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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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What a woman is permitted to see of another woman

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Question:
Perhaps this is the last question. What is it that a woman is permitted to see of another woman, and what is considered 'awrah (the part of the body that must be covered) such that it must be covered from another woman? May Allah grant you success in what is good.

Answer:
It is correct that a woman is permitted to look at what is customarily uncovered on another woman, just as it is permitted for a mahram (a relative one may not marry) to look at a woman’s hair, the hair of her head, her face, her hands, and her feet. It is permitted for her mahram to look at these things, and it is also permitted for a woman to look at these things on another woman. As for anything beyond that, there is no need for it, and she should not uncover it, neither for a woman nor for a mahram, because this is more modest for her and further from fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-59-أحكام تخص المرأة|صالح الفوزان|العام|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:16:14)

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