Questions and Answers about Islamic Veil

not included in the fundamentals of the religion (Zarūriyāt-e-Dīn) then he/she will not become an unbeliever (Kāfir).

You are like a family member

Question: What about saying, ‘Theres no veil between you and your spiritual guide’ or saying to non-Maram relatives, neighbours or regular visiting family friends, ‘You are like a family member, we dont need to observe veil with you’?

Answer: This is also complete absurdity and stupidity. Anyone who says such things must repent. It is necessary to observe veil with non-Maram spiritual guide and every other non-Maram relative, friend or neighbour.

Man making woman wear bangles around her wrist!

Question: Can a woman let a bangle-seller hold her hand and make her wear bangles around her wrist?

Answer: Any woman who does this is a sinner and worthy of Hell. If her husband or Maram male relatives do not despise and prevent this as much as they can, then they are Dayyūš and worthy of Hell too. If a husband sees a man holding his wifes hand he would probably pounce on him and want to beat him up, but unfortunately, when the same wife lets a man touch her hand to make her wear bangles around her wrists, her husband’s blood does not boil.

When my master A’lā arat رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه was asked about women letting shop-keepers make them wear bangles around their wrists, he رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه answered: arām, arām, arām, showing her wrist to a non-Maram man is arām, letting him hold her hand is arām, any man that allows his wife to do this is Dayyūš.

(Fatāwā Razawiyyaĥ, vol. 22, pp. 247)

 

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