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.