Collective Salat and Salam After the Prayer

Question

Muslims, having abandoned the observance and performance of the fard and the sunna, on Friday after the Jumu‘a prayer in the mosque give the congregational loud recitation of salat and salam upon the Prophet ﷺ the status of fard ‘ayn, and if [they] are forbidden from reciting salat and salam, they raise an uproar. In this situation, what in essence is the answer?

Answer

Reciting salat and salam upon the accepted Messenger of Allah ﷺ is a very great felicity, a demand of faith and a means of fulfilling [his] right. But abandoning the fard prayers and the emphasized sunnas is a very great crime: the abandonment of the fard prayers will by no means be made up for by salat and salam; its evil consequence in this world and the Hereafter is…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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