Medical and nursing students mix with male students, lecturers, treating doctors, and patients; do you have any guidance?

Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you good. Medical students, Shaykh Salih, and nursing students also mix with male students, and they also mix with lecturers and teachers, and with the treating doctors and the patients. Do you have any guidance, Shaykh?

Answer:
The matter is general; what we mentioned regarding study also applies to employment and work. It is not permissible for a woman to be lax in her hijab and her dignity, to mix with men, and to be alone with a man under the pretext of work, for her religion and her honor are more binding upon her than anything else. Therefore, the woman must adhere to modesty and hold fast to her religion. As for study and employment, if they conflict with her religion and her modesty, she leaves them, holding fast to her religion and her modesty. It is obligatory for Muslims to be aware of this matter and to provide women with a sphere for study and work that is free from religious prohibitions. This is feasible, praise be to Allah, and it is possible. However, the issue lies in paying attention and abandoning imitation and imitating the disbelievers, who are of no good, who have made the woman follow the men, taking on their jobs, and leaving what was specifically assigned to her of the appropriate tasks that do not conflict with her dignity and her modesty. Yes.