The ruling on a woman removing her hijab during dhikr

Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you good. Our sister says: We have many circles of dhikr for women in our country, praise be to Allah. I heard from one of the sisters that it is not permissible to remove the hijab; that it is not permissible to remove the hijab during dhikr so that the angels may surround this dhikr. Please inform us. May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
If these are gatherings of dhikr in the sense that they are for reciting the Qur'an, or for teaching beneficial knowledge, then these are blessed circles.
And blessed gatherings, and they are those which the angels surround. However, her statement that the hijab is required in these gatherings where there are only women present is a great error. There is no blame on a woman to uncover her face or uncover her hair, because there are only women with her, and it is not required to wear the hijab from women. As for the angels, there is no evidence that one should wear the hijab from them. Rather, this hijab is from the men among the children of Adam; this is what is required. We do not know this, in what we have heard in recent days, except from the Sufis, or from some of the ignorant. The hijab from the angels; this is said by some of the Sufis or some of the ignorant, so it has no basis. As for if these gatherings of dhikr are in the manner of what the Sufis do in their gatherings and their Sufi dhikr, then they are forbidden gatherings, and these dhikr that are said in them are innovated dhikr. It is not permissible to attend them, and angels do not attend them. Yes.