The Ruling on the Mixing of Male and Female Teachers in the Same School
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Question:
May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good. A sister of ours from Yemen sent a question, saying: I am a girl who works in a boys' school, teaching the fifth and sixth grades, and I wear the hijab over my face. And I am, praise be to Allah, married and I know what is lawful and what is forbidden. But there is conversation going on between us and the teachers, and the teachers are men, regarding the work. Allah knows the intentions. Is this forbidden? Guide us and direct us, and may Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
It is obligatory that women be taught by women like them, and that men be taught by men. It is not permissible for one gender to teach the other gender, because of the fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) involved in that and the opening of the door to evil. The Muslim and Muslims must take the necessary precautions to protect their women and their 'awrah (the part of the body that must be covered). The mixing of men and women is prohibited under the pretext of education, or under the pretext of medicine, or anything else. The harms and tragedies that this mixing brings about are a great harm, and they are not to be made permissible for the sake of a partial benefit that can be achieved by having men treated by men, women treated by women, men taught by men, and women taught by women like them. Experience is available for both genders, praise be to Allah. The matter is to pay attention to this issue, to be held accountable for it, and to avoid the blind traditions of societies that do not care about the affairs of women and the affairs of honor. It is obligatory upon Muslims to calculate the consequences of that, and to provide for women what is sufficient for them within their environment and among their own kind, and for men likewise what is sufficient for them within their environment and among their own kind. The benefits are established by that, the harms are averted, and the intended purpose is achieved, without them committing a danger or taking a difficult path whose outcome is unknown and whose evil is not to be trusted. Yes.
May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good. A sister of ours from Yemen sent a question, saying: I am a girl who works in a boys' school, teaching the fifth and sixth grades, and I wear the hijab over my face. And I am, praise be to Allah, married and I know what is lawful and what is forbidden. But there is conversation going on between us and the teachers, and the teachers are men, regarding the work. Allah knows the intentions. Is this forbidden? Guide us and direct us, and may Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
It is obligatory that women be taught by women like them, and that men be taught by men. It is not permissible for one gender to teach the other gender, because of the fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) involved in that and the opening of the door to evil. The Muslim and Muslims must take the necessary precautions to protect their women and their 'awrah (the part of the body that must be covered). The mixing of men and women is prohibited under the pretext of education, or under the pretext of medicine, or anything else. The harms and tragedies that this mixing brings about are a great harm, and they are not to be made permissible for the sake of a partial benefit that can be achieved by having men treated by men, women treated by women, men taught by men, and women taught by women like them. Experience is available for both genders, praise be to Allah. The matter is to pay attention to this issue, to be held accountable for it, and to avoid the blind traditions of societies that do not care about the affairs of women and the affairs of honor. It is obligatory upon Muslims to calculate the consequences of that, and to provide for women what is sufficient for them within their environment and among their own kind, and for men likewise what is sufficient for them within their environment and among their own kind. The benefits are established by that, the harms are averted, and the intended purpose is achieved, without them committing a danger or taking a difficult path whose outcome is unknown and whose evil is not to be trusted. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، حكم اختلاط المدرسين والمدرسات في المدرسة الواحدة – الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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