This Ramzan, Soban Usmani is offering jumma (Friday) prayers once every three weeks. Till last year, Friday prayers didn’t pose a challenge because he could pray at the park next to his office in Sector 34 of Gurugram. However, since Hindu “activists” raised protests over namaz being done in open spaces, Usmani now goes to the mosque near his home.
“The mosque is more than an hour away from my office, so I can’t travel in the 30-40 minutes of lunch break that I get,” said Usmani. Since Islamic doctrine forbids skipping more than three consecutive Friday prayers, the best he can do is to take the day off every third Friday to do namaz at the mosque.
