First woman Imam leading Friday prayer in India faces ‘death threat’

[Shahzaz ud din]

Photo courtesy: The Hindu

Defying the age-old religious practice, a woman Imam for the first time in the history of India led Friday prayer in the southern state of Kerala, The Hindu reported.

34-year-old Jamida K, also known as ‘Jamida Teacher’ in her secluded village of Cherukode, Malappuram district, went against centuries of Sharia law but said she “did it knowing well the consequences it is going to have”.

The prayers were led for a mixed group of approximately 50 men and women at the central committee office of the Quran Sunnath Society which Jamida supports.




However, fundamentalists have threatened to eliminate Jamida. According to them, she “defiled the religion”.

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The Quran Sunnath Society was a movement established by Chekannur Moulavi, a radical Muslim scholar, who was believed to be murdered after he mysteriously disappeared in 1993.

“We follow the [Holy] Quran. It addresses humankind as men and women, and does not discriminate between them. Both men and women have an equal role in religion,” asserted the woman prayer leader.

Muslim woman to lead Friday prayers in India

Speaking about leading Friday prayer, she said it was a male-dominated religious practice which needs to be challenged and she will continue to lead prayer alongside other women.

Moreover, she has been receiving a barrage of criticism on social media.


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[Yaseen1]

better not to pray than praying behind woman because this prayer is never accepted

 

[jamal18]

There is a religion called Islam and those who follow it are called Muslims.

You don't like the rules? Find another religion.

 

[my2cents]

better not to pray than praying behind woman because this prayer is never accepted

Reminds me of Malala Yousafzai.

 

[Raider 21]

Facing death threats.......classic. Violent followers of a peaceful religion....can't get anything better than that

 

[Lil Mathew]

better not to pray than praying behind woman because this prayer is never accepted

This is Kerala... Here both Hindu fundamentalists and Muslim radicals have no voice...

 

[ARMalik]

@The Eagle .... a similar thread on this topic was closed by yourself. Please close this thread due to religious discussion.

 

[Yaseen1]

This is Kerala... Here both Hindu fundamentalists and Muslim radicals have no voice...

it is not a matter of radicalism or fundamentalism but a matter of rules and principles which should be followed

 

[war&peace]

better not to pray than praying behind woman because this prayer is never accepted

100% agreed... these kind of innovations cannot be allowed.

 

[Areesh]

No innovations and changes are acceptable in Islam.

You don't like that? Go become a christian, hindu or atheist.

 

[graphican]

You cannot invent and still call it Islam.

 

[AshishDelhi]

Indians with their opinions are so retarded.

This is how Hindus choose to attack our religion. They want to make innovations in our religion, little by little so that they can implode and change it while these sniveling bastards can drink drink cow urine and bang their heads against rocks.

This has nothing to do with hinduism. You are just paranoid Pakistani

 

[egodoc222]

This is Kerala... Here both Hindu fundamentalists and Muslim radicals have no voice...

Kerala is a breeding ground for Isis worms...pathetic communists and foreign funded missionaries will even sell the country to destroy Hindus and Muslim's

 

[M. Sarmad]

No innovations and changes are acceptable in Islam.

Technically, it's not an innovation. Such examples from the earliest days of Islam have been recorded in some Ahadith:

Because of the strength of the evidence, the example of Umm Waraqah serves as the basis for the opinion among some Islamic jurists that women are permitted to not only lead other women in prayer, but that they may also lead mixed-sex congregations. This is for instance a minority opinion in the Hanbali tradition.

 

[Areesh]

Technically, it's not an innovation. Such examples from the earliest days of Islam have been recorded in some Ahadith:

Because of the strength of the evidence, the example of Umm Waraqah serves as the basis for the opinion among some Islamic jurists that women are permitted to not only lead other women in prayer, but that they may also lead mixed-sex congregations. This is for instance a minority opinion in the Hanbali tradition.

And in 99% other Ahadith only men were asked to lead prayers.

So your pont is?