Women leading Friday mixed gender gathering prayer... Some "Rooh Parwar" highlights..

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Re: Women leading Friday mixed gender gathering prayer… Some “Rooh Parwar” highlights..

@phatima1

Like I said before, the Quran DOES NOT state specific guidlines for namaaz. It states only the basics, such as why we pray, whom we are praying to, how often we pray, what happens if we dont, etc. If you have decided to only go by what the Quran states and not by the interpretations of the Hadiths of Prophet Muhammad (saw), then you might as well just do everything your own way. The Quran itself does not fully explain how to do namaaz. Does this mean that we will pray in the simplest manner or make up our own way of praying just because the Quran itself did not explain it?

So, what I’m basically trying to say is that these are interpretations of the Hadiths that we are also to use as guidelines.

Also, like I said, Islam in the Prophet’s (pbuh) time is what we should be following by. None of the women ever led the namaaz with men praying behind them in any of the accounts. That tells us something.

Phatima1, this is common knowledge which you have stated. Ofcourse being Muslims we seek guidance after the Quran from Ahadith and if further guidance is needed then we depend upon the Mujhtahideen.

Our dialogue started with your statement (Pls note, purpose is only to put things in context, nuthin else) :

Originally Posted by phatima1
DUDE ARE U KIDDING ME?!?! SHE’S MAKING A MOCKERY OF THE QURAN!!!

Its safe to assume now that there is no such Quranic injunction, thus there is no issue of making a mockery of the Quran. Similarly there is no authentic source of Hadeeth which categorically states that women cannot lead prayers.

Please, refer to my post where I have given the example of Umm Warraqa and Hazrat Aisha (r).

Umm Warraqa, was a Ansari women who was authorized by the Prophet to lead prayers in her house in Medina. Since the Muazzin was a man, it is assumed that he prayed behind her.

Hazrat Aisha (r) story is well known how she led in the battle of Camel. Point, when she can lead Ashra Mubashra into battle and they followed her why assume that women cannot lead in prayers?