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We are in full agreement with what Hadhrat Thanvi said on bigoted preference to one's Mathhab. However, that attitude applied to his time in India and perhaps elsewhere. It does not apply to us. We show utmost respect to all Four Mathhabs, and we propagate that followers must strictly follow their respective Math-habs and not be like chameleons such as the MJC sheikhs and even the pseudo deobandi molvis of today. They do not know whether they are moving forward or backwards. They are the muqallids of their nafs, not of the Deen.

we live in, and if we don't, it will create a bad impression of Islam?

A. Shaking the hand of a female, even if she is a Muslim, at a job interview or even when being interviewed by a female is not permissible. The argument of necessity is baatil. It is not permissible to attend such an interview. Almost every belief and tenet of Islam is ridiculed and rejected by the kuffaar. To appease the stupidities of the western kuffaar, it is never permissible to violate the Shariah. On this convoluted idea, the Islamic belief of Tauheed, Risaalat, the practices of Salaat, Hajj, etc. will all have to be abandoned to bootlick the kuffaar. The effect of appeasing the kuffaar is abandonment of Islam.