The ruling on a woman cutting her hair from the front and the back
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Question:
She asks: What is the ruling on a woman cutting her hair from the front and the back if her intention is to beautify herself for her husband? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
A woman is required to keep her hair, because it is the hair of her head, and it is beauty for her. Allah has adorned women with long hair just as He has adorned men with beards. As for cutting it, that is frivolity and disfigurement, and it is not beauty. The motive for it is imitating disbelieving women or imitating the vile among Muslim women. Cutting the hair is thus frivolity and blind imitation. So a woman should keep her hair and not cut it, neither from the front nor the back nor the sides. May Allah reward you with good, except if its length causes her distress or it is heavy for her, or if it requires expense and she wants to lighten it for the sake of need; in that case, there is no harm. Cutting it for the sake of need is permissible. But cutting it for the sake of beautification is the opposite; it is not beautification, but rather disfigurement of the natural creation, and it is imitating and blind imitation. Yes.
She asks: What is the ruling on a woman cutting her hair from the front and the back if her intention is to beautify herself for her husband? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
A woman is required to keep her hair, because it is the hair of her head, and it is beauty for her. Allah has adorned women with long hair just as He has adorned men with beards. As for cutting it, that is frivolity and disfigurement, and it is not beauty. The motive for it is imitating disbelieving women or imitating the vile among Muslim women. Cutting the hair is thus frivolity and blind imitation. So a woman should keep her hair and not cut it, neither from the front nor the back nor the sides. May Allah reward you with good, except if its length causes her distress or it is heavy for her, or if it requires expense and she wants to lighten it for the sake of need; in that case, there is no harm. Cutting it for the sake of need is permissible. But cutting it for the sake of beautification is the opposite; it is not beautification, but rather disfigurement of the natural creation, and it is imitating and blind imitation. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم قص المرأة شعرها من الأمام والخلف إذا كانت نيتها التجمل لزوجها؟ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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