What is the ruling on eating alone, or with friends, or with family in mixed-gender restaurants, and what is the difference between the permissibility of that and the mixing that is permissible only due to extreme necessity?
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It is permissible to enter restaurants if one avoids forbidden acts and adheres to the regulations of the Shari'ah. The mere presence of forbidden acts does not prohibit entry; rather, it makes it mildly disliked (makrooh tanzeehi), as Al-Qurtubi said, due to the abundance of falsehood and forbidden acts within them.
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