Question
I teach in a Maktab where we also have classes for girls aged 5 to 16. We are able to monitor the boys profession and quality of teaching. However, the girls quality of learning and teaching is difficult to manage. Would it be permissible for a senior male Qur'an teacher to listen to the girls' Quran behind a Pardah/veil? The senior teacher wants to ascertain the quality of the recitation and assess the girls to ensure that they are learning properly. Advise us on how we can improve the girls Maktab.
Answer
No, it is not permissible for even a senior Buzrug/Wali to listen to the girls reciting even if there is a separating screen. Listening to girls reciting is fraught with grave fitnah. An arrangement should be made with some female teacher to teach the girls.
The senior teacher should be more concerned with his own Islaah and the danger of nafsaani lust when listening to girls. His priority is to guard his own Imaan and Akhlaaq. There is considerable fitnah in the voices of females. Even a buzrug should not have confidence in his nafs. The „benefit‟ of listening to the girls as understood by the senior teacher is a trap of shaitaan.
The solution is for the community to hire female teachers to teach girls in a home environment, not in a Maktab environment as ar-
ranged for boys.
where she is living with my permission. I visit her occasionally. When I visit her for less than 15 days, do I perform Qasr Salaat?
A. No, you should not perform Qasr. You have to perform Salaat in full. You are also a muqeem in this town.
- Source
- themajlis.co.za
- Published in
- The Majlis Vol 27 No 09
- PDF page
- 6
Verbatim verified against the source PDF
Appears under MAKTAB FOR GIRLS. This heading is the nearest headline at or before the page and is approximate. Do not cite it alone.