In our mosque, the women's prayer area is on the ground floor and the men's prayer area is on the first floor.

The questioner: Hello, peace be upon you.

The Shaykh: And upon you peace.

The questioner : Your EminenceThe Shaykh : , Umm Amr, I have one question I might be able to ask you.

The Shaykh : Please, go ahead.

The questioner : e : In our mosque - may you be respectedThe Shaykh- the women's section of the mosque is completely separate from the men's section; so that when we pray, we do not see the imam, nor do we see the rows of the worshippers. Is it permissible to pray behind them... in congregation?

The Shaykh: No, is this in the same mosque or outside the mosque first?

The questioner : e : It is in the same building, but... completely, there is a "corridor" between them.

The Shaykh: Do you mean one floor?

The questioner : e : Yes, one floor.

The Shaykh: One floor, between the two rooms, the men's room and the women's room, a "corridor."

The questioner : e : Yes, and the men's room is actually higher than the women's floor; meaning it is the first floor, we are on the ground floor, approximately... one floor.

The Shaykh: Ah, ground floor and first floor.

The questioner : e : Meaning the women are on the ground floor and the men are on the first floor.

The Shaykh: Ah, okay; if the electricity goes out, the one who amplifies the imam's voice for you, naturally, you would still not know what you are doing?

The questioner : e : Yes, even - sometimes - the microphone falls from the imam's chest, we do not know what we should do?

The Shaykh: That is it, no, it is not valid, the place must be unified.

The questioner : e : How is the place unified? So that if there is no microphone sound... we can hear him.

The Shaykh: Yes, that is right, meaning.

The questioner : e : ... the condition is that we see a row of the worshippers?

The Shaykh: Yes, that works.

The questioner : e : And for us, the sound is here... neither regarding the row nor regarding the sound.

The Shaykh: It is so, look, if the permissibility of the situation you have were allowed, the issue would extend.

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh: Well done, may Allah bless you, it would be.

The questioner : e : ... O Shaykh, in the women's mosque there is a television... if they put a camera in the men's mosque, we can see them.

The Shaykh : It is not permissible.

The questioner : e : ... the electricity, is that not so?

The Shaykh : It is not permissible, it is not permissible.

The questioner : e : Real sight is necessary.

The Shaykh: Yes.

The questioner : e : Okay; O Shaykh, thank you very much.

The Shaykh: I wanted to clarify it for you further - excuse me -.

The questioner : e : Please go ahead.

The Shaykh: If the permissibility of such a prayer that you are asking about were allowed, then someone would say: it would be chained, do you understand what it means to chain it?

The questioner : e : No, I did not understand what it means?

The Shaykh: Meaning from the house you are in to the house next to you, then to the house after that, to the one after that, in short, they would permit you to pray with the imam who is in Makkah.

The questioner : e : Correct.

The Shaykh : May Allah reward you.

The questioner : e : The imam of the mosque - may you be respected - I spoke with him and his wife, and he refused to be convinced by this thing.

The Shaykh: This is a problem, this is a problem... .