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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Women gathering in the mosque for lessons and collective supplication

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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Women gather in a mosque every Friday after the 'Asr prayer, and a female caller gives them a lesson. After the lesson ends, they ask this caller to make supplication, and they say "Ameen" to her supplication. This happens every Friday regularly. Is this action permissible?

Answer:
No, this is considered a bid'ah (religious innovation). Why don't they gather in the home of one of them, in their homes? A woman does not go to the mosque except to pray with the congregation only. "Allah does not prevent the women from the mosques of Allah, and their homes are better for them." If they gather for dhikr (remembrance of Allah) and seeking knowledge in the home of one of them, or in a place prepared for that other than the mosque, it is more modest for them and further from the men, because the mosques are for men, and men frequent them, men enter them. Yes.
Source شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب اشتراط دخول الوقت للتيمم — islamhouse.com (1:09:34)

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