Is it permissible for young women to study the Qur'an with a shaykh without a mahram if no one else is available?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This is a woman asking, and she says: We are a group of young women studying the Qur'an with a shaykh in his house, and we do not have a mahram with us. He is forty years old. Is this permissible, knowing that there is no one in our city who can teach us other than him?
Answer:
No, this is not correct. Today, women have learned, and learning has spread in the villages and cities. They learn from a woman, not from a man, and education has now spread among women. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This is a woman asking, and she says: We are a group of young women studying the Qur'an with a shaykh in his house, and we do not have a mahram with us. He is forty years old. Is this permissible, knowing that there is no one in our city who can teach us other than him?
Answer:
No, this is not correct. Today, women have learned, and learning has spread in the villages and cities. They learn from a woman, not from a man, and education has now spread among women. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [3436/546] هل يجوز للفتيات دراسة القرآن عند شيخ بدون محرم إذا لم يوجد غيره؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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