The Permissible Limit of a Woman’s Clothing Among Women

Question:
This sister questioner asks about women in our current time wearing short sleeves among themselves, and what is the ruling if the sleeve is slightly above the elbow? What is the permissible limit for their clothing? May Allah reward you.

Answer:
A woman among women is like a woman among her male mahrams (relatives one may not marry), so what she covers from her male mahrams, she covers from women. This is because Allah mentioned the mahrams and mentioned women in one verse, because a woman does not display her adornment except to her husbands, until the end of the verse, until He said, “or their women.” So what a woman displays to her male mahrams, she displays to women, and what is not permissible to display to her male mahrams is not permissible to display to women. Among these things, she covers her legs and her forearms, and nothing of her is displayed except the extremities, except the palms, the feet, the face, and the head; there is no harm in that. Yes.