are women allowed to go to mosques?

[Azad Khel]

zari khorai salam its our pashtun culture that stops us from going masjid as pashtuns are strict i liked your question khorai, khorai if your from a traditional pashtun family, khorai read at home learn at home like i do theres so much available.

I never heard that women in Arab coutries go to the mosque even for juma prayer as Juma is not obligated on women.

Juma prayer and Jihad is obligated on men only.

[torkham]

of course a muslim woman can enter a mosque (separate entrance and partitioned part of mosque).

in dubai, my local mosque, and all big mosques have a 'musalla' for women, and like today at juma, women attended, separately, decently covered.

however, in afghanistan, we pashtun adhere to our custom/culture that interprets islam for many of us and it means women pray at home (although some rigorously examine islam given to us by sheikhs; hadith, arabic language and its historic usage along with common sense[logic] to reach a better more authentic understanding.

as for culture, it is unthinkable for women in my kor/kilai, going to a mosque to pray.

[Pashtun_Ultranationalist]

I hope one day every women can go anywhere they want in Pashtun region.

[IamDZJ]

back home is different than here. A woman would be causing herself and others more sin by passing by mosque back there. In here if you have the facilities and time then sure why not but if you have to send your kids to school unprepared then you are better off praying at home.
Religion can't help you anywhere if you don't align it with common sense.

[laevanay]

It is preferable for women to pray at home but praying at a mosque is perfectly fine too. There is no sin for a women to pray in a mosque and i guess in our culture its not right for a woman to go to a mosque but it differs in each family due to opinion.

Its preferable that they be tied with cattle at home and fed 3 times a day.

[laevanay]

back home is different than here. A woman would be causing herself and others more sin by passing by mosque back there. In here if you have the facilities and time then sure why not but if you have to send your kids to school unprepared then you are better off praying at home.
Religion can't help you anywhere if you don't align it with common sense.

Have you ever wondered why this is so? I think the keeping the women like cattle has to blame for this... after all is Hajj segregated?

[laevanay]

as for culture, it is unthinkable for women in my kor/kilai, going to a mosque to pray.

Words of a true Pakhtun, not a good muslim! So your culture to you is more important than your religion? I bet that is the exact same thing you say about female inheritance.....

What about Haj? We muslims should find a way to segregate that, we have the technology, the money, and seems like the will; women are all evil, men are all animals a sight of a women makes them wild!!!!

[IamDZJ]

Have you ever wondered why this is so? I think the keeping the women like cattle has to blame for this... after all is Hajj segregated?

It's more practical of a father to focus on teaching his new born son to learn taking his first steps not run a marathon. Similarly, when you see your house on fire, you wouldnt stand there and wonder what caused the fire or how it should have been prevented from happening. You set off the fire first and worry about that later because that is the practical thing to do.
Be practical in life. Priorities matter.

[kakargirl]

I never heard that women in Arab coutries go to the mosque even for juma prayer as Juma is not obligated on women.

Juma prayer and Jihad is obligated on men only.

same thing i heard before wror too but i have to be sure to write something, im glad you said it though .

[Zari]

^thanks everyone

[torkham]

Words of a true Pakhtun, not a good muslim! So your culture to you is more important than your religion? I bet that is the exact same thing you say about female inheritance.....

What about Haj? We muslims should find a way to segregate that, we have the technology, the money, and seems like the will; women are all evil, men are all animals a sight of a women makes them wild!!!!

I agree and this is what i meant by version of islam given to many of us by our sheikhs/mullas, and exactly what i mean that some of us do examine that version of islam to sort out bida.

[laevanay]

I agree and this is what i meant by version of islam given to many of us by our sheikhs/mullas, and exactly what i mean that some of us do examine that version of islam to sort out bida.

Yup.. if the women did not go to mosques during the days of our Holy Prophet (PBUH) or that of the Khulifai Rashideen I would have been thinking about it. There is nothing that prevents women from going to mosques and nothing from them being productive parts of our society....... The world has progressed beyond camel riding past glory seeking dreaming idealists...

Welcome to the practicle world and like it or not, the MUSLIM world is beyond deciding if women are allowed to be human or not.... nut jobs will always be present.. but they will always be in the minority.... and in due time progression to the true Islam will happen. The people debating these petty issues think they are above all the other muslims with a "holier than thou" attitude only be laughed at by normal humans.... while you debate these petty issues we will think of hte bigger fish that need to be fried...

[Alchemist]

I can't be with God the way I am infront of others or with others the way I am with God.

He is everywhere.

So why is it you are only conscious of His presence when you stand to pray?

I used to think the same till I met a brother who'd throwis prayer mat where he was and prayed without a care as to who watched or not.

As a woman you should keep your ways.

But I just noticed some brothers thanking you...and they ought not to have that same attitude as you. Prayer is also a way of tableegh.

[IamDZJ]

i never said i am perfect. i said i cant be that way because i have tried and i have failed. i also didn't send anyone personal checks in the mail to make it their obligation to thank anything or everything i post in here. if it bothers you then approach them. there is not much i can do about that.

[Toramana]

Every new thing that first came to our area was opposed by Mullah but the common man had to adopt it in order to be relevant and competative in the changed world...and ultimately, the mullah also had to adopt it when it became an inevitability...Similarly, schools, loud-speakers, tv, radio, etc. were vehemently opposed by mullahs initially...

mullah first tries to be the leader in opposing new ways but due to his un-sophistcated mind and primitive ideas is ultimately reduced to the status of a follower...