The ruling on a ring for women if it is made of gold, iron, or copper?

The questioner : The question is coming from the women; they are showing you this ring, and they are saying... on it.

The Shaykh : Are you complaining about the one who understands this ring? First, is this frame gold?

The questioner : It is not gold.

The Shaykh : Then is it copper?

The questioner : The truth is, I do not know.

The Shaykh : Do they know?

The questioner : No, they do not know.

The Shaykh : We are all the same [everyone laughs!], what do we need...

The questioner : I do not know.

The Shaykh : ...if this is gold.

The questioner : Certainly it is not gold, my Shaykh.

The Shaykh : Listen to me.

The questioner: Go ahead.

The Shaykh : If this is gold, or if it is copper, or if it is iron, then all of it is not permissible.

The questioner : Okay, my Shaykh, we have learned about gold and iron from the texts, but what about copper?

The Shaykh : The same text that mentions iron mentions copper.

The questioner : It mentions copper.

The Shaykh : It was brass.

The questioner : Glory be to Allah! Good.

The Shaykh : Okay, what do you think is in this? I mean, it has copper plated with water containing a type of gold.

The questioner : Yes, of course, this is forbidden for women as well, meaning.

The Shaykh: There is no difference.

The questioner : Okay, my Shaykh, this material, I actually brought it with me from the Emirates, and I brought a collection... it might certainly be one of two, either copper or iron; so what do I do with it? Let the possibility be iron or copper.

The Shaykh : What do you do with it?

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : Allah will compensate you.

The questioner : Destroy it?

The Shaykh: Yes.

Another questioner : Shaykh, if he placed, for example, silver on the frame.

The Shaykh : What did he put?

Another questioner : He placed the circular frame in silver, and plated it either with gold or with copper, does it also enter...?

The Shaykh : It is as if we did not mention copper, and as if you did not guarantee the Shaykh's words; is it you who guaranteed the Shaykh's words?

Another questioner: Yes.