Is it permissible to teach in these co-educational schools in order to call the male and female students to the truth?
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The questioner : By virtue of my long stay in Algeria.
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : By virtue of my long stay in Algeria, the truth is that a large portion of the Islamic awakening in Algeria was carried out by these brothers who teach in co-educational schools!
The Shaykh : I do not deny this.
The questioner : ... My brothers who teach, and Allah has benefited through their hands by bringing students into Islam, andThe student : students, so if these brothers stop teaching now in this critical time, who will take their place in teaching?
The Shaykh : And this is what I referred to earlier; my brother, a Muslim must not be a scapegoat except in the truth; I said in some answers regarding the issue of female doctors: I have a daughter and I have a sister, I do not make her a scapegoat because the Muslim community must have female doctors, this is a reality that is necessary; right or not? But I do not make my sister or my daughter a scapegoat; that is: to fulfill that collective obligation, I do not sacrifice my daughter or my sister by putting her in places where she may be tempted in her religion, in her honor, in her face, and so on... The matter is that someone other than my daughter, other than my sister, other than your daughter, and other than your sister can do it, and the scope is very wide; so why do we open the door for the righteous men and women to expose themselves for the benefit of others when there are people who can fulfill this benefit as I explained earlier, from those people who do not call out what is forbidden and what is lawful, or who take deviated fatwas as we referred to earlier, or who proceed based on these fatwas; as the common people say in some matters: we put it on the shaykh's neck. Do you hear this speech?
Another questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, we put it on the shaykh's neck; but we must not be like these common people.
The questioner : So what if we fear Allah in this?
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner : So what if we fear Allah in this matter; the teacher is sitting in the mixed environment and tries to work on fearing Allah?
The Shaykh : But he, the problem - my professor - is whether he guarantees himself when he enters this place that he will not be tempted in his religion?
The questioner : It is established...?
The Shaykh : Yes, but it is established, and you are outside of teaching, not as it is established when you are in teaching; this is the problem, if we assume; I say to our brothers today whom I sit with: By Allah, I have now reached seventy-four years of age, I fear for myself from the trial of women; so what about others, I am from the youth? The matter involves risk.
Another questioner : The earth is inhabited!
The Shaykh : The earth is inhabited!
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : By virtue of my long stay in Algeria, the truth is that a large portion of the Islamic awakening in Algeria was carried out by these brothers who teach in co-educational schools!
The Shaykh : I do not deny this.
The questioner : ... My brothers who teach, and Allah has benefited through their hands by bringing students into Islam, andThe student : students, so if these brothers stop teaching now in this critical time, who will take their place in teaching?
The Shaykh : And this is what I referred to earlier; my brother, a Muslim must not be a scapegoat except in the truth; I said in some answers regarding the issue of female doctors: I have a daughter and I have a sister, I do not make her a scapegoat because the Muslim community must have female doctors, this is a reality that is necessary; right or not? But I do not make my sister or my daughter a scapegoat; that is: to fulfill that collective obligation, I do not sacrifice my daughter or my sister by putting her in places where she may be tempted in her religion, in her honor, in her face, and so on... The matter is that someone other than my daughter, other than my sister, other than your daughter, and other than your sister can do it, and the scope is very wide; so why do we open the door for the righteous men and women to expose themselves for the benefit of others when there are people who can fulfill this benefit as I explained earlier, from those people who do not call out what is forbidden and what is lawful, or who take deviated fatwas as we referred to earlier, or who proceed based on these fatwas; as the common people say in some matters: we put it on the shaykh's neck. Do you hear this speech?
Another questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, we put it on the shaykh's neck; but we must not be like these common people.
The questioner : So what if we fear Allah in this?
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner : So what if we fear Allah in this matter; the teacher is sitting in the mixed environment and tries to work on fearing Allah?
The Shaykh : But he, the problem - my professor - is whether he guarantees himself when he enters this place that he will not be tempted in his religion?
The questioner : It is established...?
The Shaykh : Yes, but it is established, and you are outside of teaching, not as it is established when you are in teaching; this is the problem, if we assume; I say to our brothers today whom I sit with: By Allah, I have now reached seventy-four years of age, I fear for myself from the trial of women; so what about others, I am from the youth? The matter involves risk.
Another questioner : The earth is inhabited!
The Shaykh : The earth is inhabited!
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