Continuation: I have a shop for sewing abayas, and I have attached to my question four samples of the sleeves of French or Moroccan abayas that have become popular with many women, especially schoolgirls.

The Shaykh : And these abayas are placed on their shoulders, while their heads remain exposed and their necks exposed, and we do not know what they cover their heads with afterwards; it may be an embroidered khimar, or it may be a niqab that is actually a mask, not a niqab. Therefore, first: I advise our daughters, sisters, aunts, and female cousins not to wear these abayas. As for those who bring them in, I also advise them not to bring them in, and to make the previous abayas, which provide complete coverage and avoid the signs of fitnah, their merchandise. If they leave that behind—meaning the first type and the embroideries shown to us now—if they leave them for the sake of Allah, Allah will replace them with something better in the form of barakah, and He will remove greed and avarice from them. For, by the permission of Allah, no one acquires wealth through what is forbidden except that Allah casts stinginess and excessive concern for this world into his heart, and he becomes like one who eats but is not satisfied. Yes.

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : No, no, they do not make them. If we say they do not bring them in, then making them is even more so.