Dividing students into circles in the Shari'ah studies
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Some of the honorable female teachers in schools or colleges divide the girls in the college classes into sections or circles: the Aisha circle, the Khadijah circle, and so on, so that there is no disorder.So some of the sisters say: It was found that there are girls with us in the prayer hall who left the prayer hall on the pretext that this division is not according to the methodology and is not from the way of the Salaf. They went outside the prayer hall and established another circle outside the prayer hall, which led to the division of the class and the scattering of the girls, and some disagreements occurred.And the question says: What is your guidance? Is this method wrong or correct?
I say, may Allah reward you,Convey to them that both methods are not correct: There is no dividing of women at prayer, nor separating these women in another place.
The questioner: It is not at prayer, but in the circle of the prayer hall.
The Shaykh: What is the circle of the prayer hall?The questioner: The study starts at seven thirty, and the girls attend at seven o'clock to hold a circle for Quran or tafsir.
The Shaykh: The intention is that they are memorization circles.
The questioner: Yes,Teaching circles: Tafsir, Quran, hadith, and fiqh.
The Shaykh: The important thing is, are they circles called Quran memorization?Answer: There is nothing wrong with this,So I say: This circle is the Aisha circle, and this is the Khadijah circle, and this is the Fatimah circle; there is no objection.
The questioner: And the women who left?The Shaykh: Those who left, this is a mistake on their part.
The questioner: On the pretext that this method is not from the way of the Salaf?The Shaykh: It is not from the way of the Salaf, but this is organization. Is the classroom system of study from the way of the Salaf?The questioner: No.
The Shaykh: It is not from the way of the Salaf,Is the categorization of the Sunnah from the way of the Salaf: Purity, prayer, zakah, fasting, Hajj? Are these from the way of the Salaf? These did not occur except after the Companions, after the books were compiled.
So this is a mistake,Tell the ones who separate: This is a mistake on their part; because these women separated by place and by naming.
The questioner: So that it is not hidden—O Shaykh—that after the girls separated, their separation was with the students,And it happened with the Shaykh: Tell them: They must return to the original place, and each one, for example, has her level and her specific name.
I say, may Allah reward you,Convey to them that both methods are not correct: There is no dividing of women at prayer, nor separating these women in another place.
The questioner: It is not at prayer, but in the circle of the prayer hall.
The Shaykh: What is the circle of the prayer hall?The questioner: The study starts at seven thirty, and the girls attend at seven o'clock to hold a circle for Quran or tafsir.
The Shaykh: The intention is that they are memorization circles.
The questioner: Yes,Teaching circles: Tafsir, Quran, hadith, and fiqh.
The Shaykh: The important thing is, are they circles called Quran memorization?Answer: There is nothing wrong with this,So I say: This circle is the Aisha circle, and this is the Khadijah circle, and this is the Fatimah circle; there is no objection.
The questioner: And the women who left?The Shaykh: Those who left, this is a mistake on their part.
The questioner: On the pretext that this method is not from the way of the Salaf?The Shaykh: It is not from the way of the Salaf, but this is organization. Is the classroom system of study from the way of the Salaf?The questioner: No.
The Shaykh: It is not from the way of the Salaf,Is the categorization of the Sunnah from the way of the Salaf: Purity, prayer, zakah, fasting, Hajj? Are these from the way of the Salaf? These did not occur except after the Companions, after the books were compiled.
So this is a mistake,Tell the ones who separate: This is a mistake on their part; because these women separated by place and by naming.
The questioner: So that it is not hidden—O Shaykh—that after the girls separated, their separation was with the students,And it happened with the Shaykh: Tell them: They must return to the original place, and each one, for example, has her level and her specific name.