Muslim women challenge mosque gender

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how about women having women-only mosques like those in China.. that's great.. when a dude came in they can hit him with a broom... waachaa!!
 
north_malaysian said:
how about women having women-only mosques like those in China.. that's great.. when a dude came in they can hit him with a broom... waachaa!!
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That's a good idea, but practically hard to implement. Firstly it's unnecessary, I don't think as much women even pray in mosques daily at least in my area (maybe on fridays yes). Secondly, it sure takes money to have build mosques to both genders :hmm:

This is getting embarrasing, some people just have nothing better to do then worry about curtains - note curtains! :rolleyes:
 
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_muslim_ said:
I don't think as much women even pray in mosques daily at least in my area (maybe on fridays yes).
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Do you mean those women pray in Salaah Juma'ah (Friday prayer) ?.

In my place, Salaah Juma'ah is only for men, but women never complain because except in Friday noon they can pray in masjid anytime.
 
Assalamu Alaikum,

Meh, I do not understand why this is international news. In college, some friends and I decided we'd rather pray at the back of the spacious and clean men's section than stay jammed in the minuscule, dirty women's section with dozens of screaming children and a sound system that didn't work well. We managed to do so without reporters. Shock of shocks, we maintained hayaa, and the musulla didn't turn into a meat market.
 
_muslim_ said:
That's a good idea, but practically hard to implement. Firstly it's unnecessary, I don't think as much women even pray in mosques daily at least in my area (maybe on fridays yes). Secondly, it sure takes money to have build mosques to both genders :hmm:

This is getting embarrasing, some people just have nothing better to do then worry about curtains - note curtains! :rolleyes:
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of course...

but this is for women who want to pray as the men in mosque... i am just hoping that they wont do the azaan too...:exhausted
 
ardianto said:
In my place, Salaah Juma'ah is only for men, but women never complain because except in Friday noon they can pray in masjid anytime.
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In Malaysia, while the men perform the Friday Prayer, the women went shopping at the malls during the 2 hrs break... I think Malaysian women are so happy that they dont have to attend Friday prayer :hiding:
 
firstly, women should be encouraged to go to the mosque and pray, it's better than to spend the day shopping etc, and secondly the walls/full partitions need to come down, since the lines are broken and they're not on another floor-mostly-the prayer is not jama'ah.

the meaning of Jama'ah is congregation, and the scholars have stated that barring extreme difficulty the lines need to be unbroken for it to occur, so one line followed by another then another and so on, the women form their lines from the end up to the front, the men from the front up to the back, this is how it was done in the prophet's time, and for centuries after him and to this day, and that is how it should be. the modern innovation of building walls and so on is just that, a modern innovation, and needs to be challenged so that the sunna of Jama'a is practiced correctly once again.

more importantly, to any who say that at the prophet's time it was different given the piousness of the people, really? are you seriously affirming that every single Muslim man and woman in the Arabian Peninsula at the prophet's time was pious to no bounds? or did people only pray behind the prophet? or was it that for tribes and towns not close to Medina or Mecca the prayer was not compulsory? maybe people back then were missing the part of the brain that made men and women attractive to each other? or perhaps they were not actually human but rather angels descended from the heavens so it was different for them? I'm really curious so if any of you have any rational reasoning for this support of doing things differently than how the prophet demonstrated then out with it and please let us hear..

they weren't all 'companions' and they weren't all pious, so how is saying 'the prophet's time was different!!' an argument?

an inkling of thought should suffice to discount this as any sort of valid reasoning.
 
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alcurad said:
firstly, women should be encouraged to go to the mosque and pray, it's better than to spend the day shopping etc,
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i think it'll be a problem as the mosques are overcrowded during Friday prayers... we need bigger mosques then... the only place where I've seen Muslim women attending Friday prayer in Malaysia is the International ISlamic University Grand Mosque.. my younger sister used to attend Friday prayers when she was a student there.
 
north_malaysian said:
In Malaysia, while the men perform the Friday Prayer, the women went shopping at the malls during the 2 hrs break... I think Malaysian women are so happy that they dont have to attend Friday prayer :hiding:
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Same here in Indonesia. During jumah prayer, my female colleagues would take off to shopping malls to have really long lunch :exhausted
 
north_malaysian said:
i think it'll be a problem as the mosques are overcrowded during Friday prayers... we need bigger mosques then... the only place where I've seen Muslim women attending Friday prayer in Malaysia is the International ISlamic University Grand Mosque.. my younger sister used to attend Friday prayers when she was a student there.
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Yup again same situation here in Indonesia.
There are thousands (very likely tens of thousands) of mosques in Jakarta alone, but even then, most of those mosques do not have the capacity to accommodate all muslim men during jumat prayer.
 
naidamar said:
Yup again same situation here in Indonesia.
There are thousands (very likely tens of thousands) of mosques in Jakarta alone, but even then, most of those mosques do not have the capacity to accommodate all muslim men during jumat prayer.
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in the middle of Kuala Lumpur, people pray on the streets, especially in MAsjid Jamek area...
 
north_malaysian said:
in the middle of Kuala Lumpur, people pray on the streets, especially in MAsjid Jamek area...
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IIRC Masjid Jamic is actually quite small, I prayed there once but that was long ago.

now that you mention it, I wonder why is it so small?
 
naidamar said:
Same here in Indonesia. During jumah prayer, my female colleagues would take off to shopping malls to have really long lunch :exhausted
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I don't know about Jakarta, but in Bandung you can pray then shopping in "pasar kaget" (temporary market) on the street front or besides some masjids, every Friday. You can buy clothes, books, tools, even new car.
 
ardianto said:
I don't know about Jakarta, but in Bandung you can pray then shopping in "pasar kaget" (temporary market) on the street front or besides some masjids, every Friday. You can buy clothes, books, tools, even new car.
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cars?:exhausted
 
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