Purity: Is It Permissible to Expose One’s Private Parts for Job-Related Medical Exams?

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Purity: Is It Permissible to Expose One’s Private Parts for Job-Related Medical Exams?

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Question #96

Employment in some companies and institutions depends on undergoing a medical examination that partly includes exposing one’s private parts and looking at them. Is that permissible when one needs to find a job?

Answer #96

It is not permissible to expose one’s private parts before another person nor the latter's looking at them, even if one’s employment depends upon it. Of course, if the doctor thinks the would-be employee may be sick while employing him like that is against the law and there is no way other than direct physical examination to diagnose the illness, looking becomes permissible only in this case.

- Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Rules of the Lavatory