The fitted abayas that reveal a woman’s charms have become widespread in our time. What is the guidance from your eminence?

Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: The fitted abayas that reveal a woman’s charms in a blatant manner, may Allah protect us from that, have become widespread in our time. Is it possible for the authorities to prohibit these abayas? And what is the obligation of the scholars regarding this? This clothing is a cause for great harms, which are perhaps not hidden from your eminence.

Answer:
These are not permissible, and they are not abayas. Calling them abayas is a form of deception. These are not abayas. An abaya is that which covers and drapes over the woman, and nothing of her is visible in it. This is the abaya. As for these, they are a fitnah (trial) and are not abayas. The Permanent Committee issued, during the lifetime of Shaykh 'Abd al-'Aziz (may Allah have mercy on him), regulations for the abaya, specifying its characteristics, and these were circulated to merchants and factories. However, in the recent period, they deceived the people and thought that people had forgotten this fatwa and these regulations. So they displayed these prohibited abayas. They are not permissible; they are prohibited (haram). Selling them is prohibited, manufacturing them is prohibited, and their price is prohibited. Yes.