Women's prayer in Islam
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Woman prayer | |
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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 |
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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.[1]
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.[2]
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.[3]
Reward
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.[4]
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.[5]
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.[6]
Menstruation
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.[7][8]
Voice
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.[9]
Some of the jurists who prevent women from speaking out during the prayers (loud prayer ) quoted the hadith of Abu Hurairah as evidence:[10]
Arabic hadith | English translation |
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So these scholars used this hadith 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 Al-Sarakhsi says.
The fuqaha inferred that the rite of prayer needs to empty the heart (qalb) of its concerns, by performing the silent prayer in all cases, and this is why this prohibition on women praising them if they are mistaken or frightened by something in prayer, and that is despite the fact that praise (tasbih) does not exceed two words (Subhan Allah), this is at the time when the Islam authorized women to speak to men with good words, even if the conversation lasted.
This means that men outside of prayer can hear a woman’s voice without being embarrassed, but women are prevented from speaking out in tasbih during prayer because they are absolutely instructed to lower their voices in prayer.[11]
And this is what was previously mentioned if men are in the presence of the woman who is praying, except that many women recite in silence in the prayer aloud, and they avoid hearing themselves even in the absence of men, and this is contrary to the Sunnah because reciting out loud in the loud prayers is the fixed Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him.
As for the silent and aloud recitation, it is likewise there is no difference between a man and a woman, because the night prayers are loudly and the daytime prayers are silently for both, except that as stated above, if a woman has someone who hears her voice from among the men, then she is pleased with the recitation (tilawa) and does not raise her voice for fear of being tempted by her, but if she is not in the presence of men, then it is okay for her to recite out loud in the night prayer.[12]
Imam
See also
- Salah
- Thawab
- Menstruation in Islam
- Postpartum period
- Menstruation cycle
- Hijab
- Intimate parts in Islam
- Loud prayer
- Silent prayer
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