The Ruling on Citing Scholarly Disagreement Regarding a Woman Uncovering Her Face
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Question:
Your Excellency the Shaykh, your guidance on those who issue a ruling permitting a woman to uncover her face, stating that this is a matter of disagreement among scholars.
Answer:
The criterion is not the existence of disagreement; the criterion is the evidence. The evidence is with the one who made it obligatory to cover the face of the woman who is given in marriage, and the evidence is with him. Therefore, it is obligatory for us to follow the evidence, not the opinions of scholars, for among them are errors and there is correctness, but we follow the evidence. And if we do not know the evidence, we ask the people of knowledge. Yes.
Your Excellency the Shaykh, your guidance on those who issue a ruling permitting a woman to uncover her face, stating that this is a matter of disagreement among scholars.
Answer:
The criterion is not the existence of disagreement; the criterion is the evidence. The evidence is with the one who made it obligatory to cover the face of the woman who is given in marriage, and the evidence is with him. Therefore, it is obligatory for us to follow the evidence, not the opinions of scholars, for among them are errors and there is correctness, but we follow the evidence. And if we do not know the evidence, we ask the people of knowledge. Yes.
Source
لقاء الجمعة الطائف-16-11-1440 — alfawzan.live (22:32)
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