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From: paul@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
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Subject: Re: Mixing
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Date: 19 Oct 90 00:09:29 GMT
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>From: acsghgk@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Hanif Khalak)
>Subject:mixing
>Date: 16 Oct 90 19:46:17 GMT
>
>Assalamu alaikum,
>
>	Now, this discussion/argument has led to another (not new) 
>issue as to whether Muslim men and women should be together in the 
>same room for an organizational/whatever meeting conducting normal 
>activities as such (discussion, voting, etc).  Similar aspects of 
>argument as pertaining to the previous issue have been applied here.  
>

Sahih al Bukhari, Book 62 (Book of Wedlock), Chapter 113
"A private meeting between a man and a woman is allowed when they are
not secluded from the people."

Verse 161.

Narrated Anas bin Malik:

An Ansari women came to the Prophet (PBUH) and he took her aside and
said (to her), "By Allah, you (Ansar) are the most beloved people to
me."