Shaking Hands with a Non-Mahram Woman
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A woman cutting her hair
Question: Is it permissible for a woman to cut some of the hair on the front of her head for adornment, or is it not?
Answer: What a woman should do is preserve her hair, because it is her beauty and adornment. She should not cut it, because doing so involves imitating disbelieving women and open sinners, and it also results in the loss of her hair, which is her beauty.
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered a woman, when she exits the state of consecration from Hajj or 'Umrah, to take only a finger's width from her hair. This indicates that she should preserve and protect this hair.
A man touching a woman and shaking her hand is something that incites fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) and causes harm between them.
Likewise, men shaking hands with women in general, if they are not their mahram (a relative one may not marry), is not permissible.
Question: Is it permissible for a woman to cut some of the hair on the front of her head for adornment, or is it not?
Answer: What a woman should do is preserve her hair, because it is her beauty and adornment. She should not cut it, because doing so involves imitating disbelieving women and open sinners, and it also results in the loss of her hair, which is her beauty.
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered a woman, when she exits the state of consecration from Hajj or 'Umrah, to take only a finger's width from her hair. This indicates that she should preserve and protect this hair.
A man touching a woman and shaking her hand is something that incites fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) and causes harm between them.
Likewise, men shaking hands with women in general, if they are not their mahram (a relative one may not marry), is not permissible.