Re: Nikkahs in Pakistan
This isn’t true, as just one example we know that in the times of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) men and women even prayed in the same room inside the mosques with no barrier (the men would be in front and the women behind) so I don’t know where u get this idea from that if a man wasn’t a mehram he would never even see you let alone call it ‘general Islamic law.’
‘Men and women both are allowed to pray in the mosque in the same Jama’ah. When men and women are together in the Masjid then we should have first men’s lines behind the Imam, then children and then women. This is the way Muslims used to pray behind the Prophet - peace be upon him. He did not make or ask his companions to have a curtain or wall between the lines of men and women. (See Al-Sindi’s Commentary on Sunan al-Nasa’I, p. 798)’
Islam doesn’t demand total segregation of the sexes (which would be practically impossible anyway), just says that two members of the opposite sex should not be left alone together..
Btw sorry for going off-topic, Sahar