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Can ulama-run Muslim schools have gender-segregated seating?

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Is it permissible for a muslim school run by ulama to have in one class boys seated in front and girls at the back?

Answer

(Fatwa: 1553/1305=L/1429)

There is no wrong if the girl students are minor, but if the girls are adolescent or mature then it is not enough to have them at back seats, rather there should be partition between them and the boys.

Allah (Subhana Wa Ta’ala) knows Best

Darul Ifta,
Darul Uloom Deoband

This answer was collected from the official ifta website of Darul Uloom Deoband in India.