Re: Invalid prayers , if & when you see the opposite gender in the prayer room
i dont know from where people have now come up with "ladies section" in the mosques....
u ask any mufti and he will tell u that if there is a discontinutiy in the rows (i.e. when someone stands in a place where he cannot see either the imam or others who r praying directly behind the imam) then he is not part of the jamaat.... according to this rule, women praying behind the imam in a separate room or enclosure (with no visual connection to the men's section) are not even a part of the jamaat.....
only a few mosques i have seen actually have a netted window for connecting women's section to the men's.... but others, which are not even sharing the same walls, and women praying behind the imam just following his voice on loudspeaker, that is completely wrong i think....
if its the just the voice from the speaker u need to follow, then ppl leaving adjacent to the mosque might as well pray in their own rooms at the comfort of their own home....
Interesting. I knew women can pray behind men, but I had no idea praying in a different section would likely exclude them from being part of the jamaah. Thanks for sharing.