Is it permissible for a Muslim woman to work as a seamstress taking measurements of women in a tailoring and clothing alteration shop, knowing that the majority of the clothes displayed in the shop are for women who are "clothed yet naked"? And does the verse apply to this work: {And cooperate in righteousness and piety, but do not cooperate in sin and aggression}?
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The basic principle is that a woman's work is permissible if it is free from শরী'আ-prohibited elements such as mixing with men (ikhtilat) and being alone with non- men (). However, a woman sewing clothes for immodestly dressed women is not permissible, because it constitutes cooperation in sin and transgression.
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