why is asking about women going/not going to mosques to worship a violation?

Question

will this question also be a violation?

Answer 1

I dont know who has prohibited whom from asking about anything from anyone. Therefore permit me to write what I have learnt on the subject of women going to mosque.

Islamic law requires men and women to be separated in the prayer hall, commonly, women occupy the rows behind the men and in some cases they are separated by an aisle running down the center of the prayer area, up to the pulpit.

Some accounts have indicated that Muhammad preferred women to pray at home rather than at a mosque, and according to the hadith Muhammad said: "The best mosques for women are the inner parts of their houses."

However, during the Prophet's lifetime women did pray in the mosque with men.

The second caliph Umar went so far as to prohibit women from attending mosques and required them to pray at home.

Sometimes a special part of the mosque was railed off for women; for example, the governor of Mecca in 870 had ropes tied between the columns to make a separate place for women.

Many mosques today will put the women behind a barrier or partition or in another room. Some mosques in South and Southeast Asia put men and women in separate rooms, as the divisions were built into them centuries ago. In nearly two-thirds of American mosques, women pray behind partitions or in separate areas, not in the main prayer hall; some mosques do not admit women at all.

Almost a quarter of the mosques do not offer programs for women, and a third do not allow women on governing boards. Although common, activists argue that such practices are contradictory to the responsibility of all Muslims, regardless of gender, to play an active role in the community, which includes those within the mosque.

The large crowds present at the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, especially during the annual pilgrimage, often result in unintended mixing between genders

. Some Islamic jurists would prefer to exclude women from prayer halls altogether.

Women are subjected to other restrictions in mosques. According to some hadith, they must not be perfumed; according to others, they must leave the mosque before the men.

However, there has also been significant challenges to gender-based segregation in the mosque by scholars and activists of both genders. For example, Amina Wadud was not only the first woman to lead prayers, but also led the first mixed-gender prayer, where men and women stood side by side.

Answer 2

"Are women allowed to worship in Mosques? If a women snuck right into a mosque dressed up as a guy-might they get killed?" confident she probably might. there is not any mingling between the sexes in a Mosque. the ladies have their very own place, faraway from the adult males to need. There are even separate places for the two ladies and men to accomplish the ablution , or Wu'du previously prayers. Oh confident, if a female is having her "era" she isn't allowed in the Mosque. she would be able of circulate into only after her era is over.

Answer 3

A violation of what? In Yahoo answers you can ask any question that is not in violation of the site;s standards.

Answer 4

It is a sincere good qustion and it adds to the knowledge of members of this forum. The Muslim women may or may not go to Mosques for the ordained daily prayers, held in congregation. But, in Mecca and Madinah's sacred mosques, they must go and join the men in prayers. The local (Saudi) women may have their option. Usually, they go to sacred mosques in large number. For the rites before Kaaba which is within the Holy Mosque in Mecca-- a direction for Muslims of the world to face in their prayers, men and women perform it together.

Answer 5

Wish I would have seen that question. I would have been interested in the answers! The best we can do is keep our heads low and see what shakes out in the next few weeks. I think Yahoo Answers is a work in progress at this time.

Answer 6

Cos yahoo answers needs to redefine what is a violation!!

Answer 7

Don't think this question is a violation in itself..... sounds like a good question

Answer 8

Yahoo is afraid of the muslim boogie-man.

Answer 9

god only knows, they are a funny lot those muslims