By Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani Translated by Abdullah Rashid and Sufyan Tihami Preface In my Yemen trip journal — published in the Rabi‘ al-Thani 1422 issue of Al-Balagh Magazine — I mentioned, for the sake of reminder, the matter of performing the Friday congregation in Dubai airport. In it, I stated that the correct understanding of public access (idhn al-‘am)[1]that the scholars require for the validity of the Friday congregation is that all the people of the immediate area surrounding where the prayer is being performed must have unrestricted access to the congregation, even if the people outside of that…