By Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood 
“We should accept that what is forbidden in Islam is seeking privacy with someone of the opposite sex without a third party present… What we need is firstly to recognise that there is nothing at all wrong with young people meeting in situations where intimacy cannot occur because of witnesses; and secondly to create occasions in which they can meet safely in halal ways, so that they CAN get to know each other.”
 
I am commencing this article with a quotation of a passage that seems to me …