I agree ... who would be so backward to stil do such a thing!! Backward isnt even the right word, i guess ... since 1400 years ago, Muslim women were allowed to go to the Masjid already!
to reply to alkathiri and abdallahbilal
QUOTE from alkathiri WHAT?!!!
Where is your proof ?? I am not frm India or pakistan....by the way..
I'm not saying all pakistanis and indians are like that. I personally know salafis among them.
But I dont have any proof from books or internet (or maybe this masud.co.uk site)... I attended a "sunnat jamat" masjid when I was younger, and I joined them in the celebrations of saints, the mawlood, using beads to do dhikr and taking from them the "dhikr formulas" that they give. They had a grave in the mosque yard, where people frequently do rituals there!! Even kuffar came to ask for help to that saint!! But Alhamdulillah, I left them and joind the tableegh ... And 3 years later, after questioning thier books ( such as fazaa'l e a'mal) and principles, I found out that the founder was actually a naqhsbandee who followd the hanafee madhhab (by the way, they do not allow women in masjid either) ... but the followers are not limited to that. Thier books are actually full of weird stories and fabricated ahadeeth that they read religiously. However, I manner wise, there tableeghees are very nice people. Then I met relatives who were moderate sufees as you call them ... but later i realized that there was a few mistakes there too ... such as belief in some fabricated ahadeeth and believe that the prophet was a sufee, and passed on secret info and finding it permissible to say "Yaa nabi" when it is known that we cannot call on someone who is dead and cannot help us. I also prayed in ahmadiya mosques few times .. didnt like it, very weird, far from sunnah. So I only stuck to the hanafee madhab for some time .. until I came across ahadeeth that showed otherwise. By then ( 1997) I started studying with my shuyookh, mostly they were graduates from university of madeenah alhamdulilah!!
To summarize, I have never met anyone from the sufees who do not have some kind of malpractise in regards to interpreting the deen. Ive met a lot of sufees from different places, all are very nice poeple .. but when I come to them with proofs ... Ive not seen 1 of them being open minded about it to discuss in a friendly way, like they sahabas did. Their attitudes changed and became very irritated. But they are very smart in their da'wah and very tricky.
And Quote from kayleigh "I hope this barring women from the mosque issue isn't going to spread even more and become more common than not. It's just so wrong.
InshaAllah people will get over this... knowledge is so widespread now, that no one has any excuse. But it will take a long time it seems, to convice the older people.
If we look into Islam's history (correct me if i'm wrong), the women prayed at the back while the men in front. Then after salaat, while the men sat do to do dhikr and waited, the women would leave so that there was not mixing. And Allah Knows best
to reply to alkathiri and abdallahbilal
QUOTE from alkathiri WHAT?!!!
Where is your proof ?? I am not frm India or pakistan....by the way..
I'm not saying all pakistanis and indians are like that. I personally know salafis among them.
But I dont have any proof from books or internet (or maybe this masud.co.uk site)... I attended a "sunnat jamat" masjid when I was younger, and I joined them in the celebrations of saints, the mawlood, using beads to do dhikr and taking from them the "dhikr formulas" that they give. They had a grave in the mosque yard, where people frequently do rituals there!! Even kuffar came to ask for help to that saint!! But Alhamdulillah, I left them and joind the tableegh ... And 3 years later, after questioning thier books ( such as fazaa'l e a'mal) and principles, I found out that the founder was actually a naqhsbandee who followd the hanafee madhhab (by the way, they do not allow women in masjid either) ... but the followers are not limited to that. Thier books are actually full of weird stories and fabricated ahadeeth that they read religiously. However, I manner wise, there tableeghees are very nice people. Then I met relatives who were moderate sufees as you call them ... but later i realized that there was a few mistakes there too ... such as belief in some fabricated ahadeeth and believe that the prophet was a sufee, and passed on secret info and finding it permissible to say "Yaa nabi" when it is known that we cannot call on someone who is dead and cannot help us. I also prayed in ahmadiya mosques few times .. didnt like it, very weird, far from sunnah. So I only stuck to the hanafee madhab for some time .. until I came across ahadeeth that showed otherwise. By then ( 1997) I started studying with my shuyookh, mostly they were graduates from university of madeenah alhamdulilah!!
To summarize, I have never met anyone from the sufees who do not have some kind of malpractise in regards to interpreting the deen. Ive met a lot of sufees from different places, all are very nice poeple .. but when I come to them with proofs ... Ive not seen 1 of them being open minded about it to discuss in a friendly way, like they sahabas did. Their attitudes changed and became very irritated. But they are very smart in their da'wah and very tricky.
And Quote from kayleigh "I hope this barring women from the mosque issue isn't going to spread even more and become more common than not. It's just so wrong.
InshaAllah people will get over this... knowledge is so widespread now, that no one has any excuse. But it will take a long time it seems, to convice the older people.
If we look into Islam's history (correct me if i'm wrong), the women prayed at the back while the men in front. Then after salaat, while the men sat do to do dhikr and waited, the women would leave so that there was not mixing. And Allah Knows best