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One of our brothers/sisters has asked this question:

assalamo alaikum

mr. Burhan

1. can we buy the hotel to invest our money?  is it permitted in islam?

2.  is it allowed in islam, a female teacher working in a school, sometimes

she has to meet the (male)parents and talk about their child progress etc. 

(parent-teacher meeting)or a nurse she is most of the time  with the male

patients/doctors etc.

a sister in islam

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Answer:

Can a Muslim women work as a teacher?

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His  forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no person, no grave, no prophet, no imam, no dai, nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad(saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

Your question:  can we buy the hotel to invest our money?  is it permitted in islam?
There is absolutely no harm if one invests his money in the hotel business, provided that the hotel does not indulge in anything that has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger (saws). If the hotel deals in alcohol, or serves swine, or indulges in indecency, etc. then that would not be considered a legal way to invest one’s wealth in Shariah.

Your question: is it allowed in islam, a female teacher working in a school,sometimes she has to meet the (male)parents and talk about their child progress etc. (parent-teacher meeting)or a nurse she is most of the time  with the male patients/doctors etc.

If a female teacher sometimes has to meet with the male parents of her students and talk about their child’s progress, there is absolutely no harm provided they do meet in public and do not engage themselves in loose or vain talk. Islam does not prohibit a believing woman from talking to a non-mehram man when necessary, provided the talk is focused on the business at hand, and not vain, indecent, and casual.

It would be best and purer in Islam for a male nurse to attend to male patients, and a female nurse to attend female patients. But in cases of emergency, or when the same gender nurse is not available, there is no harm being treated by a nurse of the opposite sex.

But if one goes in search of nurses and doctors of the opposite sex to treat and attend to him, then that would be inappropriate. What one should not do is intentionally go in search of getting treated by a doctor or nurse of the opposite sex; or the doctor or nurse to intentionally search to examine a patient of the opposite sex! All deeds will be judged according to one’s intentions; for Allah indeed knows the inner-most intentions of all His slaves.

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

Your Brother in Islam,

Burhan