Why do men and women pray separately in a mosque?

Answer

Because in Islam, Women are considered unclean ( This Is totaly incorrect!!!).

When it's time to pray and you have just used the toilet or (touched a woman)Means intercourse , be sure to wash up. If you can't find any water, just rub some dirt on yourself.

5: The Table Spread

5:6 O ye who believe! When ye rise up for prayer, wash you faces, and your hands up to the elbows, and lightly rub your heads and (wash) your feet up to the ankles. And if ye are unclean, purify yourselves. And if ye are sick or on a journey, or one of you cometh from the closet, or ye have had contact(intercourse, Mouth to Mouth Kiss with intention of SEX) with women, and ye find not water, then go to clean, high ground and rub your faces and your hands with some of it. Allah would not place a burden on you, but He would purify you and would perfect His grace upon you, that ye may give thanks.

This answer is totally incorrect. This verse refers to cleaning oneself after intercourse with your wife. Women must also clean themselves after intercourse with their husband before they can pray.

The correct answer, from a Muslim, is that we pray separately for reasons of modesty and it is totally possible to get attracted as GOD has created attraction Between Men and Women). In the time of the Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) women would pray in rows behind the rows of men. If they prayed in front of the men or mingled with the men then when we prostrate men would get a direct view of womens bottoms, this is not a way to be modest and would make it difficult for everyone to concentrate on their prayers.

These days we either pray behind the men, in rows adjacent to men, with a curtain dividing men and women or in a separate prayer room for women.

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