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Are women allowed to pray in congregation everyday in the masjid or not?
If not, why not?
Some daleels InshaAllaah...
Jazaak Allaah Khayr
Wa' alaikumsalam warahmatullah wabarakatuh.
Imam Abu Hanifa rahimahullah, and two of his sahaba said, it's makruh (suggested not to do) for young women to perform salah jama'ah (congregation prayer) in masjid because feared it will cause fitnah (something bad), like men who see them in masjid are attracted to them. Imam Abu hanifa rahimahullah added, it's permissible for old women to pray in congregation in masjid at subh, maghrib, and isha, because in these time the fasiq people are sleeping or eat at their homes. While his two sahaba (currently I don't know who) said, it's okay for old women to pray in congregation in masjid in all of salah times.
Ulama from Maliki madhab said, it's permissible for women with great purity and do not (without intention to) attract men to pray in congregation in masjid. However, if their presence in masjid could cause fitnah, the women should not go to masjid.
Ulama from Shafi'i and Hanbali madhab said, it's makruh (suggested not to do) for attractive women[*] to pray in congregation in masjid with men, because it feared could cause fitnah. But it's okay for unattractive women[*] to pray in congregation in masjid without using fragrance and after asked permission from their husband, although they are preferable to pray at homes.
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[*] Criterion of attractive and unattractive in this matter is debatable. There are ulama who said, attactive means beautiful, but there is another opinion -which I am sure it's stronger- that attractive in this matter means: have insting to attract men.
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Are women allowed to pray in congregation in masjid?. Yes! because ...
Rasulullah Shallallahu Alayhi Wasallam allowed women to pray in congregation in masjid, although with notes, like not using fragrance, tell the husband before (for married women). There are some hadith about it.
Jumhur (majority of) ulama do not prohibit women to pray in congregation in masjid. If they say makruh (suggested not to do), it's just for their safety (in fact, there are men who cannot lower their gaze).
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Just for information. In my place (Indonesia), women who perform salah in masjid (not only in congregation) are women who not in their homes when the salah times come, like in working place or school, or in traveling. When they are in their homes when the salah times come, usually they perform salah at their homes, those . Ulama in my place never prohibit women to go to masjid, the women themselves prefer to perform salah at their homes.