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The following is an excerpt from (English translation) Muslim Minorities, Fatawa Regarding Muslims living as Minorities [Fatawa from Shaykh Ibn Baz & Shaykh Uthaymeen, Raheemuhumaa Allah]
Page 74
Question#14:
Muslim women and their daughters in western countries and in those countries where there are Muslim minorities face very difficult circumstances in that education and work there is mixed. We are caught between two possibilities. Either we cut-off our provision, stay at home and beg and as a result sink to a very desperate material condition, or, alternatively, wear our Islaamic hijaab and study and work in those societies which do not differentiate between mixing and separation. What is your esteemed opinion concerning this matter?
Answer#14:
Concerning this very crucial issue, I believe that it is obligatory for a Muslim to patiently adhere to and persevere with Allah?s religion and not to be those whom Allah describes saying,
{And of mankind are those who say, ?We believe in Allaah.? But if they are made to suffer for the Sake of Allaah, they consider the persecution of mankind as Allaah?s punishment?}S. Ankaboot 29:10
A Muslim must be patient and if it is not possible to gain a livelihood except by what Allaah has forbidden, namely through the mixing of men and women, then this livelihood must be abandoned and another one sought from another direction or from another country. Was Allaah?s land not vast enough for you to emigrate therein? This is also true with respect to seeking knowledge. How good it would be if the Muslim minorities could establish their own schools based on the religion of Islaam, where boys and girls are taught separately. If that could be achieved it would be a great blessing. It is not possible, however, for us to permit the mixing of the sexes because of the seriousness of the issue and the level of temptation contained therein. ( Shaykh Ibn Baz, Rahimuhullah)
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