The Ruling on the Abaya for the Muslim Woman
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Question:
This is a questioner who asks, saying: One of the scholars went out and ruled that the abaya is not obligatory, with the evidence that eighty percent of Muslim women do not wear the abaya, and he did not elaborate in his answer as you saw, which is your duty.
Answer:
This is a mistake without a doubt. Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says:[Al-Ahzab 33:59] The jilbab is the abaya, the large outer cloak that is worn over the clothes. The woman covers herself with clothes; the clothes may contain adornment, so she covers them with the abaya or the large cloak to cover the adornment of the clothes. This is what the Qur'an and the Sunnah indicate: that she wears the loose, revealing clothes, and over the clothes themselves, which are the visible adornment, she wears the abaya, or the jilbab, or the cloak, which is the large outer garment. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
This is a questioner who asks, saying: One of the scholars went out and ruled that the abaya is not obligatory, with the evidence that eighty percent of Muslim women do not wear the abaya, and he did not elaborate in his answer as you saw, which is your duty.
Answer:
This is a mistake without a doubt. Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says:
O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves [part] of their outer garments
يَا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ قُل لِّأَزْوَاجِكَ وَبَنَاتِكَ وَنِسَاءِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ يُدْنِينَ عَلَيْهِنَّ مِن جَلَابِيبِهِنَّThe presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
محاضرة علمية تربوية لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان 25/5/1439 بالمعهد العلمي بالرياض — af.org.sa (34:08)
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