Is wearing pants and a short dress in front of women forbidden or permissible?
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The questioner : Is wearing pants and a short dress in front of women forbidden or permissible?
The Shaykh : For the man, or otherwise?
The questioner : For the woman.
The Shaykh : For the woman.
The questioner : Yes, because the questioner is believed to be a woman, but she did not clarify her name as she should have.
The Shaykh : There is no doubt that pants and a short dress do not cover the awrah (the part of the body that must be covered). As for the first, it is because the pants fit the size of the organ; every organ has a specific size in them.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : And yet, they describe the parts of the body, meaning they describe their sizes, and this is a type of exposure. So in reality, she is clothed yet naked. As for the short dress, it likewise does not cover the awrah. But if it is short to the extent that nothing of the woman's body is visible from it except what is permissible for a woman to expose, then there is nothing wrong with it.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : There is nothing wrong in front of women, because a woman is permitted to look at another woman at everything except what is between the navel and the knee.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : So if nothing is visible from it except that, there is no blame on her with women.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : The other question, the sister also says.
The Shaykh : For the man, or otherwise?
The questioner : For the woman.
The Shaykh : For the woman.
The questioner : Yes, because the questioner is believed to be a woman, but she did not clarify her name as she should have.
The Shaykh : There is no doubt that pants and a short dress do not cover the awrah (the part of the body that must be covered). As for the first, it is because the pants fit the size of the organ; every organ has a specific size in them.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : And yet, they describe the parts of the body, meaning they describe their sizes, and this is a type of exposure. So in reality, she is clothed yet naked. As for the short dress, it likewise does not cover the awrah. But if it is short to the extent that nothing of the woman's body is visible from it except what is permissible for a woman to expose, then there is nothing wrong with it.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : There is nothing wrong in front of women, because a woman is permitted to look at another woman at everything except what is between the navel and the knee.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : So if nothing is visible from it except that, there is no blame on her with women.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : The other question, the sister also says.