Ruling on a man teaching girls without any barrier

Question: 79549

I am a young man and I have been letting my beard grow for nearly a year and I am trying to do acts of worship and keep away from forbidden things as much as I can. But I have been faced with the problem of finding work, until I found a job teaching in a high school for girls. I want to know whether it is permissible for me to carry on in this job. What is the ruling on the money that I have earned from it up till now?.

Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah and his family.

For a man to
work as a teacher in a high school for girls, where he meets them with no
barrier and most of them may adorn themselves and show their charms – as is
the case in the country where the questioner lives – no wise man would doubt
that this is haraam, because of the bad effects and evil results for both
men and women. We have discussed these evil results in the answer to
question no. 50398.

It says in
Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah (12/149): It is not permissible for a
man to teach girls directly because of the serious dangers and grave
consequences involved in that.

It also says
(12/156):

Firstly:
Mixing between men and women in schools and elsewhere is a great evil which
may corrupt religious commitment and worldly interests. It is not
permissible for a woman to teach or work in a place where men and women mix,
and it is not permissible for her guardian to give her permission to do
that.

Secondly: it
is not permissible for a man to teach a woman who is not wearing hijab, and
it is not permissible for him to teach her when he is alone with her, even
if she is wearing proper hijab. When a woman is with a man who is a
non-mahram her entire being is ‘awrah. As for covering the head and showing
the face, this is not full hijab.

Thirdly:
there is nothing wrong with a man teaching a woman from behind a screen in
women-only schools, where there is no mixing between male and female
students, or between the (male) teacher and (female) students.

If they need
to ask him questions, it should be means of closed circuit TV, which is well
known and easily available, or via the phone, but the students should beware
of speaking softly. End quote.

Secondly:

With regard
to what you have earned from this work, there is nothing wrong with your
benefiting from it, because this salary that you have earned is in return
for giving lessons (which is basically permissible work), and the
prohibition is because of the mixing, as stated above.

But you
should hasten to leave this job and look for another job which is free of
the risk of doing something haraam and falling into fitnah.

We ask
Allaah to guide us and you.

And Allaah knows
best.

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