What is the prescribed manner for a suitor to look at his prospective bride?
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Question:
May Allah guide you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: What is prescribed for the suitor regarding looking at his prospective bride? Is it only her face, or what a man sees of his mahram (a relative one may not marry) without a cloak or head covering, meaning with her head uncovered?
Answer:
There is nothing wrong with it. He sees her face and her hands, and he sees the hair of her head, because there may be a defect in the hair of her head. So there is nothing wrong with him seeing the hair of her head, her face, and her hands.
May Allah guide you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: What is prescribed for the suitor regarding looking at his prospective bride? Is it only her face, or what a man sees of his mahram (a relative one may not marry) without a cloak or head covering, meaning with her head uncovered?
Answer:
There is nothing wrong with it. He sees her face and her hands, and he sees the hair of her head, because there may be a defect in the hair of her head. So there is nothing wrong with him seeing the hair of her head, her face, and her hands.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [287- 4717] ما المشروع رؤيته للخاطب من مخطوبته؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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