Her male teacher holds her hands during dental training
4-3-2010 | IslamWeb
Question:
Aoa, i am a 20 yr old female dental student and sometimes the male teachers hold our hands to control our shaking in the pateint's mouth while giving anesthesia and to teach us the exact direction n pressure v need to apply. Apart from dat the male teachers also hold our hand to make us do palpation of the patient properly.wat is the ruling for this? are we allowed to atttend these classes since without them we cannot pass our professional exams or even be good dentists since fiddling with the intruments would make the anesthesia ineffective and also a chance that we prick our ownselves.how ever this teaching by holding is only transient till we learn the proper tchnique.wat is the ruling on this what should we do in such cases?plz excuse the lenght of my question.JAZAAKALLAH.
Answer:
All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad 
is His slave and Messenger.
It is not permissible for a man to touch a non-Mahram woman’s hands or any other parts of her body. It is confirmed that the Prophet said: "If one of you were to be stabbed in the head with an iron needle, it would be better for him than touching a woman whom he is not permitted to touch." [At-Tabaraani and Al-Bayhaqi]
Therefore, we advise you to discuss the matter with the people in charge in the college and clarify to them the religious rulings about it. You should ask them to provide a female teacher to teach female girls. If this is achieved, then praise be to Allaah, otherwise if you are in real need of this training, like being in a case of necessity or close to it, then you may continue these studies, and if you can wear gloves and the like, then you are obliged to do so, as this is the least of two evils. Touching a non-Mahram man with a barrier in between is a lesser evil than direct touching even though both of them are evil.
Allaah Knows best.