CAN WOMEN ATTEND PRAYERS IN THE MASJID?

In the sanction of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

Praise beryllium to Allah, who sent down the Book arsenic a wide exposition of each things; I carnivore witnesser that determination is nary deity but Allah, unsocial without partner, and I carnivore witnesser that our Prophet Muhammad is His servant and Messenger. O Allah, nonstop Your bid and blessings upon him, upon his family, companions, and those who travel them with excellence until the Day of Judgment.

Servants of Allah, O blessed gathering, we proceed with you successful the realm of the hadeeth astir removing the veil from the tangle of things and lifting the veil from definite Friday matters for the laic folk. Among the issues earlier america contiguous is the question of women’s beingness astatine the Friday prayer, 1 of the weightier issues that demands our cautious information and explicit guidance.

Servants of Allah, with Allah’s assistance and by His favour, and aft adjacent and diligent scrutiny of each that the eminent authorities person said connected the substance of women’s attendance to Friday prayers, ranging from perfectly prohibited, to disliked, to permitted, and including the decisive presumption of the Maliki school—our authoritative jurisprudential schoolhouse successful Nigeria—where their beingness is viewed with caution and wherever determination is nary harm to men successful their gathering, particularly successful airy of Ibn Rushd’s classifications for women into 4 states: aged and withdrawn from nationalist life, mixed institution but modest, noticeably young and modest, and noticeably young and dissolute, and what the Qarafi and others differed on, making their attendance obligatory by choice, though

The bulk of Malikis clasp that their attendance suffices for the noon (Dhuhr) prayer, adjacent if they are not explicitly summoned to attend.

Servants of Allah, aft cautious survey of the hadeeths that licence their attendance and others that accent the superiority of their prayers successful their homes, and aft examining the reasons for the prohibition crossed the 4 categories, these are the matters we undertake to address:

Reasoned explanations for the diminution of work for the servant, and the hardship for the sick and the traveller, and the prevention of the corrupting vice of fornication by blocking its avenues.

Servants of Allah. O radical of blessing, this is simply a measurement shaped by prudence, a safeguarding of nationalist involvement successful a clip erstwhile the fig of Muslims seeks to augment successful a nine wherever religions contend for spot oregon wane, wherever nakedness and motivation decay are widespread, and wherever spiritual motive wanes and interest for spiritual duties diminishes. Therefore, we deem it commendable that women be Friday prayers successful each 4 categories—the aged and withdrawn, the visibly young yet modest, the visibly young yet remarkable, and the visibly young yet unobtrusive—within a assemblage ravaged by specified ills. This follows the maxim: “Prevention of harm takes precedence implicit the pursuit of benefit.” If it beryllium decreed oregon assumed that successful their beingness determination is simply a peril of temptation—which is not astatine each evident successful this era, fixed that each mosque oregon a Friday Masjid houses women with veiled curtains, partitions, and walls—then that peril is not greater than the dangers already mentioned. For the harm of incurring fornication is not greater than the harm caused by ignorance of the faith; indeed, the purpose of preserving religion among the scholars of Maqaasid is higher than the purpose of safeguarding lineage and honour. When 2 harms conflict, the greater is not sacrificed for the lesser; and their beingness (for prayers successful the Masjid) is little harmful than their absence, for lack gives emergence to the dispersed of degeneracy and motivation decay among the young. The mothers person missed the ngo of the Friday sermon—its teaching, admonition, and guidance—and they request to larn and adhere to it successful bid to negociate their households efficaciously and fulfil the rights of their husbands and children.

Allah bless Ibrahim’s memory, who sang:

The parent is the teacher of teachers, whose achievements capable the horizons.

The parent nourishes beingness if you instrumentality attraction of her with kindness.

The parent is simply a schoolteacher if you hole her for the task.

And different said:

The archetypal filth of h2o is the filth of its soil. The archetypal filth of radical is the filth of marriage.

Servants of Allah, the information of temptation erstwhile women be the mosques—the precise happening that has occasioned the admonitions—has been mitigated and, indeed, addressed by erecting a obstruction betwixt the antheral and pistillate supplication spaces, and by maintaining their modesty and decorum. The ruling follows its underlying cause, whether it exists oregon not; if the origin is removed, the ruling is besides removed. Our Prophet Muhammad, bid beryllium upon him, did not conceal this truth: “Do not forestall Allah’s...