Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
I asked a scholar who claimed to be Hanafi, if I could miss Jummah because of classes because missing the class would hinder my performance. He said I could because Jummah in a Non-Muslim country is not established anyhow
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful & Compassionate
This is not what the leading scholars alive state. Otherwise, holding Friday prayers would be sinful: it is not permitted to deliberately perform (or call to) worship that is invalid.
It is not a condition of Friday prayer that it be performed in a Muslim land. Rather, the condition that sometimes confuses is that the permission of the Sultan [Muslim ruler]’ is mentioned as being necessary. [cf: Shurunbulali, Imdad al-Fattah; Ibn Abidin, Radd al-Muhtar] However, the very same texts mention that if there is no such ruler, then it is valid to choose someone to lead the Friday prayer, as long as there is no open discordthe point of the mentioned condition is the avoidance of discord, not the ruler’s permission per se.
This was an issue in parts of the Indian Subcontinent where there were sizeable Muslim communities, yet those areas had never been under Muslim rule. The fatwa of the scholars was that it was a communal obligation on those communities to establish Friday prayerbecause of the general nature of the Divine Command to do soand a personal obligation on Muslim men to attend.
And Allah alone gives success.
Faraz Rabbani