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The next question I have is from sister Najua.

She does not mention her location.

She mentions that she is from a land where typically women do not teach at co-educational

schools where the schooling is gender segregated. However she has now moved to

another land where co-education is the norm, her profession is a school teacher,

and now she is feeling shy that am I able to teach in such a situation, there will be boys and girls over there and she is not

accustomed to teaching boys she is only accustomed to teaching girls so she asks is there

any Islamic prohibition for her to teach young men given that the culture that she's now in is co-educational. A rusal namin k

kab de kah ilah rijalan no

he ili him

fas alu al al-Dikrim The response to this the issue of intermixing of the genders the intermixing of men and

women is one that the shariya has some guidelines and then the shariya allows the rest of it to be dictated by culture.

This is a very important point. In some aspects the shadilla takes complete control

and it will tell you, do this and don't do that. In other aspects the shadilla

will be silent and cultural dictate.

And in some there's a little bit of Sharia mixed with, the rest of it will be culture.

An intermixing of the genders is one such area where the Sharia has some guidelines and then the rest can be culture

sensitive. In other words if you fulfill the Sharia guidelines the rest is going to be

dependent on the culture of the land that you live in.

And so we have, for example, from the Sharia,

when it comes to intermixing, when it comes to men and women interacting together,

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