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Women Going to the Mosque

Answered by
Shaykh Amjad Rasheed
Published
3 July 2005

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Question

What is the ruling on a woman going to the masjid if it doesn’t have any dangers? I live in America and I don’t find any good company to surround myself with during the whole week, unless I go to the mosque. I find that it really strengthens my faith, but some people are saying that it isn’t permissible.

Answer

In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate

The prayer of a woman is permissible in the mosque, without question. However it is best for her to pray in her home, as it says in the hadith, because it is more modest for her.

Having said that, if she fears fitna will occur by her going out to the mosque, it is haram for her to do that, as the imams have said.

Now, it differs from one country to the next and from one woman to the next. So considering the point that the questioner mentioned about her being far from good company when she is outside of the masjid and that going to the masjid makes her strengthen her faith, then perhaps her prayer in the masjid is better, as long as she feels safe from fitna, for it has come in the sahih hadith, “Do not ban the female-servants of Allah from Allah’s masjids.”

Wassalam,

- Amjad

(Translated by Sr. Shazia Ahmad)

 

ما حكم صلاة المرأة في المسجد إن خلا عن المحاذير ؟ أعيش في أمريكا ولا أجد صحبةً صالحةً طوال الأسبوع إلا إن ذهبتُ إلى المسجد فأجد فيها دافعا إيمانيا قويا ، لكن بعض الناس يقولون : إنه لا يجوز الجواب : صلاة المرأة في المسجد جائزة بلا خلاف ، لكنَّ صلاتها في بيتها أفضلُ كما الحديث ؛ لأنه أستر لها ، ومن ثم لو كانت تخشى الفتنة في خروجها إلى المسجد حرم في عليها ذلك كما صرحوا به ويختلف الحال في ذلك من بلد لآخر ومن امرأة لأخرى ، ذكرته السائلة من بعدها عن الصحبة الصالحة في غير المسجد وأن ذهابها إليه ونظراً إلى ما يحصل لها دافعاً إيمانياً قوياً فلعل صلاتها في المسجد أولى إن أمنت على نفسها الفتنة ففي الحديث الصحيح :" لا تمنعوا إماء الله مساجد الله ".

 

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