The ruling on a woman exposing her 'awrah (the part of the body that must be covered) before a male doctor during childbirth.

The questioner : That is, usually between a woman or a woman and her sister, there is, I mean... it is different from other women, I mean, for example, in the case of childbirth, or I mean, it is more between women than this. So what is the ruling, I mean, for a woman to be exposed, I mean, to her mother during the period of childbirth or I mean, after it, which is the period? I do not know the ruling of this matter in Islam?

The Shaykh : Clarify, my brother, what is it? The ruling on childbirth while she is giving birth?

The questioner : And she is giving birth?

The Shaykh : Yes.

The questioner : It might be, of course, Doctor, a relative or something like that.

The Shaykh : What does this have to do with the question? This is related to the dire necessities that we discussed earlier, and we discussed them recently, "dire necessities permit the prohibited," and we said that it is not permissible for a woman to expose herself by revealing her 'awrah (the part of the body that must be covered) before a woman, let alone a man, except for a dire necessity. So now you are repeating the same question, and it has absolutely no relation to the previous discussion, and the answer is known: "dire necessities permit the prohibited." There is no dire necessity; therefore, it is not permissible.