Is it permissible to send a woman’s picture to a suitor so that the prescribed look can be done from a distance?

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: Is it permissible to send a woman’s picture to the suitor for the sake of the prescribed look, given that he is in one country and she is in another?

Answer:
No, this is not permissible. That is, the woman takes a picture, and this is a fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). Her picture is a fitnah, and it is not to be circulated or spread among people for the sake of the proposal. This is not permissible. The look is that he looks at her; he watches for her so that she does not notice, and he looks at her if he wants to propose to her. Yes.