OPINIONS ABOUT THE EXECUTION OF THE FIVE DAILY PRAYERS WITH THE CONGREGATION AND EVALUATIONS

Performing the five daily prayers in congregation (jamaat) is a ritual that was accentuated by the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). The importance given introduced various opinions on whether performance in congregation is fard, wajeeb or sunnah. Some has classified those acts as collective (kifai) and individual (ayni). Those disagreements about prayer in congregation are originated from different evaluation of the narrated hadith. In some of the hadith, prayer in congregation is arisen as an obligation while in others prayer in congregation is referred as superior to individual prayer. By the Fukaha because of increasingly observed general moral corruption in society, women’s joining the mosque congregation as unfavorable. Prayers of five times in masjids is not obligatory but sunnah. In cases when prayer in congregation is regarded as mustahab and makrooh, it is seen that protection of the spirit of unity provided by the congregation is purposed. Scholars, comparing situations in the related hadith, have of the opinion that some natural events, health problems, cases which may cause serious harm to the individual or disturb the peace are excuses for not participating in congregatio