The ruling on a woman wearing high heels
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Question:
Your Excellency the Shaykh, a woman asks: What is the ruling on wearing heels that are not high?
Answer:
A woman wears the footwear that is appropriate for her, the footwear appropriate for women from women’s clothing, and she does not wear what men wear, whether footwear or otherwise. However, high heels and the like have a bad appearance and involve deception, in that a woman appears tall when she is not tall, or the like. It involves misleading and deception. She should wear the ordinary, ordinary women’s clothing that contains no deception and no adornment when going out.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Your Excellency the Shaykh, a woman asks: What is the ruling on wearing heels that are not high?
Answer:
A woman wears the footwear that is appropriate for her, the footwear appropriate for women from women’s clothing, and she does not wear what men wear, whether footwear or otherwise. However, high heels and the like have a bad appearance and involve deception, in that a woman appears tall when she is not tall, or the like. It involves misleading and deception. She should wear the ordinary, ordinary women’s clothing that contains no deception and no adornment when going out.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
شرح كتاب الكبائر للإمام محمد بن عبد الوهاب، بداية من باب تشييع الفاحشة في المؤمنين — islamhouse.com (54:43)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.