The Shaykh spoke about commenting on public interests, including teaching in co-educational schools.

The Shaykh : What do you understand from this statement regarding teaching girls in co-educational universities? Is it permissible or not?

The questioner : ... It has importance.

The Shaykh : Okay, who has the authority? Let us see! Who has the authority not to be tempted?

The questioner : The one who has the authority ... .

The Shaykh : Who is able to say, "I do not fear for myself"? We hear this often, and from young men in the early stages of youth, and perhaps a bachelor ... .

The questioner : They are all bachelors ... mixing ... .
The questioner: He does not permit mixing...

The Shaykh : Co-educational universities, he permits it, and he also permits the girl to enter the university to study medicine.

The questioner : The environment one lives in in Saudi Arabia is different from those who live here.

The Shaykh : My brother, I am not speaking about ... .

The questioner : I do not expect his words to be understood as ... and in Saudi Arabia we spoke about the issue of the woman, the woman's job, and the woman's work, and that these people made the woman, meaning ... unveiling, removing the hijab, and they make that a condition, with the strongest disapproval.

The Shaykh : This is a correct statement, but our discussion now does not focus on this angle; it focuses on the angle of those who want to corrupt these people.

The questioner : So, it requires clarifying the statement... .

The Shaykh : We are closer to understanding each other than to understanding him, is that not so?

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : So we are now ... and from all this statement we read, first and second, and perhaps third, etc., does one not feel, even if we do not say it is explicit, that he permits the Muslim to risk his religion and his character, and so on, in the path of fulfilling the duty of teaching and guidance and enjoining good and forbidding evil? And therefore, the examples mentioned and referred to by Brother Ali just now come here: the issue of entering parliaments. The professor said to you, "Ministries," and you said, "No, not this and not that." We said, in education, in the university where there is mixing between the sexes, and so on. We said finally, the girls who want to study medicine in order to fulfill the duty of treating women, and without doubt they are in need of that, and this is a matter in which there is no disagreement. Is this statement we read not very clear in supporting this disturbing reality, where many Muslims undertake teaching in this education despite its flaws... ?

The questioner : Yes, here this may enter because there is harm and there is benefit, meaning which one is stronger... and opinions may differ in interpreting this; this may enter into his statement.
Abu Malik: A woman called me and said to me, "I am so-and-so," she named herself, and I am an older woman and a specialist in gynecology.

The Shaykh : In obstetrics, meaning?
Abu Malik: Women's diseases. She said to me, "Now I want to go to Britain to specialize, because this statement... the professors, and she is of course, I know... and she said this is in the context of realizing the public interest and caring for it, and that it is not permissible for a woman to be treated by a man. I spoke with her at length; in fact, she was convinced by some things... I said to her, "Okay, I want to ask you just one question: Can you mention to me a woman in Islamic history who was mentioned as being a gynecologist and specialized in...? Mention one to me? Where did the Muslim woman go to be treated if she needed treatment? Did she go and look for a gynecologist? Did she...?" She said, "I do not know." I said to her, "Because it does not exist." I said to her, "It is not that you do not know, but that it does not exist at all." History has not preserved for us that a woman was specialized in a medicine called gynecology. Even if it is known that so-and-so among the women was known for medicine, and I said to her something else. I said to her, "Now you know that, of course." I did not say to her that it was the cause of her failure. The woman, even in this field in which she claims to be specialized, and that she is for the sake of realizing the interest of the Muslims, and that the Muslim woman is not allowed to go to the man... it is established that many women placedThe student : ... the young girls. Why? Not because she does not want to be treated by this doctor; on the contrary, she may be religious and careful, but for another reason: because these doctors do not master the profession of medicine, because there are many distractions. I said to her... as for the man... so she was silent finally and said, "Okay, I am of course under the pretext of the weak one who hides under a weaker pretext... that she said, "I want to travel from here and a mahram is with me, and the residence there, meaning I can... I am able to manage my own affairs. She does not have... I said to her, "Okay, you are fine, you have arrived there, do you not know that men have become afraid, and they are in their homes and cannot... now it is established that the man is not able to repel the aggressor against himself, so how can the woman who goes to the lands of the West and to the lands of Britain be able to prevent herself from aggression against her, or... or so on or so on? ... This is a statement, O Shaykh, that encourages people like these, not... but further than that... that the woman goes by herself... the Sharia texts... this statement encourages people like these, like the statement of the Egyptian brother who stayed with you for days... .

The Shaykh : They are all from one door. This whole statement, O Professor, does it meet with the principle of blocking the means to harm, or does it contradict it?
Shuqara: It meets and it contradicts...
Khashan: He means he clarified at the beginning of the topic the conflict between harm and benefit. If the benefit is stronger... if the harm is stronger... here he can... he is the one who will judge this.

The Shaykh : He is speaking about... that he knows their souls better than they do, as... upon them... .

The questioner : No, in many cases some people underestimate their own right, and they... he is in reality... .

The Shaykh : I am asking you a question regarding our time, meaning we have the ascetics here... that he leaves a position or a job, and so on, out of fear for himself... but everything is possible in terms of reality.

The questioner : By Allah, I cannot say... except that he saw things of this... .

Another questioner : ... in the public interest, a job, or is he speaking about directing the da'wah... .

The questioner : ... a public interest arises from the interest... the process of da'wah stopped... the statement.

The Shaykh : He may have referred to... they left these positions... for the open sinners and the wicked... .

The questioner : ... the da'wah intended in his statement is... meaning this and that, consequently... the limits that he means... .

The Shaykh : ... the statement is issued generally, so there remain issues.

The questioner : This, yes, it is obligatory that he be held accountable.

The Shaykh : That is enough ... .

The questioner : ... he reads this... if Brother Salman had advised and accepted for him to delete this or correct this, but do you see that this is sufficient and beneficial?

The Shaykh : This book, may Allah bless you, which spread and was received by the hands of readers, and perhaps the methodology of Safer or the methodology of Salman is read once or twice until one comprehends and understands what is in it... do you think that everyone who reads this book returns to buy the book again and read it?

The questioner : ... a fatwa, then he retracts it

The Shaykh : I notice that the brother has a statement in his mind that he wants us to hear from him. Come, let us see.

Another questioner : By Allah, O our Shaykh, meaning according to my knowledge ofThe Shaykh : Salman: Of course, I read the book before this time with Brother Ali. So, if a person reads the book completely and examines what he wants, he does not want what you referred to a moment ago, which is taking positions in the state; because he is writing guidance for the da'iyah. He is speaking in a general hadith and he elaborated on it, and then at the end he specified some, meaning as if he intends directing the minbars and the field of da'wah. And as you say, he mentioned secularism and the destructive schools of thought, and who takes on these schools of thought, and who fears taking on these schools of thought lest they reach him, whether it is fear from him or a comprehensive attack on him from these enemies who oppose Islam openly, especially in their lands now. Now they were able to... the scholars who were afraid to mention their names in the gatherings, so this, may Allah know, of course after reading the book

The Shaykh : But we, my brother, hear his statement and see his justifications.

Another questioner: O Shaykh, it is necessary to read the book in its entirety.

The Shaykh: To read the book in its entirety. Here you are, and here it is. You have read the book in its entirety, so what is your answer regarding these explanations? Is it...? And we say: This is... the others.
Abu Malik: My brother Abu 'Abdullah... in the continuation.

The Shaykh: Do not say it is a mistake.

The questioner: In this issue, specifically, it is... in this issue, because I have read the book.

The Shaykh: My brother, when you say "in this issue," what is the issue? The issue is...