Is it permissible to remain in a team that blurs naked images and dresses after effacing a woman's facial features while leaving her eyes visible, knowing that the team was joined with the intention of mitigating images that violate Islamic law?
There is no objection to working on blurring nude images in forums with the aim of reducing corruption, as this involves warding off or minimizing evils, which is a legitimate objective. Complete piety lies in a person knowing the better of two good things and the worse of two evil things, and knowing that the is built upon achieving and perfecting benefits and nullifying and minimizing harms. It is a condition for the permissibility of this that the work itself does not inherently involve any forbidden act, that the female worker ensures her own safety from temptation, and that she lowers her gaze from these images while removing them.
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