and help with childbirth. If Muslim midwives are available, then it is obligatory to avoid the assistance of non-Muslim midwives in this task, because it is not permissible to expose these body-parts in front of non-Muslim women. (Ibid)

4. The Satr of a woman for a man

Nowadays, there are three scenarios related to this:

a.          A man looking at his wife.

b.         A man looking at Maḥārim relatives.

c.          A man looking at a non-Maḥram woman.

(a) A man looking at his wife

Question: Is there a part of the body that a husband and wife are not permitted to look at?

Answer: No, there is no such part of the body. Ṣadr-ush-Sharī’aĥ, Badr-uṭ-Ṭarīqaĥ, ‘Allāmaĥ Maulānā Muftī Muhammad Amjad ‘Alī A’ẓamī عَـلَيْهِ رَحْـمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ الۡـقَـوِی stated: (A husband) may look at every part of his wife’s body from head to toe whether or not he feels lust. In the same way, both types of women (i.e. wife and slave-girl, the latter does not exist today) can see every part of the man. However, it is better (for both husband and wife) to not look at each other’s private parts as this weakens the memory and eyesight. (Ibid, pp. 87)

(b) A man looking at his Maḥārim relatives

Question: Which parts of the body of his Maḥārim relatives (e.g. mother, sister) is a man allowed to look at?

Answer: A man is only allowed to look at certain areas of the body of his Maḥārim relatives. Explaining this in detail Ṣadr-ush-Sharī’aĥ,