What is the ruling on some sisters who wear the niqab during Hajj but slaughter a fidyah?
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The questioner : Some sisters put on the niqab during Hajj, but they slaughter a fidyah.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed, this is the extremism in...
The questioner : But they do not see...
The Shaykh : This is the extremism in religion, and this is what we have touched with our hands. We tried to fix some of it, but we did not succeed. We used to see some women performing tawaf and sa'y while wearing the niqab, so I would direct my wife to address them, but they did not respond.
Now, some of the secret has been revealed. Does every person have the ability to pay this fidyah for all of this, on the basis of being strict in the obligation to cover the woman's face? There is no evidence for this in the Book or the Sunnah, as we explained in the book *The Hijab of the Muslim Woman*. Those who chose the opinion that the woman's face is 'awrah should have clarified that a woman uncovering her face during Hajj is not 'awrah. Even though letting the hair fall down is the way out and is permissible, as we mentioned, unlike wearing the niqab. Why do they wear the niqab and contradict the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)Muwatta Malik 20:17? Why do they not let their hair fall down, for in that is a way out, as the Mother of the Believers A'ishah and the women among the Companions who were with her did? And here is this new information for me, and you are certain of what you are saying.
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : This is truly something new for me, and perhaps I will mention it in the introduction to the new edition of *The Hijab of the Muslim Woman*.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed, this is the extremism in...
The questioner : But they do not see...
The Shaykh : This is the extremism in religion, and this is what we have touched with our hands. We tried to fix some of it, but we did not succeed. We used to see some women performing tawaf and sa'y while wearing the niqab, so I would direct my wife to address them, but they did not respond.
Now, some of the secret has been revealed. Does every person have the ability to pay this fidyah for all of this, on the basis of being strict in the obligation to cover the woman's face? There is no evidence for this in the Book or the Sunnah, as we explained in the book *The Hijab of the Muslim Woman*. Those who chose the opinion that the woman's face is 'awrah should have clarified that a woman uncovering her face during Hajj is not 'awrah. Even though letting the hair fall down is the way out and is permissible, as we mentioned, unlike wearing the niqab. Why do they wear the niqab and contradict the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)
a woman in ihram should wear neither a veil
لا تنتقب المرأة المحرمةThe questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : This is truly something new for me, and perhaps I will mention it in the introduction to the new edition of *The Hijab of the Muslim Woman*.