The Ruling on Female Students Using Perfume When Going Out
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Question:
Some of the female students, may Allah guide them, use strong perfumes in the college, knowing that there are men present. We ask for your advice for them and clarification of the ruling in this matter?
Answer:
When a woman wants to leave her house, whether for college, work, study, or to go to the market to buy a need, or even if she wants to go out to the mosque, it is not permissible for her to use perfume or scent. She should leave her house without a scent; this is what is obligatory for her. As for if she uses a pleasant scent, she has disobeyed Allah and His Messenger, and she has caused fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) for herself and for others. So if a woman wants to leave her house for any purpose, even to the mosque which is the house of worship, she does not use perfume. If she does use perfume, she is a disobedient one to Allah and His Messenger. Yes.
Some of the female students, may Allah guide them, use strong perfumes in the college, knowing that there are men present. We ask for your advice for them and clarification of the ruling in this matter?
Answer:
When a woman wants to leave her house, whether for college, work, study, or to go to the market to buy a need, or even if she wants to go out to the mosque, it is not permissible for her to use perfume or scent. She should leave her house without a scent; this is what is obligatory for her. As for if she uses a pleasant scent, she has disobeyed Allah and His Messenger, and she has caused fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) for herself and for others. So if a woman wants to leave her house for any purpose, even to the mosque which is the house of worship, she does not use perfume. If she does use perfume, she is a disobedient one to Allah and His Messenger. Yes.
Source
أسئلة وأجوبة ي كليات البنات المتوسطة في شقراء — archive.org (19:11)
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