Interacting

Q: Can a woman message a non-mahram from her phone during iddat period?

Q: If a female is among a group of other females and a non mahram male approaches the group of females to speak to the other females she is in the group with, is it enough for this particular female to lower her gaze and refrain from useless chatter with the male while still standing in the group or is she supposed to leave the gathering when the male approaches?

Q: Could you tell me how to completely stop talking to ghair mahram men and what is the proof that malaika ar Rahman stays with women who covers her hair?

Q:

1. I am married, I have a sister in-law and brother in-law, they are also married. We all stay in Saudi as neighbours, so is it permissible that we three families go for umrah together in a big car provided all females are fully covered in burqa?

2. Similarly can we three families go on a picnic trip to various tourist attractions provided all females are covered in burqa but obviously the females can see the men of their family through eye opening of niqab if they don't lower their gaze but males can't. so is it permissible to travel together in this manner?

3. Another situation is if all of the three families travel in their personal car but on reaching the destination they unite,but no casual conversation is there between na mahrams of family, each family just enjoy themselves and have fun,only thing is they all go the place same day for a happiness in their personal vehicles, is it permissible to travel in this manner?

Q: A family member created a whatsapp group for my Mother, her three sibling and all their children, so that we can keep in touch. The only problem is that there is interaction between the male and female cousins. Is this acceptable and what should my response to them be if it is not?

Q: Is it correct for a married woman in Islam to have male friends or a married man to have female friends and correspond with them one-on-one on whatsapp?

Q: Say I am in a gathering where everyone present are my Mahrams. However, there are some people for whom this is individually not the case - hence, 'intermingling' is applicable to them, but not to me. Is it permissible to be present in such gatherings?

Q: We have now six members in the family because I got married. Is it necessary that all the males should eat together and all the female should sit together and eat?

Q: Can you please explain to me the ruling of Muslim male scholars/speakers delivering talks or teaching lessons where there is a mixed audience and there is segregation between them. However the speakers/scholars sit in such a way where they can see both male and female audience members?

Q: I am a 20 year old male living in the UK. I want to go to university in this country however, there are very expensive tuition fees therefore most people have to take out a haram interest loan. However, there are a few courses that are full NHS funded so I can avoid the haram loan. One is called Dietetics BSc. I really want to do this course. However, the course is 87% female. The majority of these are young 'attractive young ladies'. There are 13% male on this course and I'd do my best to avoid the females and stick with my male friends. However, a male being on a 87% female course, it will be hard to avoid them, and I fear looking at them with desire-which is haram in the hanafi madhab. Is there any position in any of the four sunni madhabs that will allow me to look at these students potentially with desire? I understand the whole point of these Islamic gender laws is to avoid
adultery. Even If I look at them even with desire, insha'Allah, nothing will come of it and I won't commit adultery, I will avoid them these girls as much as I can and lower my gaze, but sometimes it is difficult to talk to these people without looking at them and I cannot guarantee that my looks will be free from desire. 

I want to study this to earn a halal income, improve the health of my community and avoid the haram student loan, but I may have to look at these
people but I am not interested in taking it any further with these girls. They're students, like me, and potentially a fitna for me. I will treat them
that way. But I cannot guarantee my looks will be free from desire.