If there is a barrier between the women’s and men’s prayer areas, which is better for the women: praying in the first row or the last row?

Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. One of the listeners, Umm 'Abd al-'Aziz, sent a message containing a collection of questions. In one of her questions, she says: In the tarawih prayer, most of the women sit in the last row of the mosque, and the front rows are empty. We know that we do not see the men, and there is a wall between us and them. Which is better: praying in the first row or the last row, given the situation we described? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
If the women’s prayer area is screened from the men, then the preference is for the first row, in the men’s rows, because they are separated from the men and the men do not see them. So they should be in the first row, and they should not start another row until the first row is filled, and so on. But if they are praying in the mosque without a barrier between them and the men, then the best of the women’s rows are the last ones, as the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said.