Therefore, it is incumbent upon the authorities to assign institutes, schools
and colleges for male students and likewise for female students. This is so, in
order to preserve their religion and to prevent weakening of respect, esteem,
honor and dignity and to prevent chaos in relations between the sexes. Then
those people with a sense of honor and religion among the teaching profession
and the student body are able to organize their affairs, without impediment or
harassment. If the authorities do not fulfill their obligations and segregation
of male and female students is not attained in the field of education and they
do not prevent the transparently-dressed, scantily-clad women, it is not
permissible to join such bodies as these, unless one considers that he has the
ability to reduce sin and lessen evil through advice and mutual cooperation with
others like himself among his colleagues and teachers and he is able to guard
himself from temptation.
The
Permanent Committee
It is my view that it is not permissible for a person — man or woman — to study
in mixed schools; this is because of the great danger to his modesty, reputation
and morals, because a human being, whatever may be his reputation, morals and
innocence, if there is a woman sitting next to his chair — and especially if she
is beautiful and revealing her beauty — is unlikely to be safe from temptation
and evil and everything which leads to temptation and evil is forbidden and is
impermissible. So we ask Allah, Most Glorified, Most High, for our Muslim
brothers that they protect them from such matters as these which bring nothing
but evil, temptation and corruption to their young men. And if no other
university is found except this one, he should leave his studies in order to
study in another country in which there is no such mixing. So I do not consider
it permissible, although someone else might hold another opinion.
Ibn
'Uthaimin
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