Eid Prayer

[Gulalai]

i go to eid prayer every eid.
but i know many women who don't like going. they stay home and cook and clean for guests lol

[Roshina]

Saifullah, as you must well know, no Muslim country allows its women to go to the mosque. If there are exceptions, I would appreciate knowing.

But we need to a practical plan to go about correcting this what I consider injustice. Women have as much a right to go to the mosque as men do, and denying them this what I consider basic right is basically denying them participation in community and access to knowledge about a religion they claim as their own. Simply telling our people, "Look, it's wajib -- we need to make our women go to the mosque" won't work because that's just not how society functions. We have to first get our people out of a mindset that compels them to believe that women are forbidden from leaving the house.

If you think about it, it's difficult for the women not because they're not allowed to but because they have no access to it. I mean, mosques are full of men -- and we consider it indecent for a woman to step into a men-only place. So, now that we've recognized the problem (women forbidden from worshiping in the mosque), we need to plot out some solutions, practical solutions that will help us pave for women a way into the mosque.

But before that, I'd think, we have to understand the root of the reason why women are not allowed to go to the mosque.

[Khan]

Saifullah, as you must well know, no Muslim country allows its women to go to the mosque. If there are exceptions, I would appreciate knowing.

But we need to a practical plan to go about correcting this what I consider injustice. Women have as much a right to go to the mosque as men do, and denying them this what I consider basic right is basically denying them participation in community and access to knowledge about a religion they claim as their own. Simply telling our people, "Look, it's wajib -- we need to make our women go to the mosque" won't work because that's just not how society functions. We have to first get our people out of a mindset that compels them to believe that women are forbidden from leaving the house.

If you think about it, it's difficult for the women not because they're not allowed to but because they have no access to it. I mean, mosques are full of men -- and we consider it indecent for a woman to step into a men-only place. So, now that we've recognized the problem (women forbidden from worshiping in the mosque), we need to plot out some solutions, practical solutions that will help us pave for women a way into the mosque.

But before that, I'd think, we have to understand the root of the reason why women are not allowed to go to the mosque.

And who says that women are not allowed to go to Mosque, be it normal prayers or Eid's prayers?

[KhyberKhan]

Eid prayer for women is sunnah, not wajib.

And it should be done in the outside, the prophet(pbuh) use to perform it on the outer perimeter of medina.

My local mosque does the eid prayer in our local park.

[Saifullah]

In the west we see how women are allowed to go to the Mosque and attend eid prayers, which has made a positive difference. I as a male when i go to the mosque you just feel at peace and reflect upon what u have been doing the whole day or whole week or whatever. I am sure if a woman goes it will have the same effect, a positive effect. I know at home i will not get the same feeling, whereas praying alongside hundreds or thousands of muslims, it is a great unifying thing. We are told to be shoulder to shoulder and leave no gaps. Why did the Prophet (Saw) stress upon such a thing. He was so strict on this??? Because when the lines are not straight and there are gaps, it shows disunity and maybe even hatred. You don't feel the brotherly love, so you will not wanna get close to another person. But if you have that love, then you will have the best line and it shows unity.

Back home not providing women the same facilities in places of worship is a major problem. You cannot deny women such rights. We hear for women prayer is not fard. OK...but is it haram?? Not really. So they should be given the right to go to mosque and to pray eid prayers and to be involved in many functions. That way our women will have better understanding of their faith and experience the same things that men do.

Khan its not a question about people saying its haram for women to go to the mosque. But the fact that many of our women don't have any facilities for them in the mosque is a problem and they are also discouraged..

[KhyberKhan]

Saifullah, as you must well know, no Muslim country allows its women to go to the mosque. If there are exceptions, I would appreciate knowing.

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How many muslim countries have you been too?

[Saifullah]

In Peshawar i have rarely seen women go to the mosque. A few have facilities for women but they are really small in number

[KhyberKhan]

Eid prayers is obligatory for men? I didn't know that at all. Many men don't go to the prayer yet celebrate Eid.

Yes, but obligatory in the sense that it is comunal obligation.

[KhyberKhan]

In Peshawar i have rarely seen women go to the mosque. A few have facilities for women but they are really small in number

In our village they do. Women even have their own guest speakers for khatms and they lead other women in tarawwih.

In peshawar i can imagine its a little different as there's pervs on the street praying to get a look at a females painted toe-nails so i can understand the hesitation.

[Saifullah]

lol

[KhyberKhan]

Whilst Qratugai lists the muslim countries shes actually been to, ill leave her to watch this...

[KhyberKhan]

lol

Which mosque do you read in peshawar? I always try to avoid peshawar but i do remember going to jumay munz in moulana bijli ghar jummat- he was actually delivering khutbah. I thought to myself, i've definitely gotta shake this guys hand before i go, and i did.

[Saifullah]

i pray in hayatabad, baghi naaran park. After a long time im gonna be doing eid in london

[KhyberKhan]

oh cool. is that swimming pool still in hayatabad?

[Saifullah]

yea it is still there the one in swan restaurant, but now the name has changed....that place was blown up a bit some time ago...but they fixed it up