Female learning swimming
Q: I'm going to take my 3 year old son to learn swimming. I would like to know if it will be permissible for me to learn swimming if it is in the female area with normal decent dress and going fully covered?
Leaving the Home
Women going shopping
Q: Is it permissible for women to leave their homes in order to go to the shops and buy items?
Travelling with a non-mahram
Q:
1. Is it permissible for a woman to sit in the passenger seat of a car which is being driven by a non mahram man?
2. Is it permissible for a woman to sit behind a non mahram man on a motorbike or bicycle?
3. Is it permissible for a non mahram man and a non mahram woman to sit next to each other?
Women watching public executions in an Islamic country
Q: In an Islamic country, is it permissible for women to leave their homes in order to watch public executions and in order to watch all other types of public punishments?
Wife driving the husband
Q: I wanted to ask if sitting in a car where the mother is driving the father (wife driving the husband) considered being in a place of sin? Thus one can’t sit in such a car?
Muslim women joining the army
Q: Can Muslim women join the army in today's time?
Horse riding for women
Q: Is horse riding permissible for women?
Women doing horse riding
Q: What is the masla for women doing horse riding?
Women attending Islamic talks at the Masjid
Q:
1. Is it permissible for women to attend Islamic talks at the local Masjid at night with their Mahrams where there are separate entrances and segregation, but at the time of departure, due to the large numbers there would be an inevitable intermingling of the sexes in the Masjid car park?
2. What would the ruling be in the same situation, but where the lady comes to the Masjid at night without her Mahram and not in niqaab?
3. If the speaker, who is an Alim, knows or should have reasonable cause to believe that women will be travelling to the Masjid on their own at night, without niqab, should he still give a talk or refuse to do so?
4. Would the scholar be complicit in sin if he were to give a talk in such a situation knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that ladies were attending a night talk without their Mahrams and not observing the rules of Hijab?
Women only function to raise funds for Gaza
Q: A charity is organising a sisters' only fundraiser where they will participate in paint balling and raise funds for Gaza. If this is incorrect, which I assume it is, please list the reasons for impermissibility so that I can advise the females of my family?