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Can a Muslim do a promotional activity for a co-education institute?

Is the income halal if he is some way or the other involved in the marketing to the co-educational institutes?      

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Answer:

Promotion of coeducation sexes

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 24 Surah Noor verse 31:

And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands' fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their brothers, or their brothers' sons, or their sisters' sons, or their women, or the slaves whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of physical needs, or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex; and that they should not strike their feet in order to draw attention to their hidden ornaments. And O you who have believed! Turn you all together towards Allah that you may attain Bliss.

When in the presence of non-mehram males, Islam has commanded the believing women to guard her modesty and scrupulously observe and honor the ‘hijaab’.

Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 24 Surah Noor verses 30:

Say to the believing men that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty: that will make for greater purity for them: and Allah is well acquainted with all that they do.

And Allah commands the believing men to lower their gaze and guard their modesty in the above Verse.

Islam does not prohibit the essential talking, or meeting, or associating between non-mehram members of the opposite sex, provided the ‘hijaab’ is scrupulously honored. If one has a genuine need and needs to talk to a non-mehram member of the opposite sex, one should lower ones gaze and talk to them in a business-like and straight forward manner. What Islam strictly prohibits is the free and casual mixing of the sexes and vain and casual talk amongst two non-mehrams of the opposite sex.

Your Question: ….Can a Muslim do a promotional activity for a co-education institute?

Is the income halal if he is some way or the other involved in the marketing to the co-educational institutes?

If there happens to be an educational institution which provides education for both men and woman, there is absolutely no harm if a believer is employed to promote this educational institute. The onus of honoring the ‘hijaab’ and guarding their modesty lies upon the students who choose to attend this educational institute.

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

Your brother and well wisher in Islam,

Burhan