Comments on: Separating the Rows in a Congregation?

By: Akhi Al-Ghurabah

Akhi Al-Ghurabah — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:06:39 +0000

In reply to BinHamid. Why would we like to have fitnah around!The Prayer for both men and women are same!

By: Akhi Al-Ghurabah

Akhi Al-Ghurabah — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:05:03 +0000

In reply to BintKhalil. Its better we look at the Sunnah rather looking at the personal opinion of each other!!!

By: Akhi Al-Ghurabah

Akhi Al-Ghurabah — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:03:15 +0000

In reply to Yasmin. But rather act as mentioned in the Sunnah of Prophet(sal Allahu alayhi wasallam)

By: K

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 21:24:31 +0000

I have been told Islam is not a difficult religion. Therefore, why is the place of prayer and whether it is accepted or not an issue? Men and women don’t even agree where women are allowed to pray much less their appearance in the mosque at all. Until these type of concerns are resolved I don’t see islam making much progress. There is no issue in Christianity of where and if women can pray, and if god finds prayer permisable due to a row separation. Wow, this really is more difficult than I imagined prior to my shahada.

By: Sr Ann

Sr Ann — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:53:48 +0000

asalam alekum,

This issue has been a HUGE source of frustration for me as a revert. The WOMEN at our masjid decided that they wanted their own privacy, in other words a partition or a separate room. Any of us sisters who are wishing to pray in the main prayer hall behind the brothers (there is not an issue of lack of space normally) are being treated very badly to the point we have left the masjid. Is it wrong to ask for a place in the main prayer hall behind the brothers? And if there is a valid explanation for the need of a separate room for sisters, why did our dear Prophet (PBUH) not build a separate room for the women during the early days of Islam, or at the very least make clear it’s permissibility?

Salam,
Sr. Ann

By: mohammed saeed

mohammed saeed — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:36:39 +0000

salaam-alaikum sheikh, please your explanation is well taken but it would have been good if you could have said though it is allowed to pray away from the row but it is better to pray in congregation in the masjid. As this would prevent others from praying in the masjid when though they could.

By: BinHamid

BinHamid — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 03:10:23 +0000

BintKhalil makes a really good point. Why do masjids have a barrier between the men and women and purposely separate the rows when such an issue seems to complicate doing so? Would certain schools argue that the prayer of the women is disliked? Could you please clarify? Jazak’allah kheir!

By: BintKhalil

BintKhalil — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:38:25 +0000

Regarding Imam Malik’s opinion in the last paragraph –
a) why is it not OK for Friday prayers but OK for the Friday ones?
b) if the house being close to the mosque defined by being able to hear the Imam, what implications does this have for a mosque equipped by loudspeakers as is the case with most mosques in Muslim countries? What implications does this have for live satellite broadcast of prayers? I have heard of people following Tarawih in Mecca from their TV sets.

I also find it interesting that this issue is cropping up only when it comes to men’s prayers because women have been praying in separate rooms with the jama’a for the longest time.

By: Tajuddin

Tajuddin — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:15:38 +0000

JAK for this – i love the example of Ibn al-Qudama issuing an opinion even as it differed from his own madhab…

By: Yasmin

Yasmin — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:40:25 +0000

I’m certainly not an expert on this stuff but I agree with Imam Suhaib Webb that this should be o.k. I believe that Allah is very Merciful so as long as they all have pure intentions than Inshallah Allah will accept this worship from them.

Of course, Allah knows best.