The issue of the Muslim woman's dress has taken on a strictness that has gone beyond the Shari'ah.

The Shaykh : I know that in our region of Sham, there is a saying: "Excessive tightening leads to loosening; tighten your hand and then loosen it." This is a meaning taken from the Sunnah: He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Do you hear, Abu Jamal?

The questioner : Yes, yes.

The Shaykh : , so I believe that the issue of the woman's face has been taken with a strictness that has gone beyond the Shari'ah, and this strictness led some of the noble scholars to interpret the Qur'an in ways that are not valid interpretations. The example is right before you; this is an example that is not forgotten. The example is right before you: covering this is impossible, because that would mean blinding her to the path. And the claim that she wears glasses, for instance, is that such glasses did not exist in those times, and the transparent veil was also not known. Therefore, what was known among the Arabs in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance and in early Islam was only the niqab, meaning: the most beautiful woman in the world must reveal the most beautiful part of her face in order to see her way, which is her eyes. If you know this hadith: it is a dispensation; if she wishes, she covers, and if she wishes, she does not cover, and covering is better, did you see? So when women are fed this moderate jurisprudence, with no excess and no deficiency, when the time for Hajj or 'Umrah comes and it is said to her, "Do not cover your face," she does not feel shy, because she is accustomed to it, because she was taught beforehand that she reveals her face sometimes when she is not in need and not performing 'Umrah. So when it is said to her: "Reveal your face, because the Shari'ah says: it is obligatory for you, as long as you are in the state of ihram, to reveal your face and your hands."
And so I have felt this wisdom with my own hand: , and this common proverb: "Excessive tightening leads to loosening."