Separating Children in Their Sleeping Places

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is it required that when separating children in their sleeping places, the boys be in one room and the girls in another, or is it sufficient to separate them within the same room?

Answer:
It is safer to separate them by placing the boys in one room and the girls in another, so that there is no doubt. However, if they sleep in the same room and the bed of the boy is separated from that of the girl, there is no harm in that, because it qualifies as separating them in their sleeping places. Specifically, boys are to be separated from girls, and even boys are to be separated from one another, and girls from one another, because temptation creeps in among them; it creeps in among the girls, it creeps in among the young boys, and it creeps in between a boy and a girl. So separate them. This is the general ruling. It did not say “separate the boys from the girls”; it said “separate them.” Yes.