{"id":1194,"date":"2019-06-20T06:49:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T04:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2019-06-20T06:49:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T04:49:35","slug":"what-is-the-reason-for-the-imam-to-hold-the-staff-at-the-time-of-the-khutbah-of-jumuah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1194","title":{"rendered":"What is the reason for the Imam to hold the staff at the time of the Khutbah of Jumuah?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>What is the reason for the Imam to hold the staff at the time of the Khutbah of Jumuah?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. What is the reason for the Imam to hold the staff at the time of the Khutbah of Jumuah?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> It is a preferred act (Mustahab) for the Imaam\/Khateeb to hold a staff (Asaa) with his left hand whilst delivering the Khutbah of Jumuah.<\/p>\n<p>The scholars of Jurisprudence (Fuqahaa) have written that if the Muslims conquer a city by the sword, the Imaam should hold a sword whilst delivering the Khutbah, signifying the authority of the Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>However, if the Muslims do not conquer a city by the sword but through the efforts of propagating Islam or there is a truce\/agreement in place, then the Imaam may hold a staff whilst delivering the Khutbah. <strong>(Shaami 2\/163\/Fatawaa Darul Uloom Zakariyya 2\/706)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> The above will be preferred (Mustahab) provided that it is not considered obligatory, compulsory or an emphasized Sunnah act.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the reason for the Imam to hold the staff at the time of the Khutbah of Jumuah? Q. What is the reason for the<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}