He رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه stated in Fatāwā Razawiyyaĥ: If her body is covered with thick and loose clothing, not thin clothes which reveal the colour of her body or hair or tight clothes which reveal the shapes of her body and she does not go alone and her spiritual guide is not young (i.e. he is old and ugly, e.g. his face has wrinkles, and his appearance does not arouse any woman, and there is no risk of sexual arousal in both the female disciple as well as in the spiritual guide), i.e. there is no mischief in the present time and no risk of mischief in the future, then there is no harm in visiting him or inviting him for religious knowledge and matters of Allah’s path. (Fatāwā Razawiyyaĥ, vol. 22, pp. 240)
Question: Can a woman exit her home whilst fully veiled in order to listen to a scholar’s speech?
Answer: With some conditions, she can exit her home for the acquisition of knowledge. 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 Sharī’aĥ-complying, and women (come and) go with all precautions and 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)
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