Is the desire for a child a valid legal justification for a woman to expose herself to a male or female doctor?

Mashhur: Shaykh, another question. Is the desire for a child a motive or a necessity for which...

The Shaykh : Who?
Mashhur: For the sake of seeking a child, it is prescribed for a woman to expose her awrah to a female or male doctor. And whether that is prescribed, or after that, there is a branching of the question.

The Shaykh: Well, as for it being prescribed, there is no doubt about that. But what is certain is that it is not obligatory, is it not so?
Mashhur: Yes.

The Shaykh: If that is the case, and since it is not permissible to expose the awrah for the sake of taking means, it is not hidden that exposing the awrah is forbidden. Therefore, there must be a necessity that justifies committing this forbidden act. Here, regarding the desire for a child, we said that it is not a necessity, but it is permissible and prescribed. Based on this, what many men do by exposing themselves or their wives to determine the cause of their infertility is an un-prescribed excess. Perhaps after this, the next question will come regarding the method of examination, meaning...
Mashhur: The same method, yes.

The Shaykh: We were in the car talking, it was similar to this, meaning taking the answer on the go. Yes, on this occasion, I say that logical sequence leads the speaker, who has some knowledge, to give an answer to a question he implies.The questioner : In the beginning, it is not attributed to intelligence, or to acumen, or to intuition at all. The deceptive Sufi shaykhs exploit the simplicity of those who believe in them and make it a karamah, which is very natural. And I have very strange things in this field. Some of our brothers have heard them, perhaps more than once. And I am in the shop fixing watches, meaning my watches, or in the expression of the Turks, a watchmaker. One of our brothers, a student of knowledge, who is stronger than me in language, he is Arab and has a formal education in the circles of the shaykhs in grammar, morphology, rhetoric, and eloquence, and so on. I have read very little in this field, and anything you hear from me that might lead a listener to think that...The Shaykh : The reader, the truth is that I have only benefited from the Qur'an and the Sunnah, very little from the sciences they call the sciences of the machine. No, the sciences of the machine.
So I was sitting in the shop when a brother from our Palestinian brothers who had emigrated from Palestine to Damascus entered. He was a man with a Salafi appearance, bearded, with a white turban on his head, as was the custom of Palestinians in the past, a tarboosh. There was affection and companionship between us. He entered with a peasant man who was presenting me with a wristwatch for this peasant. It was of a brand that existed in our time; I do not know if it still exists or not. Its name was Ripco. He told me, "This is our brother from such-and-such village in the villages of Homs. Look at the watch; it complained to me, it goes fast and slow." I no longer remember the details. When I saw the watch, this came to my mind, and I said to him, "This watch was bought from Damascus." It was supposed to be that he bought it from Homs, because where does the peasant come down from? He comes down from his village to the governorate that is close to him. He said, "Yes." Our companion was surprised by it.The Shaykh : He said to me, "I think," he said this or something similar, "Do you remember the hadith: 'Beware of the intuition of a people, for it looks in the light of Allah.' This has an occasion: a man entered upon 'Uthman ibn 'Affan and said to him, 'Why do I see in your eye the traces of zina?' He said to him, 'Did you receive revelation after the Messenger of Allah?' And he said, 'No, it is only the intuition of a believer.' And the Messenger of Allah, on this occasion, and 'Uthman narrates this if the hadith is authentic.
So he said something similar to this, "What is there, revelation after the Messenger of Allah?" I said to him, "No, but the one who imports these watches of the Ripco type has his center with us in Damascus. Therefore, the peasant does not intend the village close to him because he knows that there will be a markup in the price, so he comes down to the capital and buys it. So this intuition was in its place, but it has no relation to intuition; it has a relation to prior knowledge established in the mind. But stranger than this, in the same session, another student entered, a Salafi residing in a village called Dir 'Atiyyah, north-northeast of Damascus. "Peace be upon you," "And upon you peace." It had been a while since he had seen me. "How are you," and so on. He said to me, "By Allah, Professor, I want to ask you about a verse where the reference of the pronoun is ambiguous." I said to him, "Perhaps you want [the verse] of Allah the Exalted: He said, "Yes, by Allah." I said to him, "Are you still denying the revelation? This is revelation!" So what happened to me was that this man was a student of knowledge and strong, and as I mentioned to you earlier, stronger than me in what is called the sciences of the machine. What should this person find difficult! The divine computer worked quickly, without parallel. I thought in my opinion that this was the verse, and it turned out to be exactly that. So this has no relation to wilayah, or righteousness, or taqwa at all. But the bad shaykhs exploit these matters, and some people with good hearts think well of the scholars and shaykhs more than they should think well of them. And Allah is the Helper.
Al-'Awaisheh: On this occasion, I remember once...The Shaykh : Al-Salik: We were in a session, he said, "O our Shaykh, a guest was at..." I said, "That is enough, let him take a ghusl." I said, "Let him take a ghusl," so I inferred that he was in a state of janabah and was shy to ask for water, so I said, "Let him take a ghusl," and he was surprised by the answer.

The Shaykh: Yes, that often happens.