Asalaamu alaikum -
I am writing a paper about Virtual Reality and Islam and was trying to find something to back the separation of our genders but I can't find anything.
I can find no hadith and no Qur'an quote saying that our men and our women should be kept apart. I find that the believing men and women should lower their gaze but NOTHING saying that they can't eat together or sit together.
Can someone help me? Thank you!
since you are writing on Virtual reality and Islam, you become one of the rarest few to do it. You would be seen as the authority in this matter, and hence, So its only natural that the onus in on you. You would have to read enough, research a lot, debate with the folks of knowledge, imaan and arrive at a correct conclusion.
you will have to first understand the deep dynamics for the reason behind avoiding free mixing in real world. The second question is the nature of human interaction in virtual world, is it different from the nature of human interaction in physical world?
This is always true, at some point the virtual personas disappear and real person meet. To begin with, the virtual world places a person in a virtual world, away from reality, but as it proceeds, the weight of reality always pulls the virtual barriers down... just my thoughts. May Almighty guide you.. Ameen