Question: Can an Islamic sister perform I’tikāf in the last ten days of Ramadan-ul-Mubārak in the specified female sections of the two Holy Masjids (Ḥaramayn Ṭayyibayn)?
Answer: No.
Question: Can she perform I’tikāf in her rented accommodation?
Answer: She can make an intention to specify a place in her accommodation for Ṣalāĥ, this specified place will become her ‘house-Masjid’ (Masjid-ul-Bayt), she can do I’tikāf in that area.
Question: Please tell us some blessed Aḥādīš about the veils of the Ṣaḥābiyyāt رَضِیَ الـلّٰـهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُنَّ.
Answer: Here are nine narrations about the veils of the Ṣaḥābiyyāt رَضِیَ الـلّٰـهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُنَّ:
Umm-ul-Mu`minīn Sayyidatunā ‘Āishaĥ Ṣiddīqaĥ رَضِیَ الـلّٰـهُ تَـعَـالٰی عَـنْهَا narrates: During the Hajj-pilgrimage we were in the state of Iḥrām with the Beloved and Blessed Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم. Whenever people travelled past us we used to pull our shawls over our heads and hang them in front of our faces, when they passed we exposed our faces. (Abī Dāwūd, vol. 2, pp. 241, Ḥadīš 1833)
Did you see! In a state of Iḥrām a pilgrim must not allow any cloth to touch his/her face, but even in this state the blessed Ṣaḥābiyyāt رَضِیَ الـلّٰـهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُنَّ concealed their faces from other men. Remember! In a state of Iḥrām it is Ḥarām to touch cloth to the face. Therefore, they were careful to conceal their faces without letting their veils