swimming

Assalamu Alaykum Dear Scholar, would it be Haram to swim at the beach with your family including your sisters and mother. If so, do you have to be far from non-mahram eyes? Thank you, Jazzaka Allahu Khair Assalamu Alaykum

Dear Sheikh, As-Salaam `Alaykum. I am a Muslim girl living in the United States and I like swimming, so is it Halal (lawful) for me to swim in a public pool with long, wide clothes or not?

Dear scholars, As-Salamu `alaykum. I live in the UK and we have booked private swimming sessions for Muslim women only. Every sister has to cover her `awrah (parts of the body which should not be exposed in front of others). In order to run the pool, we are legally obliged to have a life guard. At the moment, the life guard is a non-Muslim woman who is also a swimming instructor for women and children. She wears longer shorts (still above her knees) and a T-shirt. We are trying to train a few sisters so that we do not have to employ the non-Muslim. Is it haram (unlawful) to have her among us? Is it acceptable to send children (under the age of puberty) to public swimming lessons with other children and non-Muslim instructors? This is the only opportunity they have to learn how to swim and to develop this skill.