Ordering the nine-year-old girl to wear the hijab
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: Some people say that ordering a girl to wear the hijab is an encroachment on her childhood. They mean that a girl who has reached the age of nine is still young and should not be ordered to wear the hijab. He asks: Is this statement correct?
Answer:
No, this is a false statement. In fact, when a girl reaches this age, she is ordered to wear the hijab and raised upon it.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: Some people say that ordering a girl to wear the hijab is an encroachment on her childhood. They mean that a girl who has reached the age of nine is still young and should not be ordered to wear the hijab. He asks: Is this statement correct?
Answer:
No, this is a false statement. In fact, when a girl reaches this age, she is ordered to wear the hijab and raised upon it.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب ما يصنع إذا اجتمع الداعيان — islamhouse.com (49:07)
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