah, and leave off business: That is best for you if ye but knew" (62:9). The next verse ("When the prayer is ended, then disperse in the land ...") leads many Muslims not to consider Friday a rest day, as in [[Indonesia]], which regards the seventh-day Sabbath as unchanged; but many Muslim countries, such as [[Saudi Arabia]] and [[Bangladesh]], do consider Friday a nonwork day, a holiday or a weekend; and other Muslim countries, like [[Pakistan]] and the [[United Arab Emirates]] count it as half a rest day (after the Friday prayer is over). {{transl|ar|Jumu'ah}} attendance is strictly incumbent upon all free adult males who are {{Cl-span| residents of the locality (and not travelling).|date=February 2022}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page