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What is the ruling on coiling hair at the back in the shape of a circle? Does this mean it is like the hump of a camel?

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Question:
What is the ruling on coiling hair at the back in the shape of a circle? Does this mean it is like the hump of a camel? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad. As for what follows, Allah the Exalted has made the hair of the head a beauty for the woman, which she nourishes, cares for, and arranges in a suitable manner. However, if she arranges it in a shape that involves imitating the disbelieving women, or if she does with it what contradicts the Sunnah, she is forbidden from doing so. This is because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) informed that there will be women
AbU Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) having said this: Two are the types of the denizens of Hell whom I did not see: people having flogs like the tails of the ox with them and they would be beating people, and the women who would be dressed but appear to be naked, who would be inclined (to evil) and make their husbands incline towards it. Their heads would be like the humps of the bukht camel inclined to one side. They will not enter Paradise and they would not smell its odour whereas its odour would be smelt from such and such distance.كاسيات عاريات، رؤوسهن كأسنمة البخت المائلة، لا يدخلن الجنة، ولا يجدن ريحا
Sahih Muslim 2128
, and that is because they gather their hair and place it on top of their heads such that it appears to the observer as if she has two heads: the natural, created head, and another head or another volume of hair that matches the size of the head, so it becomes as if she has two heads like the humps of a camel. This shape, which women do with the hair on their heads, is prohibited and forbidden, and it is a major sin among the major sins due to the severe warning against it. The criterion for a major sin, as established by the precise scholars of knowledge, is that one is warned against it with anger, a curse, or the Fire, or a hudud punishment is established for it in this world. This act is of this type. So women should fear Allah the Mighty and Majestic in their hair and in their affairs in general, and they should adhere to Islamic etiquette, maintain dignity and modesty, and stay away from what brings about fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) or contradicts the etiquette of the Shari'ah or involves imitating the women of the disbelievers. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم لف الشعر من الخلف على شكل دائرة، هل هذا معناه كأسنمة البخت؟ الشيخ صالح بن فوزان الفوزان — youtube.com

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