Admission to Tibbiya College for a Hijab-Observing Girl

Question

My sister is from a religious family, extremely pure and highly educated, observant of fasting and prayer, unmarried, beautiful and hijab-observing; she resides in Bombay. For the sake of higher education she wishes to gain admission to the traditional (Greco-Arabic) medicine course at Tibbiya College Hospital. At Tibbiya College most of the teachers are men, and among the students both boys and girls study together.

Answer

Gaining admission and obtaining education and a degree by the aforementioned method is not permitted by the Sacred Law; the same ruling applies to other medical colleges as well. The mixed education of boys and girls, unveiled encounters, living and residing together, being taught by male teachers, and their [female students’] carrying out diagnostic examinations on male…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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