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Question ID: #2359
 
Question: women and jobs
If it necessiates for a woman to work, what kind of jobs should she undertake. Should she pursue a career in a more traditional environment i.e. teacher or a nurse or can she work as a solicitor or a barrister or any other job in that rank?
 
 
Answered by: Ulamaa ID 10 (Malaysia)
Date: 08/07/2007 18:55pm

Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
Bismillahir rahmaanir rahim.

A woman is permitted to work in any field as long as she remains in the confinements of Syariah (ie. no free mixing, hijab is observed all the time she's working and so forth).

And Allah knows best.

Wassalam.
Binti Zahari
 
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