وَ  قَرۡ نَ   فِیۡ   بُیُوۡ تِکُنَّ   وَ  لَا   تَبَرَّ جۡنَ    تَبَرُّ جَ   ا لۡجَاہِلِیَّۃِ   ا لۡاُوۡلٰی

And remain in your houses and do not stay unveiled like the unveiling of the former days of ignorance.

[Kanz-ul-Īmān (Translation of Quran)] (Part 22, Sūraĥ Al-Aḥzāb, verse 33)

Do you see! The command for women to observe veil and to stay in their homes was not given by any person, in fact, by our Creator عَزَّوَجَلَّ, the Lord of Mustafa.

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب           صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

تُوۡبُوۡا اِلَى اللّٰه        اَسۡتَغۡفِرُ اللّٰه

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب           صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Questions and answers about women working

Question: Can a woman work?

Answer: Yes but only if five conditions are fulfilled. My master A’lā Ḥaḍrat, Imām-e-Aĥl-e-Sunnat, scholar of Sharī’aĥ, guide of Ṭarīqaĥ, Ash-Shāĥ Imām Aḥmad Razā Khān عَـلَيْهِ رَحْمَةُ الـرَّحْمٰن said: There are five conditions here:

1.          She must not wear thin clothes which reveal the colour of her hair, wrists or any other part of her ‘Satr’. [See the definition of a woman’s Satr on page 11.]

Her clothes must not be tight that reveal the shapes of her body (i.e. raised chest, roundness of her shins etc.).

Any part of her hair, neck, stomach, wrist or shin must not be visible.