faith: The Greatest and Holiest Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said, ‘Due to a pious Muslim, Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ removes calamities from 100 of his neighbouring homes.’
(Al-Mu’jam-ul-Awsaṭ liṭ-Ṭabarānī, vol. 3, pp. 129, Ḥadīš 4080)
Question: What is the Islamic verdict about co-education?
Answer: Modern co-education for those who have reached puberty is completely prohibited, Ḥarām and will lead to Hell.
Question: These days what dangers does a girl face in a school or college?
Answer: Since women have entered schools, colleges and universities, a big door of chaos has opened, اَلۡاَمَان وَالۡحَفِيۡظ. Firstly, the uniforms do not fulfil full veiling requirements. Even in places where the Burqa’ etc. is worn they are usually attractive and therefore, inappropriate.
Secondly, young girls walking outside their homes freely create a thousand problems. Amongst college girls who interact informally with college boys, there are probably very few who preserve their ‘chastity’. Stories of their love affairs and sins are published in newspapers every day. Sometimes, parents obstruct a love marriage, which leads many boys and girls to commit suicide. If a girl graduates and finds a job in an office she ends up committing more sins. It is almost impossible to avoid unveiling and informal socialising with non-Maḥram men in offices. Every modest Muslim can understand its worldly and religious harm. Akbar Ilāĥābādī rightly said: