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There are many 'personalities' on social media spouting nonsense & we leave them to it but misrepresentation via revelation requires the insolence to be occasionally highlighted. The latest? Haqiqatjou's says women wanting to attend mosque is western feminism!
There are many 'personalities' on social media spouting nonsense & we leave them to it but misrepresentation via revelation requires the insolence to be occasionally highlighted. The latest? Haqiqatjou's says women wanting to attend mosque is western feminism!
This poor soul cites questionable hadith about the virtue of women praying at home, particularly in their closets. None of the hadith on the virtue of women praying at home are soundly established - Ibn Khuzaimah et al held that ANY narration on the topic was highly questionable.
He doesnt know diff b/w a hadith & sunnah. No one's EVER argued that it was widelyheld sunnah for believing women to pray at home in their closets. Countless sahih hadith refer to *women consistently praying in the mosque, part of the believing community.*
Though I don't think he mentions it, FYI, Umar DIDN'T ban women from mosque during his khilafah. They prayed there bt he prevented them from *loitering b/w prayers* for while bc some would act flirtatiously (& that's IF report is authentic; Ibn Hajr says it has weakness)
To put the desire of believing women wanting to visit house of God to worship & socialise w/ other believers as ideological feminism has to be finest example of stupidity in modern Muslim polemics. A good case study of obsessive anti-west discourse w/ nothing meaningful to offer.
The reductive statement: "But the Prophet said it" shows all the hallmarks of an unlearned & sectarian approach to hadith (dhahirism at it's most basic). If you take such an individual as providing constructive guidance, then my friend, you must be in a bad place. God help you.
Rather than constructively learn deen & what's beneficial these ppl become sour & reactionary in their post-colonial verbiage & polemic hype, driven to the audacity to publicly articulate a twisted account of the sunnah. The Prophet is free from such juvenile misappropriation.
Side note: The topic of women and mosques was one I was planning to substantially address after Ramadan. There's a lot of misinformation and ignorance on the issue, and many use citations for sectarian purposes. Once we unpick the wheat from the shaff, it all becomes quite clear.
