The college system does not allow me to wear the niqab over my face, and I am forced to expose my face to everyone. Am I sinful?
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Question:
May Allah reward you with good. She says: I am a university student, and the college system does not allow me to wear the niqab over my face. I am forced to expose my face to the male lecturer and to a number of young male students. I hate this, and I have poor eyesight. Am I sinful?
Answer:
Yes, if study is not possible except through what is wrong and what is forbidden, then there is no good in it, and it is not permissible for you to go to it. If it entails exposing the hijab, entails mixing with young men and men, and entails facing the teacher while uncovered, then this is forbidden. It is not permissible for you to go to study that contains this prohibition. Study is only permissible, or prescribed, for a girl if it is free from the religious prohibitions and is pure good. As for if it contains evils, prohibitions, exposure, mixing, and means of fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), then there is no good in this study, nor in attending it. A woman’s religion, her character, and her modesty are greater than this study that causes her to lose these things? Yes.
May Allah reward you with good. She says: I am a university student, and the college system does not allow me to wear the niqab over my face. I am forced to expose my face to the male lecturer and to a number of young male students. I hate this, and I have poor eyesight. Am I sinful?
Answer:
Yes, if study is not possible except through what is wrong and what is forbidden, then there is no good in it, and it is not permissible for you to go to it. If it entails exposing the hijab, entails mixing with young men and men, and entails facing the teacher while uncovered, then this is forbidden. It is not permissible for you to go to study that contains this prohibition. Study is only permissible, or prescribed, for a girl if it is free from the religious prohibitions and is pure good. As for if it contains evils, prohibitions, exposure, mixing, and means of fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), then there is no good in this study, nor in attending it. A woman’s religion, her character, and her modesty are greater than this study that causes her to lose these things? Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، نظام الكلية لا يسمح لي بأن أسدل النقاب على وجهي، وأضطر إلى الكشف عن وجهي أمام الجميع، هل أنا آثمة؟ — youtube.com
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