Maryam Amir – Praying in public controversy

			Attacked online, and the reason is
because on YouTube and on
		

			Instagram are devastating. It
means that women actually believe
		

			that it's acceptable to either
Miss prayer for hours on end and
		

			make it all up at the end of the
day at home, or to sit and pray
		

			with no reason other than they
have been told the man sees her
		

			making salah, it invalidates her
prayer. What about in zanana, in
		

			an authentic narration, the
Prophet saw them, saw that they
		

			wrote the from pillars in the
masjid and asked about them. And
		

			he was told that they were for
Zainab, for when she prays and she
		

			gets tired and she uses the rope
to kind of hold her up. Prophet
		

			sallallahu Sallam didn't respond
by telling her that she shouldn't
		

			pray in the masjid, or that men
are going to see her. There was no
		

			barrier in his Masjid. Feasib upon
him. Prophet saw them just taught
		

			that when she gets tired, she
should rest generation of Ibn
		

			Abbas, who talks about men who
would go to the back of the prayer
		

			lines so that when they were
praying, they could look at full
		

			companion, who was a woman who was
standing in the front of the
		

			women's lines. Oh, they would look
under their elbow at her. There
		

			are so many narrations like this,
all of them authentic. Many of us
		

			who have never been exposed to
these ready to deny it. That's
		

			certainly how I was is in the
beginning of my studies. But our
		

			personal opinion on how we've been
conditioned to see women in Islam
		

			does not impact the authenticity
of narrations.