Q: Please issue a ruling on the following:
(1) Females travelling to a foreign country for the purpose of observing Nafl I’tikaaf in a hall.
(2) Females travelling to a foreign country for the purpose of observing Nafl I’tikaaf in someone’s house.
(3) Females observing Nafl I’tikaaf in a hall owned and operated by the local Hindu Association.
(4) Females eating the leftover food of their (ghair-mahram) Shaykh for the purpose of Tabarruk.
(5) Females being giving the clothing items of their living (ghair-mahram) Shaykh for the purpose of Tabarruk.
(6) Females having casual, non-Islaahi, conversations from behind a screen with their (ghair-mahram) Shaykh in the presence of others.
(7) A female travelling to Western secular Universities for giving bayaans to the female students of the Western secular University.
(8) A Shaykh of Tasawwuf buying a packet of sweets and sending it, as a gift, for a female mureed when she qualifies as a Hafizah. The gift is sent with a male mahram of the female mureed.