Ruling on holding Friday prayers at home during the Corona epidemic

Praise be to God, and may God’s prayers and peace be upon those who are satisfied. What the world is going through today from the spread of the Corona epidemic, which is transmitted by contagion from gatherings and convergence, which greatly affected the course of normal life, and also affected the great change in the way of life from imposing a complete ban and closing schools before the end of the school year, and completing some stages with distance learning. And the governmental authorities’ imposition of work from home, followed by the ban on official authorities from praying in mosques and closing them, and the order to pray at home until Friday and other necessary precautions to prevent the spread of this epidemic. The question among people was about the ruling on performing the Friday prayer with its sermon at home? It is known that the Friday prayer is not like the rest of the five daily prayers. , and other advantages that are not available to others. Likewise, one of the conditions for the validity of the Friday prayer is that the prayer be held in mosques, and after saying that the Friday prayer is valid outside the mosque, the statements of the scholars have already been mentioned in this regard and the consensus on that opinion. And the large number of worshipers and the expansion of the country, and if we say that it is permissible to perform Friday prayers in homes, then we are violating those agreed conditions. Therefore, it was said that it is not permissible and valid to perform Friday prayers in homes, and that it is obligatory to pray Dhuhr until God authorizes the removal of the grief and the removal of the epidemic.