Girls’ Speeches over the Loudspeaker for Educational Purposes

Question

Here in our city of Malegaon, religious madrasas for girls have been established, in which religious education is given and, among other things, recitation (qira’a) of the Qur’an is also taught. At the end of the year, in order to awaken religious feeling among girls and women, a separate gathering for women is held with full observance of hijab, at which girls present speeches, poems, dialogues, and so on through a loudspeaker; a competition in reciting the Holy Qur’an is also held among girls from various…

Answer

Holding such gatherings for young girls outwardly also serves as a means of their educational progress and of encouraging learning among uneducated women: they gain knowledge, they develop the skill of expressing their thoughts, and they also get practice in public speaking. But at the same time there is fitna (temptation to sin)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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