What Is The Concept Of Co- Education In Islam?

লিখেছেন লিখেছেন মহিউডীন ১৯ ফেব্রুয়ারি, ২০১৩, ০৭:২৩:৩২ সন্ধ্যা

Dear brothers and sisters in islam

Let’s have a close look in our society how it is running. Opinion is differentiating man to man due to the concept and argument. Eight years back I visited our English medium schools. Just my daughter wanted to study in our environment. When I visited first graded schools I really surprised for the environment. In some extent it crossed the Europe. In Europe that is their culture.we have our own heritage and an Islamic environment everywhere. So I admitted my daughter in manarath. If I think I am a muslim , I have to search an Islamic environment. Islam teaches us the best qualities in all sphere in our life. Most of the incidents are happening due to the co education and the basic Islamic education also are not available in the campus of all those institutions. My recent study of the university atmosphere compelled me to write about the above subject.

During our time we have also co education. we stayed in campus hour after hour. Even in front of Begum Rokeya hall and shamsunnahr hall , we met our friends stayed together with all other friends. We had a very beautiful time and a nice communication. Most of the time we had group studies. I remember one of our friend made a fun with one girl that I will marry you if you are interested. She replied make very good result and have a aristocratic job. How a brilliant answer? Now whenever I am seeing the situation of the campus my heart is paining and I don’t have decision to send my son such a corrupt environment. I am telling you a real thing by which you will understand the situation. There are parents discussing about their newly university admitted boy and girl. The father of the boy is telling “ I am tired by sending money to my son and sometime monthly twice”. The father of the girl are telling “ very few time I am sending money for her because she is earning and studying”. The father of the son again replying” why you will send money for her? I am the one supporting for her”. Anyway this may true or false but the reality is there.

In fact, it is a great thing that you show keenness on understanding the teachings of Islam that enlightens the mind and save the person from the abyss of ignorance. First of all, it should be noted that Islam cares much for the perseverance of morals and the maintenance of modesty and chastity in the Muslim society. To achieve this goal, Islam requires the highest degree of cautiousness when dealing with the members of the opposite sex. A Muslim is always asked to keep very remote from anything that stimulates him or stirs his sexual urge. This includes looks, gestures, or free mixing. The laws of Islam are from Allah swt, our Creator, who knows our weaknesses as well as our strengths better than we do. Women, by nature, desire to be looked at, adored and cherished, while man is inclined to look at women. Allah swt therefore warns us against our own nature, which may lead us astray if we do not exercise caution and take the necessary safeguards. In the meantime, Islam has guaranteed the right of education for both men and women regarding it as an obligation upon every Muslim, male or female. The woman’s right to education is well established from the early days of Islam. Undoubtedly, the free mixing of young boys and girls, close to the period of adolescence, in the relaxed environment of a school is very serious. It is a duty of Muslims to unite their efforts to eliminate this system in their countries and to set up schools, colleges and universities for both genders. Parents should search for separate schools to enroll their children. However, if a Muslim, male or female, is pressed to study at a mixed school, then he should exert his utmost to observe the Islamic standards of morality and keep away from all unlawful things. Addressing the issue of co-education, we’d like to cite the following fatwa: “There is a well-known principle in Islamic law, which may be rendered in translations "blocking the means (of evils)." This applies to any situation or condition which may be permissible in the first instance, but is calculated to lead to something forbidden. If it is generally deemed that there is a direct relationship between the original, permissible situation and the resulting forbidden one, then the original situation is pronounced as forbidden.

This is the prohibition of something which is acknowledged to be permissible in the first instance, because of the results it produces. In other words, should the circumstances change and the situation in question is deemed not to lead to the forbidden act, then it can no longer be pronounced as forbidden.

Co-education is one of such things. In the first instance, there is no harm in a group of people, men and women, boys and girls, to be present in a classroom, listening to a lecture, provided that everyone behaves properly, abiding by Islamic teachings and codes of conduct. But when we put together a group of young boys and girls, close to the period of adolescence, in the relaxed environment of a school where they meet and play, then it is asking too much of such young people to observe Islamic standards of morality. The results may be very serious indeed. Therefore, we say that co-education is Islamic unacceptable, because of what it leads to, not because of the process of teaching or of the meeting of the two sexes in a classroom.”

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