12 – Ibn Mufliḥ al-Ḥanbalī (d. 763 AH): Our position, and that of a group of Shāfiʿī scholars and others, is that looking at a non-mahram woman, provided it is without desire and not in seclusion, is permissible; therefore, if women uncover their faces while walking in public, no one should rebuke them. ⦗40⦘