Questions and Answers about Islamic Veil

Precautions regarding hair!

These days probably due to eating unhealthy things and using various chemical soaps, shampoos etc. hair-falling is a common complaint. Those Islamic sisters who live in the house where their non-Maram male relatives also live or those who have regular visitors in their homes should take extra care before they dispose of hairs in their bathrooms etc. Also be careful to remove hairs that are stuck to soap-bars after bathing. Islamic brothers should also remove any hairs that are stuck on soap-bars after bathing because they could possibly be hairs of ‘Satr’ such as the thighs etc.

Can women shave their heads?

Question: Can women shave their heads?

Answer: This is arām. (Fatāwā Razawiyyaĥ, vol. 22, pp. 664)

Can women have male hair styles?

Question: Can women have masculine hair styles?

Answer: This is impermissible and a sin.

She tore the shroud and sat up!

Probably in the last Friday of Sha’bān-ul-Mu’aẓẓam 1414 AH, I  met a young-man at night in a large Sunnaĥ-inspiring Ijtimā’ in Korangi (Bāb-ul-Madīnaĥ, Karachi). He swore that this story was true: A young daughter of one of my relatives suddenly died. When we returned after burying her, her father recalled that he accidentally left a hand-bag containing important documents inside her grave. So the grave was necessarily dug open. As soon as the grave was uncovered, we screamed in fear. The young girl that we buried just a few moments ago in a clean shroud had torn her shroud and sat

 

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