Following a non-mahram on social media
Q: Is it permissible to follow a non mahram on social media?
Interacting
Joining a company's team building event
Q: Our company will be taking the staff on a Team Building event for a few days. They have requested me to join as well. Meals and accommodation will be provided by the company. As this will be a social event involving joint group activities and tasks with both male and female staff members, is it permissible for me as a male to accompany them?
Ulama observing pardah from non mahrams and keeping a distance from non-Muslims
Q: People often say that people who went to Darul Ulooms or Islamic schools do not know how to communicate with women and non-Muslims after they leave. I want to know if this opinion is correct from an Islamic perspective.
Non-mahram men and women conversing on social media
Q: Can publishing deeni quotes, duas, etc. be done in a group where men and women are together even though they don't meet but talk via email, WhatsApp and then publish deeni matters?
Women going around to give bayaans
Q: A very concerning matter facing us here in the UK and I believe in many countries. The matter is that some ladies have opened a door of going around place to place to give bayaans. They become speakers and attend as well as put together conferences where they attract audiences based on their skills in language and the ability to deliver an entertaining talk.
Some of them podcast on social media for everyone to listen to. Men have full access to listen to them live or to the saved video recordings. Some of them do so in niqaab and some without.
This oratory by these women has become very appealing to young girls who see this as a goal to achieve in their spiritual growth.
These women openly encourage other ladies to do the same and as a result there are teams of such ladies going around almost like shaikh and mureeds. They attract big followings and people are being misled to believe that the sahabiyaat use to also lecture and advise men in the matters of deen.
They lure young girls with the snare of online quran classes and then lead them to the same desire to be lecturers and hold their own conferences. This has also become a business in the name of deeni efforts. This looks very attractive to modern muslim families that their wives and daughters are getting some kind of exposure to deeni knowledge and it is also very convenient in keeping them busy and as it is said rather keep them off the streets.
Women and girls are also attracted through emotional activities of social and welfare work. In most cases the harms are not immediately apparent.
Should innocent families be warned about this? To what extent should women be allowed to have these kind of lecture conferences? How should people be made aware ? Will appreciate your guidance on this matter
Talking to women in meetings
Q: As there are women in all working environments in today’s time, if we at work are sitting in the same board room around the same table as women and we sometimes have to talk to women in meetings etc. are we sinful for this as there is no purdah in the boardroom as well as we are talking to na mahram women?
Forming a lift club with female passengers
Q: Is it permissible for a Muslim male to form a lift club to work from Overport to Phoenix with 2 passengers, one being a male and the other a female whereby the costs are split. The male is Muslim and female is non Muslim? So total passengers in car are 3. Driver male, and passengers 1 female and 1 male.
Hosting a function with intermingling between males and females
Q: When having a function, for example a Walima, Aqeeqah or any Dawat, will the host get the rewards of feeding people and keeping family ties if there's no separation between men and woman at these gatherings and intermingling is taking place?
Meeting one's non-Muslim mother's boyfriend
Q: I went for a day out with my mum and sister and thought it would be only women but when we went for food, my mums boyfriend came. Have I sinned by meeting with a man I didn't know he was gonna come? I thought it would be just women. My family are non Muslim and I didn't talk to my mums partner except to say hello.
What's the ruling when the following happens?
Woman not observing pardah with non mahram males
Q: A woman doesn't observe pardah (covering her face).
She works in a home. There is a man and a woman. The man observes pardah from her. When she comes to work, she comes walking and without pardah. The employees have tried to encourage her to wear pardah but to no avail.
Now she is offered a job at another place. There it is not clear who she will come into contact with.
My question is, if a person suggests for her to take the job, is the person sinful because she will come into contact with men. She isn't observing pardah, she is also leaving the house to come to work, so on the way she is going to come across men.