Ruling on a woman with weak eyesight wearing the niqab
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Your Eminence! What is the ruling on a woman with weak eyesight wearing the niqab?
I do not issue a fatwa permitting the wearing of the niqab, considering the evil that results from it, as women have expanded its scope until a woman would widen the line around her eye, apply kohl, and beautify her eye as much as possible. Some of them widen this circle or this line until it reaches the cheek or the eyebrow. Therefore, I do not issue a fatwa permitting it, but I do not issue a fatwa forbidding it.If I say I do not issue a fatwa forbidding it, it means: I do not say that it is not permissible.But if I say I do not issue a fatwa permitting it, it means: I refrain from issuing a fatwa permitting it.
The questioner: Is it because of the eyesight?The Shaykh: Never. [al-Talaq:2] And the one who says that she has weak eyesight, and a young woman with the best eyesight of all women comes and says, "I have weak eyesight."
The questioner: Even if she were in dire necessity, O Shaykh.
؟The Shaykh: What did we say?You are like the man who was told: Swearing by the Prophet is forbidden and not permissible.And he presented the evidence to the mufti, and he said: (And the Prophet, I do not swear by the Prophet) immediately!!
I do not issue a fatwa permitting the wearing of the niqab, considering the evil that results from it, as women have expanded its scope until a woman would widen the line around her eye, apply kohl, and beautify her eye as much as possible. Some of them widen this circle or this line until it reaches the cheek or the eyebrow. Therefore, I do not issue a fatwa permitting it, but I do not issue a fatwa forbidding it.If I say I do not issue a fatwa forbidding it, it means: I do not say that it is not permissible.But if I say I do not issue a fatwa permitting it, it means: I refrain from issuing a fatwa permitting it.
The questioner: Is it because of the eyesight?The Shaykh: Never.
And whoever fears Allah - He will make for him a way out
وَمَنْ يَتَّقِ اللَّهَ يَجْعَلْ لَهُ مَخْرَجاًThe questioner: Even if she were in dire necessity, O Shaykh.
؟The Shaykh: What did we say?You are like the man who was told: Swearing by the Prophet is forbidden and not permissible.And he presented the evidence to the mufti, and he said: (And the Prophet, I do not swear by the Prophet) immediately!!