Is it permissible for a woman to study medicine and view men's awrahs, especially since it is a communal obligation (fard kifayah) and entails harms such as intermingling?
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Studying medicine for women is essential to meet their need for specialist female doctors. Special universities with -compliant regulations should be provided for them. If these are not available, it is permissible to study in mixed-gender colleges out of necessity, while adhering to Sharia regulations as much as possible, for necessities permit the forbidden and are estimated according to their measure. "Sharia is built upon achieving and perfecting benefits and averting and minimizing harms."
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