Jumu‘a in a Settlement of Fifteen Hundred People

Question

There is a settlement, Fatimi Chak, whose population of Hindus and Muslims is about fifteen hundred; nothing that is needed is available there. However, adjoining it there are two more settlements, and all three together appear to be one, [though] in government papers their areas are entirely separate. The bazaar is about four miles away. Jumu‘a is being performed in the mosque, but some people do not pray it. Please inform us of the Shari‘a ruling.

Answer

Your settlement, Fatima Chak, is evidently a small settlement; Jumu‘a is not permissible there, because its population of Hindus and Muslims is fifteen hundred and nothing that is needed is available there. Next, if the other two settlements are counted together with it as one settlement in government papers but appear separate to the eye — as is clear from your letter, which…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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