The Criterion for the Prohibited Free Mixing of Men and Women
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Some people argue for the permissibility of free mixing between men and women by stating that avoiding it is impossible, as it is a reality in markets and hospitals, and that public benefit calls for it.
Answer:
This is not free mixing; this is merely presence in a place. Yes, men and women are present in the place, but without touching and without mingling in chairs or gatherings or parties where a woman sits next to a man and another man sits next to her. That is free mixing, because it incites fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). But if she is present in the place and the men are present in the place?
Yes, they were present in the mosque in the time of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), but the women were in one section and the men in another, so there was no fitnah. Now they are misleading people; they answer that presence in a place is free mixing. No, free mixing is sitting next to him or standing next to him and touching him. That is free mixing, because it incites fitnah and evil, especially if she is uncovered, uncovered and displaying her adornment. That is the free mixing that Allah has forbidden. As for the presence of a man and a woman in a place, in the farm, in the mosque, in the market, or as they say, in the hospital among the patients, that is not free mixing. This also has a purpose. In the tawaf (circumambulation of the Ka'bah) and the sa'y (walking between al-Safa and al-Marwah), it is purposeful, it is purposeful, and it does not incite fitnah. Yes. Is the ruling...
What is the meaning of preventing free mixing? That we lock women in rooms all the time and no one sees them? That is not the intention. Women go out for their needs, ask men about what is difficult for them, and buy and sell; there is no objection, provided they observe modesty and cover themselves. Yes. But that we store them up and they never go out and do not smell the air, that is not correct. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Some people argue for the permissibility of free mixing between men and women by stating that avoiding it is impossible, as it is a reality in markets and hospitals, and that public benefit calls for it.
Answer:
This is not free mixing; this is merely presence in a place. Yes, men and women are present in the place, but without touching and without mingling in chairs or gatherings or parties where a woman sits next to a man and another man sits next to her. That is free mixing, because it incites fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). But if she is present in the place and the men are present in the place?
Yes, they were present in the mosque in the time of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), but the women were in one section and the men in another, so there was no fitnah. Now they are misleading people; they answer that presence in a place is free mixing. No, free mixing is sitting next to him or standing next to him and touching him. That is free mixing, because it incites fitnah and evil, especially if she is uncovered, uncovered and displaying her adornment. That is the free mixing that Allah has forbidden. As for the presence of a man and a woman in a place, in the farm, in the mosque, in the market, or as they say, in the hospital among the patients, that is not free mixing. This also has a purpose. In the tawaf (circumambulation of the Ka'bah) and the sa'y (walking between al-Safa and al-Marwah), it is purposeful, it is purposeful, and it does not incite fitnah. Yes. Is the ruling...
What is the meaning of preventing free mixing? That we lock women in rooms all the time and no one sees them? That is not the intention. Women go out for their needs, ask men about what is difficult for them, and buy and sell; there is no objection, provided they observe modesty and cover themselves. Yes. But that we store them up and they never go out and do not smell the air, that is not correct. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [2689 -2802] ضابط الاختلاط المنهي عنه - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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