Re: Hamza Yusuf: Permissible For Women To Lead Men In Prayer
Peace Apricot
First of all it is an issue because there is movement in this matter … women have started to lead prayers … and the scholars need to be vocal on this issue, because the public demands them to issue a verdict on the permissibility of such things … Hamza Yusuf is using wisdom to down play the importance that the awwam have given to this issue, because the greater harm of it is that more fitnah can result to dwell on it.
He is basically telling people to get on with their lives and stop judging people …
Regarding the signs of the Day of Judgement - please elaborate … because essentially you have taken a hadith which I am familiar with here … and interpreted it with your own understanding … basically doing interpretation based on your own understanding of an issue … with respect you cannot call it haram and you are not qualified to map that hadith on to this issue … Now there may be another hadith that I am not aware of … so please present the hadith that infers women leading prayers is haram and will be done in latter times … otherwise you cannot issue such verdicts with limited knowledge.