My beloved Ustadh, I ask for your advice about how to deal with women in a western workplace. What are the limits in conversations with the opposite gender and how should someone lower his gaze when talking to them. Also how should someone communicate religious boundaries to non muslims with wisdom?

Always seek work that is not mixed. This is what is obligatory upon you. However if that is not a possibility as is the case for some people, then speak with them only as the work needs, plainly, with no joking or softness, and never alone with one of them. Try to keep to yourself and always find a way to be away from that which leads to fitnah. Lower your gaze as these are the arrows to the heart and it affects your iman.