as well as the maidens who normally remain in seclusion. As for those who are menstruating, they are to keep away from the actual prayer.’
In another wording: ‘…to the musalla, so that they may witness the goodness and the supplication of the Muslims.’

Hence they maintain that the reason the Messenger of Allah ﷺ continually performed the Eid prayer in the musalla was either because his mosque could not accommodate both men and women on those two days, or because the mosque was unsuitable for menstruating women to attend.

I say: We have pondered all of this and found it, like the rest of their statements, to be devoid of substance.

Even if we were to concede that his mosque ﷺ could not contain all the men and women, the same holds true for our own mosques—none of them can house every worshipper. Consequently, the ruling that we should go out to the musalla remains fully operative, and that is exactly what we are arguing for.

Furthermore, if they claim that the mosque is unfit for menstruating women, they are implicitly admitting that the musalla is suitable for them. By insisting on holding the prayer inside the mosque, they would therefore be preventing those women from ‘witnessing the goodness and the supplication of the Muslims.’