He said when women went to mosques, they prayed in the back rows not out of discrimination, but to separate the sexes. In any case, one's objective is to perform prayer, and you would not be any closer to God if you were to stand in the front rows, or any other rows for that matter. Going to mosque must fit into your schedule, but women carry the burden of the house-hold. For example, women do not attend the morning prayers on Eid days, instead, they see there role as preparing meals for the day. She says it is important for women to be at mosques because they are the most important centres of Islam.
Decisions are taken, direction is given.
It is where people meet to pray together and it promotes consultation and discussion. This will be essential in encouraging Muslim women to think independently, especially when faced with the range of challenges that living under a future government presents them with. These challenges includes voting in next years elections as well as the forthcoming inclusion of Muslim personal law in the South African body of law. Muslim women will now have to start discussing changes to personal law, like whether women can divorce men. The law as it stands says that women cannot divorce men.