What is the ruling on holding private lessons for women by women in a specific place?
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The questioner : May Allah reward you, O honorable Shaykh. What is your opinion regarding holding private lessons for women, in order to guide them, help them seek knowledge, and enable them to be educators for themselves, their children, and those for whom they are responsible?
The Shaykh : Who is teaching them?
The questioner : Female students of knowledge like them, or pious women who have...
The Shaykh : The important thing is that a woman teaches them.
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : The one who teaches them is a woman, she says:
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : I say there is nothing wrong with this. I say there is nothing wrong with establishing, for example, a place where women are taught, where a woman possessing knowledge and religion teaches these women.
But on the condition that no prohibition arises from another aspect, such as the gathering of women in this house becoming a cause for the presence of foolish men around them, or a lack of organization. Because girls' schools are organized now; everyone comes and calls out to their daughter or the one who is her guardian over a loudspeaker. If this is done in an organized manner, safe from any prohibition, then there is nothing wrong. Yes.
The Shaykh : Who is teaching them?
The questioner : Female students of knowledge like them, or pious women who have...
The Shaykh : The important thing is that a woman teaches them.
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : The one who teaches them is a woman, she says:
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : I say there is nothing wrong with this. I say there is nothing wrong with establishing, for example, a place where women are taught, where a woman possessing knowledge and religion teaches these women.
But on the condition that no prohibition arises from another aspect, such as the gathering of women in this house becoming a cause for the presence of foolish men around them, or a lack of organization. Because girls' schools are organized now; everyone comes and calls out to their daughter or the one who is her guardian over a loudspeaker. If this is done in an organized manner, safe from any prohibition, then there is nothing wrong. Yes.