A woman says: We are also accustomed to traveling by plane, and as you know, the passport procedures at the airport are... so how should I act if the inspection officer
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The questioner : Also, from the questions of the listener, Umm Juwayriyah from the State of Kuwait, she says: We are also accustomed to traveling by plane, and as you know, the passport procedures at the airport are... so how should I act if the inspection officer asks to verify my identity as the holder of this passport, given that, as I mentioned, I wear a niqab? And is it permissible for a woman wearing a niqab to uncover her face or her hands when necessity requires it in front of her maternal or paternal uncles' sons, or other close relatives?
The Shaykh : The phrase "when necessity requires it" is a broad term.
The questioner : Good, good.
The Shaykh : So we do not know what this necessity is. A person may think it is a necessity when it is not, but the scholars have mentioned that it is permissible for a woman to uncover her face when there is a necessity, because the prohibition of uncovering the face falls under the category of means. So if there is a necessity to uncover it, it is permissible, but it must be a real necessity, not an imagined one. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah bless you.
The Shaykh : The phrase "when necessity requires it" is a broad term.
The questioner : Good, good.
The Shaykh : So we do not know what this necessity is. A person may think it is a necessity when it is not, but the scholars have mentioned that it is permissible for a woman to uncover her face when there is a necessity, because the prohibition of uncovering the face falls under the category of means. So if there is a necessity to uncover it, it is permissible, but it must be a real necessity, not an imagined one. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah bless you.