Jumu‘a in a Settlement of Four to Five Hundred People

Question

Here there is a settlement, the locality of Kalsi, which has been inhabited for hundreds of years. Formerly it had fifty or sixty Muslim houses, and in this same settlement there is a masonry mosque that has stood since that time. At present the Muslim population comprises about ten or twelve houses, and Jumu‘a has always been held in this mosque.

Answer

Answer from Delhi In these circumstances Jumu‘a should be continued; stopping it is not correct. Muhammad Kifayatullah, may Allah be with him (كان الله له), Delhi. Note: an answer to this request for a fatwa (istifta’) had already been sent earlier from Mazahir al-‘Ulum; after that this request came [again] together with [the Delhi] answer, and the reply to it is as follows.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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