Women's prayer in Islam

Woman prayer
File:Women Prayer صلاة النساء.jpg Women prayer and tashahhud
Official name	صلاة المرأة، صلاة النساء
Observed by	Muslims
Type	Islamic
Significance	A Muslim prayer offered to God by women.
Observances	Sunnah prayers, Salah times
Related to	Salah, Nafl prayer, Five Pillars of Islam, Islamic prayers

In Islam, the Woman prayer (Arabic: صلاة المرأة) represents the peculiarities, specificities and characteristics of the Islamic prayer (salat) that is performed by a woman.

Presentation

The prayer that a woman performs in Islam to draw close to God (Allah) Almighty is considered completely equal to the prayer that her brother in humanity and Islam, the man, performs.

As for the feminine specificity of a Muslim woman when she performs prayer, Muslim jurists (fuqaha) have spoken about it in the chapters on women's matters and what is related to them from all sides, and they collected what is in the Book of God (Quran) and the Sunnah of God’s Messenger Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, as well as the sayings of scholars and jurists, from hadiths and comments regarding them.

Reward

Main article: Thawab

The total reward (thawab) of a woman who is praying is completely identical to the total reward of a man, because God Almighty will hold her accountable for the amount of prayers she performed on the days imposed on her before her menstruation and postpartum, and when her menstruation comes, it does not prevent her from reward, so no one of the men should say that the woman lacks the reward.

The meaning of a woman’s lack of rituals (salah) is that the religious assignments for her are less than the duties of a man, but reward and punishment come throughout the course of each gender fulfilling the duty of assigning it, if she assigns her, she will take the full reward, and if the man assigns him, he will also take the full reward.

Based on that, it is not permissible to say that a woman is deficient in the reward for prayer, because God has not made her a reward that he would prevent him from doing on the days on which he was obliged not to pray.

Menstruation

Main article: Menstruation in Islam

God does not hold a woman accountable for not performing the obligatory prayer on her, because He is the One who granted her a clear and binding permission not to pray during her menstrual cycle and not to fast, and she is neither counted nor punished for her lack of prayer.

Voice

Main article: Intimate parts in Islam

A woman’s voice is not a shame (awrah) because the Holy Quran permitted talking to the Muhammad's wives from behind a veil (hijab), despite the emphasis on the necessity of piety (taqwa) while talking to women.

Some of the jurists who prevent women from speaking out during the prayers (loud prayer) quoted the hadith of Abu Hurairah as evidence: “Praise be to men and clap for women”, so they used it as evidence for the prohibition or dislike for a woman to raise her voice so that men can hear her.

It seems that the hadith banning loudness is concerned with prayer alone, because the state of prayer is the state of communion (munajat), so it is not necessary for a man to think of any of the meanings of desire, as Imam Sarkhasi says.

See also

• Salah
• Menstruation in Islam
• Postpartum period
• Menstruation cycle
• Hijab
• Intimate parts in Islam
• Loud prayer
• Silent prayer