Jumu’ah prayers in a room at work

Key word - {*Friday Prayers:-}
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My Employer has providedus with a small prayer room at work. We have
about 4 or 5 brothers who pretty much regularly pray Zuhur and Asr in
this room. Is it permissible to make Friday prayers in this room?
Considering that every alternate Friday is off for us and nobody makes
a prayer in that room on such Fridays.
Praise be to Allaah.
If in the city where you live there is a mosque in which Jumu'ah
prayers are held, then you must pray with them, and it is not
permissible for you tointroduce another Jumu'ah prayer. But if there
is no Jumu'ah prayer in the city, then you must establish it and it is
not permissible for you to pray Zuhr instead, because "Establishing
Jumu'ah prayer in their towns and villages is obligatory upon the
Muslims and offering the Jumu'ah prayer in congregation is a condition
of it being valid.There is no shar'i evidencethat stipulates a certain
number being required for it to be valid. In order for it to be valid
it is sufficient for there to be three or more. It is not permissible
for one on whom Jumu'ah is obligatory to pray Zuhr instead on the
grounds that the number is less than forty, according to the most
correct scholarly opinion."
Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa'imah, no. 1794 (8/178).
It says in the fatwa of thecommittee no. 957:
"With regard to the number required to hold Jumu'ah prayers, we do
not know of any text which stipulates a specific number. Because there
is no text which stipulates a specific number, the scholars differed
concerning the number required. Among the opinions which have
beenstated concerning that is the view that it may be done if there
are three men who are local residents. This was reported from Imam
Ahmad, and was the view favoured by al-Awzaa'i and Shaykh Taqiy
al-Deen Ibn Taymiyah, because Allaah says (interpretationof the
meaning): 'come to the remembrance of Allaah [Jumu'ah religious talk
(Khutbah) and Salaah (prayer)]' [al-Jumu'ah 62:9] – the verbal form
used is plural, which implies a minimum of three." (8/210).

In a season of consumerist madness,let’s be grateful, and give

At this time of year the stores are pushing their sales at us.
Advertising is everywhere. There if a frenzy to buy, buy, buy. Let's
realize that this is nota spiritual way of life. It's not an
appropriate lifestyle for someone who is dedicated to God. The
consumerist madness is a deception. There's no joy or peace attached
to it. It's a shallow illusion.
Look at what society has done to itself in the name of consumerism. A
day of thanks (Thanksgiving) has become the prelude to "Black Friday",
the biggest shopping day of the year. It used to be that Black Friday
did not begin until Friday morning, out of respect for Thanksgiving.
Then the starting gun was moved to midnight, and now it has crept into
Thursday evening. Nothingis sacred.
The Prophet 'Isa ibn Maryam (Jesus the son of Mary), peace be upon
him, has been turned into a marketing strategy. His purported birthday
has become a month of shopping insanity, presided over by a mythical
sub-deity named Santa. People go into debt,they fight over sale goods…
no mention is made of faith.
We Muslims fall prey to the same consumerist lifestyle. Sometimes the
holy month of Ramadan becomes a month of shopping, sleeping and binge
eating, astaghfirullah.
Let us – Christians, Muslims, Jews and all people of God – not
followthis path. Let's hew to a way of sacrifice, zakat
(purification), sadaqah (charity), zuhd (giving up material luxury).
We don't have to be monks, but we must focus on the things that
matter: faith and family.
There are movements thatadvocate a simple living, back-to-nature,
low-impact lifestyle. In Islam this is called zuhd , which could be
translated as detachment or asceticism. Zuhd is a choicethat a person
makes to give up the hunger for material possessions and transgressive
carnal experiences, and live a simple lifestyle dedicated to God.
That's what we need.
The faith in our hearts is more important than the brand name of the
clothes we wear. Where our feet carry us – to someplace good or bad –
is more important than the cost of our shoes. The sincerity in our
hearts is more important than any gift. May Allah help us to see what
is important in life.

If Allah brings you to it, He will bring you through it

If Allah brings you to it, He will bring you through it. Whatever
misfortune you have experienced, let Allahshow you the way out.
Has your heart been broken? Have you experienced disappointment and
loss? Trying to figure out how to be happy again? You need only three
things: faith, hope and time. Keep the faith alive in your heart, even
if it's just a spark. Hold on to your hope for the future, even by the
tips of your fingers. And let time pass… In timeyour faith will blaze
again, your hope will soar.
So be patient, trust Him, thank Him, and look for the light at the end
of the tunnel. Hang in there. He will bring you through.
"Attach your heart to God and you will never be let down." – Imam Zaid Shakir
"When I cry or lose or bruise, so long as I am still alive, nothing is
ultimate. So long as there is still a tomorrow, a next moment, there
is hope, there is change, there is redemption. What is lost, is not
lost forever."

A Western sky and a bell of brass

Shrugging off doubts.
Wistful for a house
I've only seen in dreams,
a green garden for my child,
a woman with kind eyes.
A Western sky
and a bell of brass.
A wall that evil cannot pass,
a patch of sunlight on the grass,
a place to live and laugh.