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[quote]Salam
dis is da articl 4m da othr topic but it covers da grounds!

Regarding the women's Imamah in Salah (prayer) she can lead congregational prayers of women only. It is not permissible for a woman to lead prayer of mixed gender congregation, even if the congregation allows her. Did ‘Ai’sha (R.A) ever lead a mixed gender congregation? The answer is no, she did not. Not while the Prophet (Salla Allahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) was alive and not after he died. ‘Ai’sha (R.A) had led some women in jama’at (congregation) but that she stood in the middle of the row, not in front of it.
This hadith gives clear justification for women's Imamah for women only and rejects her Imamah to mixed gender. If ‘Ai’sha(R.A) like women, the Mother of the Believers and the best woman of creation, did not lead men in prayer then how should 21century women lead men in prayers? Is she think herself superior than ‘Ai’sha(R.A)? Does she feel that she has been cheated or made inferior and that the only way to be intellectually and spiritually equal to men is to claim her leadership in Salah? Why not she feels superiority in giving child birth which is much more important emotionally physically and spiritually than leading congregational prayers? It is actually she who gives birth of Imam. In my opinion her Imamah of mixed gender congregation will change nothing except disorders balance in the Ummah. Instead of this if she use her sincere intentions, correct knowledge of islam and right conduct to make her child Imam that will certainly solve problem that matters in the world. She should look at Fatima (R.A), daughter of the Prophet (Salla Allahu ‘alayhi wa sallam), for an example.[/quote]

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