The women branch of the Alhabibiya Islamic Society on Saturday kicked off the 3rd edition of it’s annual Ramadan Lecture in Abuja on April 1st at it’s Guzape mosque.
The annual lecture series tagged: “by Women, for Women” has as it’s vision the “making of Islam acceptable and respectable by everyone here, and elsewhere through the conduct and practice of the religion by Muslims”
The chief resource person and guest lecturer at the event, hajia Shifa Garba spoke on the topic; “Salat in Islam”@1, where she highlighted and described the 5 types of Salat as mentioned in the Qur’an, which include Fardh(Obligatory prayer) e.g the 5 times daily prayer, janaza(funeral prayer) jumm’ah (friday prayer).
Also described by Hajia Shifa are the Wajib or the festival prayer e.g Eid al-Fitr and Salat of Eid al-Adha as well as the Sunnah prayers
She identified women in Islam as beginning with Hazrat Hauwa (R.A) who was the first woman created to be the companion of prophet Adam(AS).
Also highlighted by Hajia Shifa in her remarks, is the important place of women in Islam as men and women are mentioned in the Qur’an about equal number of times because men and women have equal responsibilities when it comes to prayer except in a few instances where women are exempted from praying(example; during menstruation circle) because prayers can not be delegated or done by proxy.
At the very educative session, the guest speaker also delved into the various etiquette of salat where she dismissed several practices engaged in during Salat by Muslims which are wrong.
“First amongst the etiquette is humility and modesty in our prayers as well as obidience to Allah and respect of Islamic values”
“Another important etiquette of salat is cleanliness and this is why ablution is important because some parts of our body must have been exposed to unclean and impure surfaces and materials so, it is important that we do our ablution properly”.
She also touched on the issue of demarcation of rows, in terms of gender, including the need to fill all of the front row and leave no space for satan to occupy.
The Chairperson at the lecture, Hajia Maryam Danna in her remarks commended the Imam of Alhabibiya Islamic Society, Fuad Adeyemi for the leadership role he has played especially on the issue of gender where he has shown deep insight
Present at the lecture were the Host, Dr. Rekiya Momoh-Abaji , Hajia Saadat Ibrahim who was the mother of the day, Hajia Fuad Adeyemi, representing the Imam of Alhabibiya Islamic Society and Maimuna Muhammed who also lectured at the event in Hausa language.
At the end of the day’s program which takes place 10am, every Saturday, at the Guzape mosque of the society until the end of Ramadan, questions were taken from the audience by the guest lecturer who provided interesting answers to the questions .
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