The ruling on enrolling a daughter in a secondary school for disbelievers
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This is a woman from Britain who says: Is it permissible for her to send her daughter to a secondary school for disbelievers, specifically for disbelievers, which is exclusively for girls and has no mixing, given that there are no schools for Muslims in her area? Also, she is unable to pay the tuition fees to send her to Muslim schools. Is it permissible to enroll her in this school?
Answer:
Do not send her to the schools of disbelievers, for she will adopt their beliefs and take their religion from them. This is not permissible. The obligation is to teach her the matters of prayer, the matters of ritual purity, and the matters of her religion. You teach her these, or her father, or her brother, or whoever. She learns only the matters of her religion. As for what goes beyond the matters of religion, if it can be arranged without any harm, there is nothing wrong with it. If it cannot be arranged without harm, then it is not permissible. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This is a woman from Britain who says: Is it permissible for her to send her daughter to a secondary school for disbelievers, specifically for disbelievers, which is exclusively for girls and has no mixing, given that there are no schools for Muslims in her area? Also, she is unable to pay the tuition fees to send her to Muslim schools. Is it permissible to enroll her in this school?
Answer:
Do not send her to the schools of disbelievers, for she will adopt their beliefs and take their religion from them. This is not permissible. The obligation is to teach her the matters of prayer, the matters of ritual purity, and the matters of her religion. You teach her these, or her father, or her brother, or whoever. She learns only the matters of her religion. As for what goes beyond the matters of religion, if it can be arranged without any harm, there is nothing wrong with it. If it cannot be arranged without harm, then it is not permissible. Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب أن الأذنين من الرأس وأنهما يمسحان بمائه — islamhouse.com (1:07:35)
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