Question: These days in Islamic sisters’ Ijtimā’āt, Islamic brothers deliver speeches via microphones and speaker systems, is this permissible?
Answer: This is permissible if all Islamic requirements are fulfilled. My master A’lā Ḥaḍrat, Imām-e-Aĥl-e-Sunnat, scholar of Sharī’aĥ, guide of Ṭarīqaĥ, Ash-Shāĥ Imām Aḥmad Razā Khān عَـلَيْهِ رَحْمَةُ الـرَّحْمٰن said: Women are prohibited from offering Ṣalāĥ in the Masjid and if a preacher is a Sunnī scholar whose sermons are accurate and credible and women come and go with all precautions whilst fully covered and there is no risk of mischief and they sit separate from men (where they cannot see each other) then this is acceptable.
(Fatāwā Razawiyyaĥ, vol. 22, pp. 239)
Question: Is it permissible for a woman to get education from a man from behind a curtain?
Answer: If the man behind the curtain is young, then it is not permissible for Islamic sisters to get education from him. It is also incorrect to compare this situation to the ‘permissibility of male preachers delivering sermons for Islamic sisters’. Sunnaĥ-inspiring Ijtimā’āt or sermons consist of one or two collective speeches but this is not the case in regular religious classes. In religious classes, despite being veiled, there will be a certain level of familiarity due to regular contact between the male teacher and his female students. Therefore, this is a very dangerous predicament. For this reason, despite fulfilling all precautions of veil, my master A’lā Ḥaḍrat, Imām-e-Aĥl-e-Sunnat, scholar of Sharī’aĥ, guide of Ṭarīqaĥ, Ash-Shāĥ Imām Aḥmad Razā Khān عَـلَيْهِ رَحْمَةُ الـرَّحْمٰن prohibited a woman from visiting a young spiritual guide for religious knowledge.