What is your opinion regarding studying at the medical institute, where the practical training in hospitals involves being with nurses, including seclusion, and they may be disbelievers?
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The questioner : The medical field includes a practical applied methodology in hospitals that compels us to stay with female nurses and benefit from them in the field of nursing, converse with them, and ask them questions. They may be non-Muslims, and seclusion with them may occur at times. What is your opinion, O honorable one?
The Shaykh : Yes, I see that if dire necessity calls for it and there is no alternative to this, then fear Allah as much as you are able. Do not converse with them excessively except in what dire necessity requires, and lower your gaze from them as much as possible. We ask Allah the Exalted to bring the day when men are separate in their sciences and women are separate in their sciences.
As for the issue of seclusion, it is not permissible at all. But how can he be secluded with her when there is a patient present, unless the patient is unaware?
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : No, do not laugh. Do you laugh at a woman who is a stranger to you? Never. But do not show her a frowning face or a face of excessive cheerfulness. Be normal. And out of necessity, if she sees that if she neglects what is obligatory upon her, you will report her, she cannot neglect the obligation. Especially a stranger who knows that if she neglects the obligation, they will immediately expose her. Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, I see that if dire necessity calls for it and there is no alternative to this, then fear Allah as much as you are able. Do not converse with them excessively except in what dire necessity requires, and lower your gaze from them as much as possible. We ask Allah the Exalted to bring the day when men are separate in their sciences and women are separate in their sciences.
As for the issue of seclusion, it is not permissible at all. But how can he be secluded with her when there is a patient present, unless the patient is unaware?
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : No, do not laugh. Do you laugh at a woman who is a stranger to you? Never. But do not show her a frowning face or a face of excessive cheerfulness. Be normal. And out of necessity, if she sees that if she neglects what is obligatory upon her, you will report her, she cannot neglect the obligation. Especially a stranger who knows that if she neglects the obligation, they will immediately expose her. Yes.