Ruling on a Father Preventing His Daughters from Attending School
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Question:
A letter from a group of girls from Libya, stating: Our father has prevented us from studying, and we currently do not know how to read even the short surahs. What is the ruling, and what do you advise us to do? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
If studying is possible in a women’s school with no free mixing of men and women, and the way to it is easy without fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), then your father has no right to prevent you. However, if the school is mixed, or if there is something on the way to it that prevents you from going, such as people who flirt with you and tempt you, then he has the right to prevent you. You can learn through the Saudi Quran Radio, which teaches the Quran and contains many sciences, including the program Nur 'ala al-Darb, which has much knowledge.
So seek out its time and listen to it, for it contains great good and much knowledge. If a female teacher can come to your home, or if your father teaches you at home, that is good and a great benefit. So seek a good female teacher to teach you at home, or let one of your mahram (a relative one may not marry) brothers, such as a brother, uncle, maternal uncle, father, or grandfather, do so, and the desired result will be achieved, if Allah wills. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good.
A letter from a group of girls from Libya, stating: Our father has prevented us from studying, and we currently do not know how to read even the short surahs. What is the ruling, and what do you advise us to do? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
If studying is possible in a women’s school with no free mixing of men and women, and the way to it is easy without fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), then your father has no right to prevent you. However, if the school is mixed, or if there is something on the way to it that prevents you from going, such as people who flirt with you and tempt you, then he has the right to prevent you. You can learn through the Saudi Quran Radio, which teaches the Quran and contains many sciences, including the program Nur 'ala al-Darb, which has much knowledge.
So seek out its time and listen to it, for it contains great good and much knowledge. If a female teacher can come to your home, or if your father teaches you at home, that is good and a great benefit. So seek a good female teacher to teach you at home, or let one of your mahram (a relative one may not marry) brothers, such as a brother, uncle, maternal uncle, father, or grandfather, do so, and the desired result will be achieved, if Allah wills. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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