The Ruling on a Woman Going to a Male Doctor
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Question:
There is also a question that has come from more than one person. One of them says: As you know, Honorable Shaykh, and as many people know, many government hospitals have men delivering women. Is it permissible for me, or is it forbidden for me, to take my wife to them, given that there are private hospitals and given his ability to bear the cost? We ask for a word of guidance to the authorities regarding this.
Answer:
We ask Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, to grant the authorities success. So we say this: They should have women deliver women, and there are many female doctors, and praise be to Allah, in the Islamic world, many female doctors. So we ask Allah to grant the authorities success to bring in female doctors. Tonight. For treating women in childbirth. And in other matters. This is obligatory. This is obligatory upon them. As for whether it is permissible for a man to take his woman to a doctor to treat her or to deliver her, this is not permissible except in a case of dire necessity.
In a case of dire necessity, if there is fear for the woman from illness or from childbirth, if her delivery becomes difficult, or if there is fear for her, and there is no doctor but a man, this is a case of dire necessity, and there is no harm. Allah the Exalted says: except what you are compelled to eat[Al-An'am 6:119] In a case of dire necessity, there is no harm. But if there is no dire necessity, it is not permissible for a man to take charge of treating a woman. Yes.
There is also a question that has come from more than one person. One of them says: As you know, Honorable Shaykh, and as many people know, many government hospitals have men delivering women. Is it permissible for me, or is it forbidden for me, to take my wife to them, given that there are private hospitals and given his ability to bear the cost? We ask for a word of guidance to the authorities regarding this.
Answer:
We ask Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, to grant the authorities success. So we say this: They should have women deliver women, and there are many female doctors, and praise be to Allah, in the Islamic world, many female doctors. So we ask Allah to grant the authorities success to bring in female doctors. Tonight. For treating women in childbirth. And in other matters. This is obligatory. This is obligatory upon them. As for whether it is permissible for a man to take his woman to a doctor to treat her or to deliver her, this is not permissible except in a case of dire necessity.
In a case of dire necessity, if there is fear for the woman from illness or from childbirth, if her delivery becomes difficult, or if there is fear for her, and there is no doctor but a man, this is a case of dire necessity, and there is no harm. Allah the Exalted says: except what you are compelled to eat
while He has explained in detail to you what He has forbidden you, excepting that to which you are compelled
وَقَدْ فَصَّلَ لَكُم مَّا حَرَّمَ عَلَيْكُمْ إِلَّا مَا اضْطُرِرْتُمْ إِلَيْهِ
Source
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