Islam does not forbid women to be Imams, claims K.Jamitha

Ajay0 · Jul 29, 2023

K.Jamitha is a muslim lady educationist who led friday prayers in a mosque in India. She also claimed that Islam does not forbid women to be Imams.

A woman can lead Friday prayers. It’s not against tenets of Islam

One of the main arguments against women imams and qazis has been that these women do not have a proper understanding of the Koran. The word used for women by most Muslim clerics is “nasikhul aql”, meaning “mind-cancelled”.

Islam has unflinching regard and respect for women. The Koran, the Hadith, and the Sunnah are imbued with raising the status of women in a brutal, misogynist, patriarchal Arab society. Its most revolutionary act in a society that buried its girl children at birth was to give women property rights.

At a time when women were inferior to domestic animals and chattel, Islam enjoined women to become ‘shahid’ (witnesses) in legal disputes. The Koran says two women are equal one man, but that was only to ‘begin with’. Unfortunately, 1,436 years later our community is still stuck in that ancient time warp; what Islam brought to the Arab world was light years ahead of prevalent social practice. What progress have we made since the beginning of that Hijri calendar and Koran’s revolutionary injunctions?

The first word of Koran is ‘read’. That one word is the key to moving on, to explore new frontiers of understanding.
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