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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The validity of women’s prayer in the presence of a wall between them and the imam

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Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. A listener from Riyadh, who indicated her name by the letters A, M, says: Is it permissible for us to pray, especially the tarawih in Ramadan, in a mosque where nothing separates us from the men except a wall? Is the prayer permissible, and is it permissible to follow the imam? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
If that is inside the mosque, within the mosque’s precincts, and there is a wall between you and the imam inside the mosque, then there is no harm in that. However, if you are outside the mosque, and you do not see the imam, and you do not see the rows of people behind him, then you do not pray with him; rather, you pray individually in your place. Yes, because the following of the imam is broken. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 4393- صحة صلاة النساء بوجود حائط بينهن وبين الإمام - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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