What is the ruling on removing the niqab due to the need for work?
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Question:
Your Eminence the Shaykh! The questioner says: If a woman needs to work, but due to the circumstances of the country she cannot find work except by removing the niqab, should she remove the niqab in order to work?
Answer:
A woman is not permitted to work among men, nor while removing the niqab. If it is in a society of women, there is no harm. But in a society of men with free mixing, or while removing the niqab so that the men see her, this is not permissible. She must work among women only. Yes.
Your Eminence the Shaykh! The questioner says: If a woman needs to work, but due to the circumstances of the country she cannot find work except by removing the niqab, should she remove the niqab in order to work?
Answer:
A woman is not permitted to work among men, nor while removing the niqab. If it is in a society of women, there is no harm. But in a society of men with free mixing, or while removing the niqab so that the men see her, this is not permissible. She must work among women only. Yes.
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 70 ما حكم خلع النقاب بسبب الاحتياج للعمل؟ للإمام ابن باز — youtube.com
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