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There is a difference of opinion among Muslims regarding the circumstances in which women may act as imams, i.e. to lead a mixed gendered congregation in salat (prayer). The orthodox position is that women cannot lead men in prayer (although they can lead women), which is justified by various Quranic verses and Hadith about the roles and responsibilities of men and women [citation needed].
For Friday prayers, by custom, Muslim's congregations segregate men, women, and children into separate groups. On other days, the women and children pray at home. Men are expected to offer the five times daily prayers at the nearest mosque. Muhammad specifically allowed Muslim women to attend mosques and pray behind men.
The expansion of women's religious involvement helped challenge the role of women in the domestic sector and paved the way for a greater expansion of knowledge. [ 119 ]Ḥadīth transmission also allowed women to gain status by putting them in a pedigree that connected them to the time of Muhammad. [ 122 ]
Muhammad told Muslims not to forbid women from entering mosques. They are allowed to go in. [107] The second Sunni caliph 'Umar at one time prohibited women from attending mosques especially at night because he feared they might be sexually harassed or assaulted by men, so he required them to pray at home. [108]
It is also recorded that Muhammad ordered that mosques have separate doors for women and men so that men and women would not be obliged to go and come through the same door. [48] He also commanded that after the Isha' evening prayer, women be allowed to leave the mosque first so that they would not have to mix with men. [49]
She argued that Muhammad didn't put women behind partitions, and that barriers preventing women from praying equally with men are just sexist man-made rules. [73] The men at her mosque put her on trial to be banished. [73] In 2004, some American mosques had constitutions prohibiting women from voting in board elections. [76]
e. Women in the Quran are important characters and subjects of discussion included in the stories and morals taught in Islam. Most of the women in the Quran are represented as either mothers or wives of leaders or prophets. They retained a certain amount of autonomy from men in some respects; for example, the Quran describes women who converted ...
The status of women's testimony in Islam is disputed. Muslim societies' attitudes range from completely rejecting female testimony in certain legal areas, to conditionally accepting (half-worth that of a male, or with a requirement for supporting male testimony), to completely accepting it without any gender bias. [1]