A subtle observation from one of the brothers, which the Shaykh approved, regarding the fact that a woman’s palm is not an awrah (part of the body that must be covered).

Al-Halabi: Shaykh, in this issue, a few days ago one of our brothers mentioned...

The Shaykh : Yes.

The questioner: A few days ago, regarding the issue of hijab and uncovering the face and hands, we were discussing it with some of the brothers. He mentioned a subtle point, and I want to mention it to you so we can see what the evidence is.

The Shaykh: Go ahead.
Al-Halabi: He says that the condition for the covering or the lawful hijab is that it does not reveal the shape and is not transparent, and a fortiori...

The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
Al-Halabi: So now, the glove, this reveals the shape. So if the hand were an awrah, this revealing would not be permissible...

The Shaykh: Is this covering?

The questioner: The covering is not covered.
Al-Halabi: So if the hand were an awrah, this type of covering would not be permissible. So one would have to put something like this, like this, so that it does not...

The Shaykh: I don’t know where you saw that. No, no, there is something, actually, a glove without fingers, I don’t know where you saw it.
Al-Halabi: At...Abu Layla .

Another questioner: But it must form one finger, Shaykh, it forms the big one.
Al-Halabi: Is this what is intended, Shaykh?

The Shaykh : How do you mean?
Al-Halabi: Is this what is intended at all in the meaning of a glove, meaning that it has no fingers?

The Shaykh: No, no, that is not what is intended.
Al-Halabi: That is not what is intended.

The Shaykh: No, no, the point you are referring to has great validity, it has great validity.

The questioner: ... Perhaps our brother is referring to the isdal (draping) that a woman drapes.

The Shaykh: Who is objecting?

The questioner: That is the objector, meaning, and not me. Do not think that it is me.

The Shaykh: You are enough for yourself, what do you need others for? - The Shaykh of the Sunnah (may Allah have mercy on him) laughs -

The questioner: Oh, my Shaykh, this objector, meaning, if he responded to our brother Ali in his observation and said that the isdal (draping) that a woman wears from her head to her feet is a single piece of cloth that forms the head, does that mean that the head is not an awrah, for example, for example, for example.

The Shaykh: No, this is your speech, not someone else’s, this is your speech.
Al-Halabi: I mean, this is a creative thought, Shaykh.

The Shaykh: Is the question possible or not, or is the question that this is your opinion or someone else’s?

The questioner: Possible or not possible? - The students laugh -
Al-Halabi: Rejected, and strongly.

The Shaykh: Okay, give us the answer.

The questioner: No, Shaykh, we want the answer from you, because I am...The questioner .

The Shaykh: You...The questioner : Correct, but...

The questioner : ...

The Shaykh: It’s fine, but he is not asking about himself, he is assuming about someone else, and therefore you raised the objection and the doubt, so answer it - He laughsThe Shaykh: What is your answer? I tell you he has no answer because he adopted this.

The questioner: No, Shaykh, I did not adopt it.

The Shaykh: Then what is your answer? - He laughsThe Shaykh : (may Allah have mercy on him).

The questioner : ...

The Shaykh: We believe in Allah, what is your answer? - He laughsThe Shaykh -.

The questioner: Now the answer has come... It has not come.

The Shaykh: Okay, do you want the answer upfront or in installments? - Al-Albani (may Allah have mercy on him) laughs - The answer is that the objection is invalid; because the hijab differs from the gloves in that the gloves are worn directly on the palms, whereas the lawful jilbab (outer garment) that many Salafi women do not wear - pay attention, Abu Hudhayfah - let alone others, and from here the doubt arose from you, otherwise if you had been patient with me, I would not have told you that the reality today is that many, if not most, Salafi women, let alone others, are content with wearing the hijab in whatever form that hijab takes, and from here the previous doubt is refuted; because this hijab actually shapes the head, but whoever among them has knowledge, first, and then applies this knowledge, second, and appears in this manner, the objection arose from some men; why? Because she wears a khimar (head covering) under the hijab, so the khimar changes the shaping of the head by the hijab, so the hijab comes over the khimar, look now at the khimar placed on your heads, it has wrinkles, so when the hijab comes over this khimar, and therefore it came in a hadith, but in my opinion there may be some weakness in its chain in Sunan Abu Dawud and al-Mustadrak of al-Hakim, that when Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) put on her khimar, he said to her , do you remember this? So it means that the khimar is twisted on the head into a knot, so when the jilbab comes over it, the shaping is removed, and thus the objection is refuted and the analogy of that doubt regarding the hijab is refuted, is that clear?

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : If Allah wills.