Is it permissible for a man to perform cupping on a non-mahram woman in the presence of a mahram?
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The questioner : All right, regarding my performing cupping on women, is there any harm in it, provided that a mahram is present with the woman?
The Shaykh : There is no harm if it is like any doctor treating a woman within the limits of necessity and caution. For example, many doctors need to examine the heartbeats, so they expose the patient's chest, just as if she were a man, even though it is possible to avoid this exposure by placing the stethoscope directly over the clothes if the stethoscope is sensitive and precise, or over the shirt that is directly against the body. This is what some pious doctors do. As for those who have no religion, or no moral character, or no concern at all, they assume she is a patient and that is the end of the matter. For example, like this.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So, it is supposed that all of this remains covered for you, and you only expose what is necessary, which is what she reveals of herself in all of this.
The Shaykh : There is no harm if it is like any doctor treating a woman within the limits of necessity and caution. For example, many doctors need to examine the heartbeats, so they expose the patient's chest, just as if she were a man, even though it is possible to avoid this exposure by placing the stethoscope directly over the clothes if the stethoscope is sensitive and precise, or over the shirt that is directly against the body. This is what some pious doctors do. As for those who have no religion, or no moral character, or no concern at all, they assume she is a patient and that is the end of the matter. For example, like this.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So, it is supposed that all of this remains covered for you, and you only expose what is necessary, which is what she reveals of herself in all of this.
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