The Ruling on Women Going to the Hairdresser for Adornment

Question:
This questioner says: There is a custom that has become widespread in celebrations, which is for some women to go to what they call the hairdresser. What is the ruling on their going there to improve their hair, destroy it, and the like?

Answer:
It is not permissible for women to go out from the home because fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) is expected. Even a woman’s going out to the mosque involves caution; her going out to the mosque involves caution. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: and their homes are better for them. So if her going out to the mosque involves caution from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), how much more so is her going out to shops, to the hairdresser, and to this, which exposes her to great danger? If the intention is to adorn the hair, she does it in her home, improving her hair and adorning herself in her home at the hands of trustworthy women, in the home. This is the custom of the Muslims from ancient times: that women attend to their affairs, and brides attend to their affairs in their homes, and this is undertaken by good Muslim women, and the woman is covered and protected. In addition to what is in these hairdressing practices of tashabbuh (imitating the disbelievers) and making the hair in a form that involves tashabbuh with disbelieving women or open sinners, this is another danger besides the going out and the fitnah, in which there is usually tashabbuh. There is usually tashabbuh with the customs of non-Muslims in fixing the hair. The result is that it is obligatory for the woman to remain in her home and not go out except for a dire necessity, and fixing the hair is not a dire necessity, because it is fixed in the home, and praise be to Allah.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good,