What is the ruling on a woman wearing pants?
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Question : May Allah reward you. A woman asks: What is the ruling on women wearing pants, especially if they are loose and she is in her home?
Answer : What I see is that it is forbidden for a woman to wear pants. She should not wear them, because she is prohibited from imitating men, and pants are for whom?
For men. And because if she wears pants, the size of her private parts becomes apparent; the thighs and legs become distinct, and one leg is separated from the other. Also, matters may develop as is the custom of women, so she wears tight pants that measure the size of her thigh in centimeters. Is that not so? Matters may develop to the point where she buys pants the color of her body, tight, so that when she wears them, she is as if completely naked, because the color is the color of the skin, and the skin is thin, so she is as if walking naked. Therefore, we see that women must be prohibited from wearing pants absolutely. This is the opinion of our scholars here. She may say she only wears them in front of her husband. We say: Praise be to Allah, with her husband she can expose everything; there is no need for her to wear pants. As long as she wants her husband to desire her, the matter is broad; she can remove all her clothing, and this is more conducive to desire and closer to intimacy. For this reason, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) used to take a bath from the same vessel as the Mother of the Believers, Aisha, from major ritual impurity, and their hands would differ in it, meaning the hand of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) would be withdrawn while her hand was descending from the same vessel. Because Allah the Exalted says:[Al-Mu'minun 23:5-6] So she has no need to wear pants in front of her husband. Now, if the husband says to her, "Wear pants," and forces her, because some husbands are foolish, some husbands are foolish and it pleases them that their wives wear pants, and he says, "I will wear pants," she says to him, "No," three times. She says to him, "No," three times, and she is not considered disobedient.
Because he ordered her to do what is not good. And Allah Blessed and Exalted said: "And live with them in kindness." If he threatened her with divorce, because he may be foolish, and his foolishness is greater than that of a foolish man, and he said to her, "If you do not do it, I will divorce you," and she knows that he is a foolish man who may carry out what he threatens her with, then at that time she is coerced. And the one who is coerced to do a forbidden act is excused. Do you understand, people? But I advise my brothers, the husbands, to live with their wives in kindness and not to order them to do what is not good.
Answer : What I see is that it is forbidden for a woman to wear pants. She should not wear them, because she is prohibited from imitating men, and pants are for whom?
For men. And because if she wears pants, the size of her private parts becomes apparent; the thighs and legs become distinct, and one leg is separated from the other. Also, matters may develop as is the custom of women, so she wears tight pants that measure the size of her thigh in centimeters. Is that not so? Matters may develop to the point where she buys pants the color of her body, tight, so that when she wears them, she is as if completely naked, because the color is the color of the skin, and the skin is thin, so she is as if walking naked. Therefore, we see that women must be prohibited from wearing pants absolutely. This is the opinion of our scholars here. She may say she only wears them in front of her husband. We say: Praise be to Allah, with her husband she can expose everything; there is no need for her to wear pants. As long as she wants her husband to desire her, the matter is broad; she can remove all her clothing, and this is more conducive to desire and closer to intimacy. For this reason, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) used to take a bath from the same vessel as the Mother of the Believers, Aisha, from major ritual impurity, and their hands would differ in it, meaning the hand of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) would be withdrawn while her hand was descending from the same vessel. Because Allah the Exalted says:
(5) And they who guard their private parts (6) Except from their wives or those their right hands possess
وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ لِفُرُوجِهِمْ حَافِظُونَ إِلَّا عَلَىٰ أَزْوَاجِهِمْ أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَانُهُمْBecause he ordered her to do what is not good. And Allah Blessed and Exalted said: "And live with them in kindness." If he threatened her with divorce, because he may be foolish, and his foolishness is greater than that of a foolish man, and he said to her, "If you do not do it, I will divorce you," and she knows that he is a foolish man who may carry out what he threatens her with, then at that time she is coerced. And the one who is coerced to do a forbidden act is excused. Do you understand, people? But I advise my brothers, the husbands, to live with their wives in kindness and not to order them to do what is not good.
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قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، لقاء[17 من 65] ما حكم لبس المرأة للبنطلون؟!! الشيخ ابن عثيمين - مشروع كبار العلماء — youtube.com
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