Non-mahrams

Q: Is it permissible to look at the face and hands of a non mahram if done without lust?

Q: What do our Ulama say about sending kids or youth or adults to swimming pools or gyms where there are mixed ladies and men with no segregation and improper attire? Is a boy or girl, who are not baligh, allowed to learn swimming lessons in this environment? Please kindly advise? 

Q: I am Hanafi and I plan to travel soon for umrah with my wife, my wife's sister and my mother in law. I would like to find out if I can be regarded as my wife's sister's mahram. My wife's sister is 36 years old.

Q: My friend [24f] makes parda from her brother in law [17m]. However her father's first cousins is her husbands maternal uncles and she doesn't make parda from them. Upon telling her she brought the hadith of brother in law being death and said there is no specific ahadith relating to her having to making parda from her husbands mothers brothers therefore she doesn't have to. Is it true?

Q: I recently heard someone say that it is permissible for the sister-in-law to not make parda from her brother-in-law when: 

1. There is no scope of fitna. 

2. When it becomes difficult for her to leave her own room for basic needs. 

My friend has recently married into a family of 6. They live in a small flat. Her brother-in- law is 6 years younger than her and she claims he is an actual replica of her brother in her maternal home. There isn't a chance that they can ever be alone. It becomes difficult for her to constantly be in her cloak, burkha and pardah the entire day almost as if she is at a guests home and not in a home that she has a right to stay in. What is the ruling regarding this?

Q: I observed Hijab (with face cover) but my wedding is near and when my marriage proposal came, my mother in law requested me not to cover my face in front of my brother-in-law after marriage. I feared that time and I agreed to her but now I'm confused if Islam allows it or not. Please guide me regarding that.

Q: I have a sister who is the daughter of my fathers brother and mother's sister, my question is that is she a mahram for me?

Q: In a joint family system, if a husband forces you to live in a shared room where all the family members, including his father and brother sleep, due to the utilization of a single AC. Is it permissible in Islam or not?

Q: Is it permissible to greet or wish a non-mehram on EID? 

Q: A girl has a step mother, can her husband take his step mother in law for Hajj/Umrah? Is he considered as a mahram?