Admission of a hijab-observing girl to a Tibbiya college

Question

My sister is from a religious family, very pious and highly educated, steadfast in fasting and prayer, unmarried, beautiful and hijab-observing; she lives in Bombay. Now she wishes, for higher education, to take admission to the traditional (Greco-Arabic) medicine course at a Tibbiya College hospital. In the Tibbiya College most of the teachers are men, and among the students both boys and girls study. If the girls sit in class wearing a burqa (outer covering)

Answer

Taking admission in the stated manner and obtaining education and a degree is not permitted by the Shari‘a. The same ruling applies to other medical colleges: the co-education of boys and girls, meeting without hijab, living and staying together, male teachers teaching them, and their performing diagnosis on male patients — all these things are wrong, and complete abstention…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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