Most schools in Algeria are co-educational, and many young people are afflicted by this teaching; how do they work?

The questioner : Your Eminence, another question branches off from this question?

The Shaykh: Go ahead.

The questioner : In the field of teaching, most schools in Algeria are co-educational, and many Muslim young people, or most of them.

The Shaykh : This is not ... always.

The questioner : Do they work in the field of teaching?

The Shaykh : These people permit mixing and interpret it from various angles, and teaching is not permissible in that case.

The questioner : So what is to be done? If one works in a government institution, the matter is more severe and harsher; the mixing is more than in schools. Also, knowing that there is a good fruit from the brothers in calling these young people to Islam in the schools?

The Shaykh : When you ask me, you say: What is to be done? Work from what?

The questioner : Work ... what do we do?

The Shaykh : I mean - for example - it is as if you mean that there are some committed young people and that they are afflicted by this teaching?

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : Fine; is there anything in Islam called: the end justifies the means?

The questioner : Of course, there is nothing called that.

The Shaykh : There is nothing; but perhaps among those who work in political work, there is something of this.

The questioner: Regarding ... .

The Shaykh : Certainly. Yes, so in that case, we do not say that since there is no one who teaches in a manner fully in accordance with the Shari'ah, we must tolerate it. This is a calamity that should not stop at the issue of teaching in this mixed society. Perhaps you hear, as we hear, that there are female students in medical colleges who study medicine, and knowing that this learning is more dangerous than the learning about which the question was asked; because there is more mixing in it. The matter may sometimes reach, as we see in some hospitals, a girl standing next to a boy, and their heads meeting in examining a patient or a germ or so on and so forth; until the observer, near or far, can hardly say: nothing remains but touching ... despite this, there are among some Islamic preachers those who permit a Muslim girl to seek such knowledge; because he will say: who will treat our women? This is a valid question naturally, so he says: the best is for men to take charge of treating our women, so let us teach our daughters medicine and the like.
Here we say, as we said somewhat regarding political work: We do not deny that there must be women who are educated in every science they need, this is necessary; because this is a collective obligation. But the question is: is this obligatory learning from the sciences that are obligatory as a collective obligation permissible by the Shari'ah by any means? That is, whether this means is in accordance with the Shari'ah or contrary to it? For example, among the things contrary to the Shari'ah is this mixing. Many may say, and we know this in reality, yes, and this is what was referred to in the previous message, that we must look away from committing some forbidden things so that the goal of change in the Muslim society is achieved. So the Muslim society ... female doctors, and there is no way now to find female doctors except by this unlawful path, which is mixing - for example -. We say: this is not permissible. But at the same time that ... this, we know the reality of the Muslim Ummah in every era, even in the purest and brightest time, that the Muslims and Muslim women were not all equal in the mindfulness of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). This difference exists, and especially in the current time, when these people say: this science and the like must be learned by any means, and they hear us opposing them; they say: then the matter will remain in the hands of the disbelievers. Until some of them said, regarding the minting and selling of gold, which is based on an open usurious transaction: and this is necessary; because - also - the matter will remain in the hands of what? The Christians, as is inherited in many Islamic countries.
We say, as is the reality, that the disbelievers who do not prohibit or permit are the ones who perform some works that are forbidden to us. This is naturally, its example is the minting, but not its example is the medicine related to women. But I say: ... women today will make two different laws; it is permissible for a Muslim girl to seek the science of medicine in these mixed universities. The second opinion: it is not permissible because of the mixing in it, and this is forbidden, and it exposes the mixed person to corruption. Each of the two opinions will have followers, without doubt and without question. In that case, we know by experience, by the tangible reality, that the first opinion, which we are certain is contrary to the Shari'ah, will be adopted by a group of women, and they will learn the science of medicine as the disbelieving women who do not prohibit learn it. If this happens - and it is happening as is the reality - in that case, the role of the committed Muslim girls will come, and instead of learning under the hands of young men and men, they will learn under the hands of these Muslim women. So the prohibited thing they imagine is an illusion and not a reality. And by this way, we combine staying away from the harm in ourselves, and others perform that obligation which is not originally obligatory upon us because it is a collective obligation. And consequently, it is not permissible for us to put ourselves in places of trial or accusation.
This is my opinion in this issue that branches off from the first issue.

The questioner : I mean, it is understood from this that the Muslim young people today must leave teaching?

The Shaykh : Yes, they leave teaching, not absolutely, but co-educational teaching.

The questioner : He is a teacher, a professor in a school.

The Shaykh : I know, a teacher, but so that he is not registered.