Can the Ladies Follow the Prayers of the Man Who Are Downstairs in the Basement?

Answered by: Shaykh Ahmed Bin Mohamed Umarji

Question:

Salam mufti sab I have a question regarding Taraweeh and using a speaker.

I and my cousins are leading at home and the men pray in the basement, is it ok for the ladies to pray upstairs and we connect a Bluetooth speaker?

Is it ok that the women pray upstairs with us and we the men pray downstairs?

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

Answer:

This will be permissible as long as they are not in front of the imam, if they are in front of the imam the salaah of the followers will not be valid.¹

Only Allah knows best

Written by Shaykh Ahmed Bin Mohamed Umarji

Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah

Darul Ifta Birmingham

1 Fatawa Darul Uloom Zakariyya, Volume 2, Page 255