Muslim women can work in offices but with veil: Fatwa

Days after a leading Islamic seminary held as un-Islamic women working in offices in proximity with men, another seminary has issued a fatwa that Muslim women can work in offices but with a veil.

Mufti of Darul Iftah of Bareilvi Sharif Mohd Ayyub Alem Rizvi has issued the fatwa that Muslim women can work in institutions after wearing the veil but with some conditions.

However, the conditions were not known. 

He also said in the fatwa that Muslims can work in banks under the Islamic law because the interest earned by banks is profit.

The fatwa was issued at Bareily in Uttar Pradesh to a query posed before the Iftah by the activist of Raza Muslim Mission Syed Safe Ali.

Earlier, Darul Uloom Deoband has held as un-Islamic women working in offices in proximity with men and decreed that   acceptance of her earnings by a family was against the Sharia.

The Sharia law prohibits proximity of women and men in a workplace, said a recent fatwa (dictat) issued by a bench of
clerics headed by chief Mufti Habib-ur-Rehman.

The Darul Uloom had also declared the job of writing and calculating interest based work in banks and insurance
companies as unlawful.

Both Deoband and Bareilvi belong to Sunni clerics.