700. Is it Haraam To Bathe a Person?

By Asma Bint Shameem

1. It is haraam for a person to look at the awrah of any other person, especially the area between the navel and the knees. 

So even if one needs help to bathe, he or she does not need to be completely naked. 

Rather they can put a sheet or towel or wear something while they are bathed so that their awrah is not exposed. 

2. If one of the women is handicapped and needs help to bathe, it is only *she* that has to be uncovered. 

The other lady does not need to be naked, even if it’s a mother and daughter or two sisters etc. 

3. A postnatal woman does not need to be bathed. 

She is perfectly able to take her *own bath*. 

People from the Subcontinent pamper the woman who has just delivered to extreme and make her almost like an invalid. 

And that’s not good for her. 

She must get up and do her own chores and be up and about. 

This concept of “staying in bed after delivery” is actually dangerous to her health, speaking as a doctor. 

And Allaah knows best.