What is the ruling on dividing female students into circles for the sake of organization?
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The questioner : The question says: Some excellent female teachers in schools or colleges divide the girls in the college prayer hall into sections or circles, such as the Aisha circle, the Khadijah circle, and so on, so that there is no disorder. Some sisters say that 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, and 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. The question asks: What is your guidance? And is this method wrong or correct?
The Shaykh : Yes, I say, may Allah reward you. Convey to them that both methods are not correct: neither dividing the women at prayer, nor these women separating themselves in another place.
The questioner : It is not prayer, but in a circle, a circle in the prayer hall, not prayer, O Shaykh, a circle in the prayer hall.
The Shaykh : And what is a circle in the prayer hall?
The questioner : The study starts at seven thirty, the girls attend at seven, they hold a circle for studying the Qur'an or tafsir.
The Shaykh : Memorizing the Qur'an, you mean memorization circles.
The questioner : Or a tafsir lesson, for example, or.
The Shaykh : I mean tafsir circles.
The questioner : Teaching circles: tafsir, Qur'an, hadith, and fiqh.
The Shaykh : The important thing is the circles they call Qur'an memorization.
The questioner : Yes, exactly.
The Shaykh : Fine, there is nothing wrong with this, meaning that it is said: this circle is the Aisha circle, and this is the Khadijah circle, and this is the Fatimah circle, there is no objection.
The questioner : Fine, and the women who left?
The Shaykh : The ones who left made a mistake.
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 class-based study from the way of the Salaf?The questioner : No.
The Shaykh : It is not from their way. Is the categorization of the Sunnah: purity, prayer, zakah, fasting, Hajj, from the way of the Salaf? It is not from the way of the Salaf. This did not happen until after the Companions, after the books were compiled.
This is a mistake. Tell the ones who are separating that it is a mistake on their part, because these ones who separated separated by place and by naming.
The questioner : So that it is not hidden, O Shaykh, that after the girls separated, there was a separation from all the students, and there was in.
The Shaykh : The important thing, convey my greetings to them and say: It is necessary that they return to the first place, and each one, for example, has a level and a specific name.
The questioner : Perhaps if the tape is recorded, they will hear, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : The tape is with Musa.
The questioner : May Allah preserve you, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, I say, may Allah reward you. Convey to them that both methods are not correct: neither dividing the women at prayer, nor these women separating themselves in another place.
The questioner : It is not prayer, but in a circle, a circle in the prayer hall, not prayer, O Shaykh, a circle in the prayer hall.
The Shaykh : And what is a circle in the prayer hall?
The questioner : The study starts at seven thirty, the girls attend at seven, they hold a circle for studying the Qur'an or tafsir.
The Shaykh : Memorizing the Qur'an, you mean memorization circles.
The questioner : Or a tafsir lesson, for example, or.
The Shaykh : I mean tafsir circles.
The questioner : Teaching circles: tafsir, Qur'an, hadith, and fiqh.
The Shaykh : The important thing is the circles they call Qur'an memorization.
The questioner : Yes, exactly.
The Shaykh : Fine, there is nothing wrong with this, meaning that it is said: this circle is the Aisha circle, and this is the Khadijah circle, and this is the Fatimah circle, there is no objection.
The questioner : Fine, and the women who left?
The Shaykh : The ones who left made a mistake.
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 class-based study from the way of the Salaf?The questioner : No.
The Shaykh : It is not from their way. Is the categorization of the Sunnah: purity, prayer, zakah, fasting, Hajj, from the way of the Salaf? It is not from the way of the Salaf. This did not happen until after the Companions, after the books were compiled.
This is a mistake. Tell the ones who are separating that it is a mistake on their part, because these ones who separated separated by place and by naming.
The questioner : So that it is not hidden, O Shaykh, that after the girls separated, there was a separation from all the students, and there was in.
The Shaykh : The important thing, convey my greetings to them and say: It is necessary that they return to the first place, and each one, for example, has a level and a specific name.
The questioner : Perhaps if the tape is recorded, they will hear, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : The tape is with Musa.
The questioner : May Allah preserve you, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Yes.