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AUDIO: Marriage or Education

Posted in Contemporary Issues, marriage with tags , , , , , , , , , , , on March 4, 2008 by fearthedunya

MARRIAGE OR EDUCATION: WHICH COMES FIRST?

By Abu Tasneem Dawood Adeeb

>> Click HERE for Audio (69 min) <<

Masha’Allah, listened to this lecture when I was 17, and it was extremely memorable to say the least.

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Shaykh Bin Baaz on Mixed Education

Posted in Fatawa, Modesty in Modern Society with tags , , , , , , on February 24, 2008 by fearthedunya

QUESTION: Many Islaamic societies suffer from the problem of mixed education between boys and girls, which they have inherited from the time of colonisation or from the practice of copying western civilisation. What are the dangers of mixed education and how can we rid ourselves of it?

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Can a father force his daughter to work in a mixed environment?

Posted in Fatawa, Islamic Rulings, Modesty in Modern Society with tags , , , , on October 21, 2007 by fearthedunya

QUESTION:
Can a father force his daughter to work in a mixed environment?.

ANSWER:
Praise be to Allaah.

Working in mixed environments is not free of the risk of some haraam things happening, such as looking, being alone with a person of the opposite sex, or feeling attracted. Hence the scholars have issued fatwas stating that it is haraam, based on what usually happens. It says in Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah (12/156):

Mixing of men and women in schools and elsewhere is a great evil and has serious implications for people’s religious and worldly interests. It is not permissible for a woman to study or work in a place where men and women mix, and it is not permissible for her guardian to allow her to do that.

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