Why does not return Friday prayers despite the return of all gatherings? This question has become a bewilderment among Egyptians without an answer, with the Egyptian authorities continuing to prevent this prayer as part of the preventive measures they have taken to prevent the outbreak of the new Corona virus, a measure that has also been taken by most Islamic countries.

With the Egyptian government announcing gradually easing restrictions and the return of gatherings, it also decided to return daily prayers in mosques, while taking precautionary measures, but it has not yet announced the return of Friday prayers, which caused anger among Egyptians.

But the anger escalated remarkably with the procedures of the Senate elections last week, as the pioneers of social media circulated pictures of the electoral conferences inside cities and villages without taking preventive measures, and many questioned the necessity behind holding these elections, especially since the Senate has no legislative powers.

The pioneers of the communication sites launched a tag to demand the dismissal of the Minister of Endowments, Muhammad Mukhtar Juma, and the demand for the return of Friday prayers, especially with the daily announcement by the government of the decline in the number of people infected with the Coronavirus.

With the escalation of anger, the Religious Affairs and Endowments Committee in the House of Representatives invited the Ministers of Endowments, Health and Local Development, to discuss meeting the citizens' desire to hold Friday prayers after the success of the community prayer experiment in mosques and to achieve complete precautionary measures, and that did not result in any negatives.

Urgent ... approval to return the Friday prayer ... and the decision within hours pic.twitter.com/p59mtFWoKL

- Mohamed Brakat ● (@ Kotaofficial8) August 17, 2020

Today, Monday, the Minister of Endowments announced that the Ministry had raised its plan to return Friday prayers to the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers, to present this plan at the next meeting of the Corona Crisis Management Committee, to discuss it and take the necessary decision within the framework of the committee’s plan for a general gradual opening, in accordance with the scientific and medical vision and the development of things for the better.

It is interesting that the Ministry's announcement of studying the return of Friday prayers astonished others, in light of official and media warnings of the second wave of the spread of the Corona virus.

Tweeters said that the continued closure of mosques is incomprehensible and unjustified, especially with the return to normal life and crowding in all public places.

The Ministry of Endowments was the most strict in applying the precautionary measures, as the Egyptians continued to dismiss the imams of mosques due to the holding of prayers during the ban period, and tweeters also circulated the flight of worshipers after hearing the sound of police cars, during the last Friday prayers and Eid al-Fitr.

Sisi's regime allowed debauchery to go to the northern coast, closed mosques,
and the Zionist regime closed mosques in Egypt under the pretext of gatherings and Corona, and at the same time they hung screens on the mosque walls that display football matches in large gatherings

Al-Sisi and his regime are fighting Islam # Leave_O_ Sisi # Dismissal_ Minister of Awqaf pic.twitter.com/GqqbT3tIzw

- Omar mohamed Omar Mohamed (@ Aboda72821815) August 16, 2020

Others circulated pictures of gatherings in cafes while watching the Champions League soccer matches in front of the closed mosque walls.

Some of them talked about the congestion and congestion in public transport, as well as the government's insistence on organizing secondary school examinations and the Senate elections, despite many warnings from specialists.

The fear is that people forget the Friday prayers and it remains an ordinary day. This is the goal of the Minister of Endowments. I
want a Minister of Endowments to preserve our religion and Islam. # Dismissal_ Minister of Awqaf

- Mustafa Darwish (@ z4icIHXs7dlRYIV) August 16, 2020

Crowded transportation, elections and weddings. When will we pray Friday # Dismissing the Minister of Awqaf?

- shrief el hwary (@ShriefHwary) August 16, 2020

He was dismissed by the Minister of Endowments, Mukhtar, collected by the Minister of Endowments. The
screen on the wall of the mosque and the mosque is closed, of course,
without spacing, without a muzzle, and without precautionary measures. Of course, by
God, you have to say the reason for preventing the Friday prayer
from it to God who entered you Al- Azhar from childhood.
You are an infidel, not a Muslim. Open the houses of worship God closes the homes of your family pic.twitter. com / OZxxoOdvqp

- Kandil Ibrahim (@ KandilIbrahim11) August 16, 2020