Organizing Special Lessons for Women
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Your Eminence! What is your opinion regarding establishing special lessons for women, in order to guide them and assist them in seeking knowledge, so that they may be educators for themselves, their children, and those for whom they are responsible?
Who will teach them?The questioner: Female students of knowledge like them, or virtuous women who possess knowledge.
The Shaykh: The important thing is that a woman teaches them.
So I say: There is nothing wrong with this. There is nothing wrong with establishing, for example, a place where women study; a woman with knowledge and religion stands up to teach these women; but on the condition that no prohibition results from another aspect, such as the gathering of women in this house becoming a cause for the idle to loiter around them, and a lack of organization; because girls' schools are organized now; each person comes and calls out over the loudspeaker for his daughter or the one who is her guardian, so if this happens in an organized manner, safe from prohibition, then there is nothing wrong with it.
Who will teach them?The questioner: Female students of knowledge like them, or virtuous women who possess knowledge.
The Shaykh: The important thing is that a woman teaches them.
So I say: There is nothing wrong with this. There is nothing wrong with establishing, for example, a place where women study; a woman with knowledge and religion stands up to teach these women; but on the condition that no prohibition results from another aspect, such as the gathering of women in this house becoming a cause for the idle to loiter around them, and a lack of organization; because girls' schools are organized now; each person comes and calls out over the loudspeaker for his daughter or the one who is her guardian, so if this happens in an organized manner, safe from prohibition, then there is nothing wrong with it.