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What is the ruling on a woman reciting the Qur'an with a beautiful and soft voice in front of students, knowing that the students are up to the age of 14?

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Question:
I also have a question, and I do not know whether it angers Allah or not, which is that when I recite the Qur'an in front of the students, I make my voice more beautiful and softer. Is this action of mine permissible or not? Knowing that the students are up to the age of fourteen.

Answer:
[Regarding] adolescents and men. Indeed, if men or adolescents hear her voice in recitation during prayer, she should not raise her voice in recitation during prayer if there are men present who are screened by her voice. So she must avoid this, except if those listening to her recitation are from her mahram (close relatives), or if her husband is among those for whom there is no prohibition in hearing her voice, then there is no harm. As for making her voice heard with exaggerated intonation and beautification of the voice, or by reciting the Qur'an, such that men and adolescents who are stirred by desire and become aroused by her voice hear it, that is not good. This is especially so if she is their teacher in what is good.
A woman does not teach men; men teach men, and women teach women. This is the safest, the most cautious, and the most purifying for Paradise.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ماحكم قراءة المرأة القرآن بصوت جميل ورقيق أمام الطلاب علما أن الطلاب إلى سن ال14؟ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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