Should Women Be Ordained To Head Churches And Mosques?

In Islam, the formulation of the private and public life of the practitioner has been set during the life time of the Noble Messenger, Muhammad Ibn Abdalla (SAW). You find the conduct of a true muslim and muslima being under the guidelineship of the Qur'an and the sunnah/hadith. Even the the all the derivitives like fatawah and ithjihad; acamedic discussions and its conclisions are all based in the above immensed sources of guidiance. THere was once an occurrence wher a woman led prayer in her own home during the life of the leader of Mankind, Muhammad (SAW). The noble Messenger (SAW), gave a permissssion to a woman of knowledge in lew of the absence of an able bodied male , the woman was to lead prayer, There was the call of the adhan by avery old man, who left immediately afterwards. The woman led the prayer, having in this one time occurance little boys and other women. Further it is a common practise that women can lead each other in a communial prayer. But the case of women is different from Men. Woman can pray in the house and it is equally rewarded as if she has prayed in the Masjid. The case of woman is the case of luxury as long as she meets a required standard, Please bear in mind that a true Muslim community does not presently exist, but you do have pockets of true muslim individuals and family and small community, but no large community or nation.
For the sake of this  topic, if a woman is to be a leader of the community, what happens to the affaairs of the community when she is in her monthly period and she is one of those individuals who experiences a great amount of pain and discomfort even sickness at this time. What happens when she is pregnant and she becomes sick and even can keep anything down in her stomach and she throws up. What happens if she has complications during pregnancies like tiredness, fatigue, sickness and she can even get up. What happens if she is a special case during this time of pregnancy, during the period of labor, delivery and nursing, etc. What if she is emotional, for women are very emotional compared to men. First, God Almighty did not raise any of His Prophets and Messengers (SAW) from the female gender. All of them are men, Adam, Idris, Noah, Ibrahiim, Moses, Jesus, etc and Muhammad the last of them (SAW) are all men. God knows the whole truth why He had done this and we can only know just a very tiny reason, some I have listed above. In all, Islam is not a religion that you can change the core quality of and any derivitives really must have an ancor to that two unchangeable sources; Qur'an and Sunnah/hadith. This is the reason, for example that you can not make salah in any other language and truly the recitation of the Qur'an is in the prestine Fusat Arabiyah language. Every one, inclusing the Arabs have to learn this. My fellow Human beings, Muslims and Non Muslims, Nigerians and Non Nigerians, the males and the females, young and old, Paradise is not cheap, the prerequisite of it is shrouded in sacrificing and deprivations. You must truly believe and worship God in the truest sense of it. On the other hand, Hell fire is very cheap to acquire. You may even buy it with your own money, but surely one goes to it because one has abandoned the true path and therefor God, the Only One who has the right to Punish or forgive is surely displeased.  In Islam, the woman has her place and the man has his place.

God created women with unique characteristics. For those that believe in the teachings of the bible, why support arguments like this one raised by cult members/non-believers/idol worshippers/etc? Head of churches are supposed to be spiritual leaders. Women were created with characteristics that disqualify them from such exalted positions. God has created everything uniquely as it suits him. Birds are created for the sky and snakes for the ground.

I don't understand      Are you saying that mlks_baby is a cult member/non-believers/idol worshippers/etc for raising the topic? I may be mistaken.

On the other hand, it would be interesting to read some of those qualities you offered as disqualifying women from such exalted positions.

Technically speaking,there is no difference between a Cult,Sect,Church,Mosque or  any religion,because they all believe in the Supernatural.It doesn't matter what you believe in God,Allah or the Devil.


I don't suppose you have any problem being a pilot?

Nairalanders,

I believe the main reason why all this is happening around the world is simply because of the new phenomenum called 'political correctness'.

Infact the oyinbos have taken that 'P.C' to a new level. An e.g. - where I live, a primary school actually tried to change the rhyme, 'black, black black sheep, ' to 'rainbow rainbow rainbow sheep, '. How warped is that and all this in an effort not to offend the black race.

It is stated in the Holy books that women cannot head churches or lead prayers in mosques. Why try to change the 'scriptures' to suite the changing times. I don't think God intended that.
Religions should be able to withstand the test of time.

My 2kobo.