Separating Boys and Girls in Their Sleeping Quarters

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:
Separating them is safer if you put these in one room and those in another; there is no doubt about that. However, if they sleep in one room and the boy’s bed is separated from the girl’s, there is nothing wrong with that. Yes, because it is a precaution for him. So, separate them in their sleeping quarters. Yes.
Specifically, separating the boys from the girls, and even separating the boys from one another and the girls from one another, because fitnah (trial, discord or 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. Yes, separate them. This is a general statement. He did not say, “Separate the boys from the girls”; he said, “Separate them.” Yes.