A study on the Prophet's sermons on Fridays, Day of Sacrifice and Day of Fast-breaking

This article studies Prophet Muhammad’s sermons on Fridays, and the Two Feasts: Day of Sacrifice and Day of Fast-breaking. In a general point of view by collecting all sermons of the Prophet (Allah’s blessing be upon him and his Household) on Fridays, and the Two Feasts: Day of Sacrifice and Day of Fast-breaking registered in the Shī‘ī and Sunni hadith collections, such cases as: a brief account of the sermons, the full list of indexes of the sermons without deleting the reiterated items, as well as the full list of sermon indexes after deletion of the reiterated ones have been referred to.Then under the title of “analyzing the topics of the sermons” such issues as determining the important components of the sermons, frequency rate of important components, sorting out the priorities of religious values, characteristics of a religious community from Prophet Muhammad’s point of view, volume and duration of the sermons and the analysis of their occasions have been examined.Since the most frequent components in these sermons are ethical, it has been understood that the most outstanding characteristic of religious community in the eyes of Prophet Muhammad (Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Household) is that it pivots on ethics.