Is it permissible for a woman to part her hair to the side while in a state of major ritual impurity?

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The questioner : Is it permissible for a woman to part her hair to the side while in a state of major ritual impurity?

The Shaykh : The recommended practice (sunnah) for parting the hair is to do so in the middle, because the hair has directions toward the front, the back, the right, and the left. The prescribed parting is in the center of the head, such that the right side is on the right and the left side is on the left. As for parting the hair to one side, it involves injustice and may constitute imitating non-Muslims. It may also fall under the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):

Two are the types of the denizens of Hell whom I did not see: people having flogs like the tails of the ox with them and they would be beating people, and the women who would be dressed but appear to be naked, who would be inclined (to evil) and make their husbands incline towards it. Their heads would be like the humps of the bukht camel inclined to one side. They will not enter Paradise and they would not smell its odour whereas its odour would be smelt from such and such distance.

صنفان من النار لم أرهما بعد : قوم معهم ساط كأذناب البقر يضربون بها الناس ، ونساء كاسيات عاريات مائلات مميلات رؤوسهن كأسنمة البخت المائلة لا يدخلون الجنة ولا يجدن ريحها وإن ريحها لوجد من مسيرة كذا وكذا

Sahih Muslim 2128

Therefore, the slanted parting is feared to be included in this hadith, in the generality of his statement:

causing others to sway

مميلات

as stated by some scholars. What I advise our believing sisters to do is to avoid this and to make the parting in the middle, as is prescribed and in accordance with the Sunnah.

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