خطبات طاہر (جلد 10۔ 1991ء) — Page 1018
1018 in the past and have been giving a series of lectures on the Quranic prayers, there significance, there background, and how well they can be utilized by us today, but for today I think I shall have to depart from that practice also, so that when I speak again in Urdu then I will return to the same series and it should continue unbroken in the same language۔Juma is a very special institution in Islam۔It is a gathering much larger than 5 daily prayers۔In the 5 daily prayers Muslims belonging to a certain area which is smaller in size who have access to the Mosques and can go 5 times to a Mosque۔But once in every week it is expected that much larger audience is drawn to the Mosque, those who belong to one town or if the town is too big at least much larger area of that town, who could get together at such Mosques which are built for this particular purpose, to accommodate people, that is a larger gathering, for Juma day۔They are called Jamia Mosques۔Now the reason behind this is that Islam wants to unite mankind and togetherness in Islam has a very important message۔That is why the size of the congregations goes on increasing, every week there is Juma, and every year there are two Eids۔And in Eid it is not just the inhabitants of one town or one city who say prayer behind one Imam, but it is the entire area which gathers around in one central Mosque but the Mosque cannot accommodate them, so they gather, not in the mosque but, outside in the open places and there the Eid prayer is held۔