By What does the Women’s Mosque of America want to say about or to women in our community?
As a Muslim woman, the single most empowering thing for me was to read the Qur’an front cover to back cover, in English. And not just in English, but to read it with the historical context and the tafseer. I read Muhammad Asad’s translation. As you know, Arabs make up a minority of Muslims, and the majority of Muslims just read or recite the Quran without ever knowing what’s in it.
Someone asked me, when you’ve had so many bad experiences in a mosque, why didn’t you just give up and walk away? And the reason I didn’t was because I’m inspired by the word of God. I know the words of God, because I read them in a language I understand.
Everyone on our board, two men included, agrees that we all need to get the Muslim ummah back to the Quran. Think of the Prophet’s example: he was an orphan in a tribal society, the first Muslims were all freed and runaway slaves, these people were all at the bottom rung of their society. What made them so great? Why were they able to inspire so much change in their societies, change for the better? It’s because they all were in contact with the word of God, they all knew and understood what was being said in the Quran, and they all had the beautiful example of the Prophet Muhammad SAW to follow.
So these are the few things we want to revive. We want to re-inspire Muslim women who feel disengaged. We want to say no, there is a place for you in Islam, and it starts with you knowing your book, knowing your rights, and once you have that connection with God, then you can go and spread that strength to the greater Muslim community, and to the greater society.
Did I already told you I love you?
End of feminism
End horny toad patriarchalism.
*slow clap*
Eight ball tells me homosexuals and trans will be welcome in this mosque.
They are welcomed in all mosques anyway, ignoramus. Except yours.
um there isn’t any such thing in the sun ah of a gender exclusive masjid. this women’s mosque is not from the sunnah so I’m not sure about its status under Islamic law. the masjid is the house of Allah. there is no such thing as a masjid for women or a masjid for men. Jumuah is lead by the imam, women do not lead the jumuah lecture or the salaat( yes I know what she said in the article). This is an innovation in the religion, and the prophet (pbuh) clearly stated that every innovation is in the fire.
sisters I urge you to abandon this bidah. if it bothers you to have s divider in the masjid go to a mosque where there isn’t one. The religion is complete please don’t do things not done by the best of the people the Sahabah.
This is the Mosque that does not have a divider. Go to this one, ladies. A hundred thousand innovations and you are cherry picking on this one alone? Ignoramus. Define complete.
Ignoramus. Define complete.
AsSalaamu Aalikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. I love the idea of empowering women. Many men in this ummah have forgotten or even don’t realize
that women are the heart of this society. I feel that women having a place to
learn their deen in a space they feel welcomed is awesome. The question I have is does this place have to be an all womens masjid? I too have been
displaced from the men to pray jummah. They put me next to a garbage can in a
secular activity center’s kitchen. Our masjid was in its grass roots phase and
they did not want women to come to the jummah prayer. There was almost no men
there and I was far in the back. It left me feeling even more isolated than I
already was, being a new convert. I always say Alhamdulillah Allah has shown me
Islam before He showed me the Muslims or else I would not have converted. The way this deen have become segmented is baffling. Be reminded that Rasullulah (saw) warned us of divisions. He also said do not prevent your women from coming to the masjid. This all women masjid is only creating more division in an already divided community. If this sister took the money that she raised for this women’s masjid and made additions to an existing one, would that help her plight? Having halaqa’s and having woman scholars toteach Islamic and Arabic studies can be a start. I don’t think you had to build a whole new masjid to have a place for women. Allah will not change a people until they change what is within themselves. Women have lost their way. We don’t know our place in this society and want to imitate non-believers to ourdetriment. Yes women in the time of the Prophet (saw) were teachers and leaders but they respected the boundaries in this deen. We need to go back to basics, learn what is accepted and expected of us as muslimahs and then maybe we can start a real dialogue to be heard and respected. May Allah forgive us and guide us, Ameen.
“women don’t know their place in society.”
I stopped reading from there.
Women have been marginalised, objectified and ignored even with many cries to end segregation and when they finally have a mosque of their own for their own issues it is suddenly strayed.
I have personally experienced something similar in the mosque. When they were donating for islamic education for someone, to men they said “Please donate, shukraan” but to women “please donate sisters, we know you love clothing and makeup but this is for the better” um wow, excuse me? They are using women’s money to keep on pushing them back. heck even the first university, which was created by a muslim woman, is now dominated by males and women cant enter anymore.
This is what happens
also women’s mosque isnt new. Chinese muslim communities have them everywhere and theyre fine. no fatwa or bullshit innovation said by male scholars.