A Sermon Specifically for Women

Question : The questioner says: You have promised many men, may Allah reward you with good, so I hope you will dedicate [a session] to the exhortation of women?

Answer : That is good, and there is no doubt that women are the counterparts of men, and that they need exhortation. For this reason, it was part of the guidance of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) in the Eid sermon that when he finished addressing the men, he would turn to the women and exhort and remind them. However, this was at a time when there was no sound amplifier by which both men and women could hear equally. I know that this lesson of ours is distributed to various parts of al-Masjid al-Haram and that the women hear it just as the men do. For this reason, we sometimes ask women by telephone about what they heard from us in this lesson, which indicates that the women are hearing this. Otherwise, they have the right to it. The women said, as established in Sahih al-Bukhari, that the women said to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) promised them a day, so he came to them in a house he designated, saying, "Your appointment is the house of so-and-so." So he (peace and blessings be upon him) came and exhorted and reminded them. Yes.