Continuation of the discussion on the Shaykh’s response to those who forbid a woman from uncovering her face in front of non-mahram men.
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The Shaykh : The point is, we said to them: if you prevent and forbid a woman from seeing the road, even with one eye, until we found them saying that if she has no need to see the road, it is not permissible for her to uncover even one eye. The final step was that we said to them: you must also prevent men from uncovering their faces before women by the same philosophy, because just as the most beautiful part of a woman is her face, the most beautiful part of a man is also his face. And you say—and truthfully, as they say—just as it is not permissible for a man to look at a woman's face, so it is not permissible for a woman to look at a man's face. Yet they know that a man's face is not an 'awrah (part of the body that must be covered) for a woman. So they are contradicting themselves; they deduce from the prohibition of looking at something that it must be an 'awrah. They said that a woman's face is an 'awrah. Why? Because it is not permissible for a man to look at it. So we said to them: then say that a man's face is also an 'awrah, because in your view it is not permissible for a woman to look at a man's face. Then the crux of the matter is what came after, until the following story reached us: that a woman fromThe student : the university fell in love with her professor through the television; she did not see him face-to-face, but only through the TV. So even this medium that you have adopted must be prevented, because the woman looked at the man, even through the television, and fell into fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), so she fell in love with him and corresponded with him by phone, and love arose between them. The beloved is married and has children, and his wife is now living in a very severe psychological state because the one who loves him constantly calls out to him and corresponds with him. So we say: if such a thing happens, that does not necessitate that we forbid what Allah has permitted, because blocking this door entirely is impossible. For that reason, Allah the Exalted said: [An-Nur 24:30] and He said: [An-Nur 24:31] So in it, something is uncovered, and Allah commanded both genders to lower their gazes. The point from all of this is that entering mixed universities is not permissible for what we have mentioned, namely that it is a means for fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) to occur between males and females. I do not know if there is anything else in the question...?
Al-Halabi : The salary of the university professor.
Tell the believing men to reduce [some] of their vision and guard their private parts
وقل للمؤمنين يغضوا من أبصارهم ويحفظوا فروجهمAnd tell the believing women to reduce [some] of their vision and guard their private parts
وقل للمؤمنات يغضضن من أبصارهن ويحفظن فروجهنAl-Halabi : The salary of the university professor.
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